Which event triggered this revolutionary wave that became the inspiration for the Occupy Wall Street protests?
Occupy Seattle:  Occupy Seattle is inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City in September 2011, which in turn was inspired by the Arab Spring. Arab Spring: The Arab Spring, (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎ ‎ "ar-Rabīʻ al-ʻArabī") also referred to as Arab revolutions (Arabic: الثورات العربية‎ ‎ "aṯ-'awrāt al-ʻarabiyyah"), was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution.
the Tunisian Revolution