OWS was the US arm of a global revolt. A convergence of multiple activist networks (including AdBusters, Anonymous. See David Graeber's The Democracy Project;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-democracy-project

The Tea Party was a series of stunts coordinated by reputation launderers in GoP-aligned consultancies, and blown up by partisan media (notably Fox TV and neoconservative talk radio);

https://theauthoritarians.org/comment-on-the-tea-party-movement/

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