Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: USA, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen; Meschede, language: English, abstract: If you switched on your TV on September 17th 2011 to watch the 8 o'clock news, there is no doubt you have heard about a movement called "Occupy Wall Street". A group of people started occupying Zuccotti Park in New York's financial district in Lower Manhattan. But what is this all about? According to the movement's website, the aim is to denounce the tremendous inequality dividing the USA's population and to fight against the corruption and greed of the Top 1%. The distribution of income among the income groups has drastically changed over time. While the income of the bottom 99% of people increased only slightly, that of the Top 1% skyrocketed, creating a massive divergence. This