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The "stack" in the [[Occupy movement]] is the list of speakers who are commenting on proposals or asking questions in public meetings. Anyone can request to be added to the stack. In meetings that don't use the progressive stack, people speak in the order they were added to the [[queue area|queue]]. In meetings that use the progressive stack, people from non-dominant groups are allowed to speak before people from dominant groups, by [[facilitator]]s, or stack-keepers, urging speakers to "step forward, or step back" based on which racial, age, or gender group they belong to.<ref>{{cite news|last=Seltzer|first=Sarah|title=Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street?|url=http://www.truth-out.org/where-are-women-occupy-wall-street/1319895284|accessdate=11 November 2011|newspaper=[[The Nation]]|date=29 October 2011}}</ref>
A. Barton Hinkle, a columnist for the ''[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]'', has expressed the opinion that "lining up speakers by race and gender might not seem fair on an individual level", and suggests that proponents of the progressive stack care more about class struggle than individual concerns.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hinkle|first=A. Barton|title=OWS protesters have strange ideas about fairness|url=http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/ows-protesters-have-strange-ideas-about-fairness/article_9aacde1b-931a-50a6-8471-d40ec1f78eff.html|work=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]|publisher=Timesdispatch.com|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Oppression Olympics]]
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