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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 185. Chapters: Occupy movement, July 2009 Urumqi riots, 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Iranian Revolution, Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Protests against the Iraq War, Anti-globalization movement, International Workers' Day, People Power Revolution, Prague Spring, Dissenters' March, Indonesian invasion of East Timor, Andijan massacre, Conflicts involving Critical Mass, Velvet Revolution, 2010 Kyrgyzstan Revolution, Bucharest student movement of 1956, Timeline of non-sexual social nudity, Tulip Revolution, Anti-austerity protests, Protests of 1968, January Events (Lithuania), Santa Maria School massacre, Sanctuary movement, Slovak National Uprising, List of uprisings led by women, Singing Revolution, 2009 Peruvian political crisis, 2007 Guinean general strike, DIY ethic, 2009 May Day protests, 2005 Belize unrest, Santa Cruz massacre, Cochabamba social unrest of 2007, Black Friday (Maldives), Cordobazo, Jeltoqsan, Caracazo, June Democracy Movement, Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign, Crisis situations and unrest in Europe since 2000, 2008 riot in Mongolia, Golaniad, March Intifada, Gwangju Student Independence Movement, The Freedom to be Yourself, Radical cheerleading, 1990 Democratic Revolution in Mongolia, Rossport Five, Czech TV crisis. Excerpt: The Occupy movement is an international protest movement against social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic structure and power relations in society fairer. Local groups often have different foci, but among the movement's prime concerns is the claim that large corporations and the global financial system control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and is unstable. The first Occupy protest to receive wide coverage was Occupy Wall Street in New York City's Zuccotti Park, which began on 17 September 2011. By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries, and over 600 communities in the United States. Although most active in the United States, by October 2012 there had been Occupy protests and occupations in dozens of other countries across every continent except Antarctica. For its first two months, authorities largely adopted a tolerant approach toward the movement, but this began to change in mid-November 2011 when they began forcibly removing protest camps. By the end of 2011 authorities had cleared most of the major camps, with the last remaining high profile sites - in Washington DC and London - evicted by February 2012. The Occupy movement is partly inspired by the Arab Spring, and the Spanish Indignants. The movement commonly uses the slogan We are the 99%, the #Occupy hashtag format, and organizes through websites such as Occupy Together. According to The Washington Post, the movement, which has been described as a "democratic awakening" by Cornel West, is difficult to distill to a few demands. On 12 October 2011, Los Angeles City Council became one of the first governmental bodies in the United States to adopt a resolution stating its informal support of the Occupy movement. In October 2012 the Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England stated the protesters were right to criticise and had persuaded bankers
