What’s American about the #OccupyWallStreet Protests

The World

25-year-old British writer and activist Laurie Penny has been at recent anti-austerity protests in Europe.

She’s now at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration. She tells host Marco Werman what she finds peculiarly American about the gathering.

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