Examples of Occupy movement in the following topics:
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- Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district.
- The protest received global attention, spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide.
- It was inspired by anti-austerity protests in Spain relating to the 15-M movement, as well as the recent uprisings and revolution in Egypt.
- Protesters turned their focus to occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, foreclosed homes, and college and university campuses.
- On December 29, 2012, Naomi Wolf of The Guardian newspaper provided U.S. government documents which revealed that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had monitored Occupy Wall Street through its Joint Terrorism Task Force, despite labeling it a peaceful movement.
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- There have been several iterations of populist movements in the United States.
- In a recent example of populist movements, participants of the Occupy movement chose the slogan "We are the 99%" The Occupy leadership used the phrase "the 1%" to refer to the 1% of Americans who are most wealthy.
- The Occupy movement believed that the 1% was creating economic instability and undermining the social safety nets previously implemented by the government.
- Political science professors Joe Lowndes and Dorian Warren were among those to conclude that Occupy Wall Street was the "first major populist movement on the U.S. left since the 1930s."
- Their movements coincide with a similar trend of populism in Europe.
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- In 2011, participatory democracy became a notable feature of the Occupy movement, with Occupy camps around the world making decisions based on the outcome of working groups where every protestor gets to have his say, and by general assemblies where the decisions taken by working groups are effectively aggregated together .
- The Occupy Wall Street General Assembly meets in Washington Square Park for the first time on Saturday, October 8.
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- Beyond these initial protests, the protest movement has grown and continued in 2011.
- In late 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protest took place in the United States, spawning several offshoots that came to be known as the Occupy movement.
- In 2012 the economic difficulties in Spain have caused support for secession movements to increase.
- In Catalonia support for the secession movement exceeded 50%, up from 25% in 2010.
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- Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority.
- Adopted in 1949 and now part of customary international law, Article 49 of Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits mass movement of people out of or into of occupied territory under what it calls "belligerent military occupation":
- Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. ...
- The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
- Figure showing the movement of refugees following the decision by colonial Britain to partition India based on religious demographics.
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- Social mobility is the movement of an individual or group from one social position to another over time.
- By contrast, in the traditional Indian caste system the highest social position was occupied by those who demonstrated priestliness.
- Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals or groups in social positions over time.
- Social mobility typically refers to vertical mobility, movement of individuals or groups up or down from one socio-economic level to another, often by changing jobs or marriage.
- A distinction can also be drawn between absolute social mobility, which refers to the total observed movement of people between classes, and relative social mobility, which is an estimate of the chance of upward or downward movement of a member of one social class in comparison with a member from another class.
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- The fight for American Indian rights expanded in the 1960s, resulting in the creation of the American Indian Movement.
- Many of the demands of the movement related to the U.S. government's obligation to honor its treaties with the sovereign American Indian nations.
- For 19 months, from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971, the group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) occupied the Alcatraz penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco.
- The activists took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), occupying it for several days and causing millions of dollars of damage.
- Explain the Native American rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s
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- Grassroots movements championing women's rights, including women's suffrage, developed in the antebellum period.
- Women's rights activists held opposing stances on many difficult issues: Should the movement include or exclude men?
- Meanwhile, others had been honing their skills in the temperance (anti-alcohol) and abolitionist movements for years.
- While others, such as Lucy Stone, kept up a grueling pace lecturing and organizing conferences, Stanton was primarily occupied with her children and other domestic concerns.
- Describe the mid-19th-century campaigns for women's rights and the obstacles in the way of the movement
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- The Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to U.S. social movements aimed at exposing institutional racism and achieving liberation for African Americans.
- The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
- “Sleep-ins” occupied motel lobbies, “read-ins” filled public libraries, and churches became the sites of “pray-ins.”
- The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.
- Outline the course of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s