The Occupy movement began in the United States initially with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City but spread to many other cities, both in the United States and worldwide. There have been hundreds of Occupy movement protests worldwide over time. This is a list of some of their locations in the United States. The state with the most protests is California, which has over fifty protest locations (see List of Occupy movement protest locations in California).
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State City Date (start) Crowd (upper estimate) References Notes Alabama AuburnOctober 15, 2011 25 Birmingham October 15, 2011 300 Huntsville October 29, 2011 150 Mobile October 8, 2011 50 Montgomery October 22, 2011 Tuscaloosa October 8, 2011 40 Alaska Anchorage October 4, 2011 60 Bethel October 15, 2011 1 Fairbanks October 15, 2011 100+ By February 1, protesters consisted of "a core group of about 15 people with a larger group of supporters" Homer October 15, 2011 60 Juneau October 15, 2011 Kenai October 29, 2011 Unalaska October 16, 2011 10 Arizona Flagstaff October 15, 2011 Phoenix October 14, 2011 4,000 Prescott October 6, 2011 25+ Tempe October 15, 2011 Tucson October 1, 2011 Yuma November 19, 2011 Arkansas Conway October 26, 2011 Fayetteville October 11, 2011 Jonesboro October 15, 2011 Little Rock October 15, 2011 400 CaliforniaSee List of Occupy movement protest locations in California ColoradoAspen Boulder October 15, 2011 By December, a tent encampment was set up at the pedestrian Pearl Street Mall downtown in the park in front of the City Courthouse. Another was then set up in Sister City's Plaza in front of the Municipal Building. Colorado Springs Denver This Occupy faced quite a lot of police violence long after the encampment was brutally evicted twice. Cost to city: $365,000 Fort Collins Grand Junction Longmont October 10, 2011 12 Pueblo Connecticut Branford October 6, 2011 Bridgeport October 11, 2011 30 Hartford October 7, 2011 New Haven October 8, 2011 As of March 5, 2012, Occupy New Haven on the New Haven green is the last occupying group in New England. New London Delaware Wilmington October 15, 2011 150 District of Columbia Washington October 1, 2011 3,000 Occupy D.C., sometimes also went by "Occupy K Street" Florida Daytona Beach Ft. Myers Gainesville Jacksonville Lakeland Melbourne Miami Orlando Pensacola Sarasota St. Augustine St. Petersburg Tallahassee October 6, 2011 150 One of few remaining "full time" occupation sites. Located at the corner of Gaines St. and Duval in Tallahassee. www.occupytally.org Tampa September 24, 2011 2,000+ Vero Beach West Palm Beach Georgia Athens Atlanta Occupy Atlanta; Augusta Dalton Fort Benning Macon Savannah Valdosta Hawaii Hilo Honolulu Group's name is (De)Occupy Honolulu, in solidarity with occupied peoples worldwide. Kauai Kona Maui Small band of occupiers camped on the outskirts of the State Building in Wailuku for a weekend in October before being evicted from the site by Maui Police under threat of charges of criminal trespass. Movement (dubbed "Occupy Wall Street Maui") holds weekly meetings at a local college. Idaho Boise Deemed the most efficiently organized occupation of two dozen visited. Now maintains a symbolic, highly-portable presence after a landscaping hiatus. Idaho Falls Moscow Pocatello Illinois Bloomington–Normal October 5, 2011 Including tent city at Illinois State University. 2nd longest continuous student occupation. Carbondale Champaign–Urbana Chicago 8,000 Occupy Chicago DeKalb Galesburg October 17, 2011 40 MacombOctober 21, 201160 NapervilleOctober 22, 201150-60 Ottawa Peoria Rockford Springfield Streator November 30, 2011 Indiana Bloomington October 9, 2011 Elkhart October 7, 2011 Evansville October 10, 2011 Fort Wayne Indianapolis October 8, 2011 1,000 Kokomo October 14, 2011 100 Muncie October 19, 2011 20 Portage October 22, 2011 South Bend October 7, 2011 West Lafayette December 10, 2011 50 Iowa Ames October 13, 2011 Occupy ISU; Weekly meetings, no encampments. Cedar Valley October 15, 2011 Weekly meetings, no encampments. Cedar Rapids October 22, 2011 moved from Greene Square Park to corner of M Avenue and 1st Street N.W.; under eviction notice Decorah November 5, 2011 Weekly meetings on Saturdays at 1PM at courthouse steps. No encampments. Des Moines October 9, 2011 Camp on Capitol ground broken up by police Oct. 8; numerous arrests, including Ed Fallon; now at E 14th and Grand. Cost to city: <$10,000 Protests continue. Iowa City October 7, 2011 Encampment previously held as at College Green Park; General Assemblies still held there. Sioux City October 8, 2011 100+ Demonstrations outside the public library, Steve King's office, and the 2011 FOX News Republican debate Kansas Kansas City Lawrence Manhattan Pittsburg Wichita Kentucky Ashland Bowling Green