42 Facts About Occupy movement

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.

The Occupy movement has had many different scopes, since local groups often had different focuses, but its prime concerns included how large corporations control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and causes instability.

Occupy movement took inspiration in part from the Arab Spring, from the 2009 Iranian Green Movement, and from the Spanish Indignados Movement, as well as from the overall global wave of anti-austerity protests of 2010 and following.

Occupy movement wrote enthusiastically for Adbusters about the "revolutionary potential of [the students] struggle".

Spanish Indignados Occupy movement began in mid-May 2011, with camps at Madrid and elsewhere.

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One of the inspirations for the Occupy movement was the Democracy Village set up in 2010, outside the British Parliament in London.

Some commentators such as David Graeber and Judith Butler criticized the idea that the movement must have clearly defined demands; they argued that issuing demands is counterproductive for the Occupy movement, because doing so would legitimize the very power structures the movement seeks to challenge.

The global Occupy movement has been called the reinvention of politics, revolution, and utopia in the twenty-first century.

In December 2011, Occupy Homes embarked on a movement to assist home owners who had lost or were scheduled to lose their homes due to foreclosure as a result of what they called the illegal practices used by banks that took advantage of consumers.

Study groups were organised across the US Occupy movement camps discussing Sharp's 198 methods of nonviolent action and his book From Dictatorship to Democracy.

On 2 January 2012, Occupy movement Nigeria began, sparked by Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan announcing the ending of fuel subsidies in the country.

On 19 August 2018, Occupy movement Kalamazoo began an encampment in Bronson Park to address homelessness.

Occupy movement Sydney had an ongoing occupation in Martin Place since their initial police eviction, marking almost 21 months in July 2013.

Occupy movement protests have taken place in at least 20 Canadian cities since 15 October 2011.

The Occupy movement has shifted to a mobile camp tactic, and still holds GA every Wednesday and other activities throughout the week.

Occupy movement protests have begun at Nantes, Lyon, Grenoble, Marseille, Perpignan and more than 50 cities.

Occupy movement began in Germany on 15 October 2011 with protests in Berlin, focused outside the Reichstag, as well as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Dusseldorf.

Occupy movement began in Mexico City on 11 October 2011, with a hunger strike in front of the Mexican Stock Exchange highrise.

Occupy movement Mexico did not achieve the level of popularity it gained in other areas.

In contrast, an anti-violence movement led by Javier Sicilia during the time that the Occupy protests occurred, drew thousands onto the streets of Mexico City.

The Occupy Movement was almost entirely ignored by Mexico's mainstream politicians.

Occupy movement claimed that bankers are charging higher interest rates from customers and corporates.

Also known as Baluwatar Satyagraha, Occupy Baluwatar is a peaceful protest movement calling on the Nepali state to better address the widespread problem of impunity and gender-based violence.

Occupy movement Nigeria is an anti-fuel subsidy removal protest that started in Nigeria on 2 January 2012 in response to fuel subsidy removal by the Federal government of Nigeria on 1 January 2012.

The Occupy movement ended on 16 January 2012 following agreement between the government and the organized labour leaders which saw a partial restoration of the subsidy regime.

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In Oslo, the Occupy movement has since then met every Saturday in the city centre, usually at Eidsvolls plass in front of the Parliament, but sometimes at other sites, like Spikersuppa and Youngstorget.

Unlike the original Occupy movement which started out as the anti-capitalist protest, many of the catchphrases of Occupy Seoul contained anti-government or anti-American messages.

In Northern Ireland, Occupy movement Belfast initiated its protest outside the offices of Invest NI on 21 October 2011.

Occupy movement Belfast took residence at Writer's Square, in the Cathedral Quarter.

Occupy movement Coleraine took over the University of Ulster Common Room for three weeks in December 2013.

Occupy movement camps were established in the financial district of St Andrew Square, Edinburgh on 15 October 2011.

Occupy movement Cardiff set up a new camp in the city, outside the offices of Welsh Labour and a number of trade unions at the Transport House, Cathedral Road.

In more than two dozen cities across the nation the movement took on the housing crisis by re-occupying foreclosed homes, disrupting bank auctions and blocking evictions.

The Occupy movement appears to have generated a national conversation about income inequality, as evidenced by the fact that print and broadcast news mentioned the term "income inequality" more than five times more often during the last week of October 2011 than during the week before the occupation began.

Occupy movement raised awareness regarding what organizers consider undeserved wealth and lack of fairness in American society.

On 27 December 2011, the Financial Times argued that the Occupy movement had had a global impact, altering "the terms of the political debate".

Various journalists along with Jared Bernstein former chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, have suggested that Occupy influenced the President's January 2012 State of the Union address, with the movement creating the political space for Obama to shift to the economic left and speak about the desirability of the rich paying a greater share of the tax burden.

Banks met with the FBI to pool information about participants of the Occupy movement collected by corporate security, and the FBI offered to bank officials its plans to prevent Occupy events that were scheduled for a month later.

In 2013, MIT doctoral student Ryan Shapiro, collecting research on the role of the FBI in the Occupy movement, sent the FBI three FOIA requests regarding "a potential plan to gather intelligence against the leaders of [Occupy Wall Street-related protests in Houston] and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership [of the protests] via suppressed sniper rifles".

One such critique concerns itself with the way in which the Occupy movement has focused its demands around a narrowly modern understanding of freedom that differs little from the claims of mainstream liberal pluralism:.

International activists involved in the Occupy Movement have seen it stall due a lack of synergy to work with other alternative movements calling for change.

The biggest criticism is that the Occupy movement is without depth, without a lasting vision of an alternative future.