Occupy fizzled, but made 99% a force admin, September 17, 2012August 15, 2024 CNN September 17, 2012 | Updated Nov 18, 2012 Republished by Huffington Post, LittleGreenFootballs.com,Hartford Business, Occupy Feeds, Transnational.org Until last year, mainstream political discourse did not include nearly as much emphasis on such populist concerns as rising income inequality, tax policies that favor the rich, growing influence by large corporate interests in elections and the reckless deregulation of financial institutions that resulted in the 2008 crisis [that] still impact 99% of Americans. campus activism Democracy Protest and Resistance Occupy Wall Street