The
Occupy movement is the international branch of the
Occupy Wall Street movement that
protests against
social and
economic inequality around the world, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed. Local groups often have different focuses, but among the movement's prime concerns deal with how
large corporations (and the
global financial system) control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines
democracy, and is unstable. It is part of what
Manfred Steger calls the "global justice movement".