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OccupyWallSt.org | The American Revolution Begins Sept 17th. New York Times Shifts its Framing of the Arrests at Occupy Wall Street. By Lisa Wade, PhD, Oct 4, 2011, at 01:31 pm A blogger named Aluation posted this graphic showing how the New York Times changed the first line of a story about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. The change subtly shifted the blame for the mass arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge from the police to the protesters. In the first version of the story, police allowed them onto the bridge and then “cut off and arrested” them. In the second, there was a “showdown” in which demonstrators “marched onto the bridge.” Adding interest, the author of the piece was changed from “Colin Moynihan” to “Al Baker and Colin Moynihan.” Who is Al Baker? He is the guy in charge of the police bureau at the Times. This is a great example of how important language is in framing events. It’s also a great example of the power of certain individuals and institutions to shape how the rest of us understand reality.

Thanks to Jay Livingston for the tip. Civic Action: Virtual March on Wall Street. "Civil War" Erupts On Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, They Start Turning On Each Other. Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the Eurozone is coming apart at the seams and as the US economy grinds to a halt, the financial elite are starting to turn on each other. The lawsuits are piling up fast. Here’s an extensive roundup: As I reported last week [3]: Collapse Roundup #5: Goliath On The Ropes, Big Banks Getting Hit Hard, It’s A “Bloodbath” As Wall Street’s Crimes Blow Up In Their FaceTime to put your Big Bank shorts on! Well, well… here’s your Shock & Awe: First up, this shockingly huge $196 billion lawsuit just filed against 17 major banks on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

FHA Files a $196 Billion Lawsuit Against 17 Banks You can read the suits filed against each individual bank here [5]. And the suits just keep coming… Bank of America kept AIG legal threat under wraps. More on #OccupyWallStreet — You Don’t Win By Making Demands. So I’ve been tweeting up a storm today on the question of whether #OccupyWallStreet needs to compile a formal list of demands.

(Spoiler alert: Nope.) I’m not going to rehash my whole argument here right now, but someone just tweeted something at me that gives me an opportunity to explore a piece of it. Here’s the tweet, posted in response to me saying that “When people say #OccupyWallStreet needs to articulate demands, they usually mean they want it to embrace their demands.” @dc_dsa: @studentactivism Partially agree.

As Frederick Douglass said, “power concedes nothing without a demand.” That was pretty well played, I must say. Apt, pithy, and deploying one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite activists. “Power concedes nothing without a demand. This is Douglass is at his very best, but when he talks about making a demand he’s talking about planting your feet in the struggle, not drafting a bill of particulars.

Now, I’m not anti-demands in principle. No. Like this: Like Loading... #OccupyWallStreet Campus Walkout This Wednesday at Noon. Wall Street Protests Spread, Channeling Anger at Corporate, Political Forces | PBS NewsHour | Oct. 3, 2011. JUDY WOODRUFF: A growing protest movement in the U.S. vowed today to turn up the heat on Wall Street and against other political and corporate forces that they say are fueling inequality. The demonstrations came to a boil over the weekend. The chants of protesters echoed off Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday in this video taken by New York City police, as members of a group calling itself Occupy Wall Street tried to march across the span.

Officers shouted warnings with bullhorns. MAN: If you refuse to leave this roadway, I am ordering your arrest for disorderly conduct. JUDY WOODRUFF: Things escalated when some of the marchers crossed into the roadway. WOMAN: Not once. JUDY WOODRUFF: Most of those detained had been released by Sunday morning. But Sunday’s arrests fueled the anger of those camped in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, a site they have dubbed Liberty Square.

MAN: I don’t care if you’re rich or poor, black or white, where you live. Similar protests are spreading in other cities. Occupy Wall Street March Turns Violent | Davids Camera Craft. Big Media Afraid to Take Wall Street Protest Seriously. That's how it appears, given the thin, dismissive coverage of Occupy Wall Street so far. Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, Manhattan. Photo: Shankbone, Creative Commons. It's been over a week now of protests, meetings, and confrontations with police on Wall Street, and yet mainstream North American media outlets, who have provided us with daily updates on uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Spain, to name a few, have given either thin or dismissive notice to what is happening on Manhattan.

Known as the Occupy Wall Street campaign, it started on September 17 with thousands marching into New York's financial district, waving slogans such as "Wall Street is Our Street" and "We are the 99%. " Cops were waiting for the crowds on Wall Street, so they set up camp a block away and have been there ever since, day and night. Fueling these protests is the widening gap between the wealthy and everyone else, which continues to grow because of rising unemployment and mortgage foreclosures.

