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Events on Saturday 17 September 2011 1
2011Occupy Wall Street beginsProtest movement against economic inequalityActivists began an encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district to protest economic inequality and the influence of money in politics, using the slogan "We are the 99%." The movement spread to hundreds of cities worldwide before the New York camp was cleared by police in November. It reshaped public debate about wealth inequality in the years that followed.