The Occupy Wall Street Movement: Moral and Economic Implications The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWM) was an anti-capitalistic exploitation uprising that began in the U.S. in 2011. The movement’s objective was to change America’s political and economic systems, which encouraged continued enrichment of the moneyed one percent of the population (made up of corporations, the media, and financial institutions), at the expense of the remaining ninety nine percent. The movement’s moral contention is that there is an unacceptable level of social and economic inequalities between the poor and the rich. The movement describes America’s capitalist economy as one that is skewed in favor of the rich (Francis, 2011).