It's been a year for massive demonstrations, dating all the way back to January of this year when thousands protested in Egypt, touching off the Arab Spring. In the US, Tea Party demonstrations seem to be dwindling but a massive protest in New York City has created a new call for a popular insurgence; channeling discontent from anti-government to anti-corporate sentiment. This comes on the hells of Washington rhetoric in which conservatives and Republican leaders in Washington accused Obama's proposed tax increases on special interests and the wealthy as "class warfare". The real class warfare, it seems, is taking place in the streets of Manhattan and on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Sparked by the anti-consumerist magazine, AdBusters, the protest began relatively humbly on September 17th in Zuccotti Square as a call to arms against the lack of accountability amongst corporate entities and financial institutions. It has since swelled to hundreds that, on Saturday, moved onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Allegedly, members of the NYPD steered the mass of protestors into the roadway of the bridge, where they told protestors it would be safer than packing into the smaller pedestrian walkways. However, as the protestors spilled into the roadway police corralled them in orange netting and essentially cordoned them off in large groups for arrest. The roadway, which is not a lawful public area to protest, made the protestors' action unlawful and eligible for arrest. Over the course of Saturday afternoon into Saturday night protestors that had been "netted" on the bridge were arrested and placed on buses, sometimes for hours. Tweets and Facebook updates from protestors waiting for arrest or release accused the police of packing people so closely together that it was "difficult to breathe", or leaving protestors on buses "for hours with no information".

Regardless of this seemingly gross abuse of public power, protestors say that their fight is not with the NYPD. The mass arrests have steeled many protestors and said that they are more determined now than ever that they will continue to occupy Zuccotti Park (dubbed Liberty park by many) in Lower Manhattan. Sunday saw renewed energy among protestors, and even a speech by Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz, a frequent critic of free-market economics. The stated intent of the protest, which calls itself an American revolution, is to express "a feeling of mass injustice", among those being corporate responsibility in the foreclosure crisis, spiralling student loan debt, economic volatility, and the fact that not one banking executive has been brought to trial for the subprime mortgage of foreclosure crises.