"OWS" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011 October 18, “Media Shill For OWS”, in Investor's Business Daily, page A10",
          "text": "In one of the OWS emails, liberal writer Matt Taibbi encouraged protesters to come up with some demands.",
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          "ref": "2011, Holdenby, in \"Readers React\", New York Times, 11/16/2011, page A31",
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          "ref": "2012, Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton, Meghana Nayak, Occupying Political Science",
          "text": "This debate was important because the OWS Antiwar Working Group brought it up when acknowledging a similar conversation[…]",
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          "ref": "2012, Danny Schechter, Occupy: Dissecting Occupy Wall Street, page 132",
          "text": "An OWS afternoon march ends not at Wall Street but at a rally by postal workers protesting against a five-day delivery week.",
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          "ref": "2013, “Distracted Americans unruffled by OWS”, in Real Estate Weekly, 58(48), 09/18/2013, page A18",
          "text": "The OWS movement splintered after Mayor Michael Bloomberg had police raid Zuccotti Park and it has been unable to articulate a clear message since.",
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