By Rebecca Sherry, Cole Petano, Lisa Liegeot and Nicholas Meeker

In September 2011 a Peeple protest phenomenon known as Occupeep Wall Street gripped the nation. The movement spread quickly to hundreds of US cities and over 1500 cities around the world. Occupeepers pitched tents and marched, protesting the richest 1% of the Peeple with signs demanding “The 99 Peepcent Will Not be Silent” and “We are the 99 Peepcent!” The occuPeepers challenged established Peepceptions around the world using a non-binding consensus-based collective decision-making tool that came to be known as a “Peeple’s Assembly.”