The Occupy Wall Street Movement began on September 17th, 2011 in New York Cities wall street dristrict. Since it began, the movement has spread throughout the world. On October 15th 2011, global protests broke out in over 951 cities and 82 countries.
Protests broke out in Africa, South America, North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Some of these global protests turned violent, most did not. Most of the violence occurred in New York when police got involved with protesters in Lower Manhattan.
Santiago Chile and Zagreb Croatia had over 10,000 protestors come out in support of the movement. Rome had over 200,000 protestors. Spain had organized protests as Movimiento 15-M/Indignants before Occupy Wall Street spread to Spain, and as a country Spain attracted over 1,000,000 protestors. The executive leaders of the protests are located in New York.
September 17th was the last time large amounts of protests broke out globally and those protests occurred through out the United States and the United Kingdom.
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ReplyDeleteZuccotti park is the privately owned park open to the public in New York City that involved one of the biggest protests. Police brutality was a huge controversy surrounding this protest. Were the protesters in violation of the park's private ownership though? In other words, were they trespassing hence sparking the police brutality or were they simply under their first amendment rights to protest and assemble in a public place.
ReplyDeleteAll the national protests that occurred could raise the argument of the first amendment rights to protest but when does public safety become the reason the protestors lose that right? Seattle, Chicago, New York, and several other cities had issues involving police brutality and protestors and most of the cities in the U.S. claimed police only got involved when "law breaking" occurred.
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