Occupy Wall Street: Their Own Mini-Government, Complete With Library. A few steps inside the stone-floored plaza at Zuccotti Park, crates filled with books lined the benches along a recessed wall. A volunteer swept leaves away from the benches in between organizing an ever-growing stack of volumes on the ground. This makeshift assembly of boxes is Occupy Wall Street’s official library. The book collection is called The People’s Library, even though it defies most definitions of a library. Books come entirely by way of donations, and the librarians do not discriminate when placing them out for borrowing. “We get a lot of philosophical and political stuff,” says Michael Oman-Reagan, a part-time graduate student at Hunter College.

(PHOTOS: Occupy Wall Street) Oman-Reagan said the library started almost as early as the protest itself, when an NYU library studies student set out a pile of books for protestors to read in between marches and meetings. Now, the library gets 50-100 donations a day and usually has 15 people working in rotating shifts. #OWS: What the Media Can't See About America's First Web-Era Movement - J.J. Gould - Business. Occupy Wall Street is a pluralist protest that's better at asking questions than offering answers. By cherry-picking messages and images, its critics are missing the bigger picture. When the now-national demonstrations against the Wall Street / Washington status quo began in New York last month, it was easy (too easy, it turns out) to write the whole thing off as a hackneyed, vapid hipster fest. The most confident early appraisals were essentially verbalized eye-rolls: In mainstream news coverage, new-to-CNN business anchor Erin Burnett's first reported segment on the story was called "Seriously?!

," a heading that said everything she needed it to. On the (non-libertarian) right, National Review editor Rich Lowry quickly gratified anyone who might happen to hate being surprised by Rich Lowry, identifying the protestors as a "a juvenile rabble" and "woolly-headed horde," "the perfect distillation of an American Left in extremis. " The thing is, it's only theoretically an important issue. Occupy Wall St. Spurs Michael Moore to Develop New Film. Why Occupy Wall Street is Bigger Than Left vs. Right | Matt Taibbi. Hey Wall Street, If You Still Think Occupy Wall Street Is A 'Fringe' Movement, Check This Out.

Yepoka Yeebo / Business Insider Ethan Race was one of a group of protestors attempting to march away from St Paul's Cathederal. Occupy Wall Street went global this weekend with protests launching in major cities around the world. What started as a few dozen people camping out in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park has become a world-wide craze. We've collected YouTube videos uploaded by protesters all around the world to get a sense of how major cities aired their grievances.

You'll see that there are definitely differences from place to place (like, from electronic dance parties in Berlin to the crowd singing in unison in South Africa). However the protests manifested themselves, though, the sentiment was the same across the board. Basically, there's no denying it now, this movement is hardly fringe. Occupy Wall Street Ads Hit TV This Weekend. Occupy Wall Street could be occupying your television this weekend.

Supporters chipped in more than $6,000 to a crowdfunding campaign that will put a video of protesters explaining their objectives in the commercial lineup of cable television channels. "It's sort of an occupied version of advertising," crowdfunding site Loudsauce's co-founder Colin Mutchler says. "It's about occupying ad space with what citizens think is important for the country. " The video was produced free by David Sauvage, who uploaded it to YouTube October 12. Loudsauce works much like Kickstarter, but it crowdfunds media space purchases rather than projects. "The perception of how expensive television ads are is that it's prohibitive to get on television even once, that it is not within reach of individuals or groups," Mutchler says. Sauvage's Occupy Wall Street commercial is an example of how this perception isn't always true.

But does the commercial, backed by just 168 people, speak for the movement? Occupy Wall Street: If Banks Are Too Big to Fail, Are People Too Small to Matter? Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement rally in Foley Square before marching through Lower Manhattan (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Originally posted to The Guardian Occupy Wall Street protesters are understandably angry at the support given big business, while individuals struggle against high unemployment, costly health care coverage and shrinking social services. A little while ago, opponents of universal health care coverage in the United States claimed that it was a “moral hazard.” The argument characterized people as lazy and irresponsible, prone to “abuse” the system at significant cost to society but none to themselves. The logic and economy of preventative care was largely ignored, as was the fact that access to health care is a human right.

Fast forward to Occupy Wall Street, a grassroots movement protesting the failure of government to hold corporations and financial institutions accountable. But it is not just corporations that are acting irresponsibly. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest spreads to Los Angeles | Raw Replay. » Occupy Wall Street and “The American Autumn”: Is It a “Colored Revolution”? Alex Jones. Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research Friday, October 14, 2011 There is a grassroots protest movement unfolding across America, which includes people from all walks of life, from all age groups, conscious of the need for social change and committed to reversing the tide.

The grassroots of this movement constitutes a response to the “Wall Street agenda” of financial fraud and manipulation which has served to trigger unemployment and poverty across the land. Does this movement constitute in its present form an instrument of meaningful reform and social change in America? What is the organizational structure of the movement? Who are its main architects? Has the movement or segments within this movement been co-opted? This is an important question, which must be addressed by those who are part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement as well as those who, across America, support real democracy. Introduction “Manufacturing Dissent” “Colored Revolutions” “The Arab Spring” “The Revolution Business” Egypt.