The Occupy Wall Street campaign is now in its 17th day–making it easily the longest political protest of the Global Financial Crisis. Unfortunately, even I wasn’t aware of it when I was in New York two weeks ago, a few days after it started, since it received very little coverage from the media prior to the arrest of about 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Now it’s entrenched, and growing. Whatever its ultimate outcome, it is an important event in this crisis, as the first glimmer of a popular revolt against the Ponzi culture of Wall Street.