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Occupy Portland protesters at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, October 6, 2011. Demonstrators at the Occupy Austin protest on October 6, 2011. Demonstrators at the Occupy Knoxville protest on October 7, 2011. Occupy Seattle rally at Westlake Park, Seattle, October 8, 2011.
Protest camps were built at many of the protest locations, often near banking institutions or stock markets. Many locations had further manifestations at the following weekends until "Guy-Fawkes" day since the Guy Fawkes mask had become protester fashion. Many American Occupy groups were active until 2012, some are still active.
The Occupy movement spread to many other cities in the United States and worldwide beginning with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City in September 2011. The movement sought to advance social and economic justice and different forms of democracy but each local group varied in specific aims. The demonstrations and encampment in New ...
The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of real democracy around the world. It aimed primarily to advance social and economic justice and different forms of democracy. The movement has had many different scopes, since local ...
Several universities took part in the protests as well, including notable protests Occupy UC Davis and Occupy Cal. Below are some of the protest locations in California within the larger list of locations in the United States. It is the state with the most community protests, manifesting in over 50 cities and also on many college campuses.
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. The Occupy movement splintered after NYC Mayor Bloomberg had police raid the ...
Occupy Los Angeles. Occupy Los Angeles (also referred to as Occupy L.A.) was 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. [1] Activists came to consensus to occupy public space in solidarity with the ...
Demonstration, occupation, protest, street protesters [1] Occupy Seattle was a series of demonstrations in Seattle, Washington, United States in 2011 and 2012, that formed part of the wider Occupy movement taking place in numerous U.S. and world cities at that time. The demonstrations were particularly focused on the city's downtown area ...