After spending the night in Liberty Plaza with more than a hundred Occupy Wall Street activists, Waging Nonviolence editor Nathan Schneider was on Democracy Now! this morning to give a live update from the streets. Let’s all hear it for Nathan and his excellent reporting, which is by far the leading coverage of this unfolding action.
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No specific demands, hunh?
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