Timeline September 2011

Events in September 2011 4

• 1940 – 2011 Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) Died 25 September 2011, aged 71 The Kenyan environmentalist founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted tens of millions of trees across Africa, and became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004. She died in Nairobi of ovarian cancer. She was also a member of the Kenyan parliament and a prominent democracy activist.
• 2011 Amy Winehouse Foundation founded Charity Set up by her family on what would have been her 28th birthday.
• 2011 Occupy Wall Street begins Protest movement against economic inequality Activists began an encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district to protest economic inequality and the influence of money in politics, using the slogan "We are the 99%." The movement spread to hundreds of cities worldwide before the New York camp was cleared by police in November. It reshaped public debate about wealth inequality in the years that followed.
• 2011 R.E.M. disbands -- the most dignified exit in rock On 21 September 2011, R.E.M. posts a statement on their website: 'To our fans and friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. What's next for each of us? That we do not know.' There is no acrimony, no farewell tour, no contractual dispute. Stipe, Buck, Mills and Berry (who had left 14 years earlier) issue individual statements of warmth and respect. The dissolution is unanimously described as the most mature and dignified breakup in rock history.