Five years ago, in the dead of night, New York City police swept through Zuccotti Park, the hub of Occupy Wall Street. Armed with riot gear, tear gas, and batons, they tore through tents and forcibly removed occupiers in the hopes of quelling a movement that had spread to nearly one thousand cities in eighty-two countries.

Today, Zuccotti Park has been fully restored to its original state: an austere corporate plaza in Lower Manhattan. But while Occupy’s drum circles and massive general assemblies have disappeared, the national conversation about inequality it sparked has not.

When the five-year anniversary of the initial encampment passed this September, reporters, participants, and others praised Occupy for building a political consciousness that fueled Occupy Sandy, Black Lives Matter, Fight for 15, and the anti–Keystone Pipeline protests, among others. As Sean Illing wrote for Salon, “Occupy Wall Street didn’t so much fail as fracture into various groups and causes.” These offshoots, he argued, might directly challenge corporate power in a way the original movement never could.