Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution' | Arun Gupta | World news. Sitting in a car parked at a gas station on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, my colleague Michelle holds an audio recorder to my cellphone. At the other end of the line is Arundhati Roy, author of the Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things, who is some 2,000 miles away, driving to Boston. "This is uniquely American," I remark to Roy about interviewing her while both in cars but thousands of miles apart. Having driven some 7,000 miles and visited 23 cities (and counting) in reporting on the Occupy movement, it's become apparent that the US is essentially an oil-based economy in which we shuttle goods we no longer make around a continental land mass, creating poverty-level dead-end jobs in the service sector. This is the secret behind the Occupy Wall Street movement that Roy visited before the police crackdowns started.
Sure, ending pervasive corporate control of the political system is on the lips of almost every occupier we meet. But this is nothing new.
Videos. Occupy: we are the world | World news. It is the meme that launched a thousand camps. The protests in Wall Street, London and Oakland may be its flagships, but the Occupy movement is a global one, stretching across six continents, more than 60 countries, and sparking up to 2,600 demonstrations. There have been 10 camps in Britain alone. It is hard to say who started it. Occupy Wall Street, which began in September, was the first to popularise the term. What unites them? In almost all cases, though, the camps themselves are a kind of demand – and a solution: the stab at an alternative society that at least aims to operate without hierarchy, and with full, participatory democracy.
Wall Street The US's first occupation was eventually cleared from its New York base in Zuccotti Park on 15 November, two days shy of its two-month anniversary. Vancouver The Vancouver-based group Adbusters was the first to suggest occupying Wall Street, and, fittingly, Vancouver is also home to the largest Occupy movement in Canada. Portland Oakland Rome. Banker & Tradesman. Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 10:51am ShareThis The city of Boston is taking steps to evict Occupy Boston protesters living in an encampment in a city park. A valid subscription is required to read the article or use the tool you've selected. Already a subscriber? Please enter your information below to log in. Don't have a subscription yet? Our subscribers have access to the most current, comprehensive real estate and credit records available for the state of Massachusetts.
By becoming a subscriber, you will have access to all of our credit and real estate records dating back ten years, searchable by address, name and transaction date. Occupy's next frontier: Foreclosed homes - Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street is promising a “big day of action” Dec. 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest “fraudulent lending practices,” “corrupt securitization,” and illegal evictions by banks. The day will mark the beginning of an Occupy Our Homes campaign that organizers hope will energize the movement as it moves indoors as well as bring the injustices of the economic crisis into sharp relief.
Many of the details aren’t yet public, but protesters in 20 cities are expected to take part in the day of action next Tuesday. We’ve already seen eviction defenses at foreclosed properties around the country as well as takeovers of vacant properties for homeless families. Occupy Our Homes organizer Abby Clark tells me protesters are planning to “mic-check” (i.e., disrupt) foreclosure auctions as well as launch some new home occupations. “This is a shift from protesting Wall Street fraud to taking action on behalf of people who were harmed by it. The Untouchables of Zuccotti Park. In an October 9 article for the website Truthdig.com, Chris Hedges, the former New York Times bureau chief turned dissident journalist, gives us a vivid description of Ketchup, one of the early leaders of Occupy Wall Street. “Ketchup, a petite 22-year-old from Chicago with wavy red hair and glasses with bright red frames, arrived in Zucotti Park in New York on September 17,” he writes. “She had a tent, a rolling suitcase, 40 dollars’ worth of food, the graphic version of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” and a sleeping bag.
She had no return ticket, no idea what she was undertaking, and no acquaintances among the stragglers who joined her that afternoon to begin the Wall Street occupation. She decided to go to New York after reading the Canadian magazine Adbusters, which called for the occupation, although she noted that when she got to the park Adbusters had no discernible presence.” Then, after a very long, and very sympathetic article. Photo by Stanley Rogouski. The OccupyUSA Blog for Wednesday (Nov. 30), With Frequent Updates. Share I've been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. My new e-book is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere.
" ---Go HERE for the Thursday edition of this blog. 11:35 Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia mic-checked today at Harvard's JFK School just after he told crowd no injuries at all in raid last night. 11:00 Tom Morello showed up to play at OccupyLA's GA tonight at the scene of last night's raid. 10:40 Big NYT piece by Brian Stelter on "The 99%" entering the "lexicon," no matter what many feel about OWS itself. 10:20 Just now from @OccupyLA: "Nearly 300 peaceful #OccupyLA protesters still at Metropolitan Detention Center. 9:05 Protesters in NYC, though not massive number, making a lot of noise across of midtown hotel where he is at fundraiser. 7:40 Cool posters with OWS "demands" for tonight's DInner With Barack actions in NYC. 6:35 As I predicted earlier, could be long night for the President in NYC.
Occupy activists storm Xstrata HQ in central London | UK news. Occupy activists have staged a protest over "fat cat pay" on the roof of a central London building. After meeting in Piccadilly Circus at around 3pm on Wednesday afternoon after the end of the main TUC-organised march to protest against public sector pension reforms, around 200 activists including a steel band made their way through London's theatre district towards an undisclosed location. Guided by a red flare, the head of the march suddenly entered Panton House, the headquarters of mining giant Xstrata, which occupies the third and fourth floors of the five-storey building. Activists beckoned the crowd forward into the building, which was not guarded.
According to Xstrata's annual report its CEO, Mick Davis, received a pay and free share package worth £17.7m in the last financial year. More than 40 activists streamed into the building and raced up the stairs on to all floors. Inside, chants were raised against high pay. Many activists left the area soon after the action.
ACTION Alert – Occupy DCCC: Let no party remain unaccountable to the people Police Reattempting Raid On Occupy Los Angeles. LEE RANALDO » Archive » Zuccotti Park 112611. The other night I went down to Zuccotti Park–as I’d been traveling in Portugal the past week I had no idea how swept out it had become. So as I came around the corner and saw all the lights—xmas lights on the trees, those lights built into the ground, and police officers and guys in sanitation vests (?) All around kinda keeping watch on the place, I got a very strange feeling—-to see this community torn out of the place. But I know that even the original organizers of this event were planning to soon call a ‘cease’ on the occupation of the park–to declare victory as the cold weather set in, to regroup and re-plan.
So the fact that the community was swept out early only adds a certain momentum to the effort now.