Combination of October 2011 global protests

This is a list of Occupy movement topics on Wikipedia. The Occupy movement is the international branch of the Occupy Wall Street

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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 distributed. Local groups often have different focuses, but the movement's principle focus is to highlight that large corporations (and the global financial system) control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy, and is unstable.

Occupy movement topics

* Occupy movement *

1% (South Park) "1%" is the twelfth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series '' South Park'', and the 221st episode overall. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 2, 2011. In the episode, Cartman feel ...

15 October 2011 global protests The 15 October 2011 global protests were part of a series of protests inspired by the Arab Spring, the Icelandic protests, the Portuguese "Geração à Rasca", the Spanish "Indignants", the Greek protests, and the Occupy movement. The protes ...

99 Percenters "99 Percenters" is a single by industrial metal band Ministry. It is about the Occupy movement and is the first single from their 2012 album, ''Relapse'', their first since their three-year split from November 2008 to August 2011. The band release ...

* Anarchism and the Occupy movement * Anti-mask laws *

Bank Transfer Day Bank Transfer Day was a consumer activism initiative calling for a voluntary switch from commercial banks to not-for-profit credit unions by November 5, 2011. As of October 15, 2011, a Facebook page devoted to the effort had drawn more than 54,900 ...

* Declaration (book) *

Fuelling Poverty ''Fuelling Poverty'' is a 2012 Nigerian documentary by Ishaya Bako that narrates the activities of the Occupy Nigeria movement when it was at its climax in early 2012. The 28 minutes video also features special appearances from Nobel Laureate Wo ...

* General assembly (Occupy movement) *

Leah Hunt-Hendrix Leah Hunt-Hendrix is an American political activist. Hunt-Hendrix is currently a senior advisor at the American Economic Liberties Project. She was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Early life and education Hunt-Hendrix was born and ...

List of Occupy movement protest locations The Occupy Wall Street protests, which started in 2011, inspired a wide international response. There have been hundreds of Occupy movement protests worldwide over time, intended and organized as non-violent protest against the wealthy, as well ...

* Mashtots Park Movement * Min Reyes * Occupy (book) *

Occupy Buffer Zone Occupy Buffer Zone (OBZ) was a protest movement that began on October 15, 2011 by Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot activists, in the Ledra Street checkpoint, in Nicosia, Cyprus. The movement began with a weekly occupation of the checkpoint, which ...

Occupy Faith Occupy Faith is an ally of the Occupy movement that supports the movement due to its members religious and spiritual values. Groups are established by activists and religious leaders. In the United States, in 2011, a national gathering was held in ...

Occupy Homes Occupy Homes or Occupy Our Homes is part of the Occupy movement which attempts to prevent the foreclosure of people's homes. Protesters delay foreclosures by camping out on the foreclosed property. They also stage protests at the banks responsibl ...

Occupy Love ''Occupy Love'' is a 2012 documentary film about the Occupy movement directed by Velcrow Ripper. The film premiered at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival. Overview ''Occupy Love'' argues that the Arab Spring, Occupy movement, ''Indig ...

* Occupy Sandy *

Occupy This Album ''Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 Percent'' is a four-disc compilation box set released in May 2012 through the record label Music for Occupy. The album concept, and initial production was initiated by Executive Producer Jason Samel. Jason S ...

Progressive stack The progressive stack is a technique used to give marginalized groups a greater chance to speak. It is sometimes an introduction to, or stepping stone to, consensus decision-making in which simple majorities have less power. The technique works b ...

* Reactions to the Occupy movement * We are the 99%

Occupy Wall Street

* Adbusters *

Avoid pi Adam Void is an artist and musician living in Asheville, North Carolina. Void has worked under the pseudonym AVOID pi since 1999 and has produced numerous public works across the United States. He began his artistic career in South Carolina and i ...

* Charging Bull * Economic inequality * Illuminator Art Collective *

Liberty Square Blueprint The Liberty Square Blueprint was an Occupy Wall Street manifesto consisting in a collection of loosely defined goals authored by about 250 protesters. It was started around the beginning of October 2011 as a wiki style document. As of October 18 ...

Occupy Comics ''Occupy Comics: Art & Stories Inspired by Occupy Wall Street'' is a three-issue comic book anthology series published by Black Mask Studios in 2013. Funded on Kickstarter, the series articulates themes of the Occupy Wall Street movement through c ...

Occupy movement hand signals The Occupy movement hand signals are a group of hand signals used by Occupy movement protesters to negotiate a consensus. The signals have been equated with other hand languages used by soldiers, cliques, or even Wall Street traders. Hand signal ...

* Occupy the Hood * Occupy Wall Street * OWS Media Group *

Reactions to Occupy Wall Street The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations garnered reactions of both praise and criticism from organizations and public figures in many parts of the world. Over time, a long list of notable people from a range of backgrounds began and continue to len ...

