Kettling the Cops. NYPD: Only One Journalist Was Arrested During Occupy Wall Street. The New York Police Department is drawing fire for saying that stories of multiple journalist arrests during the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests are a "myth.
" Paul Browne, a top spokesman for the NYPD, made the comment during an interview with the local Queens Chronicle. He said that only one reporter was arrested. In the interview with him was Ray Kelly, the commissioner of the NYPD: Kelly also said the NYPD was unfairly criticized over its removal of protesters from Zuccotti Park last year, saying the people who were arrested had defied legal orders to leave the park and were pushing through police lines after monitoring department radios to learn what officers were planning. 5/29 Occupy The CCA! Come and Join US to OCCUPY! Los Angeles: Join The Seven Day Siege Of The CCA. Join LA CAN, Occupy the Hood, Occupy Skid Row and Occupy Los Angeles at Wilshire/Hope (626 Wilshire Blvd.) at 8:30pm tonight to fight gentrification and the corrupt practices of the lobby group Central City Association.
BRING TENT. No Elections Under Military Rule: Solidarity With The Egyptian Revolution. Egyptians occupy Tahir Square on June 2, 2012 to demand a new revolution in the wake of the Mubarak trials Today in San Francisco, Egyptians, Arabs, and Occupiers in the Bay Area are marching in solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution.
Gather at Union Square (SF) at 6:30pm Pacific time! More info. You may remember “To the Occupy Movement” a letter of solidarity from Egyptian revolutionaries calling themselves ‘Comrades from Cairo’. A new letter has emerged bearing this signature, this one attacking the fraudulent and reactionary practice of elections. By Comrades from Cairo. Joseph Stiglitz on Occupy Wall Street & Why U.S.-Europe Austerity Will Only Weaken Economic Recovery. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Joseph Stiglitz, you have spoken about the austerity measures that have been imposed across Europe or that are being considered across Europe, and you’ve said that they’re, quote, "a suicide pact. " Can you say what you mean by that? JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Well, in Europe, these measures of austerity are going to make the countries weaker and weaker. I predicted that when Europe began that back in 2010 in Greece, when the Greek crisis first emerged.
So, the point is that we’ve done this experiment in austerity over and over again. AMY GOODMAN: I mean, is it only Europe? REP. AMY GOODMAN: That’s House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan, a Wisconsinite like Governor Scott Walker. Sunday, June 3: NYC Solidarity Summer Coordinating Meeting. City-wide Coordinating Meeting for Solidarity with the Quebec Student Strike and Escalating Our Struggles TIME: Sunday, June 3rd 6pmLOCATION: 16 Beaver St., NYC.
From Spain: Bankia Is Mordor. Our comrades in Spain haven been occupying local banks with lively noise demos and caceroladas, or pot-banging protests, in Barcelona, Madrid, and other cities.
In Barcelona, protesters have targeted La Caixa in a campaign called Occupy Mordor, a reference comparing the bank to the land of evil from J.R.R. Tolkien mythology. The Spanish government recently bailed out another major bank (Bankia) while under threat from the European financial sector, who promised total market chaos across Europe if their demands were not met. Spanish Occupiers - the 15-M or indignad@s movement, who largely inspired #OWS - are fighting back by expanding their banking protests. The banking bailout is tied to the wider program of austerity being enforced in Spain and across Europe, as well as here in North America. Manifesto We have a government that is directly involved in bank fraud and an economic elite that does not hesitate to rob us. This Saturday [today], we will plant a new seed at Bankia.
Obama Counter-Fundraiser for Investigation Task Force. TODAY Monday, June 4 2012 Assemble in Bryant Park (42nd St and 6th Ave, NYC) at 6pm.
Move to New Amsterdam Theater at 7pm. On June 4th, members of F The Banks will be escalating our campaign to highlight the failure of the government to investigate the financial crisis. Recently, we took our campaign to Attorney General Schneiderman’s office, to try and take charge of his underfunded, understaffed, and underachieving “Task Force”. Now, we’re going straight to his boss, Obama. And we’re going to hit him where it hurts: his campaign funds. It’s predicted that the Obama campaign and related PACs will spend over a billion dollars trying to get him re-elected. Instead, Congress is refusing to fund it, and the task force is floundering. While Obama is fundraising for his campaign, we’ll be holding a fundraiser for what really matters: bringing the banks to justice. Tuesday: Stop Spectra, Resist Fracking In NYC. Stop Spectra: New Yorkers Resist Hydro-fracking and a Dangerous and Unnecessary Gas Pipeline What: Corporate profiteers are trying to force a hazardous and unnecessary pipeline on the residents of New York City in order to make us dependent on hydro-fracked natural gas, a fossil fuel with an ecological impact equal to or worse than oil and coal.
