In defense of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a panel of historians and political scientists praised the movement's fluid ideology and its mores of civility, while levelling volleys against the police forces and local governments that often clashed with it, at a talk Wednesday evening at the Franke Institute of Humanities.
"As it turned out, these supposedly ‘public' spaces are not really public," said Bernard Harcourt, chair of the political science department and a professor at the Law School, referring to places like Occupy Chicago's oft-used base in Grant Park.
