OCCUPY Anniversary: The REAL Story- Sunday: The Celebration! Jay-Z critique le mouvement des indignés d'Occupy Wall Street. Contrairement à son acolyte Kanye West, Jay-Z n'est pas passé par Zuccotti Park, lieu de regroupement du mouvement Occupy Wall Street. Et pour cause, le rappeur américain a expliqué dans une interview au New York Times son incompréhension quant aux revendications des manifestants. Le rappeur a confié ces mêmes interrogations à Russell Simmons, co-fondateur du label Def Jam et fervent défenseur du mouvement. "Je ne vais pas dans un parc pour pique-niquer, je ne saurais pas quoi y faire, je ne sais même pas pour quelles raisons ces gens se battent. Que veulent-ils ? Tu le sais, toi ? " lui aurait-il dit. Jay-Z, le bien et le mal Un manque de clarté, voilà ce qui gêne le rappeur qui figure parmi les quatre poids lourds du rap US.
Ce à quoi n'a pas manqué de répondre publiquement Russell. Puis dans une tribune publiée sur Globalgrind.com titrée "Jay Z a raison 99% du temps, pas cette fois". Un conflit qui dure Cette passe d'armes fait écho à une polémique née l'an dernier. "Occupy Bat Signal" Artist Returns With "Occupy Batmobile," Codenamed "The Illuminator" On Nomember 17, 2011, during a major national day of action for the Occupy Wall Street movement, protestors marching across the Brooklyn Bridge looked back at the Manhattan skyline and were greeted with what quickly became an iconic image: the characters "99%" projected onto the monolithic façade of a famously ugly Verizon building in Lower Manhattan.
It was dubbed by some the "Occupy Bat Signal. " Following the tremendous attention received by that guerilla light-projection work — ARTINFO's own editor Ben Davis deemed it one of the most important artworks of 2011 — one of the two artists behind that intervention, Mark Read, will unveil its next phase at Zuccotti Park on Saturday, a mobile cinema and library dubbed the Illuminator, soon to be followed by a second vehicle, dubbed the Changemaker, if all goes according to plan.
ARTINFO talked to Read about the logistical (and legal) challenges of such a project, and its art-historical precedents. There are a lot of logistics. Not much. Mumia Abu-Jamal: "To My Friends of OWS" Posted 2 years ago on Dec. 17, 2011, 5:39 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Message to OWS dictated while in Administrative Custody at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA. Thursday, December 15, 2011 My Friends of OWS, My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it, its strength. You are the central movement of the hour.
Your work, however, is just beginning. Though I speak to you today by proxy, I'm confident that you will hear my voice soon. Love, fun and music, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Occupy Art NYC Petitions Lower Manhattan Council for Performance Space | In the Air: Art+Auction's Gossip Column. December 13, 2011, 6:09 pm Occupy Art NYC, a spin-off of Occupy Wall Street, has sent a letter to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council requesting use of the now vacant LentSpace. The free outdoor cultural space, which hosts performances during much of the year, is dormant for the winter season. “Use of this outdoor common space is vital for the expansion of the movement’s creative and transformative work for positive social change, which we believe brilliantly aligns with LMCC’s stated mission for LentSpace as ‘a free outdoor cultural space open to the public,’” reads the letter. LentSpace is located at Canal Street and 6th Avenue in New York.
Earlier this month, Occupy the Arts, another spin-off, hosted a general assembly at Lincoln Center, and guest speakers included composer Philip Glass (who currently is not listed as a signatory on the LentSpace letter) and Reed. Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Protests. New York Unité Spéciale : un épisode spécial Occupy Wall Steet perturbé - News New York Unité Spéciale. La guerre des comics est déclarée. Alan Moore n’est pas un ingrat. Le fameux créateur de «V for Vendetta» sait gré aux Indignés d’Occupy Wall Street d’avoir adopté le visage moustachu de son héros comme emblème de leur mouvement.
