Quick Facts: Occupy Wall Street timeline

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Quick Facts: Occupy Wall Street timeline

The following is the timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) which began on September 17 in New York with a small number of young people pitching a tent in front of the New York Stock Exchange to protest against greed and graft on Wall Street and the ensuing ramifications on U.S. polity and economy. The movement has expanded nationally and drawn a wide variety of activists, including retirees, union members and laid-off workers. Many anti-war activists have also joined the protests.

November 21 (Day 66)

After ordering the eviction of students staging an "Occupy" protest at the University of California-Davis on Friday, only to watch police efforts turn into a ghastly, violent scene, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi pledged that she was not about to resign.

Appearing on ABC News's Good Morning America on Monday, Katehi seemed eager to put the incident behind her. Raw Story

November 20 (Day 65)

Almost 400 Occupy Wall Street protesters left Lower Manhattan to hold an "Occupy Bloomberg's Mansion Drum Circle Protest And Love-In Art Show," located almost - if not quite - on the mayor's doorstep.

The protest and round-the-clock drum circle had originally been planned to be held right under the windows of New York Mayor Bloomberg's Upper East Side townhouse. Police blocked access to that section of 79th Street, however, so the protesters set up shop half a block away, on the sidewalk just outside Central Park. Raw Story

November 19 (Day 64)

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich mocked the Occupy Wall Street protesters hurling insult at them that they need to "take a bath" and "get a job."

"All the Occupy movement starts with the premise that we all owe them everything," Gingrich said at the Thanksgiving Family Forum in Iowa, as noted by Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress. Huffington Post

November 18 (Day 63)

A group of University of California, Davis students, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement on campus, became the latest victims of alleged police brutality to be captured on video. Huffington Post

The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist. Huffington Post

November 17 (Day 62)

Protesters marked the two-month anniversary of their movement, which started on Sept 17, and has spread from New York to other cities across the country and around the world. Protesters took to the streets around the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan. International Business Times

Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. to mark two months since the movement's birth and signal they aren't ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. Hundreds of people were arrested, at least 300 in New York. AP

Demonstrators reported the NYPD's use of Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) against protesters during today's Occupy Wall Street "Day of Action." commondreams.org

A human rights office for the Americas on Thursday criticized the arrest and assault of journalists during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and other U.S. cities in recent weeks. AP

Protesters marked the two-month anniversary of their movement, which started on Sept 17, and has spread from New York to other cities across the country and around the world. Protesters took to the streets around the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan. International Business Times

Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. to mark two months since the movement's birth and signal they aren't ready to quit, despite the breakup of many of their encampments by police. Hundreds of people were arrested, at least 300 in New York. AP

Demonstrators reported the NYPD's use of Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) against protesters during today's Occupy Wall Street "Day of Action." commondreams.org

A human rights office for the Americas on Thursday criticized the arrest and assault of journalists during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and other U.S. cities in recent weeks. AP

November 16 (Day 61)

Police arrested 100 Anti-Wall Street protesters in San Francisco after they occupied a Bank of America branch in the city's financial district.

Police said many of those arrested were UC Santa Cruz students who were protesting fee increases and budget cuts. LA Times

November 15 (Day 60)

Hundreds of police surrounded the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration in New York City's Zuccotti Park, evicting the protesters and arresting about 200 people. Raw Story

An Occupy Seattle rally movement turned chaotic as police scattered a crowd of protesters -- including a pregnant 19-year-old and an 84-year-old activist -- with blasts of pepper spray. Salon

Members of Occupy Portland's liaison team gathered to speak out against a violent police crackdown that left protester Justin James Bridges in a wheelchair. Raw Story

Former U.S. labor secretary and University of California professor Robert Reich said Tuesday that efforts to crack down on the ongoing "Occupy" protests around the country actually helped to strengthen the movement. Raw Story

November 14 (Day 59)

Police on Monday moved into an encampment by anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland, California, arresting 33 people, clearing out occupants and taking down about 100 tents. Reuters



November 13 (Day 58)

Portland Police arrested more than 50 people as the authorities cleared out and blocked off encampments of the Occupy movement that had been protesting nationwide over economic issues. Chicago Tribune



13 people were arrested on trespassing charges as New York police continue to crack down on Occupy Albany protesters who defy an 11 p.m. curfew at a state-owned park. online.wsj



More than 25 commandos armed with assault rifles staged a raid on the building in the city of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and arrested eight protesters. Raw Story



Scott Olsen, the Iraq veteran badly injured by a police tear gas canister at “Occupy Oakland” two weeks ago, was released from the hospital. Raw Story



November 12 (Day 57)

Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams ordered the occupy Portland camp shut down by midnight Saturday, setting the stage for clashes between protestors and police. Reuters



Police arrested 27 St. Louis demonstrators at a downtown plaza early on Saturday for curfew violations, authorities said. Reuters



Authorities in Salt Lake City moved to dismantle a camp at a downtown park in an operation that resulted in 15 arrests, police said. Officers began their operation after sundown. Reuters



Police in Oakland, California, the scene of previous clashes between officers and demonstrators, have urged Occupy demonstrators to leave their encampment. Reuters



Authorities in Denver forced protesters to leave a downtown encampment and arrested four people for interfering with officers who removed illegally pitched tents, said police spokesman Sonny Jackson. Reuters



November 11 (Day 56)

Protesters with Occupy Philadelphia are proposing to stay at their City Hall encampment and also expand to a site across the street, frustrating city officials who have asked that they move their camp entirely to make way for a long-planned renovation project. AP



Burlington police said Friday they would begin enforcing a ban on camping in a downtown park after a man staying with Occupy Vermont protesters apparently shot and killed himself. AP



Salt Lake City police say a man found dead inside his tent at an encampment of protesters likely died from a combination of drugs and carbon monoxide poisoning. AP



November 10 (Day 55)

On Thursday, Portland, Oregon's Mayor said hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators must leave their protest campsites by early Sunday morning, setting the stage for a possible standoff.



Officials in Burlington, Vermont, said on Thursday, a 35-year-old veteran died after apparently shooting himself at a protest encampment in a downtown park in the city. Police said there was no reason to believe the public was at risk after the shooting, but later said they had banned camping at the site over safety concerns. Reuters



In South Carolina, protesters interrupted Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann during a foreign policy speech. The group of about 30 people accused Bachmann of being swayed by "corporate money" and "dividing Americans." Reuters



In Tennessee, Republican Governor Bill Haslam asked prosecutors to drop trespassing citations against anyone arrested last month in Occupy Nashville economic protests. Reuters



In California, protesters said they would peacefully "occupy" this year's Rose Parade in Pasadena. Reuters



November 9 (Day 54)

Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement embarked on a march to Washington, D.C., to protest the potential extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, among other policies. uk.ibtimes



39 protesters were arrested on the campus of UC Berkeley, where university police moved in to break up an Occupy Berkeley encampment. latimesblogs



Nearly 350 Occupy Harvard protesters held demonstrations on Harvard University campus in sympathy with the Occupy movement. thecrimson.com



November 8 (Day 53)

Nine Occupy Fresno protesters were arrested early Tuesday for refusing to disperse when asked to leave Fresno's Courthouse Park, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said. Fresnobee



The Occupy Wall Street movement reached Mount Washington Valley, where a group of around 50 held an hour-long vigil Tuesday at the Four Corners. They were there to support those who have camped out in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street district of New York City to bring attention to what they say is a concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. Unionleader



Occupy Tucson says in a constitutional complaint that the city illegally pushed them out of one downtown park with threats of mass arrest and continues to issue expensive citations to protesters camped out in another park. Courthousenews



Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City went old school on Tuesday as activist musicians David Crosby and Graham Nash delivered a touch of Woodstock, plans for a march to Washington were unveiled and some participants practiced another kind of democracy - voting. Boston



November 7 (Day 52)

On Monday evening, about 200 students, parents, school aides and educators associated with Occupy Wall Street congregated on the steps of the New York City Department of Education in lower Manhattan to "occupy the DOE". Huffington Post



