In my opinion, OWS was not successful. Success is measured by how far a person, group, or organization's ability to reach their goal. That doesn't mean that OWS cannot be successful, however the status of the OWS movement is still progressing in order to claim being successful. The Occupy protest movement was designed to expose social and economic inequality in the United States and elsewhere by exposing greed, corruption, and the undue influence of corporations on everyday life. As OWS were able to have succeeded to call out the reputation of a few corporations, they happen to jeopardize their own reputation as well, by creating fake stories to keep consumers on their side. Therefore, OWS thought they were not succeeding and begun to lie to there audience. This gives me the impression that OWS are hypocrites, and will do the same as the corporations they are fighting against. I would apologize to the people that reputations were ruin unethically, start the whole mo