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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City 's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011. [7]
15 October was the day that many local offshoots of Occupy Wall Street started, mainly in smaller cities. Most of the big cities already had Occupy movements that people from the smaller cities and towns came to.
Protester on September 28, 2011. The following is a timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest which began on September 17, 2011 [1] on Wall Street, the financial district of New York City and included the occupation of Zuccotti Park, where protesters established a permanent encampment. The Occupy movement splintered after NYC Mayor ...
The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of real democracy around the world. It aimed primarily to advance social and economic justice and different forms of democracy. The movement has had many different scopes, since local ...
Occupy Pittsburgh protesters on October 15, 2011 Occupy San Antonio protesters at the Alamo begin march after rallying on October 15, 2011 in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators from Occupy Oklahoma City gather at the Oklahoma State Capitol building on October 28, 2011
60+. [268] Protestors of the Occupy movement in front of the Stock Exchange in Amsterdam on October 15, 2011. Occupy Rotterdam on October 22, 2011 in front of the Beurs-World Trade Center. A crowd of protestors in Congress Square, Ljubljana, Slovenia on October 15, 2011.
Occupy Charlottesville is a social movement in Charlottesville, Virginia, that began on October 15, 2011, [79] in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the rest of the Occupy movement. The downtown Lee Park encampment was taken down on November 30, 2011, when 18 members of the movement were arrested and charged with trespassing. [80]
13. On 15 October 2011 about 200,000 people [ 1] gathered in Rome, Italy to protest against economic inequality and the influence of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund on politics and also against the government of Silvio Berlusconi. [citation needed] The protests began in solidarity with the ...