One of the movement’s last offshoots is grappling with the financial burden of college, making their views heard at financial aid advisers’ ‘private Mardi Gras’
It has been almost four years since the Occupy movement came to life in Zuccotti Park, at the heart of Wall Street. Today the park has been reclaimed by tourists, bankers and traders, and the Occupy movement seems to be just a footnote in the history books.
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