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Occupy The SEC
Occupy the SEC was founded in October 2011 as a working group of Occupy Wall Street, the protest movement which started in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan on September 17, 2011. Occupy the SEC began as a bi-weekly "book club" that met at a diner near the park. The group read through the proposed Volcker Rule which was part of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, and would severely limit proprietary trading at commercial banks, similar to the Glass Steagall Act of 1933. The group drafted a response to the rule, a 325-page comment letter which they submitted to the SEC on February 13, 2012.