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Eight Weeks That Shook The World
A pictorial history of Occupy Wall Street ten years on
I encountered Occupy Wall Street on October 1st 2011. That was the day nearly 800 people were arrested after being directed by NYPD to march across he Brooklyn Bridge roadway. Once there they were kettled and taken into custody. It was the largest mass arrest associated with the Occupy movement worldwide. Those that escaped arrest rallied in Cadman Plaza.
I didn’t get to Zuccotti Park until the next day. Occupiers already had a fortnight there and were well settled in.
My story was I’d just gotten canned from my job coding claims for a PPO in Garden City. Being fired wasn’t a big surprise. It was a terrible job, ruled by bosses who assumed their employees read minds. Because I can’t actually read minds, however, the timing did catch me by surprise. I had just bought a Canon EOS D5 mk II, Canon’s breakthrough full-frame, do-it-all DSLR.
