Occupy Wall Street

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Basically, it began as a mass protest with a bunch of jobless, homeless, and/or angry people protesting against the country/government bailouts on corporations, but it's since gotten more specific goals.
They've been protesting since September 17th and are apparently just getting started.

From what I've heard, the people are angry that corporations and banks receive billions of dollars in free money that allows their corporate bigwigs to get richer and richer while the common man is left out in the cold, figuratively and literally in some cases. Basically, they want reform on a lot of things.

It's a giant protest taking place on Wall Street in new york (which is where the stock market and the big banks, etc are) and there are thousands of people that are camping out there and filling the streets until something changes.

As far as I've heard, the protesters themselves haven't been violent but the police reaction has been super shitty and people have been getting arrested and pepper sprayed and assaulted in general for peaceful protest.

There are other Occupy X (where X is the name of a city or place) protests getting started around the country to continue the protest in banking sectors of other areas.

edit- i've been following coverage through the neogaf threads on it, so you can get more information here.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=443937
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=447099 (better OP which basically has everything you need to know)