* '''Occupy UCDavis''' held a rally on the campus which was attended by approximately 2000 people. Later, about 400 individuals occupied the Administration building and held a General Assembly in the space.
* '''Occupy UCDavis''' held a rally on the campus which was attended by approximately 2000 people. Later, about 400 individuals occupied the Administration building and held a General Assembly in the space.
* '''OccupyCal''' gathered over a thousand people at a rally at Sproul Hall plaza. <ref>[http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19339329 Berkeley declares Open University]</ref>
* '''OccupyCal''' gathered over a thousand people at a rally at Sproul Hall plaza. <ref>[http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19339329 Berkeley declares Open University]</ref>
* '''OccupySeattle''' rallied and marched downtown, police clashed with protestors and used pepper-spray. <ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016775254_apwaoccupyseattle.html Seattle Times: Occupy Seattle marches, blocks streets downtown]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/gallery/Occupy-Seattle-Protests-11-15-11-32102/photo-1758708.php | title=Photos - Occupy Seattle Protests | work=SeattlePI| date=November 15, 2011 | accessdate=November 16, 2011}}</ref>.
* '''OccupySeattle''' rallied and marched downtown, police clashed with protestors and used pepper-spray. <ref>[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016775254_apwaoccupyseattle.html Seattle Times: Occupy Seattle marches, blocks streets downtown]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/gallery/Occupy-Seattle-Protests-11-15-11-32102/photo-1758708.php | title=Photos - Occupy Seattle Protests | work=SeattlePI| date=November 15, 2011 | accessdate=November 16, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2011/11/15/demonstration-downtown-six-arrested/ | title=Demonstration downtown, six arrested | work=SPD Blotter, Seattle.gov | date=November 15, 2011 | accessdate=November 16, 2011}}</ref>.
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Protester on September 28, 2011 (day 12): Zennie Abraham in the San Francisco Chronicle said on October 1 that the Occupy Wall Street protest "signals the start of a movement".[1]
The following is a timeline of Occupy Wall Street (sometimes called OWS or #OWS) which began on Saturday, September 17, 2011[2] as an occupation of Wall Street, the financial district of New York City and is an ongoing demonstration.[3]
According to 15october.net, as of October 15, 2011, the protests spread to more than 1,000 cities in 82 countries and formed a single global protest.[4]
August 2 – with the "debt-ceiling deadline" of midnight August 2 drawing near[8](see: United States debt-ceiling crisis), a group calling itself "New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts"[9] chose August 2 to incorporate its "General Assembly" with another group holding a strategy session for OWS. The two groups joined in a demonstration at the Charging Bull sculpture, which stands in Bowling Green park in Lower Manhattan, at 4:30 p.m. Afterwards, these two groups "gather[ed] into working groups to plan for the September 17 event".[10]
August 23 – The hacktivist group Anonymous encouraged its followers to take part in the protest.[11]
September 2011
September 3, 2011: A planning session for Occupy Wall Street is held at night in Tompkins Square ParkThe crowd on September 18, 2011 (day 2).Protesters demonstrate against police brutality outside NYPD headquarters on September 30, 2011 (day 14).
September 17 (day 1) – This was the first day of the OWS gathering. An estimated 1,000 people[12] attended on the first day. Officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) prohibited protesters from erecting tents, citing loitering rules. Actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr spoke to protesters during the first day of the demonstration.[13]
September 19 (day 3) – The stock market opened on Wall Street for regular business. Keith Olbermann of the news outlet, Current TV, became the first major journalist to fully cover the protests. A couple days later, Olbermann criticized mainstream media for failing to cover Occupy Wall Street, saying, "Why isn't any major news outlet covering this? ... If that's a Tea Party protest in front of Wall Street ..., it's the lead story on every network newscast."[14] Ever since, Olbermann has devoted every program to the protests, interviewing union leaders and members, eye-witnesses and protestors. Many other major news sources then began to publish articles on the occupation[15] and Occupy Wall Street caught some mainstream media attention across a wide variety of sources.[16]
September 20 (day 4) – Police arrested mask-wearing protesters, using a law dating back to 1845 which bans masked gatherings unless part of "a masquerade party or like entertainment".[17]
September 22 (day 6) – It was reported that a largely African American crowd of about 2,000 people marched down from Union Square, located at 14th Street and Broadway, to Wall Street to protest the execution of Troy Davis. Four people were arrested during the protests.[18]
September 23 (day 7) – The action at Zuccotti Park, now renamed Liberty Plaza by the protesters, across the street from the One Liberty Plaza building in New York City continued.[19]The Colbert Report[20] satirized the protests and major newspapers including The Guardian[21] and The New York Times covered the protests.[22]
September 24 (day 8) – At least 80 arrests were made[23] after protesters begin marching uptown, forcing the closure of several streets.[24] Soon after the arrests, videos begin to appear around the web. In particular, public concern is raised by a video released later in the day showing young women being maced by a police officer.[25]
September 25 (day 9) – YouTube disclosed that the hacktivist group Anonymous uploaded a video around 4:30 pm on this day, threatening the NYPD: "If we hear of brutality in the next 36 hours then we will take you down from the internet as you have taken the protesters[sic] voices from the airwaves."[26]
