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53 relations: Amherst, New York, Arab Spring, Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo Common Council, Buffalo, New York, Comptroller, Corruption Perceptions Index, Demonstration (protest), Economic inequality, Equity (economics), Fannie Mae, First Niagara Bank, Foreclosure, Freddie Mac, General assembly (Occupy movement), Geodesic dome, Grassroots, Homelessness, Income inequality in the United States, Joe Nocera, JPMorgan Chase, Lafayette Square (Buffalo), List of Occupy movement protest locations, Loan modification in the United States, Lobbying, Main Place Tower, Medea Benjamin, Michael Moore, Mortgage servicer, New York (state), Niagara Square, Nonviolent resistance, Occupation (protest), Occupy movement, Occupy Wall Street, Peace, Plutocracy, Protest, Spectrum News Buffalo, Steven J. Baum P.C., Tea Party protests, The Buffalo News, The New York Times, Timeline of Occupy Wall Street, Unemployment in the United States, WBFO, We are the 99%, Wealth inequality in the United States, YouTube, 15 October 2011 global protests, ..., 2010 United States foreclosure crisis, 2011 United States public employee protests, 2011 Wisconsin protests. Expand index (3 more) »
Amherst, New York
Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (الربيع العربي ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī), also referred to as Arab Revolutions (الثورات العربية aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.
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Buffalo City Hall
Buffalo City Hall is the seat for municipal government in the City of Buffalo, New York.
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Buffalo Common Council
The Buffalo Common Council is the legislative branch of the city of Buffalo, New York government.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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Comptroller
A comptroller is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.
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Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency International (TI) has published the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) since 1995, annually ranking countries "by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as "the misuse of public power for private benefit".
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Demonstration (protest)
A demonstration or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.
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Economic inequality
Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.
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Equity (economics)
Equity or economic equality is the concept or idea of fairness in economics, particularly in regard to taxation or welfare economics.
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Fannie Mae
The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company.
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First Niagara Bank
First Niagara Bank was a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured regional banking corporation headquartered in Buffalo, New York.
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Foreclosure
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan.
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Freddie Mac
The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), known as Freddie Mac, is a public government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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General assembly (Occupy movement)
General assemblies (GA) are the primary decision making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011.
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Geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.
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Grassroots
A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
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Homelessness
Homelessness is the circumstance when people are without a permanent dwelling, such as a house or apartment.
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Income inequality in the United States
Income inequality in the United States has increased significantly since the 1970s after several decades of stability, meaning the share of the nation's income received by higher income households has increased.
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Joe Nocera
Joseph "Joe" Nocera (born May 6, 1952 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American business journalist and author.
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JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.
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Lafayette Square (Buffalo)
Lafayette Square (formerly Court House Park or Courthouse Square) is a park in the center of downtown Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States that hosts a Civil War monument.
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List of Occupy movement protest locations
The Occupy Wall Street protests have inspired a wide international response.
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Loan modification in the United States
Loan modification is the systematic alteration of mortgage loan agreements that help those having problems making the payments by reducing interest rates, monthly payments or principal balances.
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Lobbying
Lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.
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Main Place Tower
The Main Place Tower is located at 350 Main Street, in Buffalo, NY.
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Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin; September 10, 1952) is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with activist and author Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange.
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Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author.
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Mortgage servicer
A mortgage servicer is a company to which some borrowers pay their mortgage loan payments and which performs other services in connection with mortgages and mortgage-backed securities.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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Niagara Square
Niagara Square is a public square located at the intersections of Delaware Avenue, Court Street, Genesee Street, and Niagara Street in Buffalo, New York.
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Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance (NVR or nonviolent action) is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, while being nonviolent.
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Occupation (protest)
As an act of protest, occupation is a strategy often used by social movements and other forms of collective social action in order to take and hold public and symbolic spaces, buildings, critical infrastructure such as entrances to train stations, shopping centers, university buildings, squares, and parks.
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Occupy movement
The Occupy movement is an international socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of "real democracy" around the world.
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Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide.
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Peace
Peace is the concept of harmony and the absence of hostility.
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Plutocracy
A plutocracy (πλοῦτος,, 'wealth' + κράτος,, 'rule') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.
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Protest
A protest (also called a remonstrance, remonstration or demonstration) is an expression of bearing witness on behalf of an express cause by words or actions with regard to particular events, policies or situations.
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Spectrum News Buffalo
Spectrum News Buffalo (formerly Time Warner Cable News Buffalo) is an American cable news television channel that is owned by Charter Communications, as an affiliate of its Spectrum News slate of regional news channels.
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Steven J. Baum P.C.
Steven J. Baum, P.C., was a law firm headquartered in Amherst, New York, United States.
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Tea Party protests
The Tea Party protests were a series of well-funded protests throughout the United States that began in early 2009.
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The Buffalo News
The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located at 1 News Plaza in Downtown Buffalo, New York.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Timeline of Occupy Wall Street
The following is a brief timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest which began on September 17, 2011 on Wall Street, the financial district of New York City and included the occupation of Zuccotti Park, where protesters established a permanent encampment.
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Unemployment in the United States
Unemployment in the United States discusses the causes and measures of U.S. unemployment and strategies for reducing it.
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WBFO
WBFO is the NPR member station for Buffalo, New York, carrying an almost entirely public news/talk format.
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We are the 99%
We are the 99% is a political slogan widely used and coined by the Occupy movement.
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Wealth inequality in the United States
Wealth inequality in the United States (also known as the wealth gap) is the unequal distribution of assets among residents of the United States.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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15 October 2011 global protests
The 15 October 2011 global protests were part of a series of protests inspired by the Arab Spring, the Icelandic protests, the Portuguese "Geração à Rasca", the Spanish "Indignants", the Greek protests, and the Occupy movement.
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2010 United States foreclosure crisis
The 2010 United States foreclosure crisis, sometimes referred to as Foreclosure-gate or Foreclosuregate, refers to a widespread epidemic of improper foreclosures initiated by large banks and other lenders.
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2011 United States public employee protests
In February 2011, a series of public employee protests began in the United States against proposed legislation which would weaken the power of labor unions.
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2011 Wisconsin protests
The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February involving at its zenith as many as 100,000 protesters opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill." Subsequently, anti-tax activists and other conservatives, including Tea Party advocates, launched small pockets of counter protests.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Buffalo
