Occupy Movement Shows Potential of Live Online Video. OMC Occupied Riot Resistance Alpha (ORR-A) OccupyWallStreet: They just arrested one of... OCCUPYWALLSTREET: .@justinwedes & other #OWS... Kevin Gosztola: The livestream guy at Gold... Justin Wedes: Goldman Sachs is #occupied... OccupyNYC | OccupyJustin. Justin Wedes: From above: OCCUPYWALLSTREET: Reporters & citizen journo... OCCUPYWALLSTREET: #OWS Media targeted & take... Occupy Wall Street Video: NYPD targets Media - D12. Justin Wedes: Never thought holding a la...
#ows winter garden crackdown #d12. #D12: NYPD aggression turns a peaceful dance party into a police riot (Part 1) #D12: NYPD aggression turns a peaceful dance party into a police riot (Part 2) #ows winter garden pre-crackdown #d12. #ows Winter Garden #D12 action, Police over reaction. Occupy Wall Street: The 'Squidding' of Goldman, Sachs | Matt Taibbi. 17 arrests as Occupy Wall St. protesters march around Goldman Sachs Jefferson Siegel for New York Da Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters assembe on Church St. in Manhattan to march to the Goldman Sachs headquarters on West St. Some dressed as squid in reference to a Rolling Stone article that the investment bank. "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. " Police arrested 17 Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Winter Garden Atrium near Ground Zero Monday.
The detainees, who were charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct, were among dozens of dancing demonstrators who formed a ring inside the atrium chanting, “Occupy Brookfield!” The 10-story atrium is managed by Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park where OWS reigned for almost two months before cops evicted them Nov. 15. The street theater was inspired by a “Rolling Stone” column that likened Goldman Sachs to a giant vampire squid.
“My message is: ‘For us to survive, you have to go.’” Squidding With Occupy Wall Street - December 12, 2011. Democracy Now! 04:10 NYPD Officers Arrest Media in Effort to Break Up Occupy Solidarity Demonstration. Occupy Strikes Sachs! « Airing Goldman Sachs' Dirty Laundry Occupiers descended on Goldman Sachs yesterday in solidarity with the West Coast Port blockades which managed to shut down three major ports: Oakland, Portland and Longview. The march in New York began across the street from Zuccotti Park at 7:30 am and ended at 200 West Street where a heavy police presence was waiting with barricades to prevent protesters from blocking the front of the building. Nearly 300 protesters formed picket lines in front of and behind the building chanting, “Everyone pays their tax — everyone but Goldman Sachs!” Eventually a mock press conference broke out complete with the the “head” of Goldman Sachs — a woman wearing a giant squid hat.
A faux Fox news reporter and several others from the crowd asked questions of Mr. Sachs. After the press conference, word spread that occupiers would be forming a flash mob in the winter garden atrium across the street from Goldman headquarters in the World Financial Center. Like this: NYPD Pounces On Media At Yesterday's OWS Protest: Gothamist: New York City News, Food, Arts & Events. (Screenshot) After over a hundred Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in the atrium of the World Financial Center, the NYPD ordered them to disperse, and arrested 17 of them for failing to comply.
A video of the incident also shows Robert Stolarik, a credentialed photographer working for the New York Times, having his shot blocked repeatedly by NYPD officers. Now, another video has surfaced showing the NYPD arresting a man who appears to be protester Justin Wedes as he passively stands and films the police ordering protesters to leave. The photographer who shot the video, JB Nicholas, tells us he just as easily could have been detained for filming the arrest. "You know, it would have been easy for them to grab me instead of Justin. " He notes that 1st Precinct Commanding Officer, Captain Edward Winski, was the one to detain Wedes.
John had been standing near the crowd, taking video. "There's absolutely no distinction between journalists and protesters," Nicholas says. Video of Credentialed Photog Barred by NYPD From Getting Shots of OWS Arrests This Morning [Update] New York klaagt Occupy'ers aan voor 'wanordelijk gedrag' - Buitenland. Redactie / AP − 14/12/11, 10:06 © epa.
New Yorkse agent in confrontatie met een Occupy-betoger. Meer dan driehonderd Occupy-betogers die tijdens demonstraties in New York werden opgepakt moeten deze week voor de rechter in New York verschijnen. In totaal zijn bij de Occupy-protesten in New York al meer dan duizend mensen gearresteerd. Volgens de advocaten van de demonstranten moeten onder andere 166 mensen die in oktober op de Brooklyn Bridge werden aangehouden woensdag in de rechtbank verschijnen. Ongeveer eenzelfde aantal mensen moet zich donderdag en vrijdag bij de rechter melden. In Baltimore heeft de oproerpolitie gisteren een kampement van Occupy-betogers in een openbaar park ontruimd, zei een politiewoordvoerder. De burgemeester van Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, zei in een verklaring dat de stad het recht om te demonstreren hoog in het vaandel heeft staan, maar dat er in openbare parken niet langdurig gekampeerd kan worden. Occupy protesters ‘squidding’ Goldman Sachs - BlogPost.
