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Des milliers d'anti-Wall Street manifestent à New York - ÉTATS-UNIS. Why we're occupying Wall Street: Two protesters, in their own words. Confronting the Malefactors. There’s something happening here.

Confronting the Malefactors

What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people. When the Occupy Wall Street protests began three weeks ago, most news organizations were derisive if they deigned to mention the events at all. For example, nine days into the protests, National Public Radio had provided no coverage whatsoever. It is, therefore, a testament to the passion of those involved that the protests not only continued but grew, eventually becoming too big to ignore. A Athènes, les mêmes slogans que sous la dictature. Pour la première fois hier lors de manifestations à Athènes, les plus âgés étaient nombreux dans les cortèges pour exprimer leur désespoir.

A Athènes, les mêmes slogans que sous la dictature

Avec les plus jeunes, ils ont repris le slogan du temps de la dictature des colonels: "Pain, éducation, liberté". Prochaine épreuve de force: la grève générale du 19 octobre. Une fois encore, les Grecs sont redescendus hier dans la rue. Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now. Published in The Nation.

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now

I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. “the human microphone”), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech. I love you. And I didn’t just say that so that hundreds of you would shout “I love you” back, though that is obviously a bonus feature of the human microphone. Yesterday, one of the speakers at the labor rally said: “We found each other.”

If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now. Michael Moore at #OccupyWallStreet. #OccupyWallStreet – How to Occupy an Abstraction. “What’s good for Goldman Sachs is none of your f**king business.”

#OccupyWallStreet – How to Occupy an Abstraction

The occupation isn’t actually on Wall Street, of course. A message from a white-collar worker. Posted 2 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 5:33 p.m.

A message from a white-collar worker

EST by vamptvo (5) This content is user submitted and not an official statement I recently spoke with a conservative family friend about the #OWS movement. AFT fully endorses Occupy Wall Street. Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won't Come From the Ballot Box. This is a rush transcript.

Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won't Come From the Ballot Box

Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Ana Tijoux, "Shock," just out this week from Chile. It’s about the student protests there, inspired in part by The Shock Doctrine, the book by our next guest, Naomi Klein. This is Democracy Now! , democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, among the thousands at last night’s Occupy Wall Street protests here in New York was award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein. AMY GOODMAN: Last month, Naomi was in Washington, D.C., where she was arrested along with more than 1,200 other people in a two-week campaign of civil disobedience outside the White House against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada’s tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries. "We Have Come Together": Inspired By Occupy Wall Street, Unions Join Activists for Historic March. Occupy Wall Street March Gets Massive Turnout; 28 Arrested in Police Crackdown. This is a rush transcript.

Occupy Wall Street March Gets Massive Turnout; 28 Arrested in Police Crackdown

Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: Labor unions and students joined the growing Occupy Wall Street movement on Wednesday in the largest march since the protest began 20 days ago here in New York City. Tens of thousands marched from Foley Square to Liberty Plaza, the site of the protest encampment where hundreds have been sleeping since September 17th. The march was peaceful, but police later beat a handful of protesters with batons after they toppled a police barricade in an attempt to march down Wall Street. Police say a total of 28 people were arrested on Wednesday. AMY GOODMAN: Early this morning, police raided the Occupy San Francisco encampment less than a day after some thousand protesters marched through the city’s financial district.

1000 Protesters Storm Wall St Barricade. Occupy Wall Street movement gains support from unions, student groups and community organizers - Bio A beacon in the global alternative media movement, Free Speech Radio News brings independent news, analysis, and commentary to more than 100 affiliate stations across the United States.

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