The Occupy Wall Street protests, which started in 2011, inspired a wide international response. There have been hundreds of Occupy movement protests worldwide over time, intended and organized as non-violent protest against the wealthy, as well as banking institutions.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Months before the Occupy movement began, the Movimiento 15-M planned to hold events in many nations on October 15, 2011.[7][8] The Occupy movement joined in and also held many events in many nations on that day.[9][10] A list of proposed events for the 15 October 2011 global protests listed events in 951 cities in 82 countries.[9] Protest camps were built at many of the protest locations, often near banking institutions or stock markets. Many locations had further manifestations at the following weekends until "Guy-Fawkes" day since the Guy Fawkes mask had become protester fashion. Many American Occupy groups were active until 2012, some are still active.
On the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Movement (September 17, 2012), The Guardian published the "Occupy Directory"'s "map of the Occupy world".[11]
Country or region: |
City or district: | Date protest began: |
Larger crowd sizes: |
Refs: | Notes: |
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Egypt | Cairo | Oct. 15, 2011 | 20 | [12] | |
Nigeria | Abuja | ||||
Ojota, Lagos | Jan. 2, 2012 | ||||
Kano | |||||
South Africa | Cape Town | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [13][14][15] [16] |
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Durban | Oct. 15, 2011 | [13][14][15] | |||
East London | Oct. 15, 2011 | [13][14][15] | |||
Grahamstown | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [13][14][15] [17] |
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Johannesburg | Oct. 15, 2011 | 80 | [13][14][15] [16] |
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Tunisia | Tunis | Nov. 11, 2011 | [18] |
Province or territory: |
Cities: | Date protest began: |
Larger crowd sizes: |
Refs: | Notes: |
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Alberta | Calgary | Oct. 13, 2011 | 400 | [19][20] | |
Edmonton | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [21][22][23] | Encampment on corporate property owned by Melcor Inc.
Involvement from Michael Hudema, Greenpeace, Katie Nelson | |
Red Deer | Oct. 15, 2011 | 30 | [20] | ||
Lloydminster | Oct. 15, 2011 | 7 | [24] | ||
British Columbia | Comox Valley | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [25][26][27] | |
Kelowna | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [28] | ||
Kamloops | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [29][30] | ||
Nanaimo | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [31] | ||
Nelson | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [20] | ||
Vancouver | Oct. 15, 2011 | 4,000 | [23][32] | ||
Victoria | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [32][33][34] [35][36] |
Peoples Assembly of Victoria | |
Manitoba | Winnipeg | Oct. 15, 2011 | 400 | [37][38][39] | |
New Brunswick | Fredericton | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [40] | |
Moncton | Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [20][41] | ||
Saint John | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [20][42] | ||
Newfoundland and Labrador |
Corner Brook | Oct. 22, 2011 | 40 | [43] | |
St. John's | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [44][45] | ||
Nova Scotia | Halifax | Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [23][46] | |
Ontario | Guelph | Oct. 15, 2011 | 35 | [20][47] | |
Hamilton | Oct. 15, 2011 | [48] | |||
London | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [49] | ||
Kingston | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [20][50] | ||
North Bay | [51] | ||||
Thunder Bay | [52] | ||||
Ottawa | Oct. 15, 2011 | 700 | [53] | ||
Sault Ste. Marie | Oct. 15, 2011 | 25 | [20][29] | ||
Sudbury | Oct. 22, 2011 | 40 | [54][55] | ||
Toronto | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,500 | [56][57][58] [59] |
Occupy Toronto | |
Windsor | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [60] | Occupy Windsor | |
Prince Edward Island | Charlottetown | Oct. 15, 2011 | 125 | [23][61] | |
Quebec | Chicoutimi | Oct. 15, 2011 | 40 | [62] | |
Montreal | Oct. 15, 2011 | 3,000 | [63][64] | ||
Saskatchewan | Regina | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [23][65] | Occupy Regina |
Saskatoon | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [23][66] |
Country or region: |
City or district: | Date protest began: |
