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2011 Sep 17 |
The Occupy SF movement began on Sep 17 with 6 people gathering outside the former Bank of America center on California Street in solidarity with protesters in NYC, who had set up camp in Zucotti Park near Wall Street the same day. Links: USA, NYC, Money, SF, Banking, OWS 
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2011 Oct 1 |
In NYC more than 700 of protesters, speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances, were arrested during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in a tense confrontation with police. The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a plaza in Manhattan's Financial District for nearly two weeks staging various marches. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 10 |
In Oakland, Ca., anti-Wall Street protesters began their Occupy Oakland encampment in front of city hall at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 11 |
In Boston more than 50 protesters from the Occupy Boston movement were arrested after they ignored warnings to move from a downtown greenway near where they have been camped out for more than a week. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 15 |
In Hong Kong some 500 people gathered in the heart of the financial district to express their anger at the inequities and excesses of free-market capitalism. Protesters across the Asia-Pacific region joined worldwide demonstrations inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" and "Indignants" movements. The movement was born on May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central square of Puerta del Sol sparked a protest that spread nationwide, then to other countries. Links: Spain, Hong Kong, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 23 |
Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests. Links: USA, Chicago, OWS
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2011 Oct 25 |
In Oakland, Ca., police fired tear gas into a crowd of over 100 Occupy Oakland protesters who had marched to City Hall to reclaim the camp they’d been evicted from early in the day. 97 people were arrested in the early morning raid. Scott Olsen (24), an Iraq war veteran, suffered a skull fracture from a police projectile. In 2014 Oakland agreed to pay Olsen $4.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 26 |
In Atlanta, Georgia, helicopters hovered overhead as officers in riot gear arrested more than 50 Occupy Atlanta protesters at a downtown park. Links: GeorgiaUS, USA, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 27 |
In Oakland, Ca., Occupy Oakland protesters moved to reclaim the Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall following the police raid on Oct 25. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2011 Oct 28 |
In San Diego, Ca., police arrested 51 people who occupied the Civic Center Plaza and Children's Park for three weeks. Occupy San Diego protesters vowed to return to the civic plaza behind City Hall. Links: USA, California, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Oct 28 |
In Tennessee 29 Occupy Nashville protesters were arrested in a pre-dawn raid. Many returned to the Legislative Plaza the same evening and remained through a 10 p.m. curfew. Troopers arrested 26 people this time. All were charged with trespassing. Magistrate Tom Nelson told troopers delivering the protesters to jail that he could "find no authority anywhere for anyone to authorize a curfew anywhere on Legislative Plaza." Links: USA, Tennessee, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 9 |
In Berkeley, Ca., 7 people were arrested as police broke up student efforts to build an Occupy encampment on campus. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2011 Nov 10 |
In Oakland, Ca., Kayode Ola Foster (25) was slain during a fight just outside the main camp of the Occupy Oakland encampment. Norris Terrell (20), the alleged shooter, was later arrested in Lexington, Ky. Isaac McDaniels (31) was arrested on Dec 12 and charged with being an accessory to Foster’s murder. Links: USA, Murder, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2011 Nov 13 |
In Portland, Oregon, several hundred protesters, some wearing goggles and gas masks, marched past authorities in a downtown street, hours after riot police forced Occupy Portland demonstrators out of a pair of weeks-old encampments in nearby parks. Mayor Sam Adams had ordered that the camp shut down, citing unhealthy conditions and the encampment's attraction of drug users and thieves. Links: USA, Oregon, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 14 |
In Oakland, Ca., some 1,000 Occupy Oakland protesters returned to Frank Ogawa Plaza hours after being evicted by police. They were allowed to gather with no camping. An estimated $500,000 was spent for outside officers to assist Oakland police. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 15 |
In Berkeley, Ca., as many as 10,000 students and Occupy activists overflowed the UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza following a daylong classroom walkout. They established a small camp in defiance of the university’s edict that no tents be erected. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 15 |
In NYC hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park, evicting dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters from what has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed and economic inequality. Hours later, the National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order allowing Occupy Wall Street protesters to return with tents to the park. About 70 people were arrested overnight. Links: USA, NYC, Zeitgeist, OWS
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2011 Nov 15 |
In Seattle, Washington, a downtown march and rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement turned briefly chaotic as police scattered a crowd of rowdy protesters, including a pregnant 19-year-old and an 84-year-old activist, with blasts of pepper spray. Links: USA, Washington, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 16 |
London officials attached eviction notices to protest tents outside St. Paul's Cathedral, asking the demonstrators to remove them within a day or face legal action. More than 200 tents have been pitched outside the iconic church since Oct. 15 in a protest against capitalist excess inspired by New York's Occupy Wall Street, and the protesters said they would resist attempts to move them. Links: Britain, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 17 |
