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Occupy Wall Street

OCCUPY WALL STREET HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? Why are people protesting? 22-51 WALL ST ECONOMIC We need more transparency and regulations in campaign contributions, and we need to educate people about culture that puts people before profits. D INEQUALITY Bring our troops home, and use the money we are spending on war to build factories.. CORPORATE 2) INFLUENCE OVER GOVERNMENT 25 MILLION Americans are unemployed 100 MILLION live in poverty 50 MILLION 60.4 MILLION without health insurance Americans are at 125 % of the poverty line BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. Ост. ост. 13 17 01 15 26 Organizers hold theirfirst planning people assemble in Brooklyn Bridge meeting at the Canadian A March across the A "global day of action" around the world ends with Police raid protesters at the Occupy a sit-in occupying Oakland protests, sparking public outrage Approx. 2,000 anti-consumerist group Adbusters calls for people to "flood iconic Wall Street into Manhattan" to lower Manhattan stops traffic, leads and claim Zuccotti Park to 700 arrests bull statue in Lower Manhattan and generates enormouspublicity Times Square Occupy Wall Street and remain there WHO IS PROTESTING? Demographic information about the supporters employed full-time 67.1% 50.4% Male employed part time 20.4% 30.9% TT unemployed 13.1% full-time student 9.7% Female 64.7% have a college degree or higher 1.3% Black 3.2% Asian 81.3% White 6.5% Other 26.7% students 7.7% Hispanic/Latino 1/3 are over age 35 71.5% 15.4% 13% 2% 2.4% 27.3% 70.3% earn less than earn between earn over $50k/year $50k-75k/year $75k/year $150k/year Republicans Democrats Independent earn over say they are say they are say they are WHERE THE PROTESTS ARE? Some of the main cities where there have been demonstrations DEMONSTRATIONS ON OCTOBER 15, 2011 NEW YORK 5,000 DENVER Protesters 1000-4000 MADRID TOKYO 1000-4000 Protesters Protesters 50,000 ROME Protesters 50,000 Protesters LOS ANGELES WASHINGTON 1000-4000 1000-4000 Protesters Protesters SYDNEY 1000-4000 Protesters SINCE OCTOBER 15, 2011 OVER 950 CITIES IN 82 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE HAVE STARTED THEIR OWN OCCUPY MOVMENT THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA in this movement в of facebook in the last week the overall audience 1.2 MILLION has grown to more than Occupy the London Stock Exchange 19,000 members Facebook page has more than 66% regular users Facebook page, Occupy Together 131,000 members has more than twitter 29% 48,448 followers of regular users @OccupyWallSt Trends in Twitter Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 21 10 0.15% 0.1% 0.055% I OWS (Hours displayed in EDT) You Tube Countless videos 74% are have been posted to YouTube | regular users PEOPLE NEED JOBS! BaillOutPeople.org PFOP (212) 6 6 HEED JOв NO more money for Wall Street ana war, Panand 0:23/ 4:34 360p THE WEALTH DISPARITY in America PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT 45% see a rich-poor gap 8,000 JOBS shed by financial industry NET WORTH & FINANCIAL WEALTH DISTRIBUTION IN THE U.S., 2007 10t 10%: Bottom 80%: 15% of net worth Next 10%: 12% of net worth Next 1%: 35% of net worth Next 5%: 11% of fin. wealth Top 1%: 43% of fin. wealth Next 5%: 12% of net worth Next 4%: 27% of net worth Next 4%: 29% of fin. wealth NET WORTH FINANCIAL WEALTH | TOP 1% SHARE OF TOTAL PRE-TAX INCOME, 1913 - 2008 30% 1928 2007 23.5% 23.9% 25% 2008 21.0% 20% 15% 1976 8.9% 10% 5% 0% 1913 1923 1933 1943 1953 1963 1973 1983 1993 2003 54% of Americans are in favor of the Occupy Movement 65% of all US economic growth in the past decade went to the top 1 percent of income earners. 68% of Americans say that the rich should pay more in taxes 79% of Americans say the gap between the rich and poor has grown too large 83% of all US stocks are in the hands of 1% of the people Over 50 New Yorkers are on Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans and have a combined net worth of $211 billion. Meanwhile, 20.1% of NYC's population is living in poverty. OCCUPY TOGETHER Sources http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html http://occupywallst.org/media/pdf/OWS-profile1-10-18-11-sent-v2-HRCG.pdf http://occupywallst.org/media/pdf/OWS-profile1-10-18-11-sent-v2-HRCG.pdf http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2096848-3,00.html http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html http://inequality.org/inequality-data-statistics/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/protesters-are-gunning-for-wall-street-with-faulty-aim.html http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here%27s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520 657.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA vem 80% Bottom & 7% of fin. wealth % of fin. wealth

Occupy Wall Street

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Since the Canadian activist group, Adbusters, called for everyone to Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011, millions of people worldwide have joined the movement. Pushing primarily for greater weal...

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