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More Than Three Dozen Campus Occupations In the Last Five Months « Student Activism

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More Than Three Dozen Campus Occupations In the Last Five Months

As the map below shows, students have staged more than three dozen campus occupations across the United States and Canada during the 2011-12 academic year. Starting with the University of New Orleans at the end of August, more than two weeks before Occupy Wall Street kicked off, the movement has grown to encompass at least thirteen states and one Canadian province.

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Campuses hosting occupations have been public and private, urban and rural. They have included university