Back in the 80’s, we eager young seminarians were required to take a class in social action: how to plan and implement a protest, how alter public opinion, and generally make change.  Good stuff like how to manipulate the media and the best way to get arrested were also on the curriculum.  The goal was to get out there and get labelled an elemento subversivo.  

Like so many Canadian celebrities, it had to go make it big in the United States before it could come back to Canada and be welcomed. I’m talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement, which was born in Vancouver at Adbusters magazine.