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The Occupy Movement is an international movement originating in the United States demanding greater freedom, substantial reversal of the maldistribution of wealth within every country, and an end to corporate-controlled politics. It draws inspiration from the Arab Spring, the 2011 tent protests in Spain, Israel, and elsewhere, and has seeds in the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, and, some have argued, the Schoemehlville politically-inspired homeless encampment of St. Louis in 1985. | The Occupy Movement is an international movement originating in the United States demanding greater freedom, substantial reversal of the maldistribution of wealth within every country, and an end to corporate-controlled politics. It draws inspiration from the Arab Spring, the 2011 tent protests in Spain, Israel, and elsewhere, and has seeds in the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, and, some have argued, the Schoemehlville politically-inspired homeless encampment of St. Louis in 1985. | ||
The movement has no official website. However, one website that many Americans recognize as a great resource for Occupy Wall Street is: | The movement has no official website. However, one website that many Americans recognize as a great resource and record for Occupy Wall Street is: | ||
http://occupywallst.org | http://occupywallst.org | ||
The various local and national Occupy branches generally have their own websites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, etc. | |||
==Some places we might start at as far as the archival process== | ==Some places we might start at as far as the archival process== | ||
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* Minutes from General Assemblies and Working Group meetings | * Minutes from General Assemblies and Working Group meetings | ||
* The various Occupy websites | * The various Occupy websites | ||
==External Links== | |||
*[http://archive.org/details/ows-youtube OWS YouTube Archive] | |||
*[http://archive.org/details/occupywallstreet Internet Archive's OWS mainpage] | |||
*[http://occupyarchive.org/ occupyarchive.org] | |||
*[http://archives.nycga.net/ Occupy Wall Street's own self-archival project] (although, since the website is not technically official, neither is the archive, technically) | |||
*[http://archive.org/details/OccupyWritersOccupyMusiciansOccupyFilmmakers Site grabs of Occupy Writers, Occupy Musicians, Occupy Filmmakers] | |||
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Latest revision as of 23:49, 4 December 2017
The Occupy Movement is an international movement originating in the United States demanding greater freedom, substantial reversal of the maldistribution of wealth within every country, and an end to corporate-controlled politics. It draws inspiration from the Arab Spring, the 2011 tent protests in Spain, Israel, and elsewhere, and has seeds in the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression, and, some have argued, the Schoemehlville politically-inspired homeless encampment of St. Louis in 1985.
The movement has no official website. However, one website that many Americans recognize as a great resource and record for Occupy Wall Street is: http://occupywallst.org
The various local and national Occupy branches generally have their own websites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, etc.
Some places we might start at as far as the archival process
- Recorded Livestream footage
- Photographs of protest signs
- Minutes from General Assemblies and Working Group meetings
- The various Occupy websites
External Links
- OWS YouTube Archive
- Internet Archive's OWS mainpage
- occupyarchive.org
- Occupy Wall Street's own self-archival project (although, since the website is not technically official, neither is the archive, technically)
- Site grabs of Occupy Writers, Occupy Musicians, Occupy Filmmakers