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]
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