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Definition of 'OWS'English
Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
(Occupy Wall Street): a protest movement that began in 2011 in New York City's Wall Street financial district, primarily opposing social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the influence of corporations on government.
* 2011', "Media Shill For '''OWS ", ''Investor's Business Daily 10/18/2011, p A10.
- In one of the OWS emails, liberal writer Matt Taibbi encouraged protesters to come up with some demands.
* 2011 , Holdenby, in "Readers React", New York Times , 11/16/2011, p A31.
- OWS' has contributed more to our politics than anything else in the last 40 years. Americans are becoming aware of just how unequal and undemocratic this country is and for that ' OWS has to be shut up.
* 2012 , Emily Welty, ?Matthew Bolton, ?Meghana Nayak, Occupying Political Science
- This debate was important because the OWS Antiwar Working Group brought it up when acknowledging a similar conversation
* 2012 , Danny Schechter, Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street (page 132)
- An OWS afternoon march ends not at Wall Street but at a rally by postal workers protesting against a five-day delivery week.
* 2013', "Distracted Americans unruffled by '''OWS ", ''Real Estate Weekly 58(48), 09/18/2013, p A18.
- The OWS movement splintered after Mayor Michael Bloomberg had police raid Zuccotti Park and it has been unable to articulate a clear message since.
See also
*Occupier
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