The Occupy Handbook ''The Occupy Handbook'' is a collection of essays about Occupy Wall Street as well as the larger international Occupy movement. Contributors include economists and political commentators such as: Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Rei ...

The People's Library The People's Library, also known as Fort Patti or the Occupy Wall Street Library (OWS Library), was a library founded in September 2011 by Occupy Wall Street protesters in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park located in the Financial District of New ...

Thirty Meter Telescope protests The Thirty Meter Telescope protests are a series of protests and demonstrations that began on the Island of Hawaii over the choosing of Mauna Kea for the site location of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Mauna Kea is the most sacred dormant volcano ...

Timeline of Occupy Wall Street The following is a timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest which began on September 17, 2011 on Wall Street, the financial district of New York City and included the occupation of Zuccotti Park, where protesters established a permane ...

* V for Vendetta *

Wall Street Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for t ...

* Zuccotti Park *

99 Percent Declaration The 99 Percent Declaration or 99% Declaration is a not-for-profit organization based in Kentucky that originated from a working group of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in Zuccotti Park, New York City, in October 2011. The organization publi ...

* 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

Individuals

David Graeber David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and ''Bullshit Jobs ...

Foo Conner Foo Conner is an American activist, entrepreneur, and journalist. He is known for his work on Occupy Wall Street, Randyland, Social journalism, and as a YouTube personality. Personal life Foo Conner was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He gr ...

Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16, 1982), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco ( ), is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and entrepreneur. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his debut album, ''Lupe Fiasco's ...

* Jesse LaGreca * Paul Mayer (activist) *

Cecily McMillan Cecily McMillan (born 1988) is an American activist and advocate for prisoner rights in the United States who was arrested and subsequently convicted of felony second-degree assault. McMillan claimed she was defending herself against an attempte ...

Tim Pool Timothy Daniel Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American YouTuber, political commentator and podcast host who first became known for live streaming the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. He joined Vice Media and Fusion TV in 2014, later workin ...

Kshama Sawant Kshama Sawant (; born October 17, 1973) is an Indian-American politician and economist who has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of Socialist Alternative (United States), Socialist Alternative, the first and only mem ...

Justin Wedes Justin Wedes (born March 20, 1986) is an entrepreneur, community organizer and social justice activist. He is a former member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, founding member of the Detroit Water Brigade and CEO oThe Liberati Group a strategic ...

Micah M. White Micah M. White is credited with being the co-creator of the original call for the Occupy Wall Street protests. His book '' The End Of Protest: A New Playbook For Revolution'' was published by Knopf Canada in 2016. Biography White "was born to ...

Location

Hong Kong

2014 Hong Kong protests A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014. The protests began after ...

Art of the Umbrella Movement Art of the Umbrella movement refers to artistic works created as part of the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong which demanded democracy in the election of the territory's top leader. Most of the physical works of art are located within the three ma ...

Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies" (; lit. "sea wide sky empty") is a song written and recorded by the Hong Kong rock band Beyond. Released in 1993 on the Cantonese album ''Rock and Roll'', the song was and remains massively popular. The song has ...

Gau wu ''Gau Wu'' () (Cantonese pronunciation: Gau1 Wu1), is a Cantonese expression that was coined shortly after an interview clip in which the term was used was broadcast by HK cable TV in August 2014. The expression means "disorderly shouting" or "sq ...

Lennon Wall Hong Kong Lennon Wall ( zh, t=連儂牆, j=lin4 nung4 coeng4, first=t,j), in the Hong Kong context, originally referred to the mosaic wall created during the Umbrella Movement, located at Central Government Complex, Harcourt Road, Admiralty. The wall ...

* Reactions to the 2014 Hong Kong protests * Umbrella Movement *

Umbrella Square Umbrella Square (), also called Umbrella Plaza, describes a large roadway in Admiralty, Hong Kong occupied by protesters during the Umbrella Movement protests in September 2014. On 11 December 2014, after 74 days of occupation, the area was clear ...

* Umbrella Ultra Marathon

United Kingdom

* Bank of Ideas * Bloomsbury Social Centre * Occupy Bath *

Occupy Edinburgh Occupy Edinburgh was a protest against economic and social inequality as part of the global Occupy movement. The "occupation" began with the erection of a number of tents in St. Andrew Square on 14 October 2011. On 24 November 2011, Edinburgh Ci ...

* Occupy Glasgow *

Occupy London Occupy London was a political movement in London, England, and part of the international Occupy movement. While some media described it as an "anti-capitalist" movement, in the statement written and endorsed by consensus by the Occupy assembly i ...

* The Occupied Times of London

United States

Law enforcement and the Occupy movement The Occupy movement has been met with a variety of responses from local police departments since its beginning in 2011. According to documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the FBI, state and local law enforcement officials ...

