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>> Bret: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?
OCCUPY WALL STREET?
JOYCE TWEETED IN TO ASK.
DID THEY DISSOLVE, EVOLVE?
DID THEY ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING?
THE SHORT ANSWER THEY ARE GONE.
OCCUPY WALL STREET MEMORY AND
MESSAGE STILL LINGERS.
HERE'S RICK.
>> [SHOUTING]
>> IT BEGAN SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
JUST A FEW BLOCKS FROM THE
FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
IN NEW YORK CITY.
INSPIRED IN PART BY SPRING
PROTESTS OVERSEAS.
>> [SHOUTING].
>> OCCUPY WALL STREET WAS A
SOCIAL MOVEMENT AGAINST INCOME
AND QUALITY, AND CORPORATE GREED
>> [SHOUTING]
>> ALMOST OVERNIGHT THE
DEMONSTRATORS GREW TO TENS OF
THOUSANDS SPREADING TO HUNDREDS
OF CITIES ACROSS AMERICA.
>> [CHEERING].
>> AND MORE THAN 80 COUNTRIES
WORLDWIDE.
>> [SHOUTING]
>> BUT PATIENCE AMONG CITY
LEADERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT WORE
THIN AND AUTHORITIES ARRESTED
PROTESTORS.
TWO MONTHS AFTER IT LAUNCHED,
THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT FADED.
>> [SHOUTING].
>> I CALLED IT A CONSTRUCTIVE
FAILURE.
>> MICHAEL WHITE HELPED LAUNCH
OCCUPY WITH A SINGLE TWEET IN
THE SUMMER OF 2011.
AS A LEADERLESS MOVEMENT FOR THE
IT CHANGED THE DISCOURSE ABOUT
ECONOMY AND EQUALITY.
>> THE CROWDS THAT FUELED THE
SUCCESS EVENTUALLY HELPED LEAD
TO ITS DEMISE.
YOU HAD ALL OF THESE PEOPLE
SAYING WHOSE STREETS?
OUR STREETS.
THEY WERE GETTING IN THE WAY OF
PEOPLE WHO ALSO OWN THESE
STREETS.
>> SOCIAL PROTEST IS ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT IS NECESSARY FOR
PROTEST WITHOUT PEOPLE GETTING
UP SET AND GETTING DISRUPTED.
>> OCCUPY WALL STREET EVOLVED
INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
IT MORPHED INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
>> MICHAEL WENT TO THE PARK
EVERY DAY FOR TWO MONTHS.
NOT AS A PROTESTOR BUT A SOCIAL
SCIENCIST.
>> IT CHANGED THE POLITICAL
EQUATION AND BROUGHT SOMETHING
INTO AMERICAN POLITICS THAT WAS
MISSING FOR A LONG TIME.
AND BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN.
>> I THINK IT WAS A TURNING
POINT IN THE POLITICAL
CONVERSATION.
>> THE PROBLEM WITH PROTESTS,
THERE IS A POINT WHERE THERE IS
NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
OCCUPY WAS THE BIGGEST AND THE
LOUDEST.
>> HE SAID THE ONLY WAY TO
>> Bret: IF YOU HAVE A STORY YOU
WOULD LIKE US TO UPDATE AND
THINKING WHATEVER HAPPENED TO,
DROP ME A LINE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
WE MAY DO A STORY.