Now, Occupy Wall Street’s future uncertain

Fri, 18 November 2011

12:30

After its "day of action" during which 250 people were arrested, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems to bedwindling in numbers. Just two months after the protests against corporate greed started, the 99 percent has been kicked out of its stomping (and sleeping) grounds in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. Now that the movement has lost its homebase it's unclear where and whether it will continue though some supporters have suggested taking OWS on the road to Washington. Read the Daily Beast report

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