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O O n Saturday, September 17, 2011, hundreds of “Occupy Wall Street,” the protesters set up tents. (Wall Street is the site of many U.S. banking and investment institutions.) The demonstrators announced they would stay until their demands were addressed. Referring to themselves as “the 99 percent,” the occupiers claimed that the “wealthiest 1 percent” of people in the country and their corporations had too much influence on the U.S. government and its policies. The U.S. government was being run by a financial oligarchy, they said, and it had to change. protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park, in the financial district of New York City. Calling their demonstration

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