Occupy Canada
| Occupy Canada | |
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| Part of the Occupy movement | |
Occupy Montreal (Occupons Montréal) on October 15, 2011
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| Date | October 15, 2011 – December 13, 2012 (3 years, 6 months and 1 day) |
| Location | Canada |
| Causes | Wealth inequality, , Corporate influence of government, , inter alia. |
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| Status | Failure |
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Arrests: 17 Injuries: 1 Deaths: 1 |
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Occupy Canada was a collective of peaceful protests and demonstrations that were part of the larger Occupy Together movement which first manifested in the financial district of New York City with Occupy Wall Street, and subsequently spread to over 900 cities around the world.
The collective protests are primarily targeting the global financial system, and also against social and economic inequality and corporate greed in general, as well as the corrupting influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government and democracy.
Characterized by leaderless, horizontally organized, participatory democratic action, and nonviolent civil disobedience, the grassroots democratic movement hopes to effect societal change to put the public good over corporate profits.
According to Armine Yalnizyan, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
This is an awakening. The Occupy movement, if it succeeds, is like a kind of second chance to have that conversation we didn't have [in 2008 amid the recession]. ... Civil rights [protesters] and feminists changed societal thinking. If this movement turns into a real movement, it will change our thinking about the relationship between the rich and the rest of us. ... Occupy Wall Street is partly about Wall Street, and Bay Street, and taxes – But it's mostly about getting governments to serve the interests of the other 99%.
The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America
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