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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:
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 ...
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.
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 ...
How would corporate America fare without the labor and consumption of the 99%? Today's "general strike," organized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, may give us a taste of what such a world ...
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.
The following is a timeline of Occupy San José events and activity. On September 17, 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests began in New York.; On October 6, 2011, after four nights of occupying San José City Hall, City Attorney Rick Doyle announced plans to ask the San Jose Police Department to order protestors to leave on Friday.