Occupy Movement
Occupy Wall Street began Sept. 17 in New York’s financial center as a reaction against social and economic inequalities, spreading throughout the nation and the world. One instance of the movement is Occupy Philadelphia, which "began Oct. 6 at City Hall":/index.php/article/2011/10/occupy_philly_protest_kicks_off and has seen some involvement from Penn students and faculty. Occupy Philadelphia protesters have set up a tent village in Dilworth Plaza and plan to camp out indefinitely, despite preexisting "construction plans that would require protesters to move":http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/10/occupy_movement_may_be_relocated_due_to_construction.
Demonstrators "marched to Huntsman Hall":/index.php/article/2011/10/cantor_cancels_huntsman_hall_visit on Friday, Oct. 21 in the form of Occupy Eric Cantor. Cantor, the House Majority Leader, canceled his appearance at a Wharton Leadership Lecture on Oct. 21, but protesters still flocked to campus, even storming into Huntsman before security escorted them out. A separate group, "OccupyPenn, has also formed":http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/11/occupypenn_educates_community_on_the_national_movement, holding teach-ins and other events around campus.
Mayor Michael Nutter announced that Philadelphia would change its previously accommodating stance toward Occupy Philadelphia after a woman "reported being raped on Nov. 12":http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/11/rape_reported_at_occupy_philadelphia. “We’re re-evaluating our entire relationship,” Nutter told the press.
In New York, police entered Occupy Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park site in the early morning of Nov. 15, using zip-tie handcuffs, spraying fire extinguishers and evacuating the 100 or so protesters present. Police announced that “the city [had] determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard.”
In the early morning of Nov. 30 — three days after an eviction deadline set by Mayor and 1976 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter — police "cleared Center City’s Dilworth Plaza":http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/11/police_clear_occupy_philadelphia_site, where Occupy Philadelphia protesters have been encamped for two months. Four Penn students and a professor were "among the 52 arrested":http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/12/penn_occupiers_freed_after_jailstay in protesters' ensuing march around Center City.
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School of Social Policy and Practice professor Toorjo Ghose addresses the media after being released from jail on Nov. 30. Read more »
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A protester yells into a megaphone outside Huntsman Hall after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor cancelled a planned lecture on Oct. 21. Read more »
h2. Multimedia
h3. *Into November*
• "Video: Students react to Occupy Philadelphia raid":http://thedp.com/index.php/multimedia/23175
• "Photos: OccupyPenn teach-in":http://thedp.com/index.php/gallery/occupy_penn
• "Photos: Occupy Philly protests Romney fundraiser":http://thedp.com/index.php/gallery/occupy_philly_protests_romney_fundraiser
h3. *'Occupy Eric Cantor'*
• "Video recap of 'Occupy Eric Cantor'":http://thedp.com/index.php/multimedia/22481
• "62 photos of the protest at Penn":http://thedp.com/index.php/gallery/cantor_protest_at_huntsman_hall
• "Video: Protesters storm Huntsman Hall":http://thedp.com/index.php/multimedia/22404
• "Online reactions to Cantor's cancellation":http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/10/reactions_to_cantors_cancellation
h3. *The early stages*
• "Video: What do students think of the movement?":/index.php/multimedia/22123
• "Video: Protesters' takes on what Occupy Philly is about":/index.php/multimedia/22056
• "Map: Occupy Philly camp":/index.php/article/2011/10/map_occupy_philly_camp
• "88 photos of the first day of occupation":/index.php/gallery/occupy_philadelphia_protest_at_city_hall
• "Tweets from around Occupy Philadelphia":/index.php/blog/redandblue/2011/10/occupy_philly_tweets
Occupy not forced out of Dilworth Plaza
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OccupyPenn educates community on the national movement
On the heels of several Occupy Philadelphia demonstration on campus, members of the new student group OccupyPenn held a teach-in on Friday to educate others on their movement. GALLERY: Photos of OccupyPenn teach-inGALLERY: Occupy Philly protests Romney fundraiserOccupyPenn plans teach-in on Friday
A new student group, OccupyPenn, will hold its first event on Friday: a teach-in on Locust Walk outside Huntsman Hall. RELATED: For some at Penn, Occupy movement fails to ring trueFor some at Penn, Occupy movement fails to ring true
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Occupy protesters gather outside Van Pelt
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Activist and scholar Angela Davis addressed a full house at Irvine Auditorium on Friday night.Cantor protest pushes students to join Occupy movement
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Samantha Sharf | A portrait from a movement
The Occupy movement has been criticized for lacking a cohesive voice, but one artist has a message and plenty of stories to tell — including her own.