Occupy Wall Street - October 1st March: Women Being Arrested on the Bridge. Building on WikiLeaks. THERE was no shortage of commentators forecasting the imminent demise of whistleblower website WikiLeaks following Monday's announcement by founder Julian Assange that the organisation was halting its flow of leaked documents to concentrate on fund-raising.
The urgent funding drive - caused by the banking embargo that has cut off 95 per cent of WikiLeaks funding - combined with publicity surrounding Assange's legal difficulties (including sexual molestation questions he faces in Sweden, as well as US efforts to pursue WikiLeaks for espionage), have overshadowed another, quiet but far-reaching, development. Throughout the turmoil of the past 18 months, one constant has been the exponential growth of WikiLeaks' global support base. Followers of the website's Twitter account have increased nearly tenfold to 1.2 million. Julian Assange shows up at Occupy London wearing an Anonymous mask. Saturday saw over 1,000 cities worldwide swept by Occupy Protests, as the movement has gone global, and London was certainly no exception.
London’s financial district attracted over 3,000 protesters, among them none other than Julian Assange, taking part in Occupy London Stock Exchange, or OccupyLSX. Your Anon News posted images of Julian Assange arriving at the protest sporting an Anonymous mask, along with images without, proving that it was in fact the Wikileaks founder. The photographs, snapped by photographer Mike Kemp, tell part of the story of how Assange’s appearance at Occupy London was met.
Assange stated that a police officer forced him to remove the mask, and as a consequence, in a seemingly impromptu speech to one group of protesters, Assange spoke about anonymity, saying: Under a new section used, people cannot wear masks in London, they cannot wear facial coverings in London, and that basic anonymity is denied to people. Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask. The comic-book writer Alan Moore is not usually surprised when his creations find a life for themselves away from the printed page.
Strips he penned in the 1980s and 90s have been fed through the Hollywood patty-maker, never to his great satisfaction, resulting in both critical hits and terrible flops; fads for T-shirts, badges and shouted slogans have emerged from characters and conceits he has dreamed up for titles such as Watchmen and From Hell. Global Revolution Underway. Saturday's global rally in over 600 towns and cities worldwide was a momentous event.
A month ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to pierce the veil of the matrix. The puncture has now become an unsealable rip in the fabric of Empire. Gas is escaping rapidly from the balloon. We are seeing the inception of a global insurrection that will not end until the dominant system is overthrown and replaced through a planetary metamorphosis. The mainstream media continues to play down the Occupy phenomenon, critiquing its lack of specific demands. Which-costs-more_web_graphic1.png (PNG Image, 439x324 pixels) Image as interest: How the Pepper Spray Cop could change the trajectory of Occupy Wall Street.
In his Times column this morning, David Carr wonders about the future of the Occupy Wall Street movement and, specifically, its fate as an ongoing topic of mass-media conversation.
“Occupy Wall Street left many all revved up with no place to go,” he writes. Which is a problem, traditional-press-coverage wise, because: “In addition to the 5 W’s — who, what, when, where and why — the media are obsessed with a sixth: what’s next? Occupy Wall Street, for all its appeal as a story, is very hard to roll forward.” That could be true (though “very hard,” of course, is quite different from “impossible”). And it could also be true that the features that may give Occupy, potentially, enduring power as a movement — its malleability, its permissiveness, its ability to act as an interface as well as an event — might also be the forces that, day to day, challenge its ability to convene attention.
Arianna Huffington: Pepper-Spraying Occupy: An Assault on Our Democracy. This weekend, while listening to an NPR story about police using tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a demonstration, I was actually surprised when it turned out the newscaster was talking about Tahrir Square -- I had assumed it was about another brutal response to a peaceful protest here at home.
All across the country -- most recently on the campus of UC Davis -- a war is being waged. This isn't a battle over parks and tents and sleeping bags. Though many of our leaders don't seem to realize it, this is a battle about their credibility -- even their legitimacy -- about how they represent us, about whom their real allegiance is to. Their misguided response to the Occupy protests has actually proved the point of the protesters more than any sign or chant could.
Welcome — Department of English, UC Davis. Becoming Mr. Babypants. I was new to twitter when sometime in April 2011 I got a mention from @usdayofrage.
I was so excited someone was reading my tweets, that I followed them immediately. Having lost my job and in the midst of losing my home, I had more than a little rage going on myself. Imagine my dismay when @usdayofrage’s idea of flaming rhetoric was “one citizen. one dollar. one vote. Breaking News: NYPD Police Officers cracks the head of a peaceful protester #N17. Occupy Wall Street Moved Out Of Zuccotti A Long Time Ago. Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m. Tuesday. Police Oust Occupy Wall Street Protesters at Zuccotti Park. Zuccotti Park Eviction: NYPD Orders Occupy Wall Street Protesters To Temporarily Evacuate Park [LATEST UPDATES]
Share + Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez Arrested, Injured at Occupy Wall Street Raid. Paul Krugman. Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics. Mr. Anon2world: #occupychicago @OccupyChic... SOLIDARITY WITH #OCCUPYWALLSTREET. Here Are The Four Charts That Explain What The Protesters Are Angry About... Last week, we published a chart-essay that illustrates the extreme inequality that has developed in the US economy over the past 30 years.
