This is not the stuff of usual protests. Over the past month, a little idea from a Vancouver outfit has mushroomed into a cross-continent movement.
Occupy Wall Street, kicked off by Adbusters in July and coming to Toronto this weekend, has already spread to 70 American cities and is going global as protesters challenge society to rethink how the economy and the government operates, and for whom.
It's an awakening -- a populist call for that "adult conversation" many thought would take place after the global economic calamity of 2008. It didn't then. But it may now, thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in a city near you.