Over 30,000 People Rally in New York City (NYPD estimated 32,500), including organized contingents of workers, students, and other members of "the 99%"
Actions in at least 30 cities across the country and around the world
Commemoration of 2-Months Since Birth of the 99% Movement, Festival of Lights on Brooklyn Bridge
Blockade of all Entry-Points to NYSE; hundreds participate in nonviolence civil disobedience
Sense that a powerful and diverse civic movement for social justice is on the ascent
Dada Pranakrsnananda is a yogic monk of Ananda Marga and a social activist. He is a member of the #Occupy Wall Street movement and was one of the first arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1st.
In this exclusive video, Dada shares his unique experience of being arrested and his concern that the focus has shifted to the conflict between the movement and NYPD, when it should it should remain on the injustice of corporate greed and inequity of wealth in society.