<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph"><p class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 18px; "><cite class="el-editorial-source"> (CNN)</cite>Nearly
five years after Occupy Wall Street's eviction from a small Manhattan
park, the movement that shined the spotlight on the 99% has spread its
seeds across America. </p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 18px; ">From the
shade of honey locust trees in Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock
Exchange, the group's creed against income inequality, corporate greed
and the influence of money in politics helped spawn a variety of causes
-- from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/us/black-lives-matter-evolution/">Black Lives Matter</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; ">to the ascent of </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/16/bernie-sanders-interview-sot-3-newday.cnn" style="font-size: 21px; ">Bernie Sanders</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; "> </span>to San Francisco 49ers quarterback <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/01/sport/nfl-preseason-49ers-chargers-colin-kaepernick-national-anthem/">Colin Kaepernick's quiet protest</a> against institutional racism. </div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer" style="font-size: 18px; "></ul><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 18px; ">On
Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the birth of their movement, Occupy
veterans will gather at the Lower Manhattan park and later march to
police headquarters. There will be speeches about Black Lives Matter,
the minimum wage, gentrification, prisoner rights, HIV/AIDS and other
topics.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="font-size: 18px; ">"What a movement that has
any kind of success does -- not necessarily practical results but any
kind of excitement -- is acquaint or reacquaint people with some of the
pleasures of being involved in a social movement," says Todd Gitlin, a
Columbia University professor and author of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Occupy-Nation-Spirit-Promise-Street-ebook/dp/B006VE1GBG" target="_blank">Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street</a>."</div></body></html>