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Occupy Movement (Occupy Wall Street)
New york times
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
The Occupy Movement began on Sept. 17, 2011, when a diffuse group of activists began a loosely organized protest called Occupy Wall Street, encamping in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned park in New York’s financial district. The protest was a stand against corporate greed, social inequality and the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process.
The idea was to camp out for weeks or even months to replicate the kind, if not the scale, of protests that had erupted earlier in 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt.
The group’s slogan — “we are the 99 percent” — touched a raw nerve across the nation. The 1 percent refers to the haves: that is, the banks, the mortgage industry, the insurance industry, etc.; and the 99 percent refers to the have-nots: that is, everyone else.
Within weeks, similar demonstrations spread to dozens of other American cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago and Boston, as well as cities in Europe, Asia and the Americas, drawing thousands of people. Occupy protests rapidly sprouted on major campuses across the country.
In the United States, the political impact of the movement was increasingly plain. Democrats offered cautious support and Republicans were generally critical, but both parties seemed to agree that the movement was changing public debate.
Whatever the long-term effects of the movement, protesters succeeded in implanting “we are the 99 percent” into the cultural and political lexicon. Soon after the protests began, politicians began using “Occupy” lingo. Democrats in Congress began to invoke the “99 percent” to press for passage of President Obama’s jobs act — and to pursue action on mine safety, Internet access rules and voter identification laws, among others. Republicans pushed back, accusing protesters of class warfare; Newt Gingrich called the “concept of the 99 and the one” both divisive and “un-American.”
Trying to Make May Day an American Tradition
For decades, workers in Europe, South America and China have been celebrated with an official holiday on May Day.
The United States, however, has not followed suit. (Britain and Canada have tried to wash out the holiday’s leftist hues.) Even though the day’s origins date to a riot in Chicago in 1886 known as the Haymarket massacre, labor is celebrated in the United States in early September.
Socialists and trade union movements have long used May Day as a protest day. And on May 1, the Occupy movement hoped to bring numerous cities to a standstill in commemoration of International Workers Day.
That did not happen. However, in New York the protests continued into the wee hours of the next day, with about 2,000 marchers gathering at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza on Water Street after dark and several hundred returning to Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street’s former home base, after midnight.
The police said that 34 people were arrested and another 52 issued desk appearance tickets for lesser offenses by the end of a day that also included pickets, marches and rallies in Midtown, Union Square, Washington Square Park and on the Lower East Side.
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