September 26 (day 10) – The name of the police officer who maced some young women on September 24 was revealed as Anthony Bologna. The OWS claimed that this incident occurred without provocation, demanding jail time for Bologna and the resignation of NYC Police CommissionerRaymond Kelly.[27][28] It was reported that Noam Chomsky has sent a public "strong message of support" to the organizers of the OWS protests.[29] In the evening hours, filmmaker Michael Moore addressed the crowd at Zuccotti Park.[30]
September 27 (day 11) – An OWS afternoon march ended not at Wall Street but at a rally by postal workers protesting against a five-day delivery week, which many believed would severely harm the postal service and cause significant job losses.[31][32]NYC CouncilmanCharles Barron visited Zuccotti Park addressing those gathered with public support for OWS.[18] Later, Dr. Cornel West spoke to the gathering at the park and opened the General Assembly.[33] It was reported by the official Occupy Wall Street website that "nearly two thousand people gathered to hear Dr. West speak."[34]
September 28 (day 12) – According to various sources,[35][36][37] the board of the local union of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU Local-100) voted to support OWS.[38] Police Commissioner Kelly said that the NYPD could not bar protesters from Zuccotti Park since it is a public plaza that is required to stay open 24 hours a day. [39]
September 29 (day 13) – Chris Hedges published a column in strong support of OWS.[40][41] TWU Local-100 used Twitter to urge members to take part in a "massive march and rally" on October 5.[42] There were unsubstantiated claims that the October 5 event was co-sponsored by another eight labor and community outreach organizations.[42] Meanwhile, protesters in San Francisco attempted to occupy Citibank, Chase, and attempted to enter a Charles Schwab financial institution, with some media outlets citing OWS as an inspiration to the spread of protests.[43][44]
September 30 (day 14) – More than 1,000 demonstrators, including representatives of labor organizations, held a peaceful march to the NYPD headquarters, a few blocks north of nearby New York City Hall, to protest what they said was a heavy-handed police response the previous week. No arrests were reported.[45]
October 2011
Protesters marching as corporate zombies on October 3
October 1 (day 15) – More than 5,000 people marched towards the Brooklyn Bridge, and hundreds marched onto its pedestrian area and car lanes, taking over part of the bridge. Traffic into Brooklyn was stopped by the police for roughly two hours. Police split the crowd into two sections, enclosing a few hundred that were on the bridge between two lines of netting and kettling them – slowly closing in and keeping them from moving about. Over 700 arrests were made, while police had to call for paddy wagons and buses to transport the arrestees, including a New York Times reporter who was on the bridge. Others who were caught on the bridge were later allowed to walk away. The remaining protesters gathered in the evening in Zuccotti Park.[46]
October 2 (day 16) – Videos emerged showing the police, after preventing them to do so, eventually let the protesters walk to the bridge's main road to then arrest them on traffic disruption charges:
Protesters started marching up the pedestrian walk way over the bridge while others tried to take the traffic lane. For a few minutes officers held the line and then they turned around and led the way up the traffic lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. From what I saw no police told any of the protesters to leave until they created a barricade in front of the march about halfway through the bridge. They then pulled vans and buses up to the back of the group and started arresting everyone.[47][48]
October 3 (day 17) – Hundreds of protesters in New York City dressed as "corporate zombies" and zombie walked past Wall Street with painted faces and carrying fake dollar bills.[49]
October 5 (day 19) – Joined by union members, students, and the unemployed, the demonstration swelled to the largest yet with an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 demonstrators marching from lower Manhattan's Foley Square to Zuccotti Park. The march was mostly peaceful – until after nightfall, when scuffles erupted and some of the younger demonstrators were arrested after they stormed barricades blocking them from Wall Street. About 200 people tried to push through barricades and police responded with pepper spray and penned them in with orange netting.[50] Smaller protests continued in cities and on college campuses across the country.[51][52]
October 6 (day 20) – About 5,000 protesters marched in Portland, Oregon.[53] More demonstrations were held in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Tampa, Florida; Houston, Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City. Asked about OWS, U.S. PresidentBarak Obama replied: "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place."[17]
October 8 (day 22) – Protesters were pepper sprayed in Washington, D.C., as they attempted to enter the National Air and Space Museum and one protester pushed a security guard against the wall. The group of "100 to 200" protesters intended to target displays about military drones; one was arrested.[54] One thousand protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Washington Square Park, located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, without incident amid speculation that the protests would relocate there.[55]
October 9 (day 23) – A crowd of approximately 100 protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., outside the White House.[56]The American Spectator, a conservative monthly magazine, posted an article by assistant editor Patrick Howley in which he revealed he had infiltrated the group of protesters who had attempted to enter the National Air and Space Museum on October 8. Howley claimed to have helped instigate the events that prompted the museum to close in order to discredit the protest movement. Commenting on the incident, an activist at Occupy Wall Street said that there were "obvious provocateurs" in the movement, and that a committee had been set up to identify and warn others about them.[57][58] Meanwhile, at Zuccotti Park, SlovenianphilosopherSlavoj Žižek addressed the crowd and expressed support for the protests[59] during one of several "open forums" conducted throughout the day around Zuccotti Park.
