Occupy Wall Street
2011 inequality movement
Occupy Wall Street was a 2011 protest movement against economic inequality and corporate influence in politics, centered on an encampment in New York City's Zuccotti Park near Wall Street.
The movement popularized the slogan "We are the 99%," contrasting ordinary people with the wealthiest one percent.
The Occupy protests spread to cities worldwide.
The name now evokes grassroots anti-capitalist activism generally.
- Arab Spring2010s Middle Eastern revolutions
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- civil rights movementOrganized effort against discrimination
- mic checkPre-performance audio verification
direct action · New York City · wealth gap · general assembly · anarchism · 99 percent · grassroots organizing · tent city · demonstrations · occupations · economic inequality · revolution · capitalism · general strike · boycott · alternative media · income disparity · student debt
- 2010sInstagram, Snapchat, Uber, Airbnb, Bitcoin
- Online Activismhashtag activism, online petitions, social media activism, clicktivism, slacktivism
- Peaceful Protestnonviolence, civil disobedience, peaceful protest, passive resistance, peaceful resistance
- populismpopulism, demagogue, demagoguery, anti-elitism, anti-establishment
- New York CityManhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
Occupy Wall StreetTea Party movement
Anti-government spending conservatives
Tea Party · Trumpism · fiscal conservatism · supply-side economics · trickle-down economics
Occupy Wall StreetWall Street
American finance hub
Goldman Sachs · corporate lobbying · bank bailouts · Davos · trickle-down economics
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