OCCUPY WALL STREET On September 17, 2011, a group of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park in New York’s financial district and officially launched the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. Their slogan, “We are the 99 percent,” addressed the growing income disparity in the United States, furthering the idea that the nation’s wealth is unfairly concentrated among the top-earning 1 percent. Although forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, the movement resonated with people across the country and around the world. By the end of 2011, Occupy protests had spread to over 951 cities in eighty-two countries.

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