When was the last time you felt like you had the power to change the world?

I feel like I knew very early on that Occupy Wall Street was going to be something truly magical.

This is Micah White, one of the very first organizers of the protest that became one of the largest in history.

As soon as we put out the idea, at AdBusters, we basically sent out an email to our network saying, like, here's this idea, you know, let's occupy Wall Street.

Within 24 hours, activists started organizing for it.

And I think that that was kind of the moment that I got a flicker, like, this is actually going to work. Can you imagine what that must have been like?

I mean, I remember the mood in the country at the time.

The unemployment rate was the highest that had been in years.

People were still losing their homes, but the bankers, who had just crashed the economy, were doing okay.

Occupy Wall Street was like a match tossed into a tank of gasoline.

Plus, this was 2011. It was just months after the Arab Spring swept through the Middle East.

It felt like nearly anything was possible.

The truly magical, most magical moment of Occupy Wall Street was when 700 people were arrested on the

Brooklyn Bridge. When that happened, it triggered such astronomical growth of Occupy. Within like 24 hours,

there was like a thousand encampments around the world. And I remember like that it was just,

the human mind couldn't even conceive what was going to happen next. I think that was the most

beautiful moment of Occupy Wall Street when you saw the power of a global social movement to kind

of move faster than anything, you know, that humans have ever created. Protesters occupied Zucati

Park for two months. Encampments spread to cities around the world. And it's hard to believe,

but it's now six years later. Michael White has had a lot of

time to think about the protest he helped create, and he's come to a surprising conclusion.

I think that protest is broken. I think that the idea that Occupy Wall Street was a success,

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