"There's power in numbers, and we outnumber the people we're trying to hold accountable. We should be bailing out the American public – not corporations."

Since Sept. 17, thousands of demonstrators have transformed Zuccotti Park into a sea of blue tarps, sleeping bags and tables offering free medical care, food and library books. Their signs and slogans oppose everything from bank bailouts and corporate influence in politics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and insufficient job prospects.

"There's power in numbers, and we outnumber the people we're trying to hold accountable," said Henry Liedtka, a 27- year old pharmacy worker from New Jersey who's protested since Oct. 2. "We should be bailing out the American public -- not corporations.
Liedtka had a sign that read "American Autumn has come," a turn of phrase on the "Arab Spring" nickname given to describe the thousands of citizens who took to the streets in Cairo and throughout the Middle East this year.