Larger crowd sizes: |
Refs: | Notes: |
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Argentina | Buenos Aires | Oct. 15, 2011 | 800 | [67][68] | |
Córdoba | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Mendoza | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Rosario | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
San Miguel de Tucumán |
Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
San Salvador de Jujuy |
Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Bolivia | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Brazil | Belo Horizonte | Oct. 15, 2011 | [70] | ||
Campinas | Oct. 15, 2011 | 20 | [70][71] | ||
Curitiba | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [70][72] | ||
Goiânia | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [12] | ||
Rio de Janeiro | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [12][73][74] | ||
Porto Alegre | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,000 | [70][75] | ||
Salvador, Bahia | Oct. 15, 2011 | [70][76] | |||
São Paulo | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [12][73][74] | ||
Chile | Concepción | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [77] | |
Santiago | Oct. 15, 2011 | 10,000 | [78] | ||
Valparaíso | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [79] | ||
Colombia | Bogotá | Oct. 15, 2011 | 70 | [12][69] | |
Costa Rica | San José | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200+ | [69][80] | |
Dominican Republic | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Ecuador | Quito | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [68] | |
Guatemala | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Honduras | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Mexico | Mexico City | Oct. 15, 2011 | 250 | [12][69][81] | |
Monterrey | Oct. 15, 2011 | [82] | |||
Tijuana | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69][81] | |||
Panama | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Paraguay | Oct. 15, 2011 | [69] | |||
Peru | Lima | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [12][68][69] | |
Uruguay | Montevideo | Oct. 15, 2011 | 80 | [12][69] |
Country or region: |
City or district: | Date protest began: |
Larger crowd sizes: |
Refs: | Notes: |
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Armenia | Yerevan | 11 February | 300 | [83] | Mashtots Park Movement |
Bahrain | Manama | [84] | Occupy Bahrain | ||
China | Luoyang | [85] | |||
Zhengzhou | Oct. 6, 2011 | [85] | |||
Hong Kong | Central | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [86][87][88] | |
India | Kolkata | Oct. 22, 2011 | [89][90] | ||
Mumbai | Oct. 29, 2011 | [91] | |||
Indonesia | Jakarta | Oct. 15, 2011 | [92] | ||
Israel | Tel Aviv | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,500 | [93] | World's longest lasting Occupy Camp?[94] |
Japan | Tokyo | Sep. 11, 2011 | 100 | [95] | issues:
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Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | July 30, 2011 | 200 | [96][97][98][99] | Occupy Dataran |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | [100][101] | |||
Pakistan | Islamabad | Oct. 26, 2011 | [102] | ||
Philippines | Manila | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [12][103] | |
Russia | See Europe | ||||
South Korea | Seoul | Oct. 14, 2011 | 1,000 | [104][105] | |
Taiwan | Taipei | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [106][107] | |
Turkey | See under Europe
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Country or region: |
City or district: | Date protest began: |
Larger crowd sizes: |
Refs: | Notes: | |
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Belgium | Antwerp | Oct. 22, 2011 | 400 | [108] | ||
Brussels | Oct. 15, 2011 | 8,000 | [109][110] | Last day of campaign "March to Brussels"[111] | ||
Leuven | 200 | [112] | ||||
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Banja Luka | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [107] | ||
Sarajevo | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [113] | |||
Croatia | Buje | Oct. 15, 2011 | 40 | [114] | ||
Dubrovnik | Oct. 15, 2011 | 30 | [115] | |||
Pula | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [116][117] | |||
Rijeka | Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [115][116] | |||
Split | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000+ | [115][116] | |||
Zagreb | Oct. 15, 2011 | 10,000 | [116][118] | |||
Czech Republic | Prague | Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [119] | ||
Cyprus | Nicosia | Oct. 15, 2011 | Occupy Buffer Zone | |||
