Occupy Wall Street - wikipedia

[Swede]

After the late-2000s recession that left many countries on the edge of bankruptcy, with weakened economies and unemployment at very high levels, a Canadian-based group, the Adbusters Media Foundation, best known for its advertisement-free anti-consumerist magazine called Adbusters, proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall Street in protest against the current U.S. political leadership and the failure to prevent or make effective changes regarding the global financial crisis. According to the senior editor of the magazine, “ basically floated the idea in mid-July into our and it was spontaneously taken up by all the people of the world, it just kind of snowballed from there.”<15>

Although it was originally proposed by Adbusters magazine, the demonstration is leaderless.<16> Activists from Anonymous encouraged its followers to take part in the protest, which increased the attention it received.<7> Other groups followed, including the NYC General Assembly and U.S. Day of Rage.<10> The protests have brought together people of many political positions including political independents,<17>conservatives,<17> libertarians<18> , anarchists,<17> socialists,<18> and liberals.<18>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street


Prior to the protest's beginning on September 17, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference, "People have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it."<10>

[Luminous Animal]

1. The movement started before Adbusters. A better history of the movement here:

http://ampedstatus.org/a-report-from-the-frontlines-the-long-road-to-occupywallstreet-and-the-origins-of-the-99-movement/