"We are the 99% We are the 99% is a political slogan widely used and coined by the Occupy movement. It was the name of a Tumblr blog page launched in late August 2011 and is a variation on the phrase ""We The 99%"" from an August 2011 flyer for the New York City General Assembly. A related statistic, ""the 1%"", refers to the top 1% wealthiest people in society that have a disproportionate share of capital, political influence, and the means of production. The phrase directly refers to the income and wealth inequality in the United States with a"
"99 Percent Declaration The 99 Percent Declaration or 99% Declaration is a not-for-profit organization based in Kentucky that originated from a working group of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in Zuccotti Park, New York City in October 2011. The organization published a document calling for a ""National General Assembly"" to be held beginning the week of July 4, 2012 in Philadelphia, which was rejected by the general assemblies of OWS and Occupy Philadelphia. The Declaration includes demands for an immediate ban on all monetary and gift contributions to all politicians, implementation of a public financing system for political campaigns,"
"petition was to be publicly presented to the American people and copies were to be served to the United States Congress, Supreme Court and President Barack Obama. The Occupy National Gathering movement was protesting in Philadelphia during the gathering. 99 Percent Declaration The 99 Percent Declaration or 99% Declaration is a not-for-profit organization based in Kentucky that originated from a working group of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in Zuccotti Park, New York City in October 2011. The organization published a document calling for a ""National General Assembly"" to be held beginning the week of July 4, 2012 in"
"Feminism of the 99% Feminism of the 99% (F99) is a contemporary, grassroots, radical feminist movement, which recognises intersectionality and advocates activism for and by all women - including those who have been overlooked by other feminist movements. It was proposed by a collective of prominent American feminists in an appeal published in Viewpoint Magazine in February 2017, and built upon the mobilisation of women seen in the 2017 Women’s March in January. The appeal simultaneously called for an International Women’s Strike on 8 March 2017. It is a successor to the accumulated intellectual legacy of feminist movements such as"
"protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries and over 600 communities in the U.S. As of October 28 the Meetup page ""Occupy Together"" listed ""Occupy"" communities in 2,355 towns and cities worldwide. Initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters, the movement is partly inspired by the Arab Spring movement, especially Cairo's Tahrir Square protests, and the Spanish Indignants. Occupy protests take their name from Occupy Wall Street, and commonly use the slogan ""We are the 99%"", the #Occupy hashtag format, and organize through websites such as ""Occupy Together"" (website no longer being maintained)."
"corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, ""We are the 99%"", addresses the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the US between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. Although some of these were cited by liberal activists and Democrats, this information did not fully become a center of national attention until it was used as one of the ideas behind the OWS movement. A survey by Fordham University Department of Political Science found the protester's political affiliations to be overwhelmingly left-leaning: 25% Democrat, 2% Republican, 11% Socialist, 11% Green Party, 12% Other,"
"The protesters at Texas State University, as in other movements throughout the world, have described themselves as the ""99 percent,"" a reflection of their belief that the financial system rewards the richest 1 percent at the expense of everyone else. The group was founded by Joshua Christopher Harvey (Joschua Beres), a US Air Force veteran, Leo Gomez Jr., Matthew Molnar, Laura Cowan and Max Anderson. The group's motto is ""Student activism for higher education reform"" and they plan to ""implement change to improve the quality of education and reduce educational cost inequality for not only Texas State University students –"
"and a government controlled by monied interests. We, ""the 99%"", are trying to wrestle government control out the hands of the ""1%"". OccupyMN is a people's movement. It is leaderless and party-less by design. It is not a business, a political party, an advertising campaign or a brand. It is not for sale. Occupy Minneapolis Occupy Minneapolis [OccupyMN] is a grassroots collaboration that began in October 2011 with a series of demonstrations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters have staged numerous occupations, most notably of the Hennepin County Government Center plaza. Occupy Minneapolis is allied with New York City's Occupy Wall Street"