Denmark | Copenhagen | Oct. 15, 2011 | 3,000 | [120][121] | ||
Estonia | Tallinn | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [122][123] | ||
France organised since May and known as Les Indignés |
Aix-en-Provence | Oct. 15, 2011 | 60 | [124] | ||
Auch | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [125] | |||
Dijon | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [126] | |||
Grenoble | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [127] | |||
Lyon | Oct. 15, 2011 | [128] | ||||
Marseilles | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200+ | [129][130] | |||
Montpellier | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [131] | |||
Nantes | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [127] | |||
Paris | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,000 | [132][133] | |||
Pau | Oct. 15, 2011 | 40 | [134] | |||
Réunion | Oct. 15, 2011 | 30 | [135] | |||
Rochefort | Oct. 15, 2011 | 20 | [136] | |||
Strasbourg | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [137] | |||
Toulouse | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [138] | |||
Finland | Helsinki | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [139][140][141] | ||
Joensuu | Oct. 15, 2011 | 130 | [142] | |||
Jyväskylä | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [143] | |||
Tampere | Oct. 15, 2011 | 400 | [144] | |||
Turku | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [145] | |||
Vantaa | Nov. 2, 2011 | 500 | [citation needed] | |||
Germany | Berlin | Oct. 15, 2011 | 10,000 | [146][12][147] [148] |
Occupy Berlin | |
Bochum | Oct. 15, 2011 | 400 | [146] | |||
Cologne | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,500 | [146] | |||
Düsseldorf | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,400 | [149][150] | camp on church-owned area | ||
Dresden | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [151] | |||
Freiburg im Breisgau |
Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [152] | |||
Frankfurt | Oct. 15, 2011 | 5,000 | [146][153] | camp in front of European Central Bank | ||
Hamburg | Oct. 15, 2011 | 5,000 | [146][154] | camp near HSH Nordbank, evicted Jan. 6, 2014[155] | ||
Hannover | Oct. 15, 2011 | 600+ | [156] | |||
Karlsruhe | Oct. 15, 2011 | 220+ | [157] | |||
Kiel | Oct. 15, 2011 | [158] | camp next to regional bank Förde-Sparkasse | |||
Leipzig | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,500 | [146] | |||
Munich | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [159] | |||
Rostock | Oct. 15, 2011 | 30 | [160] | |||
Stuttgart | Oct. 15, 2011 | 3,000 | [146] | |||
Greece | Athens | Oct. 15, 2011 | 4,000 | [161][162] | ||
Thessaloniki | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,000 | [33] | |||
Hungary | Budapest | Oct. 15, 2011 | 2,000 | [163][164] | ||
Pécs | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [165] | |||
Iceland | Reykjavík | Oct. 15, 2011 | [166] | Occupy Reykjavik | ||
Ireland | Cork | Oct. 15, 2011 | 400 | [167][168] | Occupy Cork | |
Dublin | Oct. 8, 2011 | 2,500 | [169][170][171][172] | Occupy Dame Street | ||
Galway | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [168][172] | |||
Letterkenny | Oct. 22, 2011 | [173] | ||||
Limerick | Nov. 23, 2011 | 20 | [174] | |||
Waterford | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [172] | |||
Italy | Milan | Oct. 15, 2011 | 700 | [175] | ||
Rome | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200,000 | [176] | 2011 Rome demonstration | ||
Oct. 19, 2013 | 200 | [177] | "Occupy Porta Pia" | |||
Kosovo | Pristina | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [178] | ||
Macedonia | Skopje | Oct. 15, 2011 | [179] | |||
Montenegro | Podgorica | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [107][180] | ||
Netherlands | Alkmaar | Oct. 29, 2011 | 30 | [181] | ||
Amersfoort | Oct. 22, 2011 | 40 | [182] | |||
Amsterdam | Oct. 16, 2011 | 2,000 | [183][184][185] | |||
Arnhem | Oct. 27, 2011 | 40 | [186] | |||
Assen | Oct. 28, 2011 | [187] | ||||
Deventer | Oct. 27, 2011 | [188] | ||||
Doetinchem | Oct. 29, 2011 | 30 | [189] | |||
Dordrecht | [190] | |||||
Ede | Occupy Ede | |||||
Eindhoven | Nov. 5, 2011 | 30 | [191] | |||
Groningen | Oct. 07, 2011 website; Oct. 15 demonstration; Oct. 22 tent camp | 7 | [192][193] | |||
Haarlem | Nov. 1, 2011 | 8 | [194] | |||
The Hague | Oct. 15, 2011 | 700 | [195][196][197] | |||
Leeuwarden | Oct. 24, 2011 | 100 | [citation needed] | |||
Maaskantje | Nov. 18, 2011 | 20 | [198] | |||
Nijmegen | Oct. 15, 2011 | [199] | ||||
Rotterdam | Oct. 15, 2011 | [200] | ||||
Tilburg | Nov. 5, 2011 | 30 | [201] | |||
