Take a look out the window. If your offices are in a major American city, chances are a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters are converging near the financial district.
When the revolt began in September, most major media outlets ignored it. Since then, the movement—although still without a leader or a message beyond protesting economic imbalance—has spread to more than two dozen cities and grown to include more than a dozen trade unions, celebrities and everyday people who aren't disenfranchised college kids.
And although the protesters' demographic skew toward Millennials, recent polls indicate the movement is supported by all sorts of fed-up Americans: A recent Time magazine national poll indicates that OWS has a 54 percent favorable rating compared with 27 percent for the tea party movement.
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