List of Occupy movement protest locations in the United States 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 worldwi ...

Occupy movement in the United States 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. This list article is an alphabetical, non-chronological su ...

* List of Occupy movement protest locations in California ** Occupy San José **

Occupy UC Davis Occupy may refer to: * ''Occupy'' (book), a 2012 short study of the Occupy movement by Noam Chomsky * Occupy movement, an international protest that began in New York See also * * Occupancy Within the context of building construction and bu ...

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UC Davis pepper-spray incident The UC Davis pepper-spray incident occurred on November 18, 2011, during an Occupy movement demonstration at the University of California, Davis. After asking the protesters to leave several times, university police pepper-sprayed a group of stu ...

Occupy Cal Occupy Cal included a series of demonstrations that began on November 9, 2011, on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California. It was allied with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City, San Francisco Bay Area Occ ...

** Occupy Oakland ***

Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Frank H. Ogawa Plaza is a public square located in Downtown Oakland. Location and elements Occupy Oakland Nov 12 2011 PM 29.jpg Frank H. Ogawa Plaza is located where San Pablo Avenue converges with Broadway and 14th Street. The west side of t ...

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2011 Oakland general strike The 2011 Oakland general strike was a demonstration held in Oakland, California on November 2, 2011 as part of the larger Occupy Oakland movement. Demonstration Thousands of protesters gathered at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza to participate in rallies ...

*** Jean Quan *** Timeline of Occupy Oakland * General assembly (Occupy movement) *

Human microphone A human microphone, also known as the people's microphone, is a means for delivering a speech to a large group of people, wherein persons gathered around the speaker repeat what the speaker says, thus "amplifying" the voice of the speaker without ...

Occupy Ashland __NOTOC__ Occupy Ashland included a peaceful protest and demonstration against economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government which has taken place in Ashland, Oregon, United States since 6 Oc ...

Occupy Atlanta Occupy Atlanta has included protests and demonstrations. Occupy Atlanta began on October 6, 2011 in Woodruff Park, located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. As part of the Occupy movement, it is inspired by Occupy Wall Street which began in New Yor ...

Occupy Austin Occupy Austin was a collaboration that began on October 6, 2011 at City Hall in Austin, Texas as an occupation and peaceful protest. It is affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City, and also with the "Occupy" pro ...

Occupy Baltimore Occupy Baltimore was a collaboration that included peaceful protests and demonstrations. Occupy Baltimore began on October 4, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland, in McKeldin Square near the Inner Harbor area of Downtown Baltimore. It is one of th ...

Occupy Boston Occupy Boston was a collective of protesters that settled on September 30, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts, on Dewey Square in the Financial District opposite the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It is related to the Occupy Wall Street movement th ...

* Occupy Buffalo *

Occupy Charlotte Occupy Charlotte was a collective of protesters that settled on September 30, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina, in front of the old city hall. It is related to the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York City on September 17, 2011 al ...

Occupy Charlottesville Occupy Charlottesville was a social movement in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, that began on October 15, 2011,Fitzgerald, October 15, 2011 in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the rest of the Occupy movement. The downtown Lee Pa ...

* Occupy Chicago *

Occupy D.C. Occupy D.C. was an occupation of public space in Washington, D.C. based at McPherson Square and connected to the Occupy movements that sprung up across the United States in Fall 2011. The group had been demonstrating in McPherson Square since Octob ...

Occupy Eugene Occupy Eugene was a collaboration that occurred in Eugene, Oregon based on the Occupy Wall Street movement which began in New York City on September 17, 2011. Occupy Eugene included peaceful protests and demonstrations. Protesters were concerne ...

* Occupy Houston * Occupy Las Vegas *

Occupy Los Angeles Occupy Los Angeles (also referred to as Occupy L.A.) is one of the many occupy movements in the United States, following the original Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest. Participants of Occupy L.A. first met at Pershing Square on September 23, 2011 ...

Occupy Minneapolis Occupy Minneapolis (OccupyMN) is a grassroots collaboration that began in October 2011 with a series of demonstrations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters have staged numerous occupations, most notably of the Hennepin County Government Center pl ...

Occupy Monsanto The Occupy movement was an international populist Social movement, socio-political movement that expressed opposition to Social equality, social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of "real democracy" around the world. It aimed prim ...

Occupy Nashville Occupy Nashville was a collaboration that began with demonstrations and an occupation located at Legislative Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee. Special legislation attempting to oust the Occupy Nashville demonstration passed the Tennessee House of Re ...

* Occupy OC *

Occupy Pittsburgh Occupy Pittsburgh was a collaboration that has included peaceful protests and demonstrations, with an aim to overcome economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. The protest has taken place ...

Occupy Philadelphia Occupy Philadelphia was a collaboration that included nonviolent protests and demonstrations with an aim to overcome economic inequality, corporate greed and the influence of corporations and lobbyists on government. The protest took place at T ...

