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Occupy Canada was a collective of peaceful protests and demonstrations that were part of the larger Occupy Together movement which first manifested in the financial district of New York City with Occupy Wall Street, and subsequently spread to over 900 cities around the world. ==The larger movement== The collective protests are primarily targeting the global financial system, and also against social and economic inequality and corporate greed in general, as well as the corrupting influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government and democracy.〔〔 Characterized by leaderless, horizontally organized, participatory democratic action, and nonviolent civil disobedience, the grassroots democratic movement hopes to effect societal change to put the public good over corporate profits.〔 According to Armine Yalnizyan, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: The Occupy movement originated as US Day of Rage, an idea published on the Wikileaks-endorsed news site Wikileaks Central on March 10, 2011 by Canadian editor-in-chief Heather Marsh, reporting action taken by Wikileaks Central writer Alexa O'Brien and modeled after the Day of Rages being held at that time in the Middle East and North Africa. Early promotion by the Wikileaks Twitter and blog was reported〔 as being instrumental in the group's success. It was renamed after an idea publicized on an email list and online blog July 13, 2011, by Vancouver-based non-profit Canadian group Adbusters〔 They promoted the protest with full page ad in ''Adbusters #97: Post Anarchism'', featuring an iconic poster of a graceful ballerina balanced atop the charging Wall Street bull, with the hashtag ''#OCCUPYWALLSTREET''; their call to action was the spark that started the larger Occupy movement. Two young New York bloggers provided the movement's defining slogan, "We are the 99%".〔(Vancouver's ties to 'Occupy' financial movement )〕 The movement calls on U.S. President Barack Obama to set up a presidential commission "tasked with ending the influence money has over our representatives in Washington."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Occupy Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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