"protesters' focus on income and wealth, and with their embrace of rich allies such as actress Susan Sarandon and Russell Simmons, who are themselves in the 1%. Joseph Barro of ""National Review"" offered similar arguments, asserting that the 1% includes those with incomes beginning at $593,000, which would exclude most Wall Street bankers. In the US, Republicans have generally been critical of the movement accusing protesters and their supporters of class warfare. Newt Gingrich called the ""concept of the 99 and the one"" both divisive and ""un-American"". Democrats have offered ""cautious support"", using the ""99%"" slogan to argue for the"
"and the enactment of an amendment to the United States Constitution overturning the Supreme Court's ""Citizens United v. FEC"" decision. The Occupy Wall Street movement began as an advertised demonstration which posed the question ""What is our one Demand?"", inviting protesters to identify and rally around a particular cause. This led several individuals and groups to propose various demands including the ""99 Percent Declaration"". ""Occupy"" protesters from across the country have said that the 99 Percent Declaration group ""is simply co-opting the 'Occupy' name"", and Occupy Wall Street has not endorsed the 99% Declaration, which reportedly ""generated more controversy than"
"largest in Madrid numbering half a million and the second largest city Barcelona with 400,000. As a continuation of the 2011 Spanish Protests, the largest protests took place in Spain, where more than a million people took the streets on 15 October, including 500,000 in Madrid, 400,000 in Barcelona, and 150,000 in Zaragoza. In Madrid, protesters reoccupied the Puerta del Sol square where the Indignados had camped five months earlier on 15 May. As in protests elsewhere, slogans on signs included ""We are the 99%"", ""United for Global Change"" and ""Human Rights for Everybody"". At least 300,000 under the banner"
"neighborhoods. The Occupy Wall Street organization and the Occupy movement in general began in New York's Zuccotti Park in 2011, where a number of protesters grouped together to change ""the public discourse about economic inequality"" and created the idea of the 1%'ers versus the 99%'ers. After the breakup of the group in the park and elsewhere, the Occupy movement has focused on ""more intellectual, less visible projects, like ""Occupy Farms"", fighting debt and theorizing on banking"". The movement's connections and ""altruistic drive"" has led to them being somewhat more effective in the Hurricane Sandy relief movement than ""larger, more established"
"the ""Occupy"" movement in the United States and around the world. A series of meetings that were titled ""The General Assembly"" or ""GA"" were held to plan the beginning of the event on October 6, 2011, and were held to create a consensus on policies and planning for the occupation. The original intent of Occupy Las Vegas, as with many of the other ""Occupy"" movements, was to denounce the role that large corporations had in promulgating the financial crisis. The protesters in Las Vegas, as in other movements throughout the world, have described themselves as the ""99 percent."" This statement"
"and actions. The group's slogan ""We are the 99%"" is sourced from Occupy Wall Street, who shares the slogan, and refers to the growing financial division between the wealthy and the poor in America. The 99% refers to the average and majority American populous, while the 1% refers to the wealthy upper-class Americans. Occupy Charlotte was inspired by and guided by the principles of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and act on its behalf. Occupy Charlotte recognizes the group ""Anonymous"" and its local ""Anonymous North Carolina"" group, and thank it for the support it has given Occupy Charlotte, but"
"Zuccotti Park to offer their support and sing to the occupiers. Three days later, on November 11, folk singer Joan Baez sang there as well. Many of the young protesters were not familiar with her songs and were unaware of her long history as an activist. Several wealthy supporters have joined the protest, and have started a blog, we stand with the 99 percent, in which they say, ""I am the 1%. I stand with the 99%,"" and give their stories. The granddaughter of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, 28, was quoted as saying ""We should acknowledge our"
"in this march. On October 15, 2011, a march was held in the Fremont Street Experience. Over 1000 people participated in the march. On October 21, 2011, the group began occupying a 2.5 acre site near UNLV, formerly used as an overflow parking lot by the nearby airport. The site has been informally dubbed ""Area 99,"" a reference both to the ""We are the 99%"" slogan of the overall movement, and the infamous Area 51 located in Nevada. It also has an alternate name of ""Camp Peace."" On October 30, 2011, a zombie march was held on the Las Vegas"
