As I approached Zuccotti Park on Friday afternoon, I could see that the Occupy Wall Street crowd had grown substantially since my first visit, four days earlier. The plaza was packed. The longer I stayed, the more people arrived. I eventually joined the overflow crowd across the street by the FINRA building.
Some things that have changed since Monday: More union t-shirts and flare (but no visible institutional union presence), a few demonstrators wearing pieces of tape identifying themselves as “security,” and more matching signs.
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Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
