Occupy Wall Street By: Jennifer Pates 2/1/2013 Professor Chester Galloway Bus301: Business Ethics I have to admit that even though the Occupy Wall Street Movement has been all over the news I did not truly understand the stance of it, nor did I really get involved with it. While doing research for this paper I was able to get a better understanding of the basis of the movement as well as the facts pertaining to it. The movement started on Wall Street but has spread across the US. The basis
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On September 17th, 2011, New York City’s Wall Street financial district became home to the first Occupy Protest. That morning several thousand people gathered in the streets of New York City. Upwards of 100 people set up camp later in the evening in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, owned by Brookfield Office Properties (van Gelder). The Occupy Protesters were opposed to the expansive wealth gap between the nation’s wealthiest 1% and the remaining 99% of lower to middle class citizens. Before long
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Many people have heard of what’s been going on for the past two months on Wall Street, but do they know that they’re technically apart of this protest? Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is an evolving succession of demonstrations in New York City taking place in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street financial district. The protests were introduced by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which mainly protests social and economic inequality, corporate greed, corruption and influence over government and lobbyists
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Occupy Wall Street Movement was started from a group of activists, students and protesters that really want to change the world and have their voice be heard. (2011, Kroll) Many of these activists are residents of the Unites States, but have lived in other countries and have experienced many protests within their country. As this group formed they felt the need to better understand why the United States’ economy was in a state of flux. They would question the inequality of salaries of many major
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there are people doing kind of the same thing called Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street is a movement powered by people. Which started in September in New York City and has now spread worldwide, they are protesting against the economic struggles that Americans face. I am against Occupy Wall Street, because some people don’t know what there protesting for, there are jobs out there, and it’s a joke. Most of the people at the Occupy movements have no idea about the issues. There are definitely people
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Occupy Nation by Todd Gitlin Book Review By: Ashley Smith The occupy movement sparked major concerns worldwide regarding economic inequality. New York City was the first city in the United States for this movement to evolve. Todd Gitlin, a social historian, captures the spirit of the occupy movement in New York in his book Occupy Nation. This ongoing movement started September 17, 2011 when a small group that called themselves occupy wall street, set up camp in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan
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BUS309: Assignment 1 Prf. Bonitto Carlos A. Machado Z. May 14, 2013 Discuss the moral and economic implications involved in the movement. The Occupy Walls Street’s movement stands in the moral grounds of: “It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. An economic system that forces most of the people to bear the impacts of the recklessness of a few powerful profiteers, to assume the burdens of others’ privilege, and to pay the real costs of destructive
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Occupy Wall Street Movement Economic implication of Occupy Wall Street: After the sub-prime crisis began in 2007 end and its harsh realities began to come up on the face of financial services, firms such as Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse requested government bailouts which were financed by the taxpayers’ money. From this, outrage ensued and to retaliate, people began what is called the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose aim was to be able to stop the ruthless and selfish profit making mechanism
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Cox English Comp October 17, 2011 Occupy Wall Street Movement: There is a growing movement in the United States that started in New York City and is now spreading out to many other cities It is the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The first people that came to this movement were some punks, liberals, artists and socialists. They did not just come for a one day protest they came again and again. Then other people began to take notice and the movement has been doubling in size every three days
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center of New York City’s financial district. Poised for attack at Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan, the Charging Bull, also referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, represents all that OWS pushed to change. Interestingly, the statue of the Charging Bull of Wall Street was never actuallywas not commissioned by Wall Street or the city of New York itself; rather, the now iconic piece was an act of “guerrilla art,” created and installed by Arturo Di Modica for $360,000, following
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