Posted at 09:22 AM ET, 12/12/2011 Dec 12, 2011 02:22 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Investment bankers and other employees arriving for work at 200 Wall St. in New York City early Monday morning were greeted by a strange scene: a demonstration by Occupy Wall Street protesters — and massive blow-up squids. “Let’s go squidding!!” The protesters shouted, as the Goldman Sachs employees tried to walk into the building. The squid is a reference to Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi’s line about Goldman Sachs that came to define Wall Street’s behavior during the financial crisis. Occupy Wall Street said the action Monday “will highlight the audacity of Goldman’s private bonus scheme at the expense of taxpayers, union workers and the public good.” A theatrical finale at 10 a.m. featured a press conference in which a translator was on hand to translate “squid” and protesters chanted “Calamari!”
(Via @Kstrel ) The Great American Bubble Machine | Politics News. The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. Invasion of the Home Snatchers By now, most of us know the major players. But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything.
The Feds vs. They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. BUBBLE #1 The Great Depression Goldman wasn't always a too-big-to-fail Wall Street behemoth, the ruthless face of kill-or-be-killed capitalism on steroids —just almost always. Where to go? Occupy Chapel Hill: In New York police are tar... Johnknefel - And now we're in the winter garden. Around 100 milling about quietly. And then... Occupy Brookfield! #ows #d12. Arrests_wintergarden_006.JPG. My brother @johnknefel was just videotaping the protest and w. Molly Knefel: Family photo: the arrested... Don Knefel: Guess I didn't realize Fra... Family photo: the arrested-for-videotaping-arrests @johnknefe.
Brave face from @johnknefel #D12 #solidarity. Johnknefel: FWIW, 8 of 10 in paddywago... Johnknefel - Video of my own arrest at the Winter Garden on Monday #d12 #ows. Michael Tracey: Video of @johnknefel's arr... Don Knefel: Very hard to express my ou... Jail call - occupyinfo. Nyc roastcauliflower #ows | Roastcauliflower. Laurie Penny: Hero reporter @johnknefel... Who is a journalist? Writer and comedian John Knefel reaches for his glasses as police pull him away during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City yesterday. This really great photo was taken by Jessica Lehrman in the lobby of Winter Garden, a building owned by Brookfield Property, the same company that owns Zuccotti Park.
To get a different view on the same scene, check out a video that someone else was filming at the same time. You can see Knefel falling down around 6:30. The photo and video bring up something interesting. Knefel is a writer and comedian, one of the many people documenting OWS from the inside while trying to navigate the very grey boundaries of journalist and participant in the age of Internet journalism. Personally, I think this conflict is pretty interesting. Knefel doesn't work for a major media outlet. Knefel is a biased source of information. Knefel didn't have a press pass. I don't know the answer to these questions. Johnknefel: #FF Jail friends @justinwe... Busted for Tweeting - “He didn’t produce an official press pass, so that means he was resisting arrest.”
Monday morning marked yet another Day of Action for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Eight cities on the West Coast attempted to shut down ports. (The hashtag #PortShutdown on Twitter is moving a mile a minute.) In New York City, there was a solidarity march targeting Goldman Sachs that began at 7:30 a.m. The march was well attended, peaceful and culminated in a street-theater Vampire Squid press conference held in front of the Goldman Sachs building. Everyone was laughing and having a great time, and my brother John and I were there to tweet and take pictures. As things calmed down after the fake press conference, word began to spread that protesters should reconvene at the Winter Garden, a nearby public atrium owned by Brookfield Properties (the same company that owns Zuccotti Park).
John and I walked over with a couple of other media people. The protesters — maybe 100 or so — had gathered in the center of the floor and were dancing and chanting, “Occupy Brookfield!” I turned to him. BreakThru Radio. Dec 16, 2011| By: DJs John & Molly Radio Dispatch John spends 37 hours in jail after being arrested covering an OWS protest. Molly appears on Olbermann and writes about it for Salon. Here's the story. More information at theradiodispatch.com 00:00 Welcome to Radio Dispatch00:28 John's arrest story from the inside, Molly's story from the outside.59:05 Solidarity Forever - Pete Seeger / Credits60:43 Finish John's arrest OWS in Winter Garden WC Solidarity Banner Category: Media, Talk. When John Knefel calls, you answer. Photo by Jessica Lehrman “Do you know where I’m calling you from?”
No John Knefel, I have no idea where you’re calling me from. Usually, I expect you to be calling me from the room down the hall. You know the one, the one where dreams go to die. The one you yourself sat in for years before finding a sweet, sweet escape. “Well I’m calling you from the tombs. Oh, from jail you say John Knefel? The movement was only a few weeks old at that point, the tents had just begun arriving and the world was still trying to figure out what Occupy Wall Street was.
“Have you heard anything about people getting arrested at a protest this week? Well, you’ve picked the one night I’ve been out of the loop John Knefel. “What a stupid question,” I thought. So I didn’t read the story, if I had, I would have seen what is now one of the iconic images of the post-occupation Occupy Wall Street movement. “I was wondering if you could Tweet something for me and a few other people.” Sounds good to me.
“Thanks man.” Jamilah King on the digital divide, John Knefel on OWS arrests. 1. CounterSpin121611 Jamilah King and John Knefel Ready pop out Download MP3 This week on CounterSpin: Few deny anymore that internet access is becoming critical to taking part in political and economic life. So, what does it matter that research shows that higher proportions of African Americans and Latinos than white people are achieving that access through relatively more affordable smartphones rather than home computers? Our guest says unless things are changed, it's going to matter very much indeed. Also on the show: The epidemic of strong-arm police tactics being applied to Occupy activists and the journalists covering Occupy alike came very close to home recently.
--"How Big Telecom Used Smartphones to Create a New Digital Divide," by Jamilah King (Colorlines.com, 12/6/11) AmericanAwaken ing: RT @OperationLeakS: Live S... In video, confrontation between a 'Times' photographer and the NYPD at Occupy Wall Street protest downtown. It still seems like not all New York Police Department officers got that memo from their boss a few weeks ago warning them not to interfere with members of the media during police actions such as those that have been ongoing as a result of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
In this video, police are shown getting physical with and intentionally blocking the shots of a credentialed photojournalist covering today's demonstration at the World Financial Center. A New York Times spokesperson confirmed for Capital that the journalist in the footage is Robert Stolarik, who was on assignment for the Times today.
(You can see some of his latst photos on the City Room blog.) We're awaiting further comment from the Times, who led the charge several weeks ago in drafting a letter to NYPD deputy commissioner Paul Browne on Nov. 21 that took his force to task for arresting and allegedly roughing up journalists who were covering earlier Occupy actions. 07:25- Ooccupynyc-going to 7th precinct where arrestes taken D12 | occupyoceania. Occupynyc-everyone out! | occupyoceania. #whilewewatch. O'Donnell to NYPD: Fire Officers Who Suppressed Press/Arrested Journalists at #OWS. As a writer and political commentator (@David_EHG), I am tempted to preface the video embedded below with bits of my own analysis.
Instead, I'll simply step aside for a moment and let you watch Mr. O'Donnell throw daggers of truth at the screen. (A transcript has been included at the bottom of this post.) We've all witnessed the NYPD's transgressions about which Mr. O'Donnell speaks, some of which I've written about. We've seen officers not only freeze out journalists during protests and raids, but intentionally obstruct, interfere with and even brutally arrest members of the press – even those fully credentialed – who are actively covering Occupy Wall Street events. Below are two incidents that, for me, represent some of the most egregious examples: 2) At the same protest seen in the first video, independent journalist John Knefel - who wrote a fantastic piece in Salon about his experience - is tackled and arrested for Tweeting about the protest.
Mr. Occupy Wall Street Goes to Bloomberg's House to Protest Press Arrests. Occupy Wall Street protesters staged their second public action of the year this afternoon, returning to Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Upper East Side townhouse to protest the NYPD's treatment of journalists covering the movement. But to the disappointment of the organizers, turnout was minimal at today's event, with fewer than 50 people gathering at the corner of 79th Street and Fifth Avenue. A similar action in November drew hundreds, but was kept so far from Bloomberg's residence that even the protesters most ferocious drum-circling was all but inaudible on his block.
Today the protesters were able to get a little closer, but not by much: barricades blocked pedestrian access to both sides of 79th street between Fifth and Madison, with dozens of police controlling access, two teams of scooter-cops around the corner, and an enormous NYPD mobile-command truck looming over the intersection.
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