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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]
The report was released just as concerns of the Occupy Wall Street movement were beginning to enter the national political debate. [56] According to the CBO, between 1979 and 2007 the incomes of the top 1% of Americans grew by an average of 275%.
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 ...
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.
Though Occupy Wall Street is fading from the public eye, one of its offshoots continues to garner attention, carrying the torch as perhaps the most potent legacy of a movement that's largely cooled.
Worldwide Occupy movement protests on 15 October 2011. This is a list of Occupy movement topics on Wikipedia. The Occupy movement is the international branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protests against social and economic inequality around the world, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly ...
On Monday, the Occupy Wall Street movement celebrated its first birthday amid a flurry of glitter and a spate of arrests. The attendance numbers are way down from last year's occupation, and the ...