"the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters acted on consensus-based decisions made in general assemblies which emphasized redress through direct action over the petitioning to authorities. The protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. Protesters turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, foreclosed homes, and college and university campuses. The original protest was initiated by Kalle Lasn and Micah White of Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, who conceived of a September 17 occupation in Lower Manhattan. The first such proposal appeared on the"
"why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath."" Rick Santorum also told the protesters to get jobs. A group of bloggers, led by political commentator Erick Erickson, organized a website criticizing the movement entitled ""We Are the 53%,"" referring to the 53% of Americans who earn enough income to pay federal income taxes. An opinion piece by CBS contributor Jim Edwards, comparing the We are the 99% blog to the 53% blog, commented that ""once you've looked at both blogs, the impression you come away with"
"broadly. However, after the Great Recession of 2007 a number of populist social movements emerged, expressing public frustrations with national and international economic systems. These included the Occupy movement, which originated in the US and used the slogan ""We are the 99%"", and the Spanish Indignados movement, which employed the motto: ""real democracy now – we are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers"". Few populist social movements survive for more than a few years, with most examples, like the Occupy movement, petering out after their initial growth. In some cases, the social movement fades away as a"
"use of a mass strike of all women as the main form of political activism. On 8 March 2017 (International Women’s Day), activists across the feminist continuum organised the International Women’s Strike (known in the US as the Day Without Women), and the 2017 Women’s March. The 2017 Women’s Day March was the largest single day protest in US history. Feminism of the 99% Feminism of the 99% (F99) is a contemporary, grassroots, radical feminist movement, which recognises intersectionality and advocates activism for and by all women - including those who have been overlooked by other feminist movements. It was"
"speak, demonstrators in the audience said ""Thank you for standing up for corporations. They have rights too!"" and ""We are the 99 percent!"" before being removed by security. Gingrich responded ""I think we are 100 percent. We are all Americans. Gingrich suggested later in his speech that janitors should not be members of unions, and that their jobs should be given to children living in poverty. The group also joined with the Hotel Workers Rising campaign, pressuring Harvard to divest its holdings in HEI Hotels & Resorts. In December 2011, Harvard agreed to review its holdings in HEI—in March 2012,"
"inequality into the broader political discourse, for inspiring the fight for a $15 minimum wage. Explanatory notes Citations Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a progressive protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide. The Canadian anti-consumerist and pro-environment group/magazine ""Adbusters"" initiated the call for a protest. The main issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the"
"as a protester and as an academic observer. Juris recalls seeing a large rowdy young crowd of protesters walking the streets and chanting things like 'We are the 99%' and even encouraging bystanders by calling them the 99%. He also recalls seeing police brutality against peaceful veterans who were part of the occupy movement. The same violent images that followed the disencampment of Occupy Wall Street. In his article, ""Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere"", Juris asserts that websites and listservs were a big part of the inception of Occupy, but the movement took a turn towards a more decentralized, social media"
"used to prompt formal policy change. This lack of agenda has been cited as the reason why the Occupy Movement fizzled before achieving any specific legislative changes. Although the lack of demands has simultaneously been argued as one of the advantages of the movement, the protesters in Occupy rejected the idea of having only one demand, or a set of demands, and instead represented a host of broad demands that did not specifically allude to a desired policy agenda. Thus, this criticism was heavily debated. Although the movement's primary slogan was ""We are the 99%,"" it was criticized for not"
"began during the fall of 2011, is another instance were social media largely contributed to the efforts of the initiative. It was a people powered movement beginning September 17th, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattans financial district. As Occupy Wall Street sprang up in parks and under tents, one of the main issues the protesters pushed was economic inequality. Then with the winter pressing forward the police swept the protesters away. All across the country the crowds began to thin and enthusiasm diminished, and eventually the movement all but dissolved. The catch phrase that became well known by the occupants"
