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Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Media HQ. The revolution may never be televised, but if Occupy activists in a semi-secret media war room in New York’s Bowery district have their way, it will be livestreamed.

Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Media HQ

Police seizures at occupations, as at the flagship camp in New York City on Tuesday, not to mention rain, cold and theft, are horrible for expensive media gear, as Occupy Wall Street found after setting up an ad hoc media operation in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in September. So Occupy Wall Street decided the best way to keep livestreams of the protests online was to move much of the gear to a safer location somewhere indoors. Wired.com visited the sorta-secret Media HQ in Manhattan last week for the first thorough tour of the facility. The conversations with activists eerily presaged the turmoil in Manhattan Tuesday and in cities like Oakland and Portland over the weekend. The popular all-volunteer operation, originally run from a tent in Zuccotti Park, moved to a narrow room in the A.J.

Will Occupy Wall Street Upend Obama’s Presidential Election? Where OWS departs from precedent is in the breadth of support from the get-go for its overarching critique in the electorate at large.

Will Occupy Wall Street Upend Obama’s Presidential Election?

A November NBC–Wall Street Journal poll found that more than three quarters of voters agree that America’s economic structure unfairly favors the very rich over everyone else, and that the power of banks and corporations should be constrained. “It took three years from the start of the anti–Vietnam War movement to the point when the popularity of the war sank below 50 percent,” observes Columbia professor and social-movement historian Todd Gitlin. “Here, achieving the equivalent took three minutes.” Democracy Now! Global Revolution, Occupy Wall Street Live Streaming Source, Evicted from Brooklyn Production Studio.

At Wall Street Protests, Clash of Reporting and Policing. Any officer who “unreasonably interferes” with reporters or blocks photographers will be subject to disciplinary actions.

At Wall Street Protests, Clash of Reporting and Policing

These are fine words. Of course, his words followed on the heels of a few days in mid-November when the police arrested, punched, kicked and used metal barriers to ram reporters and photographers covering the protests. And recent events suggest that the commissioner should speak more loudly. Ryan Devereaux, a reporter, serves as Exhibit 1A that all is not well.

On Dec. 17, Mr. “I yelled, ‘I’m a journalist!’ Eventually, with curses and threats to arrest Mr. You don’t have to take his word. And three nights ago, at a New Year’s Eve demonstration at Zuccotti Park, a captain began pushing Colin Moynihan, a reporter covering the protest for The Times. Reporting and policing can be high-adrenaline jobs. . Global Revolution HQ raided in Bushwick; 6 Arrested. “We can do all of this from laptops”—Vlad Teichberg, GlobalRevolution.TV, after the #OccupyWallStreet and global protest news livestream channel was evicted from its NYC base The Global Revolution collective has been covering Occupy Wall Street via live stream since Day 1.

Global Revolution HQ raided in Bushwick; 6 Arrested

Originally based in Zuccotti Park, Global Revolution’s base of operations have relocated as the Occupy movement’s locations have changed. Most recently, a base of operations was established in Bushwick, Brooklyn, at 13 Thames Street. JAN 2ND, 8PM EST — a notice was posted at the property stating that the production space is “imminently perilous to life,” and adds, “Violators of the Commissioner’s Vacate Order are subject to arrest.”

No one else in the building was evicted. JAN 3RD, 9PM EST — Six people in total were arrested at 13 Thames between 2-3pm on January 3rd and charged with Trespass, Obstructing Governmental Administration and Resisting Arrest. @GlobalRevLive. Eviction of Globalrev studios in bushwick brooklyn. Eviction of Globalrev studios in bushwick brooklyn. OWS - #J3 - Global Revolution evicted from home, 6 arrested! Revolution For Your Mind. Glassbeadcol (@glassbeadcol) sur Twitter. @vladteichberg. @nikkyschiller. Glassbeadcollective. LucaAntonio. Vlad, The Wall Street Occupier. Vlad Teichberg of the Glass Bead Collective speaks to FOX News.

Occupy Together: Vlad Teichberg on GlobalRevolution.TV, livestream efforts worldwide - Countdown with Keith Olbermann. To Our Faithful Current.com Users: Current's run has ended after eight exciting years on air and online.

Occupy Together: Vlad Teichberg on GlobalRevolution.TV, livestream efforts worldwide - Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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How Occupy Became This Century’s Free Speech Movement

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