* Occupy Portland *

Occupy Providence Occupy Providence began on Saturday October 15, 2011. According to the ''Boston Globe'', well over 1,000 demonstrators, including children and adults of various ages, peacefully marched through the capital city before setting up camp at Burnside ...

* Occupy Redwood City *

Occupy Rochester NY Occupy Rochester NY was a collaboration that has included an Occupy movement encampment in Washington Square Park in Rochester, New York. The occupiers were initially given citations and arrested for violating park regulations. On November 10, 2011, ...

Occupy Rose Parade ''Occupy The Rose Parade'' (OTRP) was a four phase Occupy demonstration and protest by approximately 10,000 Occupy Movement activists that was held on January 1 and January 2, 2012 as part of the Occupy movement at the Tournament of Roses Parade i ...

* Occupy Sacramento * Occupy Salem * Occupy Salt Lake City * Occupy San Diego * Occupy San Francisco * Occupy Seattle * Occupy St. Louis * Occupy Texas State * Occupy the Hood *

Occupy the Farm Occupy the Farm is an ongoing social movement that started with the 2012 occupation of the Gill Tract in Albany, California, in protest of planned commercial development of public land and in support of preserving the land for the creation of an ...

Occupy the SEC Occupy the SEC (OSEC) is an activist group which aims to influence financial regulators to work for the public interest. The "SEC" in its name refers to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, but OSEC's scope covers all financial regulatory a ...

Occupy Unmasked ''Occupy Unmasked'' is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Steve Bannon and produced by David Bossie, which is critical of the Occupy movement and was produced by Citizens United Productions. The documentary was released in limited theat ...

* Occupy Vanderbilt * Occupy Wall Street *

Other locations

* Blockupy (Frankfurt) *

Occupy Baluwatar Occupy Baluwatar, also known as Baluwatar Satyagraha, was a peaceful protest movement calling on the Nepali state to better address the widespread problem of impunity and gender-based violence. Protesters had gathered beginning on 28 December 2012 o ...

Occupy Berlin Occupy Berlin was a collaboration in Berlin, Germany that has included peaceful protests and demonstrations against unregulated financial markets and other alleged social injustices. It began as a part of the 15 October 2011 global protests. The ...

Occupy Canada Occupy Canada was a collective of Nonviolent resistance, peaceful protests and Demonstration (people), demonstrations that were part of the larger "Occupy" protests, Occupy Together movement which first manifested in the financial district of New ...

* Occupy Central (2011–12) *

Occupy Cork Occupy Cork was a peaceful protest and demonstration against alleged economic inequality, social injustice and corporate greed taking place on the junction of the Grand Parade and South Mall and at the NAMA-listed Stapleton House on Olive ...

Occupy Dame Street Occupy Dame Street (ODS) or Occupy Dublin was a peaceful protest and demonstration against economic inequality, social injustice and corporate greed taking place outside the Central Bank of Ireland plaza on Dame Street in Dublin, beside the ...

Occupy Dataran Occupy Dataran was an autonomous grassroots movement based in Kuala Lumpur, that aims to create a platform to experiment participatory democracy based on the popular assembly model. ''The Malaysian Insider'' reported that Occupy Dataran was an o ...

* Occupy Ghana * Occupy Harvard * Occupy Melbourne *

Occupy Nigeria Occupy Nigeria was a socio-political protest movement that began in Nigeria on Monday, 2 January 2012 in response to the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government of President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday, 1 January 2012. Protests took pla ...

Occupy protests in New Zealand Occupy Movement protests took place in New Zealand, beginning on 15 October 2011 with the Occupation of Auckland. Occupy protests took place in Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Lower Hutt, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill. Overview ...

* Occupy Reykjavík * Occupy Oslo *

Occupy Ottawa Occupy Ottawa was a mostly peaceful, leaderless, grassroots and democratic protest movement that began on Confederation Park in Ottawa, Ontario, on October 15, 2011. The movement's slogan "Home of the global revolution in Ottawa" refers to its ...

* Occupy South Africa *

Occupy Sydney Occupy Sydney was a social movement and protest as part of the global Occupy movements, in Sydney, Australia. The occupation began on 15 October 2011 outside the Reserve Bank of Australia in Martin Place. The Martin Place occupation was first ev ...

Occupy Toronto Occupy Toronto was a protest and demonstration that began on October 15, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, near Bay Street in Downtown Toronto's Financial District and moved to St. James Park. It was a part of the Occupy movement, which protested aga ...

* Occupy Windsor *

2011 Rome demonstration On 15 October 2011 about 200,000 people 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 gover ...

References

External links

Occupy Wall Street: List and map of over 200 U.S. solidarity events and Facebook pages
October 4, 2011. '' Daily Kos''. {{Occupy movement *