Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution' 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.
Videos. Occupy: we are the world. 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. But #OWS was itself predated by camps in Madrid, Athens, Santiago – and even Malaysia. 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 Portland Oakland UC, Davis Santiago Madrid and Barcelona London Frankfurt Rome Tel Aviv Kuala Lumpur. 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.
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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. " Most of my other books here . ---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.
Occupy activists storm Xstrata HQ in central London. 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. 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.