OCCUPY WALL

STREET

Presented by
SAAD EDDINE Mohamed
ZEJLI Mohamed Samed
MAAROUFI Ahmed

Supervised by
Mr. Hamid Housni
Introduction
 CONTENTS
 Introduction
 What is Occupy Wall street ?
 Origins of Occupy Wall street
 Role of Social Networks in OWS
 Facts about OWS
 Goals of Occupy Wall street
 Impact of Occupy Wall street
 Eventual failure of OWS
 Conclusion
The promotional image for Occupy Wall Street movement
which went viral on social networking sites all around the
world and called for protestors to ‘bring tent’.
 WHAT IS OCCUPY WALL
STREET?

 OWS is a people-powered movement that began

in 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial
District.

 OWS claims to be fighting against the corrosive

power of major banks and multinational
corporations over the democratic process.
WHAT IS OCCUPY WALL
STREET?
 WHAT IS OCCUPY WALL
STREET?
 The movement does not have any face and its
decision making body is the New York General
Assembly (NYGA).

The NYGA: is open to everyone and anyone can attend its meeting
and air their suggestions. The rationale behind it was to enforce OWS as
a truly people controlled movement not headed by anyone one
person or a group of people.

 Some experts believe that not having a face may

have worked against the movement in the long-
term.
 ORIGINS OF OWS
 OWS was initiated by Kalle Lasn and Micah White of
Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist
publication, who conceived the idea of a June
2011 occupation in lower Manhattan.

 Adbusters
proposed a peaceful occupation of Wall
Street to protest corporate influence on
democracy, the lack of legal consequences for
those who brought about the global crisis of
monetary insolvency, and an increasing disparity in
wealth.
 ROLE OF SOCIAL
NETWORKS IN OWS
 Reliance on social media and electronic messaging was
used to circumvent the authorities.

 Also the feeling that financial institutions, corporations,

and the political elite have been malfeasant in their
behavior toward youth and the middle class was spread
through these means.

 Occupy Wall Street, in turn, gave rise to the Occupy

movement in the United States and around the world.
 FACTS ABOUT OWS
 In 1976, the top 1 percent of earners in the U.S. took
in 8.9 percent of all income. By 2007, that number
had risen to 23.5 percent

 The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the U.S.

now collectively own less than 1 percent of the
nation's wealth.
GOALS OF OCCUPY WALL
STREET
Balanced
distribution
of income

Student
More and
loans
Main better jobs
goals OF
OWS
Lesser
Bank inflation of
reforms corporations
on politics
 IMPACT OF OCCUPY WALL
STREET
 The movement had a global impact, altering "the terms
of the political debate” as it reached to more than 20
countries namely Australia, United Kingdom, Germany,
Spain and many more.

 In the United States, the protests have helped shift the

national dialogue from the deficit to economic
problems many ordinary Americans face, such as
unemployment, the large amount of student and other
personal debt that burdens middle class and working
class Americans, and other major issues of social
inequality, such as homelessness.
 EVENTUEL FAILURE OF
OWS
 Themovement has not evoked any major response
from governments.

 Today,with protestors evicted from the major

Occupy sites in the world, the movement looks like
it may die a slow death.
CONCLUSION
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