Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group Contact us at data guardian. Occupy protests around the world: full list visualised.
See the full list - and help us add more Get the data Interactive map. Occupy George dollar bill. Where are the protests around the world? As we wrote this week : Protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and the "Indignants" in Spain have spread to cities around the world. The demonstration, which is targeting corporate greed, stemmed from the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in New York, and has spread to the financial districts of cities around the world.
Currently approximately protesters in tents are camped outside St Paul's Cathedral, which is adjacent to the Stock Exchange. A businessman sticks his tongue out in jest as he walks past tents erected by protesters from the Occupy London Stock Exchange group, as they continue their demonstration that started on Saturday outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, on October 17, Swedish and international protesters hold banners as they take part in the "Occupy Stockholm" demonstration held at Sergels Torg in Stockholm, on October 15, Protesters launched worldwide street demonstrations on October 15 against corporate greed and biting cutbacks in a rolling action targeting cities in 82 countries.
A group of people gathered in support of "Occupy Wall Street" and the Occupy Movement around the world. Protestors march through the streets of Berlin during a demonstration to support the "Occupy Wall Street" movement on Saturday, October 15, Protesters gathered at many major European cities Saturday to join in demonstrations against corruption, capitalism and austerity measures.
Berlin police officers carry a protester after a sit-in demonstrating against the influence of bankers and financiers in front of the Reichstag building on October 15, in Berlin, Germany.
Activists are demanding an end to the free-wheeling ways of global financial players whom they see as responsible for the current European and American economic woes. Tourists in a cable car take photographs of Occupy San Francisco protesters during a demonstration along the streets of San Francisco, California, on October 15, Yunker, an Occupy Dallas activist, is part of the movement that came together following the Wall Street demonstrations.
The local group which numbers in the to range has been based at the downtown park since last Thursday. Addie Becker, right, cheers as demonstrators march through center city Philadelphia, on October 14, , in the Occupy Philly protest. The encampment at City Hall is one of many being held across the country recently in support of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York.
Inspired by the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests in New York City, an estimated 1, people showed up to participate in the Miami protest. A Jordanian protester carrying a placard readin in English, "in Solidarity with 'Occupy Wall Street Movement'" stands outside the US embassy as members of the Communist Party gather at one of a number of protests around the world in Amman, Jordan, on October 15, The banner behind him, which is partially obscured, reads, "Jordanian Communist Party, capitalism is vicious and a known threat to humanity.
A group of about demonstrators take to the streets of downtown Phoenix, Arizona late Friday afternoon, October 14, as part of the "Occupy Phoenix" movement. Thousands of demonstrators gather at Madrid's landmark Puerta del Sol as part of the United for Global Change movement against banking and finance in Madrid October 15, So we can't go on like this so we are getting out and showing ourselves," he said.
The protests spread amid the growing financial crises for several Western countries. Finance ministers with the Group of 20, meeting in Paris, pledged Saturday to take "all necessary actions" to stabilize global markets and ensure that banks are well capitalized. United for Global Change -- the central site for the movement organizing worldwide protests -- said cities in 82 countries were to take part in the demonstrations after online organizers called for a worldwide rally.
More than 10, demonstrators of all ages gathered peacefully in Madrid's spacious Plaza de Cibeles on Saturday and than walked uphill to Puerta del Sol. The "May 15 Movement" started five months ago to the day over austerity measures and high unemployment. Some demonstrators said they felt Spain's protest had gone global and that the world had joined the movement started in their country.
The newspaper El Pais said tens of thousands of protesters turned out in Barcelona. The vandalism that erupted in Rome angered peaceful protesters.
There were car fires and masked people breaking windows at banks and stores, where many thousands faced a large police presence.
Firefighters were working to contain the blaze and the tensions calmed down in the evening hours. But the echo of Molotov cocktails could be heard and a lingering cloud of black smoke could be seen, Nadeau told CNN. In Germany, police used pepper spray on two protesters who crossed beyond police lines. Still, the demonstrations across the world were peaceful overall, inspired by the protests in the United States. The demonstrations are contained to an area in front of St.
Paul's Cathedral. There have also been three arrests, two for assault on police. Tens of thousands demonstrated in German cities, witnesses said. Our democracy meant we sometimes moved too slowly, sometimes too fast. We burned out. A popular misimpression is that after the camp was evicted, we simply disappeared back into the ether.
Our focus here is on the OWS connection, but that is not meant to construe that these efforts are merely the result of OWS. Speaking from our vantage point here in New York City, there is a rising tide of electoral and legislative change from the neighborhood on up through the state level that is directly tied to Occupy.
OWS alumni are campaign staff and policy wonks now, and some, like our beloved Sandy Nurse , are even on the ballot for City Council this fall.
Occupiers continue to push for debt relief through Debt Collective and Project Springboard. During Occupy, this work was organized as Strike Debt , with debt relief campaigns focused on healthcare. Historically these incremental wins are often required to achieve major victories, though sadly the current process is a truly terrible one of means testing and determining who is most worthy of relief.
OWS rejected this idea entirely, instead supporting education as a human right, one we can pay for by taxing the One Percent. Perhaps as the indebted millennials who came of age during Occupy begin to take office, this process can speed up a bit! Occupy Our Homes, with multiracial leadership, took OWS into low-income neighborhoods where predominately Black and brown homeowners faced foreclosure due to racist subprime mortgage practices.
This tactic recently gained media attention again in Oakland, where a group of mothers organized to remain in their homes despite facing a pandemic eviction. In our case, several OWS-ers focused on opposing war and militarization, lending their support to uprisings around the world in that hopeful year of Many also went on to create projects and campaigns building on that early momentum and dot connecting.
One such project was Facing Tear Gas , which gathered dozens of accounts protesters provided about tear gas. These stories exposed weapons profiteering as well as deep connections between demands and tactics from around the US and across the global South.
That effort then spun off a campaign to take on the fairs and gatherings where police were getting their new toys and deepening their militarized mentalities. This showed us how the links between generations of organizing against policing, renewed protest movements, and the crucial priority of racial justice can really get things done.
0コメント