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Graeber on the Occupy movement The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement is anthropologist David Graeber 's 2013 book-length, inside account of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Graeber evaluates the beginning of the movement, the source of its efficacy, and the reason for its eventual demise.
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 comics as well as fund-raises on behalf of the protesters. [1] [2] As Bleeding Cool described it:
The group's protests target social and economic injustice both locally and nationally. The Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, 2011, as a protest against economic and social injustice. [82] Soon thereafter, autonomous satellite protests sprung up across the world, most of them in the United States.
Today's "general strike," organized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, may give us a taste of what such a world would look like. The strike, Occupy Wall Street Has Lofty Aims for 'Day Without the ...
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 ...
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.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement gained momentum, White served as the group's unofficial publicist, though he was located in Berkeley, California, and not New York. [6] After a group of Occupy Wall Street activists sought to raise funds for the movement by selling posters, White, who had already left Adbusters , took over Adbusters' Twitter ...
During this time, the movement and its ideas directly confronted the laissez-faire economics and increasing socioeconomic inequality that characterised society. The term economic progressivism , especially while describing policies of progressive taxation , social welfare and general leftist economic measures, finds particular resonance in the ...