Abstract
“WHAT IS OUR ONE DEMAND?” read the Canadian magazine Adbusters’s now iconic poster of a ballerina atop the Wall Street Bull, calling for an occupation of Wall Street.1 I attended the inaugural event of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011, in Lower Manhattan, after friends suggested that this could be an interesting event. Along with hundreds of others, I ended up in Zuccotti Park where the first Liberty Square General Assembly was held. Many participants made suggestions about the question of “one demand”: ending corporate personhood, stopping city cutbacks, getting money out of politics. When I left the park that evening around 10 p.m., there had been a lot of discussion but no consensus on any proposal. By the time the national media began to focus on the Movement weeks later, many news outlets focused on the question of demands. This resulted in a now common idea: Occupy Wall Street was a movement with “no demands.”
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