In California police cleared the Occupy Cal encampment in UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, arresting 2 protesters and removing about 20 tents. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2011 Nov 17 |
Police arrested over 200 protesters who sat on the ground and blocked traffic into New York City's financial district, part of a day of mass gatherings in response to efforts to break up Occupy Wall Street camps nationwide. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Nov 20 |
San Francisco and Oakland authorities moved to take control of the Occupy protests, raiding an offshoot of the SF encampment and clearing a new camp in a vacant lot in Oakland. SF protesters in response shutdown Market street for several hours. Links: USA, SF, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2011 Nov 21 |
A Canadian judge upheld an order to evict protesters camped in a downtown Toronto park, giving the Occupy Toronto movement until midnight to vacate the park it has held for more than a month. Links: Canada, OWS
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2011 Nov 22 |
Occupy Wall Street protesters arrived in Washington, DC, following a 231-mile trek and planned a day of action for Nov 23. Links: USA, NYC, DC, OWS
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2011 Nov 23 |
In Canada one woman was arrested as police cleared tents from the Occupy Toronto protest in a move to end the weeks-long encampment, though some demonstrators chained themselves inside barricaded tents and vowed to stay. Links: Canada, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2011 Dec 6 |
The Occupy movement entered a new phase with a day of marches and rallies in over 20 cities nationwide. Oakland protesters reclaimed some foreclosed properties, shouted down foreclosure auctions, waved banners outside banks and held several marches and rallies. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2011 Dec 10 |
In Massachusetts police swept through Dewey Square tearing down tents of the Occupy Boston encampment and arrested dozens of protesters. Links: USA, Massachusetts, OWS
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2011 Dec 11 |
San Francisco police cleared the city’s last remaining Occupy protest camp arrested 55 people in front of the Federal Reserve Bank at 101 Market St. Links: USA, SF, OWS
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2012 Jan 18 |
Britain’s High Court in London approved a bid by authorities to evict anti-capitalist protesters from outside St Paul's Cathedral. Dozens of protesters from the Occupy London movement have been camping outside St Paul's since October. Links: Britain, OWS
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2012 Jan 21 |
Anti-capitalist protesters said they have taken over a large building in the City of London financial district. Occupy London publicly repossessed Roman House, an abandoned nine-storey office building in the Barbican. They left the premises later in the day after a request from contractors employed by the building's owners. Links: Britain, OWS
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2012 Jan 28 |
In Oakland, Ca., riot police fought running skirmishes with anti-Wall Street protesters, firing tear gas and bean bag projectiles and arresting more than 200 people in clashes that injured three officers and at least one demonstrator. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, OWS
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2012 Jan 28 |
At Davos, Switzerland, 3 topless Ukrainian protesters were detained while trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders to call attention to the needs of the world's poor. Separately, demonstrators from the Occupy movement marched to the edge of the gathering. Links: Ukraine, Switzerland, OWS
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2012 Feb 22 |
Occupy London protesters braced for eviction after a court ruled that local authorities can remove their four-month-old camp from outside St. Paul's Cathedral. Links: Britain, OWS
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2012 Feb 28 |
British police and bailiffs cleared an anti-capitalist camp from outside St Paul's cathedral in London, ending a four-month protest which resonated with Britons angered by huge bonuses awarded to bankers during an economic slowdown. Links: Britain, OWS
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2012 Mar 17 |
NYC police broke up an Occupy Wall Street rally at Zucotti Park and detained 73 people. Links: USA, NYC, OWS
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2012 Apr 1 |
Occupy SF activists took over an unoccupied building at 888 Turk Street, owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, following a peaceful rally and march earlier in the day. Links: USA, SF, OWS
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2012 Apr 2 |
San Francisco police evicted nearly 80 Occupy activists from a building owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of SF. Links: USA, SF, OWS
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2012 Apr 22 |
In Albany, Ca., Occupy the Farm protesters took over the Gill Tract as a protest against planned development and housing nearby. UC Berkeley used the tract for agricultural experiments. Police cleared the farm of protesters on May 14. Links: USA, California, OWS
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2012 May 2 |
SF police and sheriff’s officers arrested 26 people who had occupied a vacant church building at 888 Turk St. Most of those arrested were homeless or former residents of the old Occupy camp on Justin Herman Plaza. Links: USA, SF, OWS
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2012 May 19 |
In Germany some 20,000 held a rally of the local Occupy movement in Frankfurt to decry austerity measures, the dominance of banks and “untamed capitalism.” Links: Germany, Mad Crowd, OWS
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2012 Aug 6 |
German police removed anti-capitalist protesters from an Occupy Frankfurt camp set up almost 10 months ago next to the European Central Bank headquarters. Links: Germany, OWS
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2012 Aug 13 |
In Hong Kong HSBC won a legal bid to clear out anti-capitalist protesters from a public space below the bank's Asian headquarters in the southern Chinese financial center. A judge ruled that the activists must leave by 9 p.m. on Aug 27. Links: Hong Kong, OWS
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2012 Sep 17 |
NYC police arrested 185 protesters who had gathered for a one year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement to prevent them from forming “People’s Wall” around the NY Stock Exchange. Links: USA, NYC, OWS
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