Occupy Movement Movements

The Occupy New Hampshire movement stemmed from Occupy Wall Street, which began in September 2011. Tr.:16. The occupy movement generally consisted of staying in one place until the grievances of the participants are addressed. Tr.:33. Occupy Wall Street sought to address problems such as economic disparity, the growing gap between the classes, and the influence of money on politics. Tr.:13. Every Occupy movement focused on different issues and grievances, usually determined at the first general assembly. Tr.:111.

The article defines the term, “uprisings” as “a trans-disciplinary exhibition on the theme of human gestures that raise up the world or rise up against it: collective or individual gestures, action or passions, works or thoughts” . Although all the examples that were provided have occurred in the past and/or other countries, this idea of the five different components is still relevant and significant in modern politics. The article, America’s Liberal Cities are Readying to Battle Donald Trump on Almost Every Front by Max de Haldevang acts as an example where Didi-Huberman’s ideas of the five components can be applied to and illustrates how the components are being practiced in the United States (US) currently. This article, however, also discusses how the political authorities such as the United States’ President is standing by their claim by creating a division amongst the people and regulation on the people. One current issue Haldevang’s article discusses is immigration deportation .

In response to the growing inequality between rich and poor Canadians, and the growing wealth of the top 1%, the Occupy Movement took to the streets in order to protest against the accumulation of the majority of wealth by the minority of people. On October 15th, 2011, in 900 cities across the world, thousands of average citizens protested for their rights to wealth equality

These three movements are a big part of our history and each of the three show that when many people with a common goal work together, especially when a leader takes charge, that sometimes non-violent acts such as speeches and protests are more powerful than fighting and they successfully create big changes.

While the recruitment of Egyptian youth into groups like the Muslim Brotherhood seems to have been more successful than the strikes, they both provide great insight into how mobilization occurs. It is clear that there is change in some parts of social movement development, but also certain elements remain critical like the creation of grievances and solidarity. Studying the different topics has led to a greater appreciation of the diversity of social

The 2017/18 Iranian protests on the other hand are fueled by shortages and suppression. What separates it from the Wall Street Movement are the stakes and the very real consequences of being complacent to a society that do not value their continued

To begin with, peaceful and violent protests can spark the change, or get the attention of more supporters until something is resolved for the equality. The article, “Making a Visual Argument:Inequality and the Occupy Movement” shows one of the most influential movement, the occupy movement. Occupy Miami showed a man with a dollar taped to his mouth reading “occupy.” Then, during the occupy Portland demonstration a young college girl Elizabeth Nichols is pepper sprayed at point blank. These acts caught the eyes of the American people, and rose in popularity. The occupy movement also showed American’s that there is a problem of economic equality through the occupy at Miami and Portland

Jackie DiSalvo (2015) wrote a paper called “Occupy Wall Street: Creating a Strategy for a Spontaneous Movement”. Her central claim is that Occupy Wall Street movement had the potential to grow and create military, national, class-planned, multi-issue movement that never been planned in our time before, but it was misuse by the anarchist’s influence so the social movement was a failed. She uses Mark Bray’s research and some of her own research to explain why the movement was a failed and how anarchists influence this failed movement. In her article, DiSalvo (2015) splits up her work into four sub topics which was: “Occupy Wall Street Anarchism, Occupy Wall Street Strengths, Sources of Occupy Wall Street Contradictions, and Problems with Anarchism”. She explained in each sub-topic the data that she collected and a conclusion based on this information (DiSalvo, 2015).

September 17, 2011 is the day the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City. The main issues include social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government according to The New York Times. The mix of moral foundations based on ideas from the anthropologist Richard Shweder, outline six clusters of moral concern - care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority, or sanctity. OWS main moral issues include: fairness, care, and liberty. Fairness – the rich (the “1” percent) got rich by taking without giving. OWS protesters viewed the

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a succession of protests that have no formal leader and no formal demands. The concept behind this form of movement is that each person

The Occupy Wall Street Movement that started in September 2011 in Liberty Square in the Finical District was movement organized by people to expose corruptions in cooperate America. The Occupy Wall Street Movement was known, as the peaceful protest due to it’s non-violent, non-aggressive nature and spread to over a one hundred and fifty cities cross the United Sates. Moral and ethical implications are the essentially what is right or wrong This paper looks at the moral and ethical implications related to the movement and uses some common ethical theories to determine which applies best to

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. The Canadian group and magazine Adbusters initiated the call for protest with assistance from the Manhattan-based public relations firm Workhorse, who was well-known for its successful work on brands including Mercedes and Saks Fifth Avenue. The ensuing series of events helped lead to media awareness that inspired Occupy protests and movements around the world. In awarding Workhorse its Platinum Award, industry publication PRNews noted the results, obviously, have been spectacular. There’s hardly a newspaper, Internet

As technology develops rapidly in the modern society, the broad social influence it brings is also widely discussed, especially about its effects on social change. In the past, social movements were raised without the help of technology, specifically without social media, whereas social media has recently played a non-ignorable role. The connection between social media and social activisms concerned, here come some different voices. Few people maintain that social media now has no practical influence on social change, while others hold the opposite view, thinking social media is already a crucial factor in it. Personally speaking, I agree with the second kind of view: it is true that social media is not able to create social movements by itself in today’s world, but it plays an important and essential part in making real social change.

Most accounts OWS’s origins point to an Internet post published June 13th, 2011 by the culture-jamming Canadian magazine AdBusters , which resulted in the September 17th, 2011 occupation of Zucotti park in lower Manhattan. Owing to a combination of economic conditions, police brutality, social media, and the influence of the Arab Spring, what began as a rebellion in New York City turned into the full-blown occupation and tent-city movement in parks across the country. From there, marches in the streets of New York and across the Brooklyn bridge garnered arrests and media attention. This coverage of the “whip of the counterrevolution” sent Occupy fever to more than five hundred cities across the US, including my hometown of Tampa, Florida. When AdBusters made their call-to-action, they said: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET a shift in revolutionary tactics. They then proceeded to make explicit connects to the Egyptian uprising in Tahrir Square (profiled elsewhere in this volume) asking readers, “Are you ready for a Tahrir moment?” In this way, AdBusters presented Occupy Wall Street as coming on the heels of Tahrir Square uprising. Indeed, the website that was created as an aggregate organizing page, occupytogether.org, in its history/timeline of the movement traces its starting point with the 2010 self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi, a

In late 2010, a tidal wave of uprisings and protests in various parts of the Arab world emerged. It began with the Tunisian revolution when the martyr Mahmoud Bouazizi set fire to himself as a result of the deteriorating economic and social. This led to protests and demonstrations that ended with the fall of the ruling regime. In Tunisia which sparked the beginning of revolutions in many Arab countries, this is known as an Arab Spring. The question remains what are the real reasons that led to the Arab Spring and its effects? the causes of the Arabic spring May be varied, depending on the places, however the reasons can be a corruption in economic policies and demand social justice as the key motives and protests in the Arab world. This essay will discuss the most important reasons, and the effects of what is known as the Arab Spring.