Occupy Oakland Raided. Around 2:00 a.m., word spread that riot police were massing in around the area where Occupy Oakland has been for more than two weeks. Hundreds of people gathered and began to make non-violent barricades at all the entrances to the plaza. At about 4:30 a.m., riot police appeared on all corners of the encampment. There were roughly 500 to 700 riot police in total. The entire plaza was completely barricaded on all sides, with palates, trash cans, chairs, a gigantic Christmas wreath, police barricades from a neighboring street Occupiers began chanting ‘go home’ as they always do when police show up at Occupy Oakland, but it quickly became clear that there was an overwhelming number of police from at least four different jurisdictions.
As people continued to chant and fell back within the barricade, off of the street, the police announced that we would be arrested within the encampment. We know of roughly 70 arrests and multiple injuries, none of them extremely serious, but many for sure. As Occupy Wall Street evolves, news sites find it “a great opportunity for web journalism” Foster Kamer does not enjoy covering protests.
Kamer, a senior editor at the New York Observer, recounted a recent conversation he had with Jack Shafer, the Reuters media columnist, about this very issue. “He was talking about how he abhorred protest coverage,” Kamer told me in a recent phone conversation. “And I found that to be the case with a lot of alt weekly editors. That was my experience with [Village Voice editor] Tony Ortega. Any time we covered a protest it would drive him up the [gosh darned] wall. Luckily, when the idea was floated to cover the people who had begun gathering in Zuccotti Park, Adrianne Jeffries, who normally writes for the Observer’s BetaBeat, jumped at the chance to go. The feedback was almost immediate. This was obviously a case of the latter. At this writing, if you visit the New York Observer’s website, four of the five most popular stories are Occupy Wall Street-related. “We find all protests to be sexy,” he said.
Wells Fargo's website has been OCCUPIED. Occupy the URL Takes Protests to The Internet. The Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities across the world.
Now they're also spreading to banks' websites. A program called Occupy the URL, launched Tuesday, will turn any website into a protest, complete with pop-up photos of Occupy Wall Street protesters. Users need only insert the URL they wish to occupy. The program doesn't actually change a website it targets, but rather creates a mashup of the page and protester images under a new URL. But the new site is more than just a collage over a screenshot of the targeted website: links from the original page remain live in the new URL.
"We just wanted to provide a way for people anywhere online to show their support," says Jim Pugh, who created Occupy the URL. Pugh is the CTO of Rebuild the Dream, an organization launched in June with similar (and similarly vague) goals to Occupy Wall Street. The goal, he says, is to get more people involved in the movement. OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating. NOVEMBER 5TH BANK TRANSFER DAY. PASS ON. Occupy Columbus Circle with Seeger & Friends October 21, 2011. Carte de l'insurrection mondiale contre l'occupation bancaire. Occupy Wall Street aux États-Unis, les Indignés en Europe...
La colère populaire monte contre le féodalisme bancaire. On appelle ça la "Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation", "GIABO" pour les intimes. Ci-dessous, voici une carte répertoriant toutes les villes et les pays en "résistance" : Vancouver, San Francisco, Mexico San Juan, Stockholm, Londres, Madrid, Berlin, Séoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland... mais également la Mauritanie, le Maroc, l'Algérie, la Tunisie, le Liban, Israël, le Yémen ou l'Irak... Le mouvement est en plein essor. reste que rien ne passe vraiment en France, pourtant naguère un pays contestataire, parfois sanguinaire... Avec les Français (et leur ministre adoré François Baroin), les banquiers ont encore de beaux jours devant eux ! Cliquez sur la carte pour l’agrandir. Les écrivains soutiennent Occupy Wall Street par la plume.