Occupy Wall Street Gears Up for the Big Day

At 7 a.m. tomorrow Occupy Wall Street will attempt to live up to its name. Hundreds of activists will converge upon the Street's most famous address—the New York Stock Exchange—in a coordinated attempt to shut it down. The blockade will be the first protest in a long day of carefully-planned demonstrations to mark what would have been the two-month anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park.

"Most of the focus has been to figure out how to take this pretty radical action and figure out how it can help us build our movement and make OWS more accessible," says Logan Price, a protest organizer. In particular, organizers want to make sure that lingering outrage over the eviction of the occupiers doesn't lead to violent confrontations with police. "If we aren't careful those actions can undermine the 99 percent thing."

Occupy Wall Street: The November 17th Day of Action
November 17, 2011

Here in New York, it was a major day of disruption, as protesters occupied New York City subways, Union Square, Foley Square, Zuccotti Park, and the area around the New York Stock Exchange. Here’s our look at what happened on this historic day across the country: