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Adbusters calls for Occupy Wall Street
The company Adbusters calls for a protest called Occupy Wall Street. -
Occupy Wall Street Begins
The beginning of a protest created by Adbusters. -
80 arrests on protesters are made
80 people are arrested by the NYPD and a video of a young woman being maced is leaked. -
Over 700 arrests made on protesters
Over 700 protesters were herded onto the Brooklyn Bridge and arrested by police. -
More citites occupied
More occupy movements start within cities including Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Houstun, Austin and Salt Lake City. -
Protesters cleared from Zuccoti Park
Protesters are removed from Zuccoti Park by Mayor Bloomberg and not allowed to return by police. -
Obama Acknowledges Occupy Wall Street
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Police Brutality from NYPD
NYPD open fire on OWS with beanbags and rubber bullets, an Iraq war vetern is hit in the head with a gas canister fired by police and is in critical condition. -
Crowds of Occupy Wall Street hit 30,000
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New Occupy Movement Introduced
Following a slogan of "banks got bailed out, but families got kicked out," the OWS protesters start a new movement called Occupy Homes. An idea to occupy homes foreclosed by banks. -
Police raid Zuccotti park again
70 arrested and over 5000 books are confiscated from the Peoples Library, a library for the protesters to use.