Occupy Wall Street consists of a series of demonstations in the Wall Street financial district and was initiated by Canadian activist group Adbusters. The protest is mainly focused on social and economic equality, coporate greed, corruption and influence over gonvernment. The protests include a number of different political orientations including liberals, political independants, anarchists, socialists, libertarians and environmentalists. Adbusters has suggested the idea in mid July and was spontaneously taken up by people. Adbusters promoted the prostest by releasing a poster with a dancer atop the Wall Streets iconic Charging Bull.
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| Occupy Wall Street Poster |
“We are the 99%” is a political slogan and internet meme used by demonstrators in the Occupy protests. The idea behind this slogan is a large portion of wealth in owned by 1% of the population. The top 1% of the American population owns 40% of the total wealth in the country. It started as a blog and became an internent meme that went viral, showing a picture of a person holding a piece of paper with their story on it.
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| Photo from the We are the 99% blog |
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