'We showed it was possible to create a movement from almost nothing': Occupy Wall Street 10 years on

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Cantave says she can remember a lively discussion about whether they were organising a protest project or providing social services.
50% : "There were individuals who participated in Occupy who later participated in Black Lives Matter, but I believe that the Black Lives
48% : "I definitely think we were not equipped to provide social services," she says, but notes that many homeless people also wanted to get involved in organising.
46% : By this reckoning, it was also the original leaderless social media-organised movement on which #MeToo and Black Lives Matter would be modelled.
44% : Yet, a decade on, OWS is frequently cited as the precursor to a range of initiatives and developments, such as Black Lives Matter or the UK's Extinction Rebellion.
41% : "I don't think that the Occupy movement itself influenced Black Lives Matter," she says.

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