Leaderless protest movement targeting economic inequality starts in New York and quickly goes global in our No. 6.
From: Fault Lines
History of an occupation
Fault Lines looks at how Occupy Wall Street went from a small group of New York protesters to a broad people’s movement.
21 Mar 2012
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