Occupy protests around the world: full list visualised | World news "951 cities in 82 countries" has become the standard definition of the scale of the Occupy protests around the world this weekend, following on from the Occupy Wall Street and Madrid demonstrations that have shaped public debate in the past month. We wanted to list exactly where protests have taken place as part of the Occupy movement - and see exactly what is happening where around the globe. With your help, adding events in our form below, we've been able to show 750 Occupy events world wide. As we wrote this week: Protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and the "Indignants" in Spain have spread to cities around the world. Tens of thousands went on the march in New York, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Rome, Sydney and Hong Kong as organisers aimed to "initiate global change" against capitalism and austerity measures. So, we have started listing all the events we can find verified news reports for. But what have we missed? Download the data More open data
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. The Canadian, anti-consumerist, pro-environment group/magazine, Adbusters initiated the call for a protest. The ensuing series of events helped lead to media awareness that inspired Occupy protests and movements around the world. In awarding Workhouse its Platinum Award, industry publication PRNews noted "The results, obviously, have been spectacular. The protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. On December 29, 2012, Naomi Wolf of The Guardian newspaper provided U.S. government documents which revealed that the FBI and DHS had monitored Occupy Wall Street through its Joint Terrorism Task Force, despite labelling it a peaceful movement.[9] Origins[edit] Overview[edit] "We are the 99%"[edit] Income inequality[edit] Goals[edit] Protester demographics[edit] Main organization[edit]
Bonus Army The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Force, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant. Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most popular military figures of the time, visited their camp to back the effort and encourage them.[1] On July 28, U.S. Background[edit] Members of the Bonus Army camped out on the lawn of the U.S. March[edit] U.S.
Occupy Wall Street Growth Map: How Fast Are 'Occupy' Facebook Pages Growing? From the initial call to occupy Wall Street until the present day, the 'Occupy' movement has grown across the country and spread around the world. Using data from Collective Disorder on different 'Occupy' cities' Facebook pages, The Huffington Post has created a map that shows the movement's increasing popularity over time. Click the play button on the map to view the movement's growth from October 3 through November 9. Please be patient while the map loads! NOTES ON THE MAP:The data for this map comes from developer Shane Castlen and the Facebook API. The larger the circle size on the map, the greater the number of Facebook likes. New groups have formed and been discovered since October 3, when page data was first collected. If you've been to an Occupy Wall Street event anywhere in the country, we'd like to hear from you.
About Us Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future. OccupyWallSt.org is the oldest and most trusted online resource for the Occupy Movement. 1. The original idea for Occupy Wall Street was created during a phone call between Kalle Lasn, the founder of Adbusters, and Micah White, an editor at the magazine. 2. 3. • The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution 4.
Occupation of Alcatraz A lingering sign of the 1969–71 Native American Alcatraz Occupation in 2006. The "AN" is what remains of an alteration made to the sign, to make it read "United Indian Property". Background[edit] On March 8, 1964, a small group of Sioux demonstrated by occupying the island for four hours.[1] The entire party consisted of about 40 people, including photographers, reporters and Elliot Leighton, the lawyer representing those claiming land stakes. According to Adam Fortunate Eagle, this demonstration was an extension of already prevalent Bay Area street theater used to raise awareness. Though recently many people have claimed that the American Indian Movement was somehow involved in the Takeover, AIM had nothing to do with the planning and execution of the Occupation, though they did send a delegation to Alcatraz in the early months in order to find out how the operation was accomplished and how things were progressing. Occupation[edit] Collapse and removal[edit] Impact[edit] Legacies[edit]
Timeline of Occupy Wall Street Protester on September 28, 2011 The following is a brief timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest which began on Saturday, September 17, 2011[1] on Wall Street, the financial district of New York City. Chronology of events[edit] Pre-Occupy Wall Street[edit] September 2011[edit] September 3, 2011: A planning session for Occupy Wall Street is held at night in Tompkins Square Park The crowd on September 18, 2011 (day 2). Protesters demonstrate outside NYPD headquarters on September 30, 2011 (day 14). September 17 – The first day of the OWS gathering. October 2011[edit] Protesters marching as corporate zombies on October 3 October 1 – Protesters set out to march across the Brooklyn Bridge. October 10 – NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg states that so long as protesters operate under the law, they will not be arrested. November 2011[edit] December 2011[edit] December 17 – On the three-month anniversary of the protests, organizers of the protest called for a "reoccupuation." January 2012[edit]
Occupy Wall Street – an analysis « Redline by Colin Clarke “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio Gramsci. From the Prison Notebooks. The beginnings of the ‘Occupy’ movement In July this year, the online magazine Adbusters called for an occupation of Wall Street by 20,000 people to protest against the greed of corporate bankers and the lack of influence ordinary people have over the growing economic crisis that they’re being forced to pay for. From these small beginnings, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest has caught the imagination of people all over the USA and the World. As the first official statement of the occupation put it: ‘We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice and oppression over equality, run our governments’. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ goes global Responses to the ‘Occupy movement’ “OCCUPY. All this is unusual. Only fools make predictions…
Greensboro sit-ins The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960[1] which led to the Woolworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.[2] While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history.[3] The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Background[edit] In August 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia library.[4] In 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality sponsored sit-ins in Chicago, as they did in St. Louis in 1949 and Baltimore in 1952. Actions at Woolworth[edit] The four university freshmen – Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr. Impact[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
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