Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan has been released after nearly two months behind bars. McMillan was convicted in May of assaulting a police officer at a 2012 protest. She says she struck out instinctively when her breast was grabbed from behind. Speaking to reporters just after walking free, McMillan said she will work to make sure the voices of women prisoners reach “outside the prison system.”

Cecily McMillan: “If Judge Zweibel, [District Attorney] Cyrus Vance or Michael Bloomberg set out to make an example out of me to dissuade dissent, this has had the exact opposite impact. I am absolutely and further committed to fighting for rights and freedoms that I did not even realize had been eroded to the extent that they have. I will work tirelessly to make sure that these women’s voices reach outside of that prison system. And I feel like we have finally made a real and concrete step towards effecting a true possibility of the statement, 'We are the 99 percent.'”