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Occupy movement

April 2024

  • two police officers arresting a young woman

    Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America

    Joan Donovan
    There is some truth to the popular protest slogan: ‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’

December 2023

  • David Nellist in Tim Price’s Protest Song

    Protest Song review – grief, rage and a singalong in Occupy movement drama

    This timely revival of Tim Price’s monologue about a rough sleeper drawn into the world of activism leaves little space for vulnerability

October 2021

  • ‘Occupy was dismissed for years as ineffective, but time has disproven the cynics.’

    Occupy Wall Street swept the world and achieved a lot, even if it may not feel like it

    Akin Olla
    A decade ago Occupy reframed US political debate, trained a generation of activists, and served as a dress rehearsal for movements that followed

September 2021

  • Protesters outside the Goldman Sachs building.

    Life can be different: 10 years ago, Occupy Wall Street changed the world

    The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change

September 2020

  • David Graeber in London in 2018.

    David Graeber obituary

    Anthropologist, activist and author who played a key role in the Occupy Wall Street movement

July 2020

  • NYPD clears “Occupy City Hall” in NYC<br>NEW YORK, USA - JULY 22: NYPD clears the ‘Occupy City Hall’ movement that BLM “Black Lives Matter” protestors occupied the City Hall Park since June 23 in Lower Manhattan, New York, United States on July 22, 2020. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Police in riot gear clear New York's Occupy encampment in dawn raid

    Officers with helmets and shields entered City Hall Park shortly before 4am and arrested at least seven people

June 2020

  • Occupy City Hall, New York, USA - 29 Jun 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Erik Pendzich/REX/Shutterstock (10695039i) Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protestors congregate at the City Hall as part of the "Defund NYPD" and "Occupy City Hall" movement. Occupy City Hall, New York, USA - 29 Jun 2020

    Hundreds of Occupy City Hall protesters demand NYPD cut budget by $1bn

    Growing number of activists camp out at City Hall Park in New York City ahead of budget deadline to ask for funds to be reallocated

January 2020

  • The Intercontinental Hotel is seen behind a farm house in Davos, Switzerland January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

    I co-founded Occupy Wall Street. Now I'm headed to Davos. Why?

    Micah White
  • Remunicipalisation could help communities take back control in a way that transcends the 2016 Brexit referendum.

    The case for ... truly taking back control – by reversing the privatisation of our cities

December 2019

  • Rebecca Solnit

    The 2010s: what just happened?
    How a decade of disillusion gave way to people power

    Rebecca Solnit
    From Black Lives Matter and #MeToo to school climate strikes, the power of popular movements can no longer be ignored, says journalist and author Rebecca Solnit

November 2019

  • A member of Occupy London, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, outside the High Court in London, January 18, 2012

    So long, 2010s: the decade in review
    Streets on fire: how a decade of protest shaped the world

    From Occupy Wall Street to Extinction Rebellion, this has been a combustible 10 years

July 2019

  • A protester reacts to police teargas outside the Legislative Council complex on Tuesday.

    The Guardian view on Hong Kong’s protests: the mood hardens

    Editorial: The storming of the Legislative Council building may alienate ordinary residents, but reflects a growing sense of despair as Beijing tightens its grip

June 2019

  • A protester is arrested on the street in Hong Kong.

    Street protesters dig in for Hong Kong's 'last battle'

    The demonstrators are less idealistic than in 2014, and the police respond more forcefully

April 2019

  • Astra Taylor.

    ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution

    The writer and film-maker explores the meaning of democracy in a new documentary and book, and discusses the current state of politics, from Donald Trump to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

December 2018

  • Illustration by Bill Bragg

    How to create a leaderless revolution and win lasting political change

    Carne Ross
    In an age of insurgency, legitimacy is crucial to harnessing the energy of protest, says author Carne Ross

July 2018

  • Occupy ICE Protest at Federal Building in New York<br>epa06839905 People associated with the ‘Occupy ICE’ movement gather in front of the loading dock doors of a United States federal building used by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) as a temporary detention center and a processing facility in New York, New York, USA, 25 June 2018. Supporters of the a decentralized ‘Occupy ICE’ movement have gathered at similar facilities in a number of cites around the United States in an effort to protest current immigration policies. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    The growing Occupy Ice movement: 'We're here for the long haul'

    In cities from Portland to New York to Louisville, Kentucky, activists set up camps with a clear goal: to abolish the agency

October 2017

  • Pete Phoenix. London. Photograph by David Levene 17/10/17

    What Pete Phoenix has learned from 30 years of direct action: ‘You have to be relentless’

    The veteran protester has been at the heart of direct action since he was 19 – this week, he is exhibiting his life and a global history of activism for everyone to remember

July 2017

  • Carne Ross photographed for the Observer New Review in Copenhagen, Denmark by Claus Peuckert July 2017

    Ex-diplomat Carne Ross: the case for anarchism

    How a high-flying diplomat and Middle East adviser lost his faith in western democracy – but put his trust in people power

June 2017

  • Cleveland police officers block an intersection during a demonstration

    Guardian Cities cycle week
    The new horsemen: how American riot police embraced the bicycle

    As a new digital era of protest has dawned under Occupy and Trump, riot police across the US have embarked on a fundamental shift in crowd control

January 2017

  • robdobi trumpmarch

    Without a path from protest to power, the Women's March will end up like Occupy

    Social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest. It’s time to consider what happens the day after
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