In September 2011, protesters set up camp in New York's Zuccotti Park under the banner Occupy Wall Street, and within two months similar encampments had spread to hundreds of cities across the United States. This Al Jazeera Fault Lines episode traces that arc from the first tents to the coordinated police raids that eventually cleared the camps. Activist Max Rameau of Take Back the Land explains the anger driving the movement: the foreclosure crisis, the bank bailouts, and a political class that seemed to answer to corporations rather than voters. Interviews with organizers and scholars lay out how a leaderless movement tried to hold together without formal demands or hierarchy, and how that same structure made it vulnerable to infiltration and surveillance. The film also tracks the media's shift from ridicule to grudging attention as the camps kept growing. It closes on the crackdown itself, framing Occupy less as a defeated protest than as a shift in what American political conversation was willing to talk about.