--- title: Sights and Sounds of Occupy Wall Street's "Action Day" | TIME description: The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its two-month anniversary with a Day of Action. Crowds took to the streets of lower Manhattan and gathered in Union Square before heading to the Brooklyn Bridge canonical: https://time.com/video/O4QkwXRj/ og:title: Sights and Sounds of Occupy Wall Street's "Action Day" og:description: The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its two-month anniversary with a Day of Action. Crowds took to the streets of lower Manhattan and gathered in Union Square before heading to the Brooklyn Bridge og:url: https://time.com/video/O4QkwXRj/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/O4QkwXRj/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sights and Sounds of Occupy Wall Street's "Action Day" twitter:description: The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its two-month anniversary with a Day of Action. 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Crowds took to the streets of lower Manhattan and gathered in Union Square before heading to the Brooklyn Bridge_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:19 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Occupy Wall Street's Live Streamer Tim Pool](/video/7iqOut7N/) ### Occupy Wall Street's Live Streamer Tim Pool [Re-entering Occupy Wall Street After Eviction](/video/yJzXMHfS/) ### Re-entering Occupy Wall Street After Eviction [Bill Clinton on Unemployment and Occupy Wall Street](/video/SlPlNHT5/) ### Bill Clinton on Unemployment and Occupy Wall Street --- ## Transcript [00:00] Show me what democracy looks like. This is what [00:00] democracy looks like. Show me what democracy looks [00:00] like. All day, all week. [ INAUDIBLE ]. All day, all week. [00:00] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ SOUND ] We can change [ INAUDIBLE ] [00:00] together. We can change. [ NOISE ] This unjust, system [00:00] together. [ NOISE ] We can face this unjust system [00:00] together. If we show power, power. If we show power, [00:00] power. [ SOUND ] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ SOUND ] This [00:05] is about , sustaining. [00:34] See, I [00:58] don't. The working class, in America. So , why, are you not [01:01] out here fighting for this? [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] [ NOISE ] [01:02] [ CROSSTALK ] [ SOUND ] Let us through! Let, us through! [01:02] Let , us through! Let, us through! Where are we suppose to [01:03] go? [ NOISE ] You have to open the sidewalk. You have to [01:03] open the sidewalk. We can't, get out the runway, if we can't [01:03] get out the sidewalk. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Sights and Sounds of Occupy Wall Street's \"Action Day\"","description":"The Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its two-month anniversary with a Day of Action. 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