ABSTRACT
On September 17, 2011, several hundred protesters, calling themselves the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, occupied Zuccotti Park in the fi nancial district of lower Manhattan. OWS was a grassroots movement; it had no leadership structure, made decisions by direct democracy, and articulated a diffuse list of complaints including social injustice, economic inequality, and corporate dominance of government. Nonetheless, their signature slogan, “We are the 99 percent,” protesting the greed of the 1 percent, captured the nation’s attention.