October 10 (day 24) – NYC MayorMichael Bloomberg suggested that he did not anticipate an effort by the city to remove the demonstrators. "The bottom line is, people want to express themselves, and as long as they obey the laws, we'll allow them to," the mayor told reporters at the start of the city's 67th annual Columbus Day parade. The official @OccupyWallStreet Twitter account declares, "Bloomberg said we can stay indefinitely! Big win!"[60] Police reported that more than 140 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.[61]
October 13 (day 27) – Mayor Bloomberg told demonstrators they would need to clear Zuccotti Park for it to be cleaned. In response organizers issued a call for cleaning supplies and say they intend to clean the space themselves.[62] The NYPD issued a statement saying that the protesters would no longer be allowed to keep sleeping equipment in the area.[63]Reuters published an article in which they claimed to have found indirect financial links between George Soros and Adbusters, the group which initiated the OWS protests.[64]
October 14 (day 28) – Brookfield Office Properties postponed cleaning its Zuccotti Park.[65]Reuters published an article in which they refuted an earlier claim to have found indirect financial links between George Soros and Adbusters, the group which initiated the OWS protests.[66]
October 15 (day 29) – Thousands of protesters marched through Manhattan to Times Square where they faced its U.S. Armed Forces recruiting station to protest the money being spent on foreign wars instead of on people in the U.S. struggling with no jobs and no health care. Sparked by the OWS movement, dozens of protests were held in the U.S. and around the world. Most of the protests were peaceful,[67] however many people were arrested across the U.S., largely for refusing to vacate public property. Cornel West was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. protesting about corporate influence in politics. In Rome, the protests turned violent after rioters hijacked a peaceful gathering causing an estimated $1.4 million of damage.[68]
October 16 (day 30) – President Obama extended support for the protesters.[69] and the White House issued a statement saying Obama is working for the interests of the 99%.[70] The New York City General Assembly Demands Working Group produced a call for a constitutional amendment and national convention to be held July 4, 2012, in Philadelphia.[71][72] However, it is not representative of OWS or the NYC General Assembly.[71] It is a draft document and will remain as such until issues are resolved regarding the status of the Working Group.[71]
October 17 (day 31) – Freelance journalist, Caitlin Curran, is fired from public radio station WNYC for holding a protest sign and the Occupy Wall Street event at Times Square NYC on October 15. She was covering the event at the time. Her manager fired her for violating editorial standards by participating in a protest she was covering.[73]
October 20 (day 34) – Freelance journalist, Lisa Simeone is fired from her position as a host of Soundprint, a journalistic program produced for National Public Radio (NPR), for her leadership role in October 2011, an Occupy D.C. organization. Both Soundprint and NPR considered her role to be a violation of journalistic standards.[74][75]
October 25 (day 39) – Egyptian activists who helped topple former dictator Hosni Mubarak lent their support to the growing Occupy movement, releasing a statement in solidarity with occupiers.[76][77] In Oakland, California, hundreds of police move against Occupy Oakland protesters, launching teargas, beanbag rounds, and rubber bullets before clearing out an encampment and arresting 85 people. A protest march later in the day resulted in additional use of teargas and rubber bullets. An Iraq War veteran from the U.S. Marines is in critical condition after "being hit in the head by a police projectile." [78]
October 26 (day 40) – Hundreds of OWS protesters marched near Union Square in support of Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen who is in intensive care as a result of a police-fired projectile during the October 25 Occupy Oakland march. [79]
October 27 (day 41) – Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, said the Occupy Oakland protesters could stay, in the wake of Tuesday's violent police eviction of the encampment in front of City Hall.[80]
October 29 (day 43) – Tensions flared in Denver, Colorado near the State Capitol when police entered the campsite. There were reports of skirmishes between police and protesters, with more than a dozen arrests. A group of protesters characterized as "thugs" surrounded and pushed over a police motorcycle while the policeman was riding it. The police dispersed the OWS protesters by firing rounds of pellets filled with pepper spray.[81][82]File:OWS literature.jpgA late October edition of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, along with pamphlets on anarchism and the NYC General Assembly
