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A Brief History of Occupy Wall Street ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG NEW YORK OFFICE By Ethan Earle Table of Contents Spontaneity and Organization. By the Editors1 A Brief History of Occupy Wall Street2 By Ethan Earle The Beginnings2 Occupy Wall Street Goes Viral4 Inside the Occupation7 Police Evictions and a Winter of Discontent9 How to Occupy Without an Occupation10 How and Why It Happened12 The Impact of Occupy15 The Future of OWS16 Published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office, November 2012 Editors: Stefanie Ehmsen and Albert Scharenberg Address: 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 2114, New York, NY 10016 Email: info@; Phone: +1 (917) 409-1040 The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is an internationally operating, progressive non-profit institution for civic education. In cooperation with many organizations around the globe, it works on democratic and social participation, empowerment of disadvantaged groups, alternatives for economic and social development, and peaceful conflict resolution. The New York Office serves two major tasks: to work around issues concerning the United Nations and to engage in dialogue with North American progressives in universities, unions, social movements, and politics. Spontaneity and Organization In Lower Manhattan, in a small plaza called Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street was born in September of 2011. While the first Occupiers had originally come to protest Wall Street, once the actual occupa- tion began their game plan was not entirely clear. What were their goals and how would they pursue them? In spite of this lack of clarity—and also paradoxically because of it—Occupy rapidly began to spread throughout the United States and abroad. From major cities to small towns in rural America, people