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Occupy Archive Digital Exhibits: Spring 2020 CWRU Grievances of the 99% At its roots, the Occupy Wall Street Movement was an anti-capitalist, anti-corporation movement composed of people angered by the selfish and greedy financial practices of the country’s upper class. Proponents of Occupy thought the American Dream was no longer possible and protested the stifling lack of opportunity available to non-privileged citizens. As a result of the Great Recession beginning in 2008, the 99%, the people paying the price for the actions of the country's elites, advocated for regulation and oversight of this corrupt 1%. The Occupy Movement rooted their activism in an understanding that an economic system exclusively benefiting the top 1% at the expense of everyone else is unsustainable and antithetical to the idea of democracy.

Credits

Project developed by SOCI 380: Social Movement and Social Change class at Case Western Reserve University, Spring 2020.
Professor: Dr. Heather McKee Hurwitz
Students: Julia Barnett, Olivia Condon, Darnelle Crenshaw El, Maria Fallavollita, Michael Grant, Avi Horwitz, Kyle Jones, Roshana Krishnappa, Gloria Lee, Michele Lew, Will Schwartzman, Virginia Squires, Tianyi Zhang, and Claire McDermott Keanna

Project supported by the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of Amanda Koziura, Stephanie Becker, and Anne Kumer.