OCCUPY WALL STREET New Labor Forum 21(2): 50-55, Spring 2012 Copyright © Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY ISSN: 1095-7960/12 print, DOI: 10.4179/NLF.212.0000008 By Michael A. McCarthy out. To date, the Occupy movement on college campuses remains a relatively loose network that lacks a clear target for a national campaign. Student activists are simultaneously pursuing strategic objectives in two arenas: off-campus student solidarity work with OWS encampments, local labor movements, and poor communities; and organizing on campuses to fight back against tuition hikes and the general privatization of colleges and universities. As the student movement evolves, it will be critical to build a national campaign by adopting tactics that link students with struggles, both on and off the campus, that focus on a coherent set of targets. OCCUPYING HIGHER EDUCATION The Revival of the Student Movement College campuses around the country are one place where organizing has been injected with new energy. OWS invigorated a student fightback against the growing power of big business, both on and off the campuses—a power that comes with budget cuts, tuition increases, and attacks on working people. But new organizing since late 2011, by public and private university students alike, reintroduced some of the basic questions that all emergent movements face: “What do we want?” and “How do we get it?” There appears to be a growing consensus around the first question—students want to leverage their power to build a student movement in solidarity with the broader aims of OWS. Yet how to do that is still being worked Occupy Wall Street (OWS) began as an encampment in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011. It has since evolved, with protests moving into new cities and in a number of different tactical directions. *The author would like to thank Cinzia Arruzza, Dan DiMaggio, Gabriel Hetland, Stephanie Luce, Glen Pine, and Isaac Silver for their helpful insights.