Maeve Higgins: Putting a different spin on popular Occupy Wall Street movement

A decade after the initial protest in Zuccotti Park, many of the people who mocked the Occupy Wall Street movement have changed their tune, realising that they are the '99%' railing against the injustice of a class system that sees the '1%' lording it over the rest of us, writes Maeve Higgins

An American flag stands amidst tents in the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 in New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

In a spin class in Greenwich Village this week, the instructor bawled into his microphone “Ok you guys, last push, let’s put all that great energy you got and all that love and send it out to New York City, God knows we need it! Four, three, two, one...”

Spin instructors always say this kind of thing in my gym, and I find it either charming or disgusting depending, I think, on the mood I happen to be in.