15 October 2011 global protests

15 October 2011 global protests
Date15 October 2011; 13 years ago (2011-10-15)
Location
Worldwide
Caused byEconomic inequality, corporate influence over government, political corruption
Methods
Casualties and losses
Arrests: 950+ Injuries: 135+[1][2]
Locations with related protests of over 1000 people

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. The protests were launched under the slogan "United for #GlobalChange", to which the slogan "United for Global Democracy" was added by many people's assemblies.[3][4][5] The protest was first called for by the Spanish Plataforma ¡Democracia Real YA! in May 2011 and endorsed by people's assemblies across the world.[6] Reasons were varied but mainly targeted growing economic inequality, corporate influence over government and international institutions, and the lack of truly democratic institutions allowing direct public participation at all levels, local to global. Global demonstrations were held on 15 October in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.[7][8][9][10] The date was chosen to coincide with the 5-month anniversary of the first protest in Spain. General assemblies, the social network n-1,[11][12] mailing lists, Mumble voice chat, open pads such as Pirate Pad and Titan Pad, and Facebook were used to coordinate the events. Some protests were only a few hundred in number, whereas others numbered in the hundreds of thousands, with the largest in Madrid numbering half a million and the second largest city Barcelona with 400,000.[13][14]

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  3. ^ 15O Organisers. "OCTOBER 15TH UNITED FOR #GLOBALCHANGE". 15 October. Archived from the original on 23 September 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Original call-out from Democracia Real Ya, Roarmag, "Call to action: United for global change on October 15! | ROAR Magazine". Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  5. ^ Red Pepper Blog, (14 October 2011) "October 15th: United for Global Democracy". Red Pepper. Retrieved 22 July 2013 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/October-15th-united-for-global-democracy/
  6. ^ Carmen Pérez-Lanzac; Daniel Borasteros (31 May 2011). "Democracia Real Ya convoca una movilización mundial el 15 de octubre". El País. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
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