Five people were arrested early Monday at or near a downtown Atlanta park that has been an off-and-on site of Wall Street protests similar to the ones being held in other U.S. cities, a day after 19 demonstrators were taken to jail by officers in riot gear when a rally spilled into the streets. Ajc.com



November 6 (Day 51)

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Sunday defended the richest 1 percent of Americans and suggested that the Occupy movement was engaging in class warfare. Raw Story



November 5 (Day 50)

In Atlanta, police arrested about 20 demonstrators on the streets around Woodruff Park late Saturday as the Occupy Atlanta protest took an unexpected turn onto Peachtree Street. Ajc.com



In New York, hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters clashed with police in front of the New York Supreme Court building Saturday afternoon, after they and thousands others marched across to Foley Square from Zuccotti Park. Huffington Post



To participate in both Guy Fawkes Day and Bank Transfer Day, demonstrators protested outside major banks and financial institutions. In the preceding month, over 600,000 people closed their bank accounts and opened accounts with local credit unions. Inagist.com



November 4 (Day 49)

A contingent from the Occupy Boston protesters marched late Friday to the building that houses the Israeli consulate in Boston and briefly occupied the building's lobby where they held a sit-in. They chanted various slogans, including, "hey hey, Ho ho! Israeli apartheid's got to go!," "long live the intifada! intifada intifada!," "not another nickel! Not another dime! No more money for Israel's crimes!," and "Viva viva Palestina!". Futureofcapitalism.com



November 3 (Day 48)

Riot police fired tear gas and flash bang grenades on a large crowd of Occupy Oakland demonstrators that lit a massive bonfire in the streets of downtown Oakland. Dozens of protesters were arrested. Occupy Seattle protesters and police briefly clashed in protests sparked by Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's visit to town. Five protesters were arrested for breaking into a Chase bank, and two police officers sustained minor injuries. LA Times



November 2 (Day 47)

Demonstrations continue in Oakland, California, with a citywide general strike taking place in response to the serious injury sustained by a protester on October 25. Protesters shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest port. NBC



An estimated 7,000 people converged Wednesday on the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest harbor. They blocked exits and streets with parked vehicles and hastily erected chain-link fences, shutting down the port toward the end of a daylong “general strike” that prompted solidarity rallies across the U.S. Blueridgenow



November 1 (Day 46)

A judge told Tennessee officials on Monday to stop enforcing new rules that have been used to arrest Occupy protesters in Nashville. State Attorney General's Office Senior Counsel Bill Marett announced at the beginning of a hearing before Judge Aleta Trauger that the state would not fight efforts to halt the policy. The judge said she had already decided to grant the restraining order because the curfew was a "clear prior restraint on free speech rights." CNN, Money.MSN



October 30 (Day 44)

Police arrested two dozen people in Portland, Oregon, for failing to leave a park when it closed at midnight. Police arrested 38 people in Austin, Texas after they refused to put away food tables at 10 pm. The arrested people contested the legitimacy of the Austin rule since it was issued by City Hall two days earlier and not passed by a City Council vote. CNN



October 28 (Day 42)

About 50 people were arrested during Occupy San Diego protest and 30 were arrested in the Tennessee protests. Latimes, Washington Post



October 26 (Day 40)

Hundreds of OWS protesters marched near Union Square in support of Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen who is in intensive care as a result of a police-fired projectile during the October 25 Occupy Oakland march. CNN



October 25 (Day 39)

Egyptian activists who helped topple former dictator Hosni Mubarak lent their support to the growing Occupy movement, releasing a statement in solidarity with the occupiers. Guardian



In Oakland, California, hundreds of police move against Occupy Oakland protesters, launching teargas, beanbag rounds, and rubber bullets before clearing out an encampment and arresting 85 people. A protest march later in the day resulted in additional use of teargas and rubber bullets. An Iraq War veteran from the U.S. Marines is in critical condition after "being hit in the head by a police projectile." Guardian



October 23 (Day 37)

130 anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement were arrested. Time



October 21 (Day 35)

Police arrested about 30 protesters including veteran civil rights activist Cornel West during a demonstration by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. AFP



October 20 (Day 34)