"a small group of demonstrators set up tents on the north end of Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard, protesting the high prices of rents. Shortly after that they were joined by hundreds, and later thousands, more protesters who occupied more streets in Tel Aviv and other cities. By then, their protest expanded to the high cost of living and low pay for many professionals. Their slogan was “the people demands social justice”. Its peak came in September 3, 2011, when about half a million protesters went to the streets in many cities across the country. At first, most Israeli media covered"
"in Isfahan. The 2011 Israeli housing protests (Hebrew: מחאת הדיור or מחאת הנדל""ן or מחאת האוהלים) are a series of ongoing street demonstrations taking place throughout Israel from 14 July 2011 onwards, and they have included the largest demonstration ever seen in the country, which took place on September 3, 2011 and had 460,000 protesters throughout the country, including 300,000 protestors in Tel Aviv alone. The protests began after a Facebook protest group led hundreds of people to camp in tents in the center of Tel Aviv on Rothschild Boulevard. The movement soon gained momentum and began a public discourse"
"Federal Reserve Building. This proximity has resulted in the curious sight of traders watching the protesters while outside on breaks. It has also resulted in taunts from workers in the Board of Trade. On October 4, 2011 a sign was visible in the windows of the Board of Trade that read, ""WE ARE THE 1%."" The sign was quickly taken down. Seeking to create a permanent, sheltered base, over 175 protesters were arrested under the orders of Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel on the morning of October 16 after refusing to take down tents and remaining in Grant Park near Chicago's"
"on behalf of Occupy St. Louis to cease enforcement of the curfew by arguing violation of First Amendment speech rights was denied in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Occupy articles Other Protests Related articles Occupy St. Louis Occupy St. Louis (OccupySTL) was a postpartisan people's movement that began on October 1, 2011 as a peaceful protest against corporate greed, its influence over the economy, its corruption of government, and ensuing inequality. Although people possess differing viewpoints and diversity of views is a central tenet, commonly held themes seek an equal playing field in the"
"Wall Street movement its theme: ""We are the 99 percent"" though Graeber has written in ""The Democracy Project"" that the slogan ""was a collective creation"". ""Rolling Stone"" says Graeber helped create the first New York City General Assembly, with only 60 participants, on August 2. He spent the next six weeks involved with the burgeoning movement, including facilitating general assemblies, attending working group meetings, and organizing legal and medical training and classes on nonviolent resistance. A few days after the encampment of Zuccotti Park began, he left New York for Austin, Texas. Graeber has argued that the Occupy Wall Street"
"was ""We are the 99 percent.” The 99 percent were referred to as the lower-income people that are struggling to make a change. This was in contrast to the 1% who were well off financially and were in control of social, political and economic levers of powers. From here it spread to cities all over the United State, and globally. The movement came about because of the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Its main goal was to fight against the unequal income gap and the corrupting influence of money. Although many people believed that the movement disappeared, it has"
"Trade, Bank of America, and the Federal Reserve Building. This proximity has resulted in the curious sight of traders watching the protesters while outside on breaks. It has also resulted in taunts from workers in the Board of Trade. On October 4, 2011 a sign was visible in the windows of the Board of Trade that read, ""WE ARE THE 1%."" The sign was quickly taken down. In late 2011 Occupy Chicago was able to recruit massive crowds of people to embark on protest marches throughout Chicago because its politics were still very inclusive with primarily ""left"" liberal minded people"
"2005, activists wearing yellow scarves held protests in the capital city of Ulan Bator, disputing the results of the 2004 Mongolian parliamentary elections and calling for fresh elections. One of the chants heard in that protest was ""Let's congratulate our Kyrgyz brothers for their revolutionary spirit. Let's free Mongolia of corruption."" The Occupy movement is an international protest movement which started in New York City on September 17, 2011 with Occupy Wall Street and uses the occupation of public spaces without government permission as a means of protesting numerous issues, including notably social and economic inequality. By October 9 Occupy"