Check out this video and see what happens when a Bankster is confronted with his own greed—and brought along to admit that a teeny, tiny financial transaction (“Robinhood”) tax on stock trading wouldn’t hurt that industry one bit. But it would make a huge difference in the lives of the 99 percent.

Ja-Rei Wang, AFL-CIO Media Outreach fellow, writes about her experience with Occupy Wall Street in New York City.

I was one of more than 1,000 students, working families, parents, freelance artists, union members, health care providers and immigrants who weaved through Manhattan’s sidewalks to Washington Square Park to protest the growing wealth inequality in our country, rising unemployment, powerful corporate influence on politics and the need for financial reform, among other concerns. The marching contingent was made up of a diverse group of people of all ages, genders and ethnicities taking part over the weekend in Occupy Wall Street’s “International Day of Action.”