Abrams, Benjamin; (2021) McKee Hurwitz, Heather. 2020. Are We the 99%? The Occupy Movement, Feminism and Intersectionality [Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 208 pp, index. EAN: 978-1-4399-2021-3]. [Review]. Contention , 9 (2) pp. 87-90. 10.3167/cont.2021.090206.

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The Occupy Movement is ten years old this year, and yet there is still so much that we do not understand about the movement. For those unfamiliar with the topic, Occupy first came to prominence in September 2011, when New York City activists occupied a public square in the city's financial district. Despite attracting relatively little attention at first, Occupy soon grew in the public imagination until it spawned a movement that spread across not only the United States but the globe. The movement made use of urban occupations as its primary tactic and tended to adopt “horizontal” organizing styles, which eschewed formal leaders in favor of mass assemblies “facilitated” by activists. Its most prominent frame was that of the “99%”—the notion that 99 percent of a country's population have common interests that diverge from their elite “1%” foes.

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