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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Assemblies were used during the planning stage of Occupy Wall Street, with the first one taking place by the Wall Street Bull on 2 August 2011. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The first general assembly of Occupy Wall Street itself took place in New York on the day of the movement's launch, September 17, 2011.
Three weeks after it began, Occupy Wall Street is getting its second wind. While the much-ballyhooed Radiohead concert turned out to be a hoax, the group is riding a wave of celebrity support, and ...