To mark the one-year-anniversary of the Occupy movement on September 17th , current and former members talk to the Associated Press about the changes they see in the organization. (Sept. 17)
Source: APDate: October / November 2011, September 4, 7, 13 2012Location: New York City (NAT's "We are the 99%.")Voiceover:THATS THE CHANT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD AS OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTS HIT A CRESHENDO LAST FALL.(NAT's protests )Voiceover:IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE PROTESTERS IN NEW YORK CITY TARGETED CORPORATE GREED, AND RALLIED THOUSANDS OF DISENFRANCHISED PEOPLE?SO WHERE IS THE MOVEMENT TODAY? (NAT's meeting)Voiceover:IN NEW YORK CITY, WHERE OCCUPY WAS BORN, IT'S A NOW SHADOW OF ITS FORMER SELF.SOT: Marisa Holmes, Occupy Wall Street organizer :" We have a structure that is built on smaller groups where one to one communication is possible as opposed to this massive body."Voiceover:SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOMENTUM THAT OCCUPY BUILT UP LAST FALL?EX-OCCUPIERS SAY, WHAT STARTED AS A PROTEST AGAINST INCOME INEQUALITY DEVOLVED INTO A PROTEST AGAINST EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE WORLD.SOT : Pete Dutro, ex-Occupier :" I think that we were there to Occupy Wall Street not to talk about every social ill that we have."(NAT's Zucotti Park eviction)Voiceover:MANY SAY THE DEATH OF OCCUPY CAME LAST FALL, WHEN NEW YORK AND OTHER CITIES STARTED VIOLENTLY REMOVING THEM FROM THE STREETS THEY WERE OCCUPYING.SOT : Dr. Mark Naison, Fordham University :" I think Occupy was devastated by the evictions all over the country."Voiceover:AFTER THE EVICTIONS , OCCUPIERS HAD NO PLACE TO GO.AND MANY BECAME DISILLUSIONED.SOT : Pete Dutro, ex-Occupier :" I started to really burn out, and I just started seeing the cacophony of people arguing and arguing."Voiceover:EX-OCCUPIERS SAY THE REASON THE MOMENTUM OF THE MOVEMENT SLOWED WAS THAT IT GREW TOO BIG TOO FAST.SOT : Pete Dutro, ex-Occupier :" We got to a kind of critical mass where our GA, our General Assembly, no longer functioned."Voiceover:MANY OCCUPIERS SAY THE MOVEMENT HAS HAD TO RE-ORGANIZE AND BECOME MORE FOCUSED THANKS IN PART TO THE EXPERIENCES OF LAST YEAR.SOT: Marisa Holmes, Occupy Wall Street organizer :" After a while we decided we needed to really disband the General Assembly and all of our structures and start anew."Voiceover:OCCUPY MEMBERS SAY THEY WILL MARK THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH VARIOUS FORMS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AROUND WALL STREET. AND THEN WILL MEET AT A LOCAL PARK TO DISCUSS THEIR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE MOVEMENT.WARREN LEVINSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK.(****END****) ANCHOR VOICE: Warren Levinson-------------------------VIDEO PRODUCER: Joe Frederick/Nicole Grether---------------------------VIDEO SOURCE: AP-----------------------VIDEO APPROVAL: dstarddard----------------------------VIDEO RESTRICTIONS: None----------------------------------MARKET EMBARGO (S): None--------------------------------
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