Moore se dit anarchiste, mais ne perd pas une occasion de défendre ces manifestants pacifiques assoiffés d’éthique sociale-démocrate. Il a la reconnaissance du masque. Logiquement, il n’a pas supporté que Frank Miller s’exprime. Frank Miller, c’est l’autre pape du comic book, côté obscur dirons-nous. Il a créé «300», où il donnait libre cours à sa fascination pour la force virile et son mépris pour les Iraniens. On lui doit surtout le retour fracassant de Batman, sous ses inquiétants habits de «Dark Knight». On se doutait bien de ce que Miller pensait d’Occupy Wall Street.
D’accord, mais politiquement, que valent-ils, Frank? Alan Moore ne pouvait que répliquer. «Frank Miller est quelqu’un dont je regarde à peine le travail depuis vingt ans. David Caviglioli. TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone to record album in support of Occupy movement. TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone is set to fight the "banksters" by recording an album in support of Occupy Wall Street. As protesters decide which direction the movement will take after Zuccotti Park, Malone has teamed up with Oneida's Kid Millions, and Greg Fox, the drummer for Liturgy, raising money by making a racket.
News of the collaboration comes via a new interview with Fox, recently voted New York's best drummer. Although he never joined in protests – "It's not really my thing," he told the Village Voice – Fox spent a lot of time at "Liberty Square", serving food to activists. Now he is due to leave Liturgy, Brooklyn's most celebrated black metal band, one of his new projects will combine protest and punk rock. Several weeks before protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park, Fox, Malone and Millions began recording together at the Thousand Caves studio, in Queens. They played for four hours – a jam session "unlike anything he'd been a part of", according to the Voice.
Phillip Glass Joins OWS in Protest at Lincoln Center. Phillip Glass will join OWS for an action at the Lincoln Center tonight, outside the final performance of his opera Satyagraha, on the life of Gandhi and the history of non-violent civil disobedience. Lincoln Center is sponsored by the Koch Brothers and Bloomberg. At the same time that they celebrate this story of a historic social movement, they are working to shut down the contemporary Occupy movement. In protest, Phillip Glass will lead a mic check / people's mic outside, reciting the libretto (chorus of Gandhi quotes). When: Thursday December 1, 2011 at 10:30PM. What: A General Assembly at 10:30 PM at Lincoln Center. It is no doubt timely that Philip Glass' opera 'Satyagraha'--which depicts Gandhi's early struggle against colonial oppression in India --should be revived by the Metropolitan Opera in 2011, a year which has seen popular revolutions in North Africa, mass uprisings in Europe, and the emergence of Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States.
Image Info. Philip Glass. Phillip Glass BY Xmess. Occupy Wall Street : les musiciens montent le son. Ce mouvement "est vraiment la voix des gens, c'est une idée de longue haleine", a déclaré à CNN Graham Nash du groupe de légende Crosby, Stills and Nash (et occasionnellement Neil Young). "Je soutiens totalement leur expression non violente contre un système soigneusement pensé en faveur des 1% de plus riches". Des chansons inédites écrites spécialement pour le mouvement Le disque "Occupy This Album", qui sera disponible en décembre, sera constitué d'un mixe de morceaux live et de nouvelles chansons écrites avec le mouvement en tête, comme "If There Ever Was A Time" de Third Eye Blind.
Mais il n'offrira pas qu'un hymne éventuel à reprendre en choeur par les manifestants. Selon ses producteurs, il procurera aussi une aide matérielle salutaire pour ce mouvement qui affirme représenter les 99% de la population qui refusent de tolérer davantage la cupidité et la corruption des 1%. Crosby et Nash jouent pour les manifestants d'Occupy Wall Street. New York - Anne Hathaway se joint à Occupy Wall Street | Nouvelles | Célébrités | Canoë. Dernière mise à jour: 18-11-2011 | 15h10 L’actrice Anne Hathaway est la nouvelle célébrité à se joindre au mouvement Occupy Wall Street, alors qu’elle a été photographiée en train de marcher aux côtés des protestants à New York hier (27 novembre), rapporte Starpulse. Les activistes qui protestent contre les abus du capitalisme financier ont organisé une grande marche pour souligner l’anniversaire du deuxième mois du mouvement.
Hathaway a été aperçue parmi les centaines de personnes présentes à l'Union Square de Manhattan hier.