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Sep 14, 2021 · 2011. Occupy Wall Street begins. On September 17, 2011, hundreds of activists gather around Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for the first day of the Occupy Wall Street Movement—a...
Sep 15, 2021 · Occupy Wall Street politicized an entire generation – one that grew up under George W Bush in the post-9/11 years, pinning all their hopes on Barack Obama. Let down when his message of “hope...
Sep 12, 2021 · What took place that day, and the two months to follow, would become known as Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement against economic inequality and injustice that spread to 28 other US...
Sep 14, 2021 · Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think. The movement itself has mostly disappeared. But 10 years later, its legacy is everywhere. By Michael Levitin. Don Emmert / AFP / Getty. September...
Dec 13, 2021 · With the rallying cry “We are the 99%!,”—meant to highlight how the richest 1% of the population dominated the U.S. economy— the Occupy Wall Street movement grew not only within New York’s Zuccotti Park, but also in protests throughout hundreds of towns and cities in the U.S. and across the globe.
Sep 17, 2021 · As Congress debates a $3.5 trillion bill to expand the nation’s social safety net and to increase taxes on the rich, we look back at Occupy Wall Street, the movement, how it reshaped the...
Sep 17, 2021 · Coining the slogan, "We are the 99%," Occupy Wall Street decried income inequality, saying that the wealthiest 1% of Americans controlled far too much of the nation's wealth and that...
