willingness to go to jail for the movement though i was hardly unique and with the thousands that were in zuccotti on the morning of october fourteenth it seemed that you're about to eclipse the previous one day record total of seven hundred protesters arrested on the brooklyn bridge what was it that brought all of those people to use a comedy that this. not be a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life of other people not the losing end it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit james and pepper spray and kill millions it looks pretty nice is likely to run clean the you deliberately kill. in the first six months of the movement about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things like why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail i i i swear we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show up park and then we took brooms and we took them to the to wall street to co clean up wall street i think most of the problems with the filth was in the offices there

. >> reporter: remember the occupy wall street movement famous for taking over zuccotti park and taking up the term 1%. now they have occupy sandy. occupy went to work and while fema temporarily shut its doors during last week's nor'easter, due to bad weather, occupy never did. more than two weeks after the storm, thousands of people volunteer daily. sash that brown is just one of them. he helps pack up supplies and deliver them to people in need. >> i'm just another new yorker helping out other new yorkers. >> reporter: his band finished touring so borrowed the van and showed up here. you pay for the gas? >> i am. the band is. i don't know but they're dough mating it. >> reporter: although the occupy movement has no leadership, they have set up a hyper-organized system for this. three main hubs each with a command center, medic dispatch and car dispatched to organize drivers. there's a phone bank, kitchens that provide two hot meals a day and no shortage of helpers. they use twitter and facebook to match donations to needs and u.p.s. to deliver supplies that have been picked out carefu

. >> reporter: remember the occupy wall street movement famous for taking over zuccotti park and coiningrm 1%? now they have occupy sandy. within days after sandy hit, occupy went to work. fema temporarily shut its doors during last week's nor'easter due to bad weather, occupy never did. sasha brown is one of the people who helps pack up supplies and deliver them to people in need. >> i'm just a new yorker helping t other new yorkers. >> reporter: he borrowed the van and showed up here. >> who's paying for the gas? >> i am. the band is, they don't know it yet, but they are donating it. >> reporter: occupy has set up a hyperorganized system with a command center, a medic dispatch and car dispatch to organize drivers. there's a phone bank, kitchens that supply two hot meals a day and no shortage of helpers. they use ups to deliver supplies that have been carefully picked out. >> wonderful, thank you. >> reporter: with $400,000 in the bank and next to no overhead, all the money can go straight to relief efforts. every little bit helps. >> they're trying to help people to survive. >> reporte

street highlights wealth inequality through humor in this case risk made off even in the middle of zuccotti park would be concerned about things that only the one percent could possibly be concerned about blanch believes occupy give voice to a majority that wasn't heard before there has to be some kind of a new model going forward where this kind of economic disparity. is dealt with in a way that benefits everyone you can't sweep it under the carpet and nor any more need to endure something after seven years at morgan stanley alexis goldstein could no longer tolerate the greed and toxicity of wall street she quit and is now an author and an occupy organizer on wall street there's this attitude if you get screwed by somebody it's because you are stupid optimal poker playing is take your best friend for all they're worth the same is true on the street. the occupy wall street movement started as an ocean of people on the streets and in camps and that tactic of holding public spaces the police have made it at least with their seeable future impossible we've kind of adapted in this way where we'

who put the occupy movement on the list citing a lack of real change stemming from protests in zuccotti park but this list may have been written before occupy sandy and the rolling jubilee came about and finally the man with the slogan what was it again it doesn't matter he lost mitt romney the man who lost to president obama in an economy that no one thought an incumbent president could survive yet somehow despite campaigning for six straight years he still couldn't get more than forty seven percent of the vote so much for being influential so there you have it coming out this month we'll bring you our own list of most influential people of two thousand and twelve so stay tuned. well for as long as the us has been around there is that a separation between church and state but that didn't stop religion from creeping into the two thousand and twelve elections despite this progressive ideas have gained major ground things like marijuana and gay marriage so politicians might not need to pander to the even jellicoe base anymore r t correspondent liz wahl takes a closer look at this changing

the occupy movement has found a new target to aim its anger at this time protesters will return to zuccotti park to protest debt and to raise money to help the needy when the government will not and freedom of expression meet your match mexico has banned music artists from rapping about the ongoing drug war and the music that glorifies the cartels or illicit drugs south of the border can land you in big trouble with local authorities next week we'll tell you about the day the music died those are just a few of the stories we'll have in store for you next week along with much more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned right here to our t.v. well that's going to do it for us for now but for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or you can always check out our web site a lot of times there are stories there that we didn't have time to get to that web address is r t dot com.

i mean hundreds of people really have come out and of course they're not all people who were at zuccotti park a lot of them just volunteers wanting to help it but those sort of central in the occupy movement seem to have sort of taken the lead in organization i mean do you think that sort of what they learned and what they did during occupy wall street sort of got them ready for this. absolutely i mean you they were again and they had a camp in a park and were managing to feed and keep warm and close hundreds of people who were sleeping in a park those are skills that absolutely trance translate to this also in the time since the park was evicted people have got to be very good organizers in communities have been working with the church that they're organizing in sunset park was connected to rent strikes that were being organized and in part with occupy organizers in that neighborhood and so. the post park skill set is just as important here i think to i know of course the red cross is central to the relief effort but i know they've been focusing on collecting funds that they've said tha

this is the anniversary of the police moving in on occupy wall street at zuccotti park.nd eviscerating the encampment. but also we just experienced superstorm sandy. you went from help station to help stationed throughout new york that was being run by occupy sandy relief. >> i think we're at a moment that is interesting, where mutual aid has become a very big part of what occupy is doing. with occupy sandy, one of the things i think we're going to see is as this tragedy unfolds, more and more we're going to more we'redebt is tied to this. we know goldman sachs has partnered with new york city to offer so-called low interest runs, which are predatory loans, paid back within two years and even though the interest is low, it is virtually impossible for a small business to do. i think we're going to see these two strands merge. we look at debt intersection of wall street and our lives. what is interesting there, the victim us from the park and now this is like a new battleground for resistance. >> occupy sandy relief, what you found in these different areas, what were peopl