‘Occupy’ activist Laugier dies at 42

Community organizer and prominent Occupy Wall Street protester Faith Laugier died at her mother’s Bronx home this week, said grief-stricken friends and family.

Laugier (photo) was 42. A cause of death was not disclosed. “If she had two dollars to her name, she would be giving quarters out to anybody,” said her sister, who asked not to be named.

“She was an amazing sister. She was a great aunt to my two boys,” her sister said. “My 4-year-old — I don’t even know what I’m going to tell him . .... She’s an amazing, beautiful being.”

“She was a sensational woman who had an enormous amount of potential, and it’s a huge loss for the activist movement and a huge loss for the city,” said Aton Edwards, a friend.

Laugier became a prominent activist when Occupy Wall Street formed in September 2011 and protesters set up an encampment in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District.

Laugier slept in the park the first night of Occupy Wall Street protests, said John Penley, a friend. “There weren’t that many people who stayed there the first night,” Penley recalled.

The number of protesters in the park grew, and Laugier emerged as one of the movement’s leading organizers.

“I saw how dedicated and serious she was,” said Edwards. “She threw herself into it. She became like a mainstay within the Occupy movement.”

Laugier was one of hundreds of Occupy protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct.1, 2011 — an event that hurled the protest into national news.

Laugier said she was following police directives when she was arrested. She sued the city and the NYPD — including former Chief of Department Joseph Esposito, in September 2013, and won an $85,000 settlement in the case, records show.

The Zuccotti Park encampment ended after police raided the park in November 2011 under the instructions of then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Laugier was the producer and host of the Occupy Wall Street Radio Show on WBAI from October 2011 until December 2012, her Linkedin profile says.

Information about survivors and memorial services was not immediately available.