Zuccotti Park
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Zuccotti Park is a 33,000-square-foot publicly accessible park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is located in a privately owned public space controlled by Brookfield P
Zuccotti Park in New York City in May 2015
The park at night during the holiday season
Beginning on September 17, 2011, Zuccotti Park was occupied by protesters during Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street was a left-wing populist and progressive movement against economic inequality, capitalism, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics. It began in Zuccotti
Zuccotti Park
…renamed by its current owners, Brookfield Properties, after company chairman John Zuccotti. Starting in September 2011, the plaza became the site of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp, during which activists occupied the plaza and used it as a staging ground for their protests throughout the Financial District; this was…
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello with Occupy Wall Street protesters outside of the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York on October 14, 2011
The anthropologist David Graeber played a leading early role in the movement and in the coining of the slogan "We are the 99%".
"We Are The 99%"
Beginning on September 17, 2011, Zuccotti Park was occupied by protesters.