The history of Occupy Wall Street. An Overview

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject History - America, , course: History, language: English, abstract: This text gives an overview of the organizational structure, the people and the motivation behind the Occupy Wall Street movement. Furthermore, it gives a short insight into the achievements and the future of Occupy Wall Street.

Economic injustice, and especially, economic inequality is the reason for the emergence of Occupy Wall Street. Contrary to what most may think, occupy wall street is not a brain child that begun in 17th September 2011. In fact, occupy wall street was incubated in 1968. The interviewee elaborates that the movement was first incepted in 17th September 2011, however, conceptualized in 1968 when a small uprising in Paris, common as the Latin Quarter was successful. However, the interviewee points out that the movement was short lived because of the vertical models that were embraced during the protests. Recent most occupy wall street movement dating 17th September 2011 was successful to a great extent because of the horizontal model of protests.