We are the only organized group in u.s. politics willing openly profess radical viewpoints and go out in the streets and fight! We are not affiliated with the democratic party, republican party, communist parties, labor unions, or NGOs. Instead we seek to organize left-leaning independents to build a radical anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian alternative to the current political establishment. Our movement began on September 17, 2011 when a scrappy group of anarchists, communists, liberals, and conservatives decided to pitch tents in Manhattan’s financial district. For two months we controlled Zuccotti Park—which we renamed Liberty Square—and made use of this space as a public forum, provider of social services, and a simulacrum of a better world in which we sought to our own alternatives. Since then our movement has spread to over 100 cities in the US and 1,500 cities globally who've sought to follow our model. The Occupy Solidarity Network, Inc. is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit organization founded in New York by Priscilla Grim, Micah White, and Justine Tunney to serve as a legal front that practices mutual aid and advances the interests of the international Occupy movement.