joining us in the studio is frances fox piven, professor of sociology. e studied social movements and is the author most recently of "who is afraid of frances fox piven?" nathan schneider is with us, editor of the website waging nonviolence. he also writes about occupy for a number of publications. suzanne collado has been an organizer with occupy wall street since its inception and is a member of strike that, an effort to address the issue of debt. we welcome you all to democracy now! suzanne, you were among the first to be organizing a year ago. where were you a year ago today? >> i was watching you talk about what was happening. i thought, finally there is something happening in my city i can be a part of. days later, i was joining in. >> nathan schneider, talk about what this movement was one year ago. >> one year ago today people were in the financial district, as they are today, there was a lot of uncertainty, just a few thousand people,>> but there was incredible enthusiasm. i remember going to my first planning meeting. i knew there would be somet