Occupy Wall Street OWS is the name given to the nonviolent protest movement organized to address the perceived inequalities of the US financial system following the recession of On September 17 th , protestors set up a base camp of tents and sleeping bags at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. The movement started quietly, but quickly gained attention after police disrupted protest marches in Union Square and on the Brooklyn Bridge.
As videos of police arresting and using pepper-spray against peaceful protesters circulated on YouTube, the mainstream media began to pay closer attention. As awareness spread, protestors started Occupy movements in other cities across America. The removal of the protestors effectively ended the public phase of Occupy Wall Street. The OWS movement began as a reaction to the effects of the financial recession in America. The US housing markets experienced a violent crash in late In response, newly-elected President Obama authorized the US government to bail-out the banks using billions of taxpayer dollars.
The financial institutions that survived began to foreclose on struggling homeowners while continuing to reward their executives with million-dollar bonuses and lavish incentives. This stark contrast exposed the growing income gap between the wealthy and the rest of the country Castells, The OWS protestors pointed to this inequality and advocated for a more just system.
The roots of the OWS movement can be traced to other significant nonviolent protest movements in America and across the globe. The anti-war and Civil Rights movements of the s used principles of nonviolence to persuade mass audiences that their causes were just.
They understood that riots, looting, and destruction of property would undermine their moral position. While some OWS protestors wanted to engage in violent acts to garner attention to the cause, others pointed to the success of the Civil Rights Movement as an example of the effectiveness of nonviolent protest. They believed the same tactics — large scale occupation of public spaces and creative use of technology and social media — could be used to unite protestors around the perceived injustices of the US financial system Jensen and Bang, The slogan was building solidarity, suggesting the middle and upper-middle classes had more in common with the working class than with the wealthy elite.
She worked retail jobs; she tried domestic work. When the minimum wage increased in , she learned that the Working Families party WFP , a progressive grassroots political party, had helped make it happen. Then, the financial crash happened. And I saw that hope and change message [from Obama] and I was like, I want some of that!
On 17 September she stopped by Zuccotti. Seeing everybody sharing their stories hooked her. I thought it was going to be looked down upon. Rebecca Solnit, an author and activist involved with Occupy in California, reminisced on the changes brought by the movement. When you lose your home, you disappear from the neighborhood. And the sheer visibility of all that suffering was being made visible by those conversations. I found it felt like a great awakening.
Consensus decision-making, twinkling fingers — up for approval, down for disapproval, straight ahead for lukewarm — used to silently express opinions while someone else spoke: it was all new to Stamp, who came from the structured world of electoral politics. But when the assembly split into working groups and someone mentioned outreach, she leapt up. She started keeping a sleeping bag under her desk at work; she used the office printers to make Occupy flyers.
She considered quitting her job, but WFP backed her movement-building work. There were also, of course, some negatives. Stamp began organizing around racial justice. She co-founded Dream Defenders, a group that organizes youth in Florida. She also co-founded Occupy Our Homes, which occupied homes to prevent foreclosures. As Black Lives Matter protests filled the streets in summer , amid a pandemic that has disproportionately affected communities of color, Stamp used the skills she acquired in Zuccotti for a movement that centered the issues Occupy had skirted around.
Tamara Shapiro had just returned to New York in September She grew up near Washington DC, where she participated in a program that brings together Black and Jewish high school students to confront racism and antisemitism.
But in , at age 28, she quit, burnt out from the loneliness of that work. She nannied and traveled abroad. Once back in New York, she took an internship with two film-makers. She had trouble taking it seriously. But she knew someone from Occupy who was workingto connect the many Occupy encampments quickly spreading around the country. Within a month, more than communities in the US , as well as many cities abroad , had organized protests.
The working group, which became known as InterOccupy, rapidly engulfed Shapiro, and she became busy facilitating calls between occupations in various cities. In October , she went on a retreat where occupiers debriefed on the past year. They rushed home because they heard a storm was coming. The experience deepened the friendships Shapiro had made through Occupy. Soon after, Shapiro started a part-time job at the Cuny School of Labor and Urban Studies, and co-founded Movement Netlab, which investigates how decentralized networks like Occupy best function.
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