Name: Sapan Rinpoche
From: Boulder, Colorado
Quote: So much can be done. I am an old organizer and an old radical. The people in their twenties and thirties today, I think, are doing a better job of organizing and running their meetings and making decisions than we used to be.

Name: Marty Goodman
From: New York
At Occupy Representing: Transport Workers Union Local 100
Quote: What I would like to see ultimately is for the unions to withdraw their labor. Employers take us for granted. Let’s see how they take us for granted when we all walk off the job the same time. And I think we should stay out until there is some kind of justice for working people. Decent contracts, pay raises, health care security, work security. And I think that could be accomplished if workers were only given a chance to speak and decide their own future.  And I think Occupy Wall Street has opened the way to a new era of democratic discussion, of politics and hopefully within the labor movement itself.

Name: Andrew Ryan
From: New York
Quote: The Occupy Movement, to me, is the huge umbrella I have been waiting for because it focuses on all the issues. We are creating our own horizon.

Name: Dave Lippman
From: New York
Quote: I've always tried to achieve social justice by tonight, but I finally realized it is going to take all day tomorrow.

Name: Erica Blatt
College of Staten Island
Quote: People should carry on promoting what they are passionate about. For me, that’s education and environment.

Name: Rivka Gewirtz Little
From: New York
Quote: I believe there are a lot of problems with one underlying cause, which is a corporate system that has enslaved us.  I don’t think we can address this issue any longer by organizing around small things. We can’t just organize around housing anymore.  We can’t just organize around criminal justice anymore. All of those things are important, but we need a collaborative movement that addresses the underlying issue while at the same time looking at these other things individually.  So in other words, we are looking for a longer-term solution. And along the way we hope to make some change so people can stop suffering.

Name: Ginny Soules
From: Brooklyn
Quote: I am here for the unborn generations of all beings.

Name: Sherry Gorelick
From: New York
Quote: I think the important thing about Occupy is that is pulls together many issues that are related; for example, the absence of healthcare is related to the 1%. Moving forward I would like to see more representation of women's issues.

Name: Amy Lang
Quote: The real truth is that I am here like lots of people my age because sometime between the Sixties and now we gave up hope that things could be turned back.  This is the best thing that has happened to us in decades.

Name: Nelson Rios
From: Brooklyn
Quote: Something's got to change.  It's getting impossible these days. The government doesn't seem to pay much mind to the people.

Name: Shawn Williams and Robert Way
From: Tacoma, Washington
Quote:

Shawn: For me personally, I had a bunch of questions. Why do we have a class system? My mother always told me, “That’s just the way that it is.” Why are we stuck at minimum wage and other people make it? “Well that is just the way that it is.” When Occupy started it seemed to me to be a group of people who refused to accept that as an answer. That’s not just the way that it is. We have more power than that.  I felt it was important to be a part of something that is bigger than myself because I agree it doesn’t have to be that way. "That's just the way that it is” is no longer an acceptable answer.

Robert: When I showed up I was trying to better the future for a child I didn’t yet have. But now that it’s on the way I feel even more strongly to fight for equality. Financial and personal interactions between people have gotten horrible and I just want to see a better future for this one than I had to deal with.

Name: Minori Nakamura
From: Brooklyn
Quote:  We are here to inform people of our activism, which is anti-nuclear power plant energy and anti-nuclear weapons. I would like to see that people understand what is going on. I think everything is so connected and entwined and hopefully more people will understand and try to change the capitalist system.

Name: Jenny Heinz
From: New York
Quote: The word needs to be spread and the movement needs to be demystified for some people.