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What does the Occupy Movement stand for?

How did we get here?• 1979-Present

– Income Inequality Grows (Sherman)

• 1978-2004– The US Financial System is gradually

deregulated (M. Sherman)

• 2001 and 2003– President Bush passes the Economic

Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, reducing revenues (Kim)

• 2007– Subprime Mortgage Crisis (M. Sherman)

• 2008– Bear Sterns Collapses (M. Sherman)

– Housing and Economic Recovery Act (M. Sherman)

– Lehman Brothers Collapses (M. Sherman)

– TARP (M. Sherman)

A Brief Timeline of the Occupy Movement

• Before September 17th

– The Arab Spring– Adbusters– Anonymous

• The First Few Days– September 17th– Media Blackout

• Growing National and International Support– By October 15th, Tens of Thousands of

Protestors in over 900 cities worldwide (Wikipedia)

What does Occupy Seattle look like?

Occupying in Olympia

Occupying Internationally

In the news this week…

• Evicting Occupy (Hawley)

– Portland– Oakland– Wall Street– Coordinated Effort

• Occupy Seattle Pepper Sprayed (Grygiel)

– Dorli Rainey (Trujillo)

• "You can't evict an idea whose time has come.“-Han Shun

Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO /SEATTLEPI.COM

Want to Support Occupy?

• “Open the Dialog” with credit card companies

• Take a picture in the Photo Booth

• Send resources and well wishes

• Break up with your bank

• Stay home on Black Friday (buy from you neighborhood merchant instead!)

• And lastly…

March!Rally for Higher Education and Jobs• Montlake Bridge, 3:30-5:00pm• Together, let’s take a stand against further

cuts to education and demand the government take action to create jobs.

We need to send the message to Olympia that cutting funding to higher education is not the way to balance the budget.

SourcesGRYGIEL, CHRIS. "Seattle PI." Elderly woman hit by spray at protest: I'm 'tough' 16 November 2011. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Elderly-woman-hit-by-spray-at-protest-I-m-tough-2272455.php .

Hawley, Chris and Barr, Meghan. "Crackdowns rach epicenter of Wall Street Protests." Seattle PI 16 November 2011. http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Crackdowns-reach-epicenter-of-Wall-Street-protests-2269647.php#page-1 .

Jess3. Who Is Occupy Wall Street. Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/1792056/occupy-wall-street-demographics-infographic.Keep Wall Street Occupied, Part 1. Dir. Ransackedroom. 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlxbKtBkGM .

Kim, Mallie Jane. 10 Things You Didn't Know About the Bush Tax Cuts. 22 November 2010. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/11/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-bush-tax-cuts. 16 November 2011.

Occupy Wall Street. Dir. dsauvage. Occupy Wall Street. 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpttXetMX78 .

Sherman, Arloc and Stone, Chad. Center on Budget and Policy Priorites; Income gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Triple In The Last Three Decades, New Data Shows. 25 June 2010. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3220. 16 November 2011.

Sherman, Matthew. "A Short History of Financial Deregulation in the United States." July 2009. http://www.openthegovernment.org/sites/default/files/otg/dereg-timeline-2009-07.pdf. Document. 16 November 2011.

Trujillo, Joshua. Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at Westlake Park. Seattle PI. Elderly woman hit by spray at protest: I'm 'tough'. Seattle, 2011. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Elderly-woman-hit-by-spray-at-protest-I-m-tough-2272455.php .

Unknown. ""99% of the World's Cookies are Consumed by 1% of it's Monsters"." Occupy Sesame Street. WeKnowMemes, 10 October 2011. http://weknowmemes.com/2011/10/occupy-sesame-street /.

Unknown. What is our One Demand? #OccupyWallStreet. <http://roosterwords.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/occupy-wall-street-shame-on-you-america/>.

We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For. Dir. screamingstrings76. Perf. Occupy Seattle. 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxJ_2iIX4Ow .

Wikipedia. Occupy Movement. 16 November 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement. 16 November 2011.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead