Occupy Wall Street Movement Slide Show - AARP Bulletin Advocacy

Occupy Wall Street Movement

Protests arise amid joblessness concerns depleted retirement savings and a down economy

Tammy Bick 49 Hamden Conn

She was let go from a medical secretary position at an HIV clinic on Thanksgiving 2010.

With One Mind

Thousands of people march through the Lower Manhattan financial district in support of Occupy Wall Street, the economic justice movement.

Robert Broadhurst 54 Boston

A union member and electrical worker, he was arrested on Oct. 1 on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Thomas Hagan 60 New York

The Vietnam veteran currently works as a furniture salesman.

Grandmothers March

Members of the Granny Peace Brigade embrace the cause in Lower Manhattan.

Capturing History

A participant stops to take a picture at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration on Oct. 5.

Danny Marks 52 native New Yorker

Homeless and illiterate, he camps out at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Toni Lacer 55 St John Virgin Islands

Semi-retired, the real estate appraiser and broker picked up a sign and joined the movement.

John Andrew Zamzal 61 New Fairfield Conn

Retired from psychiatric nursing, he now works as a substitute teacher in the public school system.

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