25 Years in 25 Days (2011): Meet The 99%

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.


On September 17, 2011 protesters occupied Zuccotti Park, using the slogan, "We are the 99%." Naomi Klein, syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian and the author of Shock Doctrine, No Logo and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2014), looks at the Occupy movement's successes and failures, including its failure to link to the global environmental movement.