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A lot of us have been waiting for it for a long time.
My expectations were that we would, we would change history
And we really couldn't believe what we saw. Never expected there to be a working kitchen
and a people's library, childcare and teaching.
And I was there and walked around and … protesting the wall street policies and the bankers slash
crooks who run wall street.
As soon as we got here we joined the Occupy movement here and we're just in time to be
involved in the first time when the police raided the tents.
It was like a cleansing breeze coming across the plaza there.
One of the criticisms of the Occupy movement was that they didn't have an agenda. But my
own feeling was that these young people are the agenda.
Kind of like old home week.
I think Occupy breathed life into the movement that already existed.
I think it shown a light on it. I think it took the mask off the one percent.
I don't think we're going away at all Do you think it had an effect on prompting
more police action by the cities? I think it would have come either way. I think
the police state was already growing before the Occupy movement came and it was only a
matter of time before the people would stand up and fight back.
Our ability to film the police and our ability to film things that are going on and expose,
expose their corrupt action.
The fact that we can no longer wait for politicians to represent us and change comes from the
bottom up.
What specific accomplishments? Well we exposed the DRE which is a corrupt
program that was going on here and happens in many other states and that was successfully
shut down.
We have won several houses in foreclosure and at one point was leading the national
movement of Occupy Homes.
I know that they have worked on house foreclosures which I think is good.
It just appears to me it's slowed down tremendously and I don't know how the impetus is going
to be.
What I think Occupy accomplished was much. To get just … for one thing getting the
conversation going about the one percent and the 99 percent, it's still having huge repercussions.
I don't know what the legacy is but, for sure but, just getting, just seeing all those young
people getting involved.
There was a crackdown. There was a very clear crackdown by the militarized police.
And as Chris Hedges said Occupy is still alive. What it did do was bring attention to the
corporate control of this country by wall street.
Chief Dolan stepping on Nick Espinoza was pretty violent
A little disappointed that the dots were never connected in the Occupy movement between the
domestic miseries that people are experiencing —the foreclosures, the lack of health care,
the student loan debt — all of these domestic miseries that are occurring, I don't think
we're connected enough to the war cost.
I think those young people who were involved, their lives have been changed.
And I think it's wonderful. I think the community life has been changed also. The media and
the government is going to have to sit up and pay attention.