Occupy Wall Street, 15 years later

By Democracy Now!

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Fifteen years ago this week, thousands of activists marched on the Financial District in New York City. They formed the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, launching a movement focused on economic inequality that spread across the nation and globe under the slogan, “We are the 99%.” “Occupy Wall Street changed the public's common sense about class and class struggle and inequality in this country,” says Yotam Marom, who helped organize the Occupy protests in New York City. “It's hard to see how you get a Bernie Sanders 2016 run without the public shifting its relationship to that story.” Marom’s new book is “For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness.”