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==Ultimate failure, and subsequent similar movements==
== Tea Party Inspiration? ==
Recently, France's "Yellow Vests" protests have been compared to Occupy Wall Street. Here are some sources which do that: (lots more in Google News).

I dispute the assertion that a line can be drawn between the ]''as well as the Tea Party movement.'' The statement cannot be found in sources 26, 27 or 28 so can somebody involved please tell the source of this? The two have radically different objectives, the latter being primarily a right wing movement instigated by the ]. If somebody does not respond I will remove the relevent material. ] (]) 18:16, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
: disagrees with you. '''<font face="Arial">]</font>''' 18:24, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

there are similar grievances among occupiers and original tea party people (not the AstroTurf-corporate tea party people). HOWEVER it is the actions and views to fix those grievances where Occupy and the TP
differ greatly. --] (]) 15:34, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
== Article requires update ==

I see that somebody above has defended the use of the present tense on the basis that the Occupy Wall Street website is still live (although that post itself is over a year old). That may well be, although I've seen sources which suggest that movement is functionally dead (e.g. , ). I don't know much about it, but I do know that the movement is not the same today as it was in 2011, and this is not reflected in the article.

At a basic level, there are a large number of dates without years, which is contrary to ]. For example under ''Goals'' we have "During the early weeks", "Speaking on 7 October", and so on. The Occupy movement in Norway is stated to have started on "15 October". I suspect all of these dates are 2011, and that the edits were made in 2011 so that the editor considered it unnecessary to state the year, and that the article was at that time an example of ].

The section ''Chronology of Events'' is bizarre, because the period 17 September 2011 to 31 December 2011 is broken down into intervals of 3-5 weeks, then there is a final section covering the entire period 1 January 2012 to present, and this section really doesn't explain what the movement is doing now. I can't see that it refers to any sources postdating September 2013. Again the article seems to be largely written from a 2011 or early 2012 perspective with various addenda shoved into the final section.

Also we have a section of ''Subsequent Activity'', but what is this subsequent to?
] (]) 00:29, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

:I was the one who used the term "Subsequent." It is clear the "Movement" has not continuously had protesters in the streets worldwide. Because it was a global activity, with a lot of associated events going on, there is no specific end date to the protests. Each geographically sub- article discusses the specific dates of their encampments. Occupy London is notably active currently with protests and encampments in the streets. Similarly, it would be difficult to pin down a wholesale set of goals. I haven't bothered to retrace the historical portions of the article that went through massive editing by others. I have posted various links on multiple articles that document other, less public activities by the "Movement" as I find out about them in the press. That shows it is still active and ongoing. There is no date of death as so many want to post. So what is it you want added? Do you have additional sourced information that is missing? ] (]) 03:55, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

::As stated in my previous post, I do not know much about this topic. So, no, I do not have sourced information which I wish to add (and if I did I would simply add it). What I do know is that the bulk of the article as it stands reflects a 2011 or early 2012 perspective, and it is now late 2014, so the article requires updating. I suspect (but do not know) that the movement continues in a significantly different form, and if this is the case, the article needs to reflect this. I appreciate your efforts in adding recent references, but these do seem like they've been tagged on to the end. So what we have is a 2012 article with a series of addenda, which isn't the same as up-to-date article. The lead needs rewriting to reflect whatever has happened since 2012. The ''Background'' section is probably fine, but the ''Goals'', ''Methods'', ''Chronology'', ''Reactions'' and ''Impact'' sections need updating. The ''Criticism'' section requires expansion, but that's a slightly different issue (it seems imply that there is a significant body of criticism, but only refers to 2 examples). I think probably ''Subsequent Activity'' should be merged into a rewritten ''Chronology'' (which could, for example, be divided by year). I would be amazed if there is not academic literature charting the movement's history and evolution. The article has a very rich set of references, but they're almost all to news reports. Per ] "When available, academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources." So what I would really like would be for someone with the relevant academic background to rewrite the article to reflect the current consensus. Failing that, I would like someone involved in the movement to update the article in the areas indicated (although of course that raises possible POV issues).] (]) 12:01, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

:::Also, it is stated in the lead that "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." However, these evictions aren't described in the Chronology. So, although you state "It is clear the "Movement" has not continuously had protestors in the streets worldwide", that isn't really clear. It may well be correct (I imagine that continuous worldwide protests would have come to my attention), but the only indication of it in the article is the one sentence in the lead I just quoted.] (]) 12:15, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

This is a problem in several Occupy articles. For example, ], which states that its general assembly was disbanded last year, is claimed by this article to be the only remaining "occupation" in the United States. Occupy Portland's indicates that it has reduced and refocused to more recent events (e.g Ferguson & Michael Brown), clearly not the large-scale protest that this article implies. Misplaced Pages's Occupy articles need to reflect current realities and not those of 2012 -- (] (]) 17:09, 10 December 2014 (UTC))


I feel that this article in general is missing the bigger picture, and is sometimes written as if it was still early 2012. It mentions little, fairly hollow victories (e.g. that supposedly the Bank of England encouraged bankers and politicians "to behave in a more moral way"), but doesn't mention that its goals of reducing income inequality basically failed.
== Word for word from the "Criticism" section ==


As the second article I linked to above notes: ''"However what most of the European governments and the Brussels did was to target the working class cutting wages and pensions, laying off thousands of workers, while big businesses, banks were going unpunished which avoided paying taxes, although the main reason for the financial crisis and the subsequent recession worldwide was their greed."''
Is the following real? Whatever does it mean?