Utrecht | Oct. 15, 2011 | 50 | [202] | |||
Venlo | [203] | |||||
Zwolle | [204] | |||||
Norway | Oslo | Oct. 15, 2011 | [205] | Occupy Oslo | ||
Bergen | Oct. 15, 2011 | [206] | ||||
Poland | Kraków | [207][better source needed] | ||||
Warsaw | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150-200 | [208][209] | |||
Portugal - under the name "indignados"[210] |
Barcelos | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | |||
Braga | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | ||||
Coimbra | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | ||||
Évora | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | ||||
Faro | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | ||||
Funchal | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | ||||
Lisbon | Oct. 15, 2011 | 20,000 | [12][185][210] [211] |
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Porto | Oct. 15, 2011 | 20,000 | [210][211][212] | |||
Santarém | Oct. 15, 2011 | [210] | ||||
Romania | Bucharest | [213] | ||||
Russia | Moscow | Nov. 7, 2011 | 100 | [214][215] | ||
Serbia | Belgrade | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [107][216] | ||
Slovakia | Bratislava | Oct. 15, 2011 | 150 | [217] | ||
Slovenia - under the name "Za več svobode" ("For more freedom").[218] |
Koper | Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [156][218][219] | ||
Ljubljana | Oct. 15, 2011 | 4,000 | [218][219][220] [156] |
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Maribor | Oct. 15, 2011 | 400 | [156][218][219] | |||
Spain - organized before Occupy as Movimiento 15-M / Indignados . |
Barcelona | Oct. 15, 2011 | 400,000 | [221] | 2011 Spanish protests | |
Madrid | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500,000 | [222][223][224] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Málaga | Oct. 15, 2011 | 20,000 | [225] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Mieres | Oct. 15, 2011 | 15,000 | [226] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
Oct. 15, 2011 | 5,000 | [227] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Palma de Mallorca |
Oct. 15, 2011 | 10,000 | [228] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Pontevedra | Oct. 15, 2011 | 4,000 | [229] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Valencia | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100,000 | [230] | 2011 Spanish protests | ||
Sweden | Gothenburg | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231][232] | |||
Helsingborg | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231] | ||||
Malmö | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231] | ||||
Norrköping | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231] | ||||
Östersund | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231] | ||||
Stockholm | Oct. 15, 2011 | 1,000 | [233] | |||
Sundsvall | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231] | ||||
Umeå | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [234] | |||
Uppsala | Oct. 15, 2011 | [231] | ||||
Switzerland | Geneva | Oct. 15, 2011 | 300 | [235] | ||
Zurich | Oct. 15, 2011 | 500 | [12][236] | |||
Turkey | Istanbul | Oct. 30, 2011 | 100 | [237] | "Occupy Starbucks": student occupation of Starbucks at Boğaziçi University, on the European side of the Bosphorus, began 6 Dec. 2011.[238][239][240][241][242][243] | |
May 27, 2013 | 1,000,000 (Turkey-wide) | Occupy Gezi | ||||
United Kingdom | Bath | Oct. 30, 2011 | 30 | [244] | Occupy Bath | |
Belfast | Oct. 15, 2011 | [245] | ||||
Birmingham | Oct. 15, 2011 | 100 | [246] | |||
Bournemouth | [247] | |||||
Bradford | [248] | |||||
Brighton | Oct. 29, 2011 | 30+ at peak, now none. | [249][250] | Destroyed by fire[251] | ||
Bristol | Oct. 15, 2011 | [252] | ||||
Cardiff | Nov. 11, 2011 | [253] | ||||
Edinburgh | Oct. 15, 2011 | [252] | Occupy Edinburgh | |||
Exeter | Nov. 12, 2011 | 80 | [254] | |||
Glasgow | Oct. 15, 2011 | [252] | Occupy Glasgow | |||
Lampeter | ||||||
Lancaster | Nov. 30, 2011 | 40 | [255] | |||
Leeds | Nov. 11, 2011 | 10 | [256] | |||
Liverpool | Nov. 26, 2011 | 50 (peak) | [257][258][259] | |||
London | Oct. 15, 2011 | 3,000 | [252] | Occupy London (The Occupied Times of London) | ||
Manchester | Oct. 2, 2011 | 50+ | [260][261][262] | |||
Norwich | Oct. 15, 2011 | 200 | [263] | |||
Plymouth | Nov. 5, 2011 | [264] | ||||
Sheffield | 100 | [265] | ||||
Thanet | Jan. 27, 2012 | [266] | Occupy Thanet | |||
University of Brighton | Dec. 2, 2011 | 30 | [267] | |||
University of Warwick | Nov. 23, 2011 | 60+ | [268] |
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