When TIME’s editors selected the honorees for this year’s TIME 100 issue, they isolated the world’s most influential people into five categories: Breakouts, Pioneers, Moguls, Leaders and Icons. Even within those groupings, the 2012 TIME 100 honorees represent one of the most eclectic assemblages in the world.
Regardless of the number who took to the streets to mark Occupy’s half-year birthday, the movement has proven it has staying power.
As Occupy Wall Street regroups for upcoming spring demonstrations, the movement has re-entered the headlines, but not for the marches and arrests seen last fall.
Moving beyond issues like income inequality, protesters are railing against the National Defense Authorization Act and supporting Nigeria’s own “Occupy” movement.
With the drum circles mostly gone, the Occupy movement is trying new tactics — and aiming straight at election season.
In the days leading up to the Nov. 17 Global Day of Action, Occupy Wall Street protesters planned several events, including a 7 a.m. march to shut down Wall Street.
Today’s “day of action” began when protesters filled the park and then marched on Wall Street.
The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park on a glorious mid-September Saturday and, so far, many of its larger marches have taken place in the warmth of New York’s Indian summer. But winter has been looming, and on Saturday, just a couple days before Halloween, the protesters got a preview of what they’re [...]
Early in the second week of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, a man in a gray t-shirt stood on the park’s steps and put his hands to his mouth. He led the crowd of about a hundred or so in reciting an Arabic poem: “Aheb Aisht Al Huriya,” (I Love the Life of Freedom).
October 15 had been touted as a global “Day of Action,” called for by the “indignatos” protesting austerity measures in Spain. Beginning in New Zealand, the action moved west, ending in scuffles with police in New York City’s Times Square.
