How old is the "Occupy Wall Street" movement?

'Occupy' Global Protests Were Years in Making
By Joe Deaux
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Communities that felt the impact of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the globe on Saturday were experiencing the product of unrest that has been mounting since the 2008 bailouts.

A scroll through the Occupy Wall Street Web site showed mass protests in Madrid, Hong Kong, London, Rome, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Los Angeles as the world responded to a "call to action" from lower Manhattan "occupiers."

"On October 15th the world will rise up as one and say, 'We have had enough! We are a new beginning, a global fight on all fronts that will usher in an era of shared prosperity, respect, mutual aid, and dignity,'" a message on occupywallst.org said.

Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan marched from its makeshift home at Zuccotti Park up to Times Square, where supporters lined streets of the historic location, but the daylong march was the result of years of building resentment.

"We [United States] have marketed ourselves as the financial geniuses of the world; we're spreading capitalism, we're spreading our understanding of finance," Arnie Arnesen, former Democratic nominee for New Hampshire governor, told TheStreet. "Well you know what, it's not surprising that if there's unhappiness here that it is going to spread everywhere, because they look to us for leadership." READ MORE >>