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"We are the 99%" poster referencing the Polish Solidarity movement Occupy Wall Street poster, September 2011 Protesters with the "99%" T-shirts at Occupy Wall Street on November 17, 2011 near the New York City Hall. We are the 99% is a political slogan widely used and coined during the 2011 Occupy movement.
Occupy protesters with "We are the 99%" signs in Bennington, Vermont. The phrase "The 99%" is a political slogan used by participants in the Occupy movement. [51] It was originally launched as a Tumblr blog page in late August 2011.
The variation "We are the 99%" originated from a Tumblr page of the same name. [31] [32] Huffington Post reporter Paul Taylor said the slogan was "arguably the most successful slogan since 'Hell no, we won't go!'" of the Vietnam War era, and that the vast majority of Americans saw the income gap as causing social friction. [31]
A national general assembly, the Continental Congress 2.0, was announced in March 2012. [11] It was organized by the 99% Declaration working group. [12] The Congress was to comprise 878 delegates, from all 435 Congressional districts, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia; [13] however not every district was represented though about 836 [14] contributed to topics to be included and voting ...
[45] and the White House issued a statement saying Obama is working for the interests of the 99%. [46] October 26 – Hundreds of OWS protesters marched near Union Square in support of Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen who was in intensive care after being hit by a police-fired projectile. [47]
The Occupy movement's "We are the 99%" slogan made talk of inequality "the zeitgeist of our age – an age of seemingly permanent crisis and austerity," as Adam Booth put it. [24] According to Book Marks , the book received "positive" reviews based on 13 critic reviews with 6 being "rave" and 4 being "positive" and 3 being "mixed". [ 25 ]
Our bodies have 3 billion genetic building blocks, or base pairs, that make us who we are. And of those 3 billion base pairs, only a tiny amount are unique to us, making us about 99.9% genetically ...
0–9. 47 percent; 1776 will commence again ... We are the 99%; We Believe (yard sign) ... The whole world is watching; Will you shut up, man (previous page)