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A Reuters clip of a couple at a café table near the Arc de Triomphe, with fires burning behind them, went around the world this week. The Paris terrasse has sat beside unrest before, in 1968, in 2015 and in the yellow-vest years.
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A first-person account from Istanbul of the 2013 Gezi Park protests — written by Turkish blogger Defne Suman as police cleared Taksim Square.
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They had no demands, they were all unemployed dropouts — the Occupy Wall Street myths, and what the movement actually changed.
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October 15, 2011: Occupy goes global with London's 'Occupy the Stock Exchange' rally — Julian Assange and Peter Tatchell addressed the crowd at St Paul's.
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Occupy, Anna Hazare, China's factory strikes, Europe's austerity riots — the shared thread behind 2011's global wave of social unrest.
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Two weeks after Occupy Wall Street began, anti-corporate protests spread across the US — including an Occupy LA march from Pershing Square to City Hall.
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