It seems pretty clear that future historians will view Occupy Wall Street as a symptom of widespread public anger about certain issues which failed to get them resolved ''at the time'', but was perhaps a prelude to more consequential changes in the future (a little like the ] was a prelude and practice run to 1917). ] (]) 13:42, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Apart from dismissals by the Right, there have also appreciative criticism from leftist scholars. One such critique concerns itself with the way in which the Occupy movement has focused its demands around a narrowly modern understanding of freedom that differs little from the claims of mainstream liberal pluralism:
“ The modern ideology of freedom ... provides its point of departure. This singular dominance of the modern becomes clear in the long list of demands that follow. Practicality dominates and there is not a single demand for relief from the ontological dominance of modern practices and subjectivities that abstract, codify, rationalize and objectify our lives. Though the ideals and demands ... are laudable, they are not that much different in form from the Millennium Goals of the United Nations. <small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 17:58, 10 November 2014 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== Origins of Occupy are in Egypt, not the U.S. ==
== Historic reference ==


Occupy organizers in the U.S. explicitly took inspiration from occupiers in Tahrir Square in Egypt and from Arab Spring activists in Tunisia (http://occupywallst.org/forum/first-official-release-from-occupy-wall-street/). The first paragraph of this encyclopedia entry should make that fact more clear. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 17:33, 25 September 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
While the use of the word 'occuupy' is new, the 99% vs 1 % is not new. I was most astonished to find a mentioning of 'the 1%' in a book from the 1920s. It was a pulp fiction B or even C grade fantasy pocket book about the Vanderbilts. I forgot the title and can't find the book on the net now. However, I checked the copyright then, it was from the 1920s, 1929 in all likelihood but written before the crash. I was astonished that the term "THE 1 %" goes back that far into history. ] (]) 00:39, 19 December 2014 (UTC)


== Populista? ==
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NO es populimo? el populismo es una respuesta sencilla a un problema complejo, y esto es totalmente lo contrario. ] (]) 23:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
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== Impact on bankers ==
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I was considering copying the following line from the ] article to the Impact section of this article. I leave it to the editors of this article to determine if it is appropriate and how to merge it with existing content.
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Ultimate failure, and subsequent similar movements

Recently, France's "Yellow Vests" protests have been compared to Occupy Wall Street. Here are some sources which do that: (lots more in Google News).

I feel that this article in general is missing the bigger picture, and is sometimes written as if it was still early 2012. It mentions little, fairly hollow victories (e.g. that supposedly the Bank of England encouraged bankers and politicians "to behave in a more moral way"), but doesn't mention that its goals of reducing income inequality basically failed.

As the second article I linked to above notes: "However what most of the European governments and the Brussels did was to target the working class cutting wages and pensions, laying off thousands of workers, while big businesses, banks were going unpunished which avoided paying taxes, although the main reason for the financial crisis and the subsequent recession worldwide was their greed."

It seems pretty clear that future historians will view Occupy Wall Street as a symptom of widespread public anger about certain issues which failed to get them resolved at the time, but was perhaps a prelude to more consequential changes in the future (a little like the 1905 Russian Revolution was a prelude and practice run to 1917). Esn (talk) 13:42, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Origins of Occupy are in Egypt, not the U.S.

Occupy organizers in the U.S. explicitly took inspiration from occupiers in Tahrir Square in Egypt and from Arab Spring activists in Tunisia (http://occupywallst.org/forum/first-official-release-from-occupy-wall-street/). The first paragraph of this encyclopedia entry should make that fact more clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.170.194.182 (talk) 17:33, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Populista?

NO es populimo? el populismo es una respuesta sencilla a un problema complejo, y esto es totalmente lo contrario. 88.10.28.92 (talk) 23:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

External links

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There are 46 links in the "See also" section and subsections and 15 in the "Further reading". With the "External links" that is a total of 77 links. This is indicative of far too many links.
Remove excessive links and 2013 maintenance tag. -- Otr500 (talk) 18:11, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Impact on bankers

I was considering copying the following line from the Andy Haldane article to the Impact section of this article. I leave it to the editors of this article to determine if it is appropriate and how to merge it with existing content.

In October 2012 Haldane said the Occupy movement protesters... had persuaded bankers and politicians "to behave in a more moral way".

References

  1. James Kirkup (29 October 2012). "Occupy protesters were right, says Bank of England official". Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  2. Hannah Kuchler; Claire Jones (30 October 2012). "BoE's Haldane says Occupy was right" ((registration required)). Financial Times. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  3. "'A leaf being turned' - speech by Andrew Haldane: 29 October 2012 'Socially useful banking' conference at Friend's House, Euston, London on 29 October 2012". Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.

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