Freelance journalist, Lisa Simeone is fired from her position as a host of Soundprint, a journalistic program produced for National Public Radio (NPR), for her leadership role in October 2011, an Occupy D.C. organization. Both Soundprint and NPR considered her role to be a violation of journalistic standards. Baltimoresun



October 18 (Day 32)

President Obama delivers a mixed message on Nightline, saying he "understands the frustrations" of the protesters, but that the movement is "not that different from some of the protests we saw coming from the Tea Party." Xinhua



"Occupy San Francisco" protesters filled the supervisors' chambers at City Hall Tuesday afternoon. They're demanding that city leaders protect their right to demonstrate at Justin Herman Plaza. The protesters have been occupying the plaza since the weekend and now Mayor Ed Lee spoke up about the situation. Abc



October 17 (Day 31)

Freelance journalist, Caitlin Curran, is fired from the public radio station WNYC for holding a protest sign and the Occupy Wall Street event at Times Square NYC on October 15. She was covering the event at the time. Her manager fired her for violating editorial standards by participating in a protest she was covering. Theatlanticwire



October 16 (Day 30)

Chicago Police arrested about 175 Occupy Chicago protesters who refused to leave Grant Park early Sunday following a march from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to the Downtown park. More than 2,000 people marched and set up two-dozen tents in Grant Park near East Congress Parkway and South Michigan Avenue with the goal of staying the night to draw attention to corporate abuse and express solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Chicago.cbslocal, DailyKos & CBS



Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was one of 19 demonstrators arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in Sacramento early Sunday. That brings the total number of arrests since Thursday, October 6th, to 58 people. Sacramentopa.blogspot, Examiner and Slate



October 15 (Day 29)

Thousands of protesters marched through Manhattan to Times Square where they faced the U.S. Armed Forces recruiting station to protest the money being spent on foreign wars instead of on people in the U.S. struggling with no jobs and no healthcare. Sparked by the OWS movement, dozens of protests were held in the U.S. and around the world. Most of the protests were peaceful, however many people were arrested across the U.S., largely for refusing to vacate public property. Cornel West was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. protesting about corporate influence in politics. In Rome, the protests turned violent after rioters hijacked a peaceful gathering causing an estimated $1.4 million of damage.



In New York City, after police prepared to evict protesters from Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, the protesters marched into the heart of the city where they gathered 10,000 supporters. 70 were arrested, 45 in Times square and 24 at a branch of Citibank. Protests also took place in hundreds of major cities across the U.S. like Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Dallas and smaller communities like Champaign-Urbana, Memphis Oklahoma City, Buffalo, and Fort Lauderdale. Dailymail, AbcNews, CBS news, Huffington Post, Guardian, BBC, Newser, Wgrz.com & prospectus News



October 10 (Day 24)

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested that he did not anticipate an effort by the city to remove the demonstrators. "The bottom line is, people want to express themselves, and as long as they obey the laws, we'll allow them to," the mayor told reporters at the start of the city's 67th annual Columbus Day parade. Wall Street Journal, Hotair, Huffington Post, DailyKos, Nypost & City room



Police reported that more than 140 protesters from the Occupy Boston movement were arrested after they ignored warnings to move from a downtown greenway near where they have been camped out for more than a week. Usatoday, Cbc, CBS News, Reuters, Fireddoglake, Guardian, Huffington Post



October 8 (Day 22)

Protesters were pepper sprayed in Washington D.C., as they attempted to enter the National Air and Space Museum and one protester pushed a security guard against the wall. The group of "100 to 200" protesters intended to target displays about military drones; one was arrested. One thousand protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Washington Square Park, located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, without incident amid speculation that the protests would relocate there. Current, CNN, AP, October 2011.org, NY Times & Boston.com



October 6 (Day 20)

About 5,000 protesters marched in Portland, Oregon. More demonstrations were held in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Tampa, Florida; and Houston and Austin, Texas. Asked about OWS, U.S. President Barak Obama replied: "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place."



