SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arab Spring, Anti-Globalization Movement, Bernard Madoff
16 Dec 2020
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Occupy stems from the 2008 financial crash. Start to see the rise of the 99% 20% of the population controls 80% of the world"s wealth. Reaction to the inaction of the american government as well as other governments. Protesting social and economic inequality, corporations, money lenders and lobbyists. Like other contemporary movements such as anti-globalization, it is a leaderless movement. In 2011 the adjusters media foundation proposed a peaceful movement. Occupy wall street global demonstrations: october 15, 2011. No down payment required in buying houses in the states. Seattle washington: you"re fired donald trump rhetoric. In europe, pigs = portugal, italy, greece, spain. Because they needed to get bailed out themselves. Honk kong: no student labor, remedy for workers, workers do not have the same protections as they would have in canada. Governments started to bail out all these corporations. Great recession also known as he-cession because it was mainly males who lost their jobs.
