Occupy Wall Street BUS 309 February 4, 2013 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
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The Occupy Movement exemplifies and reflects a societal reaction that reflects the views of conflict theory. The Occupy Movement arose worldwide in September of 2011 as a protest against social and economic disparity. Protesters flooded Wall Street in protest of corruption, greed, and general inequality. Occupy Wall Street inspired the world, sparking occupy protests across 82 different countries, taking place in over 950 cities. Because the movement became so massive, the Occupy Movement suffered
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Introduction The Occupy Wall Street movement started September 17, 2011. The first protest took place in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. OWS was formed based on some of the following issues: “the concentration of wealth; in the top 1%; unemployment and economic stress in the “Great Recession;” the deeds of Wall St. in the financial crisis; the influence of the big money in politics; the foreclosure crisis and predatory lending; inequalities linked to race, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation
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that bailed out failing companies using the taxpayer’s money, and still managed to wreck our economy. 1. Discuss the moral and economic implications involved in the movement. The moral implications of this movement that I noticed were people felt cheated (the 99%). The remaining 1% were the rich that actually Occupy Wall Street. They cheated and exploited their way to the top. As if that were not bad enough, we the taxpayers then had to bail them out after these companies crashed the economy
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Since the 2000s, there has been a resurgence of mass political and social movements—reminiscent of the anti-Vietnam protests of the 60s. One such movement, Black Lives Matter, has captured the public's interest and conversation in recent years. Four years ago, three African American women founded BLM in response to anger over the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen, killed while walking home, by George Zimmerman—a neighborhood watch volunteer. They created #blacklivesmatter and the rest
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Occupy Unmasked Occupy Unmasked was a very interesting film. It screams propaganda but there are multiple points that were put into perspective for me. In my last post I made an argument in support of the Wall Street Occupiers. After viewing this film it influenced my opinion in the opposite direction. Before viewing this film I was familiar with the Occupy Wall Street movement, however I wasn’t too familiar with the Occupy movements across the country. After covering multiple riots/protests
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ABSTRACT OCCUPY WALLSTREET 2 The Occupy Wall St. movement started off slow around Sepember 2011. Just as shy as a few short weeks, movements started to appear at countless locations. This movement seemed to come hurdling in kantian stlye. This movement has a great deal to offer the careful observer. By looking at the history of the Occupy Movement and its emergence out of a chaotic and complex enviroment, it exposes the unethnical practices for business and decision making.It starts to grab
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Support for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is growing rapidly, as protesters across the United States and around the world make a ruckus about the uneven distribution of wealth and the way the rich use their money to make more money. Target No. 1 in the protests is the epitome of capitalism: the banking industry, and the governments that bailed out the banks with taxpayers' money during the last financial crisis. The protesters began to occupy Zuccotti Park at the end of Wall Street in mid-September
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Lloyd Wyse Melissa Hull EN 209-014 April 18, 2012 Critical Essay: Civil Disobedience Civil disobedience is the active refusal to comply with certain laws or demands of a government, such as paying fines or taxes. Although it is not necessarily on-violent, it has classically been attributed to nonviolent resistance. The etymological origin of the term is from Henry David Thoreau’s essay Resistance to Government, written in 1849, which was eventually renamed to Essay on Civil Disobedience. Since
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This summer, Graeber was a key member of a small band of activists who quietly planned, then noisily carried out, the occupation of Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, providing the focal point for what has grown into an amorphous global movement known as Occupy Wall Street. It would be wrong to call Graeber a leader of the protesters, since their insistently nonhierarchical philosophy makes such a concept heretical. Nor is he a spokesman, since they have refused thus far to outline specific demands
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