A Canadian magazine, Adbusters, posted a detailed and explicit call to occupy Wall Street and protest against corporate greed, on its blog on July 13. Three hundred people answered the call on Sept. 17 in New York City and the Occupy Wall Street movement was born. Protesters took over Zuccotti Park near Wall Street and a growing number of people camped there until Nov. 15 when police disbanded the camp in an early morning raid.
The movement has no singular demand, but calls itself the 99 percent, and rails against the wealthiest 1 percent in society and the financial system.
