[123][225] A relatively small group of occupiers successfully occupied Harbourside Park in St John's Newfoundland for the entire 2012 Winter season. [191], In Switzerland, the Occupy spirit lives on by annual online and offline celebrations each year on 17 September[192] in the village of St. Imier where modern anarchism began with the International Congress of 1872. [243] In Rome masked and hooded militants wearing makeshift body armor, in black bloc fashion, participated in the protests centered in St John Lateran square and committed numerous violent acts, throwing Molotov cocktails and other homemade explosives, burning and blowing up cars, burning buildings, and smashing up property such as ATMs and shop windows. [103] Rick Hampton for USA Today said the vast majority of occupy members have been nonviolent. [294] The London Stock Exchange in Paternoster Square was the initial target for the protesters of Occupy London on 15 October 2011. Social Movements Quotes (39 quotes) - Goodreads Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements Its main goals were to achieve social and economic fairness as well as various democratic systems. [286] The 15-M Movement drew inspiration from 2011 revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and uprisings in 1968 France, South Korea in 1980 and 1987 and Greece in 2008. Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz, for example, had explored it in . In the Netherlands, Occupy protests took place in many cities, most notably Amsterdam,[258] The Hague,[259] Rotterdam,[260] and Utrecht[261], In October 2011, Occupy protests began in six New Zealand cities (Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill) with protests in Auckland drawing up to 3,000 supporters. When the FBI refused the request, Shapiro filed a federal complaint in Washington, D.C., and subsequently obtained 17 pages (most of the requested documentation was ruled withheld due to the possibility to "disclose the identity of a confidential source".) Congressman Ted Deutch, member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the "Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Constitutional Amendment," which would overturn the United States Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC recognizing corporate constitutionally protected free speech rights and would ban corporate money from the electoral process. [306], On 11 November, police arrested 179 people believed to be EDL supporters[307] on Armistice Day after apparent threats to the St Paul's camp were posted on Facebook. "FBI investigated Occupy Wall Street as 'domestic terrorists'".
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