The upward transfer of wealth and growing inequality between global elites and ordinary citizens has become untenable for people whose outrage at the injustice of the system is mounting. And the year 2011 has borne witness to many acts of public dissent from protests in the United Kingdom (UK), to sit-ins in Spain, to violent demonstrations in Greece, to the consolidation of a revolution in Iceland and now, the Occupy Wall Street encampment threatening to mobilise a global movement of people against corporate greed and economic inequality.
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