The occupation allowed for the public or the 99 percent to have a voice and bring awareness to political issues. The intensity of the struggle against the NYPD only mobilized the movement further. The way that public space was used to raise public opinion and debate rather than for leisure embodies the historic public sphere description of Habermas. A public sphere that …show more content…
“The protests in disparate nations have taken place under different forms of government and have varied in the specificity of their demands, all have expressed a similar outrage with the inequities of unfettered global capitalism.” (Writers for the 99% 2). Months before the occupation of Wall Street, protestors took to the streets in Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, London, and Barcelona just to name a few (Writers for the 99% 6). In Spain six and a half million people protested welfare cuts, twenty percent unemployment, and other results of corporate greed. The strategies and organization of the different occupy movements around the world gave precedent to those who planned the New York