Originally posted here.
Veteran activists voice support for Occupy movement | The Institute for Southern Studies.
Recently, a group of civil rights, labor and other social movement veterans gathered to form a group called the Council of Elders.
In this video, published by the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, N.C. — site of the historic 1960 sit-ins that bolstered the Southern civil rights movement — the activists talk about why they support the Occupy Wall Street movement and its national offshoots as part of a larger movement for social justice:
