Occupy Movement Summary

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OCCUPY MOVEMENT The oral presentation of the second partial was a kind of debate or discussion in which each team of the group presented the main ideas and the principal events about the occupy movement in a different city. The Occupy movement is a social phenomenon. Predominantly populated by unemployed and disenfranchised young people in thousands of cities across the United States. Occupy protests appear to be an understandable reaction to the economic chaos unleashed in 2008. The primary goal of this movement was being to make the economic structure and power relations in society fairer. Although all the teams talked about this movement in different cities, all agree that all this started because the people were dissatisfied with how the country was being run and want fundamental, lasting changes of many kinds. These people who support occupy called for reforming Wall Street and removing special interest government. There wasn’t one single issue or demand that summarizes the movement, among the causes were the economic inequality, racism, sexism and corporate influence over government. Their goals are the freedom, justice, democracy and others. One team began with Occupy Oakland that started on October 10th, 2011 as a protest encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. They mentioned that the principal cause was the economic inequality. Protestors renamed it Oscar Grant Plaza after a young man who was fatally shot by the Police in 2009. They also mentioned that the protesters committed robberies. Other team talked about Occupy Wall Street, place where all this movement start on September 17th of 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. A group of activists were fighting for social equality and they want benefits. They were inspired of the movement that happened in Spain for social, political and economical changes.

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