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Mayor Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Handling Of Press During Raid. Mayor Bloomberg is still defending the NYPD's raid on Occupy Wall Street in November. In two separate incidents this week, the Mayor addressed criticism from journalists who say they were "roughed up" and blocked from covering the raid, forcibly enforcing a media blackout on police activities. During his weekly radio appearance on Friday morning, Bloomberg insisted: We didn't keep anybody from reporting, you just had to stand to the side. You don't have a right as a press person to stand in the way just in the interest of getting the story... Following the raid, the Society of Professional Journalists condemned the city's actions and went on to say that the Mayor's efforts insinuated what "would seem to be a strategic decision to cloak potentially volatile police activity from the public.

" On Thursday, Mayor Bloomberg took a rather bitter shot at Nadler and dismissed any need for an investigation. Nadler responded to the scathing remarks: Video unavailable due to location. At Occupy Broadway, A Theatrical Plan To Reclaim New York City's Public Spaces. This is the fifth in an occasional series examining the recession's impact on culture, The Recessionary Arts. Find out more about the series here. NEW YORK -- Last Friday, below the vast ads and bright lights of Times Square, artists, actors and musicians transformed a public plaza into a space for interaction in the classical Greek mold. The performers conducted sing-a-longs, delivered impassioned monologues, and even swallowed and regurgitated needles as a form of "creative resistance" against the kind of unregulated consumerism blamed for the recession. The 24-hour-long takeover of the space, Occupy Broadway, was the first action of the Occupy Wall Street Performance Guild, a movement couched in the same anti-commercial philosophy that guides Occupy Wall Street.

More than 70 acts appeared at the protests, including The Foundry Theatre, the Church of Stop Shopping, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, NY Labor Chorus, The Yes Men, The Living Theatre and Bread and Puppet Theater. The point? Occupy The Rose Parade Meets With Police, Relays Its Plan. Pasadena is known around the world for its New Year's Day Rose Parade. About 51.9 million Americans watched the 2010 Rose Parade on television. It was broadcast to more than 220 countries. It makes sense, then, that Occupy the Rose Parade wants to use the venue to broadcast the sentiment of Occupy Wall Street to the world. As the Pasadena Sun reports, in a meeting Wednesday with Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez, Occupy the Rose Parade agreed to march peacefully and not disrupt the parade.

"We want to make sure this is completely non-disruptive to the main parade," Occupy the Rose Parade organizer Peter Thottam told the Sun. After the parade, the demonstrators will display signs outside of the Norton Simon Museum and then carry a 250-foot banner of the US Constitution from Orange Grove Boulevard to a rally at Pasadena City Hall. Watch a video, shot from the Occupy LA encampment at City Hall and shot on Nov. 19, relaying Occupy the Rose Parade's original plan: Thousands Rally to Defend Occupy Movement. Occupy Boston crowd on Atlantic Ave They came by bus from New York and DC. They carpooled from Providence and flew in from Chicago. They drove from Worcester, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

Last night, demonstrating how clearly Occupy Boston’s message has been heard and understood, two thousand people traveled from near and far to defend Dewey Square. The longest continuous occupation in America continues. Two weeks ago, a federal judge blocked a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup, saying that he could not be sure that it was “fair, adequate, or in the public interest.” The banks and their enablers in government present no serious claim on reason or right. Could Occupy Save the Housing Sector? « Endoflex – Socialmedia, A Global Community. Since the collapse of the camps, Occupy has been soul searching. looking for the next level, as some have put it. A part if the movement has their hearts set on reoccupying their camps, while another sees a different vision. Since the fall of Chapman and Lownsdale squares and Terry Schrunk Plaza in Portland, their GA has expanded their online and community presence.

NYCGA has turned their focus to the community and led a National shift, when they stopped the first foreclosure. It should be the federal government that’s actively stopping foreclosures, but it’s not! It’s the occupy movement that finally realized the solution to bad lending habits! Other occupy groups have followed with there own internal restructuring. Think about it. The other thing this may effect is housing prices. But consider this! Well, at this point, all I can say is apropos. Like this: Like Loading... Occupy DC Prepares for Its Valley Forge | Threat Level. James runs intake at the Occupy DC encampment, making sure newcomers know the rules. WASHINGTON — “If this is the revolution, this is our Valley Forge,” said a doughy, middle-aged man with frazzled long brown hair.

I was shivering when we spoke at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning — as I had been shivering for the seven previous hours. Arriving about midnight on Wednesday, I’d missed the day of cold rain that had left the Occupy DC camp somewhere between damp and drenched. [bug id="occupy"]A fellow camper, whose tent had collapsed in the rain, was wandering the plaza in only a hospital gown and blanket that morning. “Last night was only a mild case of what they have coming,” Scott said. Whether the National Park Service intends to or not, it’s refusal to try to evict the protestors is calling the Occupiers’ bluff that they will survive the winter and indefinitely beyond. And the situation is growing crucial as many earnest, but unfocused, activists try to get their shit together. Awwccupy Wall Street.

President Vinny of Occupy Orlando. Submitted by juicekitten Under the canopy @ Occupy SF ( via ) #Occupy Toronto, Bay Street Protest @ Saint James Park A protesting dog at Occupy Columbia, in South Carolina. Sit in at Occupy Dog Park in Tampa. Dewey Square, Occupy Boston - Day 32 (via Flickr ) Occupy Wall St. Joins Fight Against Foreclosures. Black activists leading the struggle against foreclosures welcomes OWS to their communities - Transcript ANDALUSIA KNOLL, TRNN: As police evict Occupy encampments across the country, protesters have regrouped in communities connecting with other movements fighting for social and economic justice. December 6 was declared a national day to occupy our homes, an action to take over abandoned and foreclosed homes. In New York City, Occupy Wall Street joined with community organizations with over 1,000 people marching through East New York, a low-income community of color in Brooklyn that has been heavily hit by foreclosures, at a rate five times higher than the rest of the state.

The protests were part of an orchestrated blitz of actions throughout New York and across the country. End of Transcript DISCLAIMER: Please note that transcripts for The Real News Network are typed from a recording of the program. Comments. Am. Occupy Atlanta occupies the Pittman home. Three years ago, when the collapse of the financial sector pushed our economy to the brink, taxpayers bailed out the big banks that were culpable.The same banks then proceeded to foreclose on millions of American families,while continuing to hand out big bonuses and continuing to lobby against needed reform of the financial sector.

Occupy Atlanta began two Occupations of homes being foreclosed upon as a result of irresponsible banking practices. We've been fielding dozens of phone calls and emails over the last month from struggling home owners. It just so happens that Chase bank keeps coming up. Whether it's 103 year old Vita Lee, wounded Iraq war veteran Brigitte Walker, or the bereaved family of Eloise Pittman, Chase bank seems to be especially callous in their pursuit to put hard working Americans out of their homes this Holiday season. We believe banks like Chase have done enough damage to our communities. From there we will walk to Chase bank and confront the institution head on. Occupy-Inspired Musical Launches Ambitious Kickstarter Campaign.

The Big Bank is a musical comedy about a bank that loves to foreclose on people, a banker who falls in love with a middle-class florist whose shop he's been sent to foreclose on and a radical environmentalist who uses his ambitious 11-year-old daughter's idea to spark a revolution against the bank from a single tweet. Sound familiar?

It might sound like a social media musical response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, except for the fact that the script was written 16 years ago. The project was started by Jacob and Dan Seligmann in 1995, and although it received some attention, including a comparison to the Gershwin brothers by The New York Times, a musical about foreclosure didn't seem to be what producers were interested in at the time. After years of sitting on the shelf, recent revolutions in digital media — as well as the start of the financial crisis in 2008 — brought the show back to life. The Seligmann brothers reunited to produce the show they hadn't touched in years. Midnight deadline passes for Occupy Boston protesters to clear out.

A Boston judge rules against demonstrators stayingA midnight deadline passes without police moving inSome tents and trash are cleared from the siteProtesters have been encamped in the square since late September Read more about this story from CNN affiliate WCVB. Are you there? Send pictures and video to Open Story (CNN) -- Occupy Boston protesters remained firmly entrenched in a downtown city square early Friday after a midnight deadline passed for them to clear out or face eviction. Demonstrators cleared trash and some of the more than 100 tents from the area, but most stayed put. Superior Court Judge Frances A. Authorities are "obligated by law to preserve Dewey Square as a space open to the public," McIntyre added. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Gov. Moore on 'Occupy Our Homes' Occupy protester gets job on Wall Street Occupy standoff ends in DC "We're asking them to leave, according to their own will and volition," Menino told CNN affiliate WCVB. CNN's David Ariosto contributed to this report.

Occupy Big Law. Homeless Occupy the woods – RT revisits Tent City. Published time: December 08, 2011 22:42 Edited time: December 09, 2011 02:42 Occupy protesters block the intersection at 15th and K Streets in Washington, DC December 7, 2011 (AFP Photo / Karen BLEIER) While Occupy Wall Street tents have been popping up all across the US, homeless people have been forced to Occupy a camp in the woods over the last five years. ­ RT reports from New Jersey’s Tent City – and finds out why the homeless haven’t been joining the protests. Tent cities of outrage have been popping up all across the US over the last months. Less visible to the public eye – and much quieter – is a Tent City of hopelessness – around for half a decade.

RT visited a village tucked away in the woods of New Jersey for the third time in about two years. The place is home to about 70 homeless people who have nowhere else to go. A third of the residents are women. The mood here has become increasingly politicized over the last year. “It seems to be a growing trend unfortunately. Occupy camp in Boston lives on past deadline.