OWS
Initialism of 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.
Proper noun
- Initialism of 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.
- In one of the OWS emails, liberal writer Matt Taibbi encouraged protesters to come up with some demands. - 2011 October 18, “Media Shill For OWS”, in Investor's Business Daily, page A10:
- 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. - 2011, Holdenby,...
- This debate was important because the OWS Antiwar Working Group brought it up when acknowledging a similar conversation[…] - 2012, Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton, Meghana Nayak, Occupying Political Science: