Why We Occupy: Liberty Plaza 2011

Every type of person came to Occupy Wall Street: kids who dropped out of college for it, hobos who hopped a freight and walked hundreds of miles, environmentalists who swabbed the Liberty Plaza streets with vinegar, bright and early every morning, acupuncturists who could work in tight spaces, family men with a sideline in poetry, Christians, union members, knitting grandmothers, libertarians, anarchists of every stripe, Democrats and Republicans, normal people with the interests and vices ...