Occupiers - Gould-Wartofsky, Michael A. (PhD candidate in Sociology, PhD candidate in Sociology, New York University)

In the fall of 2011, motivated by the lack of a meaningful response to the global financial crisis and a paralysis of democratic politics, a small group of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York City. The Occupy Wall Street movement would go on to inspire camps in nearly 1,500 towns and cities, all of which were ultimately forcibly evicted by police.