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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.
Occupy Wall Street activists disseminated their movement updates through a variety of mediums, including social media, print magazines, newspapers, film, radio and live stream. Like much of Occupy, many of these alternative media projects were collectively managed, while autonomous from the decision-making bodies of Occupy Wall Street. [92] [93]
It was renamed Occupy Wall Street after the idea publicized on an email list [118] on 13 July 2011 by Vancouver-based non-profit Canadian group Adbusters. [40] [119] [120] The Occupy Wall Street protests began on 17 September 2011 in downtown Manhattan. [121]
The movement's lofty goals of creating a more equitable economy have gone unfulfilled, but the politics of "the 99 percent" have gained traction over the past decade.
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]
On this day in 2011, the movement that became known as Occupy Wall Street started in New York City. Other Events on September 17th: 1862: The important Civil War Battle of Antietam took place in ...
By Chris Francescani NEW YORK, Sept 17 - A few hundred Occupy Wall Street activists gathered in New York's financial district on Monday but police kept them well back from the New York Stock ...
The Occupy movement began in the United States initially with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City but spread to many other cities, both in the United States and worldwide. There have been hundreds of Occupy movement protests worldwide over time. This is a list of some of their locations in the United States.