Many people have heard of what’s been going on for the past two months on Wall Street, but do they know that they’re technically apart of this protest? Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an evolving succession of demonstrations in New York City taking place in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The protests were introduced by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which mainly protests social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government and lobbyists. The protesters’ trademark, “We are the 99%”, refers to the difference in wealth and income growth in the U.S. between the richest 1% and the remainder of the public.
In the middle of 2011, the Canadian-based Adbusters Foundation, suggested an amicable occupation of Wall Street to formally complain about the corporate weight on our democracy, focus on a growing imbalance in wealth, and the vacancy of legal consequences behind the recent global financial dilemma. Senior editor of Adbusters said it was without delay adopted by all the people of the world. Adbuster’s website claims that from their “one simple demand—a presidential commission to separate money from politics—we start setting the agenda for a new America.” They publicized the event with a poster presenting a dancer on top Wall Street’s famous Charging Bull statue. The internet group Anonymous promoted that its followers take part in the protests, asking participants to overflow lower Manhattan, prepare tents and kitchens along with peaceful barriers and to simply occupy Wall Street. Other groups soon joined in the organization of the protest. The mix includes Hacktivists Anonymous, U.S. Day of Rage, and the NYC General Assembly, the head body of the Occupy Wall Street group. The demonstration was placed at Zuccotti Park because it was private property and protestors could not lawfully be forced to leave.
Occupy Wall Street has grown farther than anyone really imagined it would grow. It's a safe assumption that no one expected to grow at all. Yet, it is now a global demonstration months in the making. According to John Nichols, author of “The 99 Percent Rise Up,” there are three things that Occupy Wall Street did right: the target, the numbers, and the demands. These things are what supposedly have made the public demonstration a hugely unexpected success.
Who else are the 99 percent supposed to target? Our economy has essentially crashed compared to what it once was. The ones to blame for this are bankers, CEOs and hedge-fund managers, and they are the ones being targeted during Occupy Wall Street. In his documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore “attempted citizen's arrest of the bankers who not only avoided accountability after crashing the economy but profited from a taxpayer-funded bailout.” Money has been able to corrupt the government. This is known as “the money power.”
A key complaint about the Occupy Wall Street demonstration is that people believe that it does not have any clear demands. Those people are in fact incorrect because the demands are well-known to be for change of the system of corporate domination and growing inequality. There many possible demands and they may differ in more than a thousand communities around the country. What they all have in common is the desire for change concerning corporate domination and growing inequality.

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future. Occupy Wall Street has been a public demonstration that we have not seen in years. The sheer number of demonstrators outnumbers any other protest in recent memory. Things are changing for the worse and now the public is trying to do something about it. Occupy Wall Street has targeted the right people, has the right numbers, and has clear demands. Billionaires don't need that much money. If wealth was shared, many issues would not be as bad as they are today.