Lexington September 29, 2011 Louisville October 4, 2011 300 Encampment at Founders Square Owensboro Paducah Louisiana Baton Rouge October 24, 2011 120 Lafayette November 17, 2011 12 Demonstration at federal courthouse. "The 'Occupy Lafayette' event was a low-key affair: No slogans were chanted or epithets hurled. In fact, it didn't even arouse the curiousity of security officials at the courthouse," said local media. New Orleans Shreveport Maine Augusta Bangor Bar HarborOctober 15, 201170 Brunswick Portland Presque Isle Occupy Aroostook Maryland Annapolis Baltimore October 3, 2011 200 Occupy BaltimoreCumberland October 8, 2011 3 Frederick November 11, 2011 Massachusetts Amherst October 5, 2011 36 Berkshire County October 10, 2011 BostonSeptember 30, 2011 10,000+ Occupy Boston CambridgeNovember 9, 2011 Including protest at Occupy Harvard Cape Ann February 4, 2012 GreenfieldOctober 9, 2011 50 Jamaica PlainNovember 13, 2011 Lenox Lowell February 4, 2012 Malden February 4, 2012 Newton Needham Northampton October 6, 2011 50 Including protest at Smith CollegeReading20 Salem October 22, 2011 Somerville February 4, 2012 Springfield October 10, 2011 Williamstown Woburn February 4, 2012 Worcester October 9, 2011 100 Michigan Ann Arbor Detroit October 14, 2011 500 Encampment at Grand Circus Park from Oct 14 – November 21, 2011. Subsequent meeting locations included 5900 Michigan Ave and 1515 Broadway. Meetings continued through 2013. Activism around social, civic, and environmental issues attracted those from Occupy Detroit. Meeting and activity demands from these groups have overshadowed what was known through Occupy Detroit. Many of those regularly rallying learned more about the city and are contributing with both long-term and current issues - including Eviction Defense, Water justice, and Tar Sands Resistance. East Lansing Including protest at Michigan State University Flint Grand Rapids October 8, 2011 350 Kalamazoo Lansing October 8, 2011 350 Muskegon Traverse City Ypsilanti Minnesota Duluth October 15, 2011 Minneapolis October 7, 2011 Moorhead Mississippi Jackson October 15, 2011 50 Biloxi October 15, 2011 Missouri Cape Girardeau November 5, 2011 Columbia Kansas City It has one of the longest encampments in the country with protestors camping by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City since September 28, 2011. During this period the temporary 65 foot high IOU/USA Sculpture was erected in Penn Valley Park opposite the reserve headquarters at 1 Memorial Drive. On one side was a sign proclaiming "IOU" and the other was one saying "USA." St. Joseph October 5, 2011 St. Louis October 1, 2011 Occupy St. Louis; Montana Billings Bozeman Butte Great Falls Helena Kalispell Missoula Nebraska Lincoln October 15, 2011 500 Omaha September 29, 2011 40 Nevada Carson City October 15, 2011 70 Las Vegas Valley Occupy Las Vegas Reno New Hampshire Concord Conway Exeter Hanover October 13, 2011 20 Madeline Zeiss, "Dartmouth, Preoccupied: The Scoop on Occupy Dartmouth ," The Dartmouth, November 4, 2011. Constituted as "Occupy Dartmouth" on campus of Dartmouth College. Keene Manchester Nashua New Jersey Atlantic City November 5, 2011 25 Jersey City Mount Olive October 10, 2011 28 Newark Princeton Toms River Trenton October 6, 2011 New Mexico Albuquerque October 1, 2011 400 Changed name to (un)Occupy Albuquerque, in recognition of colonization and racism's connections to economic injustice. Las Cruces Los Lunas Santa Fe Taos New York Albany October 21, 2011 Encampment held until December 22, 2011. Activism continues. Binghamton October 13, 2011 Buffalo October 1, 2011 200+ Occupy Buffalo Fredonia Including protest at State University of New York at Fredonia Ithaca November 28, 2011 Including protests at Ithaca College and Cornell University Kingston New Paltz New York City September 17, 2011 30,000 Initial Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park has spread to other parts of the city, with separate occupations and occupy groups in Harlem and Washington Heights in Manhattan, in Jackson Heights in Queens, in Bushwick, Sunset Park, Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, Staten Island, and in The Bronx. See also: Timeline of Occupy Wall Street. Poughkeepsie October 15, 2011 200 As of January 2013, participants and community supporters have formed two organizations: ENJAN (End the New Jim Crow Action Network), an anti-racist group focused on ending police brutality against minorities and stopping local jail and prison expansions, and Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, a home foreclosure defense group that aims to prevent and defend homeowners from home eviction due to bank foreclosures.Rochester Helped a family, Harold and Maria Steidel, get a moratorium on their home foreclosure. Protested the closing of a local school, school #6.