Keeping the Protest Clean, Oct. 14, 2011

As protesters busily cleaned up Zuccotti Park last night in their successful effort to prevent an eviction due to “sanitation” reasons, this is as good a time as any to remember that popular perception is paramount—even over issues as seemingly mundane and inconsequential as hygiene and apperance. During the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, one of the primary demands of the students was that the government rescind their classification…