October 30 (day 44) – Police arrested two dozen people in Portland, Oregon, for failing to leave a park when it closed at midnight. Police arrested 38 people in Austin, Texas after they refused to put away food tables at 10 pm. The arrested people contested the legitimacy of the Austin rule since it was issued by City Hall two days earlier and not passed by a City Council vote.[83]
November 2011
November 1 (day 46) – A judge told Tennessee officials on Monday to stop enforcing new rules that have been used to arrest Occupy protesters in Nashville.[84]State Attorney General's Office Senior Counsel Bill Marett announced at the beginning of a hearing before Judge Aleta Trauger that the state would not fight efforts to halt the policy.The judge said she had already decided to grant the restraining order because the curfew was a "clear prior restraint on free speech rights."[85]
November 2 (day 47) – Demonstrations continued in Oakland, California, with a citywide general strike taking place in response to the serious injury sustained by a protester on October 25.[86][87] Protesters shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest port.[88] A man was arrested for sexual assault and rape at the NYC OWS encampment.[89]
November 3 (day 48) – Riot police clashed with Occupy Oakland, firing tear gas and flash bang grenades.[90] Over a hundred protesters were arrested, and including another Iraq veteran who was seriously injured by police.[91][92]Occupy Seattle protesters and police briefly clashed in protests sparked by Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's visit to town. Five protesters were arrested for breaking into the bank, and two police officers sustained minor injuries. [93]
November 5 (day 50) – To participate in both Guy Fawkes Day and Bank Transfer Day, demonstrators protested outside major banks and financial institutions. In the preceding month, over 600,000 people closed their bank accounts and opened accounts with local credit unions. [94]
November 14 (day 59) – Occupy Oakland is cleared by police; twenty protestors are arrested. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan cited the eviction as a response to the "tremendous strain" the camp had put the city's resources [95] . The mayor's legal advisor, Dan Siegel, has resigned from his position in protest of the eviction. [96]
November 15 (day 60)
Occupy Wall Street At about 1am, NYPD began to clear Zucotti Park. City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is reported to have been arrested during the eviction, along with seventy other protestors[97]. The official statement released by Mayor Bloomberg's office explained the purpose of the late-night eviction: "This action was taken at this time of day to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood...[Mayor Bloomberg] [has] become increasingly concerned – as had the park’s owner, Brookfield Properties – that the occupation was coming to pose a health and fire safety hazard to the protestors and to the surrounding community" [98]. Journalists have been barred from entering immediate area of eviction since the raid began, and Mayor Bloomberg cited this as a way "to protect members of the press," and "to prevent a situation from getting worse"[99]. A CBS press helicopter was not allowed into the airspace above the park, which has been interpreted as an effort to limit media coverage of the event[100]. A judge has issued a temporary restraining order in favor of the protestors, requiring Mayor Bloomberg to show cause for eviction [101]. Protesters sporting copies of the court order attempted to reenter the park, but police continued to deny access to square. In response, impromptu general assemblies and meet-ups have started in different locations. Mayor Bloomberg is scheduled to address the court order at 11:30am ET[102]. Occupy Wall Street's statement released in response to the eviction cited exercising their right to assemble and the need to create a "civic space" as essential to changing public discourse[103]. The Mayor's Office released statement states that the right to freedom of speech has not been violated, and furthermore occupying a space with personal property is not included in First Amendment rights; but the Right to Assemble was not addressed in the statement[104].
Occupy DC staged a sit-in at the DC headquarters of Brookview Properties, which administers New York City's Zuccotti Park.
Occupy UCDavis held a rally on the campus which was attended by approximately 2000 people. Later, about 400 individuals occupied the Administration building and held a General Assembly in the space.
OccupyCal gathered over a thousand people at a rally at Sproul Hall plaza. [105]
OccupySeattle rallied and marched downtown, police clashed with protestors and used pepper-spray. [106][107][108].
^Abraham, Zennie (October 1, 2011). "Occupy Wall Street Has Hot Chicks, Needs Plan". City Brights Blog (blog hosted SFGate.com; site disclamer: "Editor's note: This is an SFGate.com City Brights Blog. These blogs are not written or edited by SFGate or the San Francisco Chronicle. The authors are solely responsible for the content."). Retrieved October 16, 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^"There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history."
