Reporters Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones and Adam Gabbatt of The Guardian reflect on protests marking the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement with “Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer.
“I think a lot of people within Occupy are still very determined that this is not a failure — this is somewhere beyond that scale of success and failure,” Gabbatt says. “A lot of people are, I think, happy with this grassroots activism and happy to really be effecting change on a localized level. I know there’s always been this debate about should they have kind of occupied the Democratic Party and would that have given them a voice on a more national scale, which I think perhaps it would have done, but that would have left a lot of people in Occupy quite disenchanted because they were so turned off by mainstream politics in the first place and that is why they found a home in Occupy.”