Also, Hundreds of activists gathered in Washington's Freedom Plaza to protest the government's wars and corporatism. Guardian, Antiwar, October 2011.org & the Week



October 5 (Day 19)

Joined by union members, students, and the unemployed, the demonstration swelled to the largest yet with an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 demonstrators marching from lower Manhattan's Foley Square to Zuccotti Park. The march was mostly peaceful -- until after nightfall, when scuffles erupted and some of the younger demonstrators were arrested after they stormed barricades blocking them from Wall Street. About 200 people tried to push through barricades and police responded with pepper spray and penned them in with orange netting. Smaller protests continued in cities and on college campuses across the country. Reuters, NY Daily News & Guardian



October 3 (Day 17)

Hundreds of protesters in New York City dressed as "corporate zombies" and zombie walked past Wall Street with painted faces and carrying fake dollar bills. USA Today, CBS & NZ Herald



October 1 (Day 15)

More than 5,000 people marched towards the Brooklyn Bridge, and hundreds marched onto its pedestrian area and car lanes, taking over part of the bridge. Traffic into Brooklyn was stopped by the police for roughly two hours. Police split the crowd into two sections, enclosing a few hundred that were on the bridge between two lines of netting and kettling them -- slowly closing in and keeping them from moving about. Over 700 arrests were made, while police had to call for paddy wagons and buses to transport the arrestees, including a New York Times reporter who was on the bridge. Others who were caught on the bridge were later allowed to walk away. The remaining protesters gathered in the evening in Zuccotti Park. Reuters, Abcnews, Newsdaily, BBC, Guardian



September 29 (Day 13)

TWU Local-100 used Twitter to urge members to take part in a "massive march and rally" on October 5. There were unsubstantiated claims that the October 5 event was co-sponsored by another eight labor and community outreach organizations. Meanwhile, protesters in San Francisco attempted to occupy Citibank, Chase, and attempted to enter a Charles Schwab financial institution, with some media outlets citing OWS as an inspiration to the spread of protests. SFBG & TBM



September 28 (Day 12)

According to various sources, the board of the local union of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU Local-100) voted to support OWS. Police Commissioner Kelly said that the NYPD could not bar protesters from Zuccotti Park since it is a public plaza that is required to stay open 24 hours a day. Huffington Post & Business Insider



September 27 (Day 11)

An OWS afternoon march ended not at Wall Street but at a rally by postal workers protesting against a five-day delivery week, which many believed would severely harm the postal service and cause significant job losses. Raw Story



September 26 (Day 10)

The name of the police officer who maced some young women on September 24 was revealed as Anthony Bologna. The OWS claimed that this incident occurred without provocation, demanding jail time for Bologna and the resignation of NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. It was reported that Noam Chomsky had sent a public "strong message of support" to the organizers of the OWS protests. Occupy Wall Street.org, New York Magazine & Digital Journal



September 24 (Day 8)

80 protesters are arrested during a peaceful march; a video of a police officer pepper-spraying a nonthreatening woman goes viral. Motherjones



September 22 (Day 6)

It was reported that a largely African-American crowd of about 2,000 people marched down from Union Square, located at 14th Street and Broadway, to Wall Street to protest the execution of Troy Davis. Four people were arrested during the protests. Occupywallstreet.org, Reality Views & New America Media



September 20 (Day 4)

Police arrested mask-wearing protesters, using a law dating back to 1845 which bans masked gatherings unless part of "a masquerade party or like entertainment". The Week



September 19 (Day 3)

The stock market opened on Wall Street for regular business. Keith Olbermann of the news outlet, Current TV, became the first major journalist to fully cover the protests. A couple of days later, Olbermann criticized the mainstream media for failing to cover Occupy Wall Street, saying, "Why isn't any major news outlet covering this? ... If that's a Tea Party protest in front of Wall Street ..., it's the lead story on every network newscast." Ever since, Olbermann has devoted every program to the protests, interviewing union leaders and members, eye-witnesses and protesters. Current TV



September 17 (Day 1)

This was the first day of the OWS gathering. An estimated 1,000 people took part on the first day. Officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) prohibited protesters from erecting tents, citing loitering rules. Masses of people walked up and down Wall Street. Actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr spoke to protesters during the first day of the demonstration. Democracy Now & Mother Jones

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