How an Ex-Wall Street Power Player Embraced the Occupy Movement. Warren Langley at Occupy SFPhoto: Josh Harkinson As president of the Pacific Exchange in the late 1990s, Warren Langley oversaw the West Coast's biggest financial center, a trading floor where some 17 million shares of stock changed hands daily. Though he served at the pleasure of traders and investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, he is no longer interested in pleasing them.
Yesterday, he stood on a hillside in San Francisco's Financial District in front Morgan Stanley's and Goldman Sachs' regional headquarters to declare his support for Occupy Wall Street West, a coalition of 50 groups planning a slew of anti-bank protests Friday. "From the inside, I watched Goldman Sachs, the big banks, the hedge funds bet our money and then get bailed out when they lost," said Langley, surrounded by protesters holding images of a devious-looking Mr. Moneybags (Monopoly) character. In 1999, Congress repealed Glass-Steagall, paving the way for the 2008 financial crisis. @warrenwizard.
RACHEL SCHRAGIS IS: Maps. The Tangled Web of #OccupyWallStreet. "The Declaration of the Occupation of NYC" created for the Occupy Wall Street movement (click to enlarge) If you’ve been following Occupy Wall Street, then you’ve heard the question a million times, and may even be asking it yourself: what are the movement’s demands?
What do they hope to accomplish? It’s a question that seems impossible and also unreasonable to answer when you consider how diverse Occupy Wall Street has become. But protesters themselves are still searching to find some answers. The “Declaration of the Occupation of NYC” (pictured left) created by Rachel Schragis is a start. While the web is more informational than artistic, its one of the more nuanced and concrete visuals of the movement that I’ve seen. Possibly the one demand the web does call for is simply this: to recognize that our grievances are all connected. I reached out to Schragis for comments on the piece and she will be posting a statement to the A&C listserv soon.
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CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country.
So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right. But the protesters have not done a good job of focusing their complaints—and thus have been skewered as malcontents who don't know what they stand for or want. (An early list of "grievances" included some legitimate beefs, but was otherwise just a vague attack on "corporations. " Given that these are the same corporations that employ more than 100 million Americans and make the products we all use every day, this broadside did not resonate with most Americans).
So, what are the protesters so upset about, really? Biggest Week Yet for Occupy Wall Street Coverage. PEJ News Coverage Index Nov. 14-20, 2011 A series of police crackdowns resulted in the biggest week of Occupy Wall Street media coverage since the protests began two months ago.
And for the second week in a row, the stunning sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University registered as the No. 2 story in the nation. My Occupation - your story about your occupation. #whilewewatch. @whilewewatch. #whilewewatch - Trailer. #WhileWeWatch on the New Livestream. 99% — The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film. 99% Film (@99_film) sur Twitter. 99% (The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film) by Audrey Ewell & Aaron Aites. PLEASE KEEP CONTRIBUTING!
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Please keep contributing and encouraging all your friends, family and colleagues to do likewise! @aaronaites. @AudreyEwell. Occupy: de comeback van de jeugd. Niet Steve Jobs, niet Barack Obama, niet Mark Zuckerberg of Mark Rutte, maar de demonstrant werd onlangs door TIME gekozen tot persoon van het jaar 2011.
Wie is de nieuwe demonstrant? Na 20 jaar rust op straat is de jeugd terug. Eerst in Tunesië, Cairo en Damascus, nu ook in Moskou en zelfs op onze eigen pleinen. Van New York tot Rome en van Madrid tot Amsterdam kamperen jongeren in het zicht van de banken en beursgebouwen die hun toekomst verkwanselden. Wie zijn deze demonstranten? Samenstelling: Nathalie Alonso Casale Regie Portugal: Maren Merckx Regie Spanje: Pedro Collantes Regie Italie: Salvatore Fronio Productie: Helen Goossens Eindredactie: Henneke Hagen / Jos de Putter. The Visual Culture of the Occupation: Month One and Counting. "The Revolution Will Be Hashtagged": The Visual Culture of the Occupy Movement.
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