The Occupy Wall Street Movement
Anwar Bradford
Soc 300
9:30 am
Gitiln Book Review
The Occupy Wall Street movement was a push for change that was driven by the people themselves. This movement began on September 17th, 2011 in Zuccotti Park located in Manhattans financial district. It gained national attention as people protested economic inequalities, because of the political spotlight this movement acquired it quickly grew and in the unite states over 100 cities took charge and challenged our economic system. Micah M. White PhD, award winning activist is acknowledged as the creator of the occupy Wall Street movement, sparking a national take over by 100s and in other countries. Citizens fought against the banks and national cooperation's for what they felt was an …show more content…
Sociologist Todd Gitlin, professor at Colombia university studied this economic movement starting from its earlier stages, its national media attention and how the people themselves reacted to the movement. In his book “Occupy Nation: The Roots, the spirit, and the promise of Occupy wall Street”, published May 2012 By Todd Gitlin, he describes the increasing attempts by the police departments to stop the occupy movement from spreading, these efforts by police led to some protesters being brutalized in the process. Some reactions included a blended atmosphere of esteem, anger and hostility, …show more content…
People that encircled the movement and those participating in the movement started their own news papers and theoretical journals. With using the avenue of social media of dedicated individuals for the movement popularity was inevitable, powerful social media accounts and local news coverage, word of the movement spread quickly from borough to borough with the term “99 percent” taking flight. As far as the movement was concerned the movement was as success, the discussion of economic systematic issues spreading across the country indicated that the world was taking notice to what was going on in Zuccoti Park. The movement didn't rest on the mainstream media to capture what protesters wanted to get across with this movement. They had their own media , a group called global revolution supplied a live stream video feed. The message and tone illuminated the internet with the call across networks “ Occupy Your Life. Occupy your occupation! Whether yo clean houses, sit behind a desk, teach in a classroom, work in a kitchen, play an instrument, speak a second language, are a whiz with budgets, can pull projects togeter and make things happen, make videos, walk dogs, anything.....your skills are needed at the local occupation square!” this encourge everyone to
Soc 300
9:30 am
Gitiln Book Review
The Occupy Wall Street movement was a push for change that was driven by the people themselves. This movement began on September 17th, 2011 in Zuccotti Park located in Manhattans financial district. It gained national attention as people protested economic inequalities, because of the political spotlight this movement acquired it quickly grew and in the unite states over 100 cities took charge and challenged our economic system. Micah M. White PhD, award winning activist is acknowledged as the creator of the occupy Wall Street movement, sparking a national take over by 100s and in other countries. Citizens fought against the banks and national cooperation's for what they felt was an …show more content…
Sociologist Todd Gitlin, professor at Colombia university studied this economic movement starting from its earlier stages, its national media attention and how the people themselves reacted to the movement. In his book “Occupy Nation: The Roots, the spirit, and the promise of Occupy wall Street”, published May 2012 By Todd Gitlin, he describes the increasing attempts by the police departments to stop the occupy movement from spreading, these efforts by police led to some protesters being brutalized in the process. Some reactions included a blended atmosphere of esteem, anger and hostility, …show more content…
People that encircled the movement and those participating in the movement started their own news papers and theoretical journals. With using the avenue of social media of dedicated individuals for the movement popularity was inevitable, powerful social media accounts and local news coverage, word of the movement spread quickly from borough to borough with the term “99 percent” taking flight. As far as the movement was concerned the movement was as success, the discussion of economic systematic issues spreading across the country indicated that the world was taking notice to what was going on in Zuccoti Park. The movement didn't rest on the mainstream media to capture what protesters wanted to get across with this movement. They had their own media , a group called global revolution supplied a live stream video feed. The message and tone illuminated the internet with the call across networks “ Occupy Your Life. Occupy your occupation! Whether yo clean houses, sit behind a desk, teach in a classroom, work in a kitchen, play an instrument, speak a second language, are a whiz with budgets, can pull projects togeter and make things happen, make videos, walk dogs, anything.....your skills are needed at the local occupation square!” this encourge everyone to