Thousands of Occupy demonstrators marched down Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
Story and photos by Thomas K. Pendergast
Maybe the Occupy movement can be explained with the proposition that all actions are really just reactions, or that for every expansion, there's a contraction. It seems this movement has gained momentum through a series of actions and reactions, by rapid expansions and then sudden contractions.
Inspired by the so-called Arab Spring, the Occupy movement became something quite exceptional in its own right during the last quarter of 2011.
What started in New York with a couple of hundred protesters calling themselves Occupy Wall Street has spread across the country, sprouted up in cities from coast to coast, and now the total number of people who have participated in Occupy demonstrations is likely to be in the tens of thousands.
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