pro-Palestinian encampment in May 2024 • 2025 Turkish Protests. Protests began throughout Turkey on 19 March 2025 following
the detention and arrest of
Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and more than 100 other opposition members and protesters by
Turkish authorities. The gatherings represented significant public opposition to what participants characterized as politically motivated legal actions against İmamoğlu, who was the primary opposition candidate for the
2028 Turkish presidential election and
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's main political rival. •
2024–2025 Serbian anti-corruption protests •
2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses •
2023 University of Manchester protests including ongoing student occupations of university buildings in protest of the marketisation of higher education •
2023 storming of the Praça dos Três Poderes •
2022 Parker K-8 Occupation in the
Oakland Unified School District,
Oakland, California; 130-day occupation of an OUSD school to protest its closure •
Freedom Convoy 2022 across Canada •
2021 Uptown Minneapolis unrest in the U.S. state of
Minnesota • 2021
Orisha Land following police brutality in
Austin, Texas, United States •
2021 storming of the United States Capitol • 2020
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) following the
George Floyd protests in the U.S. city of Seattle • 2020–present
George Floyd Square occupied protest in the U.S. city of Minneapolis • 2018
UCU Strike Solidarity Occupations. Student occupations took place on over 20 UK university campuses and the
UUK London Offices in support of the 4-week
UCU national strike over a pensions dispute. Some occupations lasted for over a month and continued after the strike had ended, calling for an end to the neo-liberalisation and marketisation of higher education and in support of the rights of low-income workers at universities such as cleaners and security guards. • 2017 Reclaim The City in the South African city of Cape Town. Anti-poverty activists occupied disused properties. • 2015
Occupy LSE, a six-week occupation against the neoliberalisation of LSE and the UK Higher Education system. •
2015 University of Amsterdam Bungehuis and Maagdenhuis Occupations, a protest against budget cuts and for more democracy in the university. •
2014 Hong Kong protests, an occupation protest for
universal suffrage in
Hong Kong in 2014 • The occupation of the
Legislative Yuan of
Republic of China (
Taiwan) in 2014 as part of the
Sunflower Student Movement. • The
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. • Gezi park protests a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in
Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the
urban development plan for
Istanbul's
Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a
sit-in at the park protesting the plan. • The several massive occupations of unproductive land in Brazil by the largest mass movement of the world, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, from 1973 up to now. • The
2011–2012 Spanish protests • The occupation of the
Wisconsin State Capitol in
Madison, Wisconsin in February 2011 as part of the
2011 Wisconsin protests over labor rights, a precursor to the Occupy Wall Street movement. •
Occupy Wall Street, which helped spawn the worldwide
Occupy movement •
Tahrir Square during the
2011 Egyptian revolution • The occupation of some university buildings in the UK in November 2010 and early 2011 in response to cuts by the coalition Conservative-Liberal Democrat government including those to public services, welfare handouts and all levels of education (notably the increase of tuition fees in combination to funding cuts). • The tent city known as "Democracy Village" erected in
Parliament Square in
London, in 2010. • The wave of Student Occupations at universities in the UK in early 2009. • The occupations of university buildings during the
2009 California college tuition hike protests. • The flux of student occupations at universities in
New York City over the 2008-9 year, including
NYU and
The New School. • The February 2008 occupation of
Symphony Way by the
Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers after the largest home invasion in South Africa's history. Residents occupied the main thoroughfare for 1 year and 9 months. • The occupation of
Oaxaca City for 150 days during the
2006 Oaxaca protests. • The 2005
Cedar Revolution • The 2001
Central University of Venezuela rectorate takeover •
1996–1997 Serbian protests • The 1990
Wild Lily student movement • The
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. • The
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in
England which began protesting the placement of
nuclear-armed cruise missiles in 1981. • The
American Indian Movement occupation at
Wounded Knee,
South Dakota (1973) • The
1969 occupation of Alcatraz by
American Indians. • The
1969 occupation of
City College by a group consisting largely of Black and Puerto Rican students that demanded and won
open admissions at
CUNY. • The 1969
student occupation of the computer centre at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. •
1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia • The
1968 Columbia Student Strike. • The 1968
Poor People's Campaign, organized (shortly before
his assassination) by
Martin Luther King Jr. and the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference occupation of the
National Mall. • 13 May 1968 -
Sorbonne Occupation Committee at the Sorbonne University in Paris • 22 March 1968 -
Movement of 22 March Occupation of Nanterre University • The 1936-37
GM Sit-Down Strike, in
Flint, Michigan. • The 1932
Bonus Army occupation camp of
World War I veterans and their families in
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