The Occupy Wall Street Movement began with an email back in July, a series of meetings in New York’s Tompkins Square Park, a few thousand dollars and absolutely no idea who would show up to protest financial and social inequality in New York and across the nation.

Yet on September 17th a couple of thousand people descended upon the Charging Bull at Bowling Green, and later, more still made their way to Zuccotti Park to defend economic equality. “Sister occupations” appeared all over the country and the world with many ending in arrests and scenes of police brutality.

Sound familiar? Well one journalist says the movement bears a striking resemblance to the legacy of Dr, Martin Luther King’s struggle for economic equality. He is Nathan Schneider, an editor at the blog Waging Non-Violence, and our Liz Faublas had a chance to speak with him.