The charts explain what the Wall Street protesters are angry about. They also explain why the protesters' message is resonating with the country at large. Here are the four key points: 1. Occupy movement goes global - in pictures. Share photos and videos on Twitter. Am. Occupy Sydney protesters hold firm, vow to stay. PROTESTERS inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement are vowing to stay put in the heart of Sydney's financial district, despite arrests and losing their camping gear.
About 200 of them set up camp outside the Reserve Bank of Australia in Martin Place on Saturday, launching a day of "global revolution" against corporate excess. But as night fell, police moved among them, removing tents, mattresses and other gear. Am. Jopauca. Someone find out this guy's badge number. He's gett. Unions back Occupy Wall Street movement. Union leaders say they feel vindicated by the Occupy Wall Street protests and are doing all they can to keep the movement going. Years before the rallies began, union leaders frequently blamed the banking giants for the country’s economic woes. Labor officials have criticized CEOs’ large compensation packages; pushed for a financial transactions tax; and called for Wall Street bailout funds to be used for small business loans.
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told The Hill that she found the protesters to be an “incredible inspiration” that have highlighted issues like pay inequality and social injustice. Occupy London Stock Exchange 15 Oct - storify.com. At today's assembly on the steps of St Paul's, #occupylsx agreed the initial statement below. Please note, it's a draft statement at this stage and it will always be a work in progress. 1 The current system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust. We need alternatives; this is where we work towards them. 2 We are of all ethnicities, backgrounds, genders, generations, sexualities dis/abilities and faiths. 3 We refuse to pay for the banks' crisis.
Pepper Spray Used at San Diego 'Occupy' Protest. Independent reporting of #OccupyWallStreet. NYC cops clash with, arrest 'Occupy' protesters - US news - Life. NEW YORK — Anti-Wall Street protesters exulted Friday after beating back a plan to clear them from the park they have occupied for the past month. But that didn't prevent a brief clash with police that led to 15 arrests. The showdown in New York came as tensions were rising in several U.S. cities over the spreading protests, with numerous arrests and scattered clashes between demonstrators and police.
The owners of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan had announced plans to temporarily evict the hundreds of protesters at 7 a.m. Friday so that the grounds could be powerwashed. But the protesters feared it was a pretext to break up the demonstration, and they vowed to stand their ground, raising the prospect of clashes with police. Occupy Wall Street’s Victory: It has shaken up American politics. Here’s what it should do next.
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Occupy Wall Street has already won, perhaps not the victory most of its participants want, but a momentous victory nonetheless. It has already altered our political debate, changed the agenda, shifted the discussion in newspapers, on cable TV, and even around the water cooler. Dustin M. Slaughter's Photo. Legal loophole enables Occupy Wall Street camp. Brookfield's Letter to NYPD asking to "clear" Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters. This sums it all up #occupywallstreet #ows #occupyhouston #oc. Chaos in the Land of Oz.
Wizard of Oz : I am the great and powerful… Wizard of Oz : … Wizard of Oz. {*style:<b> </b>*} Hi Russ. Occupy Wall Street protesters plan 'Millionaires March' to Rupert Murdoch's, tycoons' NYC homes. Marcus Santos for News The ranks of the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park show no sign of shrinking. Occupy Wall Street sympathizers take over Statehouse lawn » Local News » Pharos-Tribune. Occupy Wall Street: A timely call for justice. I love that when Occupy Wall Street was denied permission to use bullhorns, demonstrators came up with an alternative straight out of Monty Python, or maybe “The Flintstones”: Have everyone within earshot repeat a speaker’s words, verbatim and in unison, so the whole crowd can hear.
It works — and sounds tremendously silly. 1,000 Jews gather at Wall St. for #occupy-yomkippur Kol Nidre. When new media activist Daniel Sieradski, a.k.a. the Orthodox Anarchist, a.k.a. Robert Steele: Trip Report – Occupy Wall Street 6 October 2011 – Second American Revolution is Real. Robert David STEELE Vivas I visited New York City 6-7 October 2011. Occupy Chicago grows and grows apart. When I visited the Federal Reserve building earlier this week, Occupy Chicago had grown. Plenty of opinions about spreading 'Occupy Wall Street' protests.
Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about the Occupy Wall Street movement and related demonstrations now headed into their fourth week. Robert Steele: Day of Rage = Electoral Reform & Integrity Plus General RECAP on Purple Public & Third Party Rising. Puerto Rico. The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world. Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now. Occupy Wall Street protest spreads to Las Vegas. "We Are the 99 Percent" Creators Revealed. Obama Shows Support for #OccupyWallStreet. CNN: Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Wall Street protests ramp up in New York, elsewhere. Adeeperperspective. Map: Occupy Wall Street Spreads Nationwide, Major Unions Sign On. Income Inequality In The U.S. Is Worse Than In