Just over 10 years ago, in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, began on 17 September 2011. Within a month, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 951 cities across 82 countries, and in over 600 communities in the United States. Arun Gupta, Journalist and co-founder of “The Occupy Wall Street Journal”, talks about the OWS protests and how they have affected protests since in his recent article “Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War: How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why is has run its course“

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