National Lawyers Guild: Commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

Mass Defense Committee – NYC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and New York University Law School National Lawyers Guild  present

OCCUPY WALL STREET: FROM THE 99% TO THE NEW GILDED AGE
We are the 99% fifteen years later

In fall 2011, activists occupied a small park in Lower Manhattan for weeks, putting economic inequality and the power of the 1% at the center of a movement that spread across the country and the globe.

Fifteen years later, billionaires are turning into trillionaires, inequality has spun out of control, and our bold proclamation that shook the world, “We are the 99%,” is even more urgent.

Join Occupy Wall Street organizers and movement chroniclers for a conversation about how it all began, what the movement changed, and what its lessons mean as we confront a new Gilded Age.

Saturday, November 14, 2026
12 Noon -- 2pm
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South (bet. MacDougal & Sullivan Sts.)
New York, NY
Registration required – Deadline 10pm Thursday, November 12 at https://nlgnyc.org/event-calendar/  

Speakers

Sandy Nurse — New York City Council member representing Brooklyn's 37th District, Occupy Wall Street organizer, and community activist 

Priscilla Grim — Communications Specialist for the Civil Liberties Defense Center, Occupy Wall Street organizer, journalist, activist, and founding co-editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal. 

Moira Meltzer-Cohen — NLG civil rights attorney, CUNY Law School Instructor, and Occupy Wall Street legal organizer who helped coordinate legal defense for protesters.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky — University of Southern Maine sociologist, writer, and author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford University Press 2015).

Moderator:  Bill Dobbs — Longtime activist, attorney and Occupy Wall Street media organizer who helped bring the movement's message to audiences worldwide.