Occupy Wall Street protesters demand tax equality. Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:59AM Gary Anthony Ramsay, Press TV, New York Hundreds of Protestors took to the streets of New York to protest unfair taxes.
The peaceful demonstration was met with harsh reaction from police. The crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protestors by New York Police continued during their latest march at the New York Stock exchange. 8 people were arrested for standing on the sidewalk as the cops from the NYPD pushed forward. City police were joined by a squad of federal park police and members of the NYPD’s counter terrorism division. The latest occupy Wall Street protest come during the same week that more than a hundred million Americans race to meet a tax filing deadline. A recent study by the Sunlight foundations revealed that out of 200 companies - the top six that spent hundreds of millions on lobbying groups to influence Congress, saved billions by seeing a significant drop in their corporate taxes over the last three years. Whistleblowers Unite with Occupy Washington for Civil and Human Rights Conference May 20-22, 2012. (Washington, D.C.) - The USDA Coalition of Minority Employees ( and watchdog group ACORN 8 ( united with 40 national and international coalitions of good government, open government, civil rights and human rights groups as well as hundreds of individual Occupy Wall Street protesters from across the country, announce an assembly at the Washington DC Capitol to be held May 20-22, 2012.
We are proud to announce that MSNBC Host Dylan Ratigan has agreed to moderate and the PACIFICA Radio Network has committed to broadcast the historic event this year. Pacifica Foundation Logo by Pacifica Foundation Over the last six years members from the Make it Safe Coalition (MISC) have arranged an assembly of whistleblowers in Washington, DC each year for an annual conference originally known as Washington Whistleblower's Week. The USDA Coalition of Minority Employees will co-host this year's Whistleblower Summit--Civil & Human Rights Conference , in Washington, DC. Charles "Chuck" Grassley, U.S. Occupy Wall Street Calls for Universal Living Wage. Proclaims New Holiday. All human beings must fulfill their basic, physiological needs in order to sustain a healthy and productive life.
If you just look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs you will find that human beings first require the fulfillment of physiological needs and then safety needs. Physiological is pretty obvious and safety of course means the “security of body, employment, resources, health etc. Occupy Wall Street rally. The Left, Labor and Occupy. May 2012.
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This representation of articles written about the Occupy Wall Street movement uses colors to group ideas together and lines to show a connection between articles. Police arrest 9 "Occupy the Farm" protesters at Berkeley. Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken.
He looks out of place, a white guy carrying a $1,500 Nikon D700 camera, but the residents are used to him by now and greet... Blackhawks thrilled to have Brent Seabrook back Starting with Game 6 Sunday, Brent Seabrook's timeout will be over and the defenseman will be back on the ice — so long as he promises to play nice. Occupy Wall Street's people power loses popularity. New York Police Department officers detain an Occupy Wall Street activist during a protest march across the Williamsburg Bridge in New York on May Day.
Are cops drugging Occupy Wall Street protesters in Minnesota? DHS Turns Over Occupy Wall Street Documents to Truthout. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: Wesley Fryer, Allie_Caulfield) Click here to go to the documents.
This report has been updated with new information gleaned from the cache of documents. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closely monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement, providing agency officials with threat assessments, regular updates about protests taking place throughout the country, responding to internal requests for intelligence on the group and mining Twitter and other social media for information about Occupy's activities, according to hundreds of pages of internal documents DHS released to Truthout in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Eric Neuschaefer, a DHS FOIA program specialist, said the agency expects to release a second set of OWS-related documents to Truthout, the first news organization to file a FOIA request with DHS for OWS records, sometime in mid-April. Occupy Wall Street Forms a PAC - Helen Whalen Cohen. Getting money out of politics by...raising as much campaign cash as they can.
Occupy is officially starting a PAC, which will enable them to raise money for or against candidates and to provide information about legislation and ballot initiatives. The money that will be raised can be used by Occupy as a whole, from branches in Huntsville, Ala. to ones in New York City or Oakland, Calif. “This PAC is for everyone and if they want to contribute they are more than welcome,” Thornton said. National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners « National Prison Divestment Campaign. Read below for actions across the US in support of Prisoners Austin, TX Student Activities Center, 3.116 Balcony Room C University of Texas, Austin This national day of action is called for by prisoners and inspired by the Occupy movement which has united so many people across the country over the last several months.
Prisoners and their loved ones are a big part of the 99% and many have been inspired by the call for economic justice and justice for the oppressed. The OccupyUSA Blog: Special Weekend Edition! Share Live-blogging OWS daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. The Occupy Movement Morphs. Think Occupy Wall Street has dribbled to the oblivion of political history? Think again. It seems an offshoot of the OWS movement, The 99 Percent Working Group, Ltd., a non-profit, came up with the 99% Declaration and National General Assembly. They published a PETITION FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES and are organizing delegates, complete with voting rights, to ratify their platform.
Yup, a real specific platform and agenda. They even bought a commercial. Chomsky Supports Occupy Wall Street. Noam Chomsky (born in 1928) is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. As the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy, he has also influenced computer science, mathematics, and psychology. You can see him talk at the Boston Occupy Wall Street rally on You Tube . Chomsky is the creator of the universal grammar theory.
He believes we're wired in such a way to be able to understand and produce language. Chomsky has written over 150 books and writes in www.Nation of Change.org. Springsteen applauds Occupy movement. NY Occupy protester's tweets at heart of privacy clash. By Jennifer Peltz Associated Press. Privacy clash over Occupy protester's tweets. Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement after they attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the motorway, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 in New York. America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study. 'Dismal' prospects: 1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income. Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images, file. OPD Used Violent Cops Against Occupy. Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds.
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country. Occupy Oakland Strike Draws 100,000; Violence Caused By 100. Oakland’s Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan (a capable and politically smart leader in a tough position) got the Occupy Oakland General Strike crowd count massively wrong: it’s not 7,000, but 100,000. BC TEST STANDARD PLAYER w Bumper.