I recently had the opportunity to reflect on my time with Occupy Wall Street as the Fellowship of Reconciliation was creating a documentary film on the 10th anniversary of the movement. In September 2011, I was starting an internship with FOR, and through my involvement with a student group from Union Theological Seminary, called the Protest Chaplains, I became one of FOR’s on-the-ground respondents to the Occupy movement. When asked in the documentary about the most enduring takeaways from Occupy, I shared about how the experience radicalized me politically and how its “ending” taught me about the ebb and flow of mass movements.

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