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One year on, Heather Maher wonders what became of the Occupy Wall St. movement. It’s still going strong says the group’s spokesman Ed Needham.
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Time chose the protester, the global protester, as Time’s 2011 Person of the Year because for the past 20 to 25 years, almost a full generation, protest had stopped being a really viable way to change the political order. And then suddenly, almost out of nowhere, all across the globe, you have global, mass market protests that, we’re two regimes down and counting, whether it’s in Russia and London, Wall Street and all across the Middle East, suddenly the protest has become one of the ways that people are actually taking back political power.Time Magazine International editor Jim Frederick speaking Wednesday (December 14) to Reuters in New York.
