Behind The Protest Signs: The Voices Of Occupy San Francisco

"I think we're witnessing possibly the biggest left populist rebellion since the populist movement of the 1890s."

On a recent warm early morning in downtown San Francisco, veteran organizer David Solnit uttered those hopeful words amid a boisterous crowd of about 400 marching through the Financial District demanding banks pay for the economic and human costs of the home foreclosure crisis.

The Oct. 12 protest temporarily shut down Wells Fargo headquarters on Montgomery Street, leading to 11 arrests as demonstrators from a coalition of labor and community-based groups, including affordable housing and immigrants' rights movements and the Occupy San Francisco movement spent five hours rallying to "foreclose on Wall Street West."

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