Occupy Wall Street

Zuccotti Park

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Occupy Wall Street OWS was a protest movement against economic inequality in addition to the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, in September 2011. It gave rise to the wider Occupy movement in the United States and other countries.

The Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters initiated the asked for a protest. The leading issues raised by Occupy Wall Street were social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, "We are the 99%", described to income and wealth inequality in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. Totheir goals, protesters acted on consensus-based decisions shown in general assemblies which emphasized redress through direct action over the petitioning to authorities.

The protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. Protesters then turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, foreclosed homes, college and university campuses and social media.

Zuccotti Park encampment

Prior to being closed to overnight usage and during the occupation of the space, somewhere between 100 and 200 people slept in Zuccotti Park. Initially tents were not allows and protesters slept in sleeping bags or under blankets. Meal value started at a total represent of about $1,000 per day. numerous protesters used the bathrooms of nearby business establishments. Some supporters donated ownership of their bathrooms for showers and the sanitary needs of protesters.

New York City requires a let to use "amplified sound", including electric bullhorns. Since Occupy Wall Street did not pretend a permit, the protesters created the "human microphone" in which a speaker pauses while the nearby members of the audience repeat the phrase in unison.

On October 13, New York City Mayor Bloomberg and Brookfield Properties announced that the park must be vacated for cleaning the following morning at 7 am. The next morning the property owner postponed its cleaning effort. Having prepared for a confrontation with the authorities to prevent the cleaning attempt from proceeding, some protesters clashed with police in riot gear outside City Hall after it was canceled.

Shortly after midnight on November 15, 2011, the New York City Police Department gave protesters notice from the park's owner to leave Zuccotti Park due to its purportedly unsanitary and hazardous conditions. The notice stated that they could proceeds without sleeping bags, tarps or tents. about an hour later, police in riot gear began removing protesters from the park, arresting some 200 people in the process, including a number of journalists.

On December 31, 2011, protesters started to re-occupy the park. Police in riot gear started to cause out the park around 1:30 am. Sixty-eight people were arrested in connection with the event, including one accused by media of stabbing a police officer in the hand with a pair of scissors.

When the Zuccotti Park encampment was closed, some former campers were offers to sleep in local churches. Since the closure of the Zuccotti Park encampment, the movement has turned its focus on occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, foreclosed homes, college and university campuses, and Wall Street itself. Since its inception, the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City have exist the city an estimated $17 million in overtime fees to afford policing of protests and encampment inside Zuccotti Park.

On March 17, 2012, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators attempted to line the movement's six-month anniversary by reoccupying Zuccotti Park. Protesters were soon cleared away by police, who made over 70 arrests. On March 24, hundreds of OWS protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Union Square in a demonstration against police violence.

On September 17, 2012, protesters forwarded to Zuccotti Park to species the first anniversary of the beginning of the occupation. Protesters blocked access to the New York Stock Exchange as living as other intersections in the area. This, along with several violations of Zuccotti Park rules, led police to surround groups of protesters, at times pulling protesters from the crowds to be arrested for blocking pedestrian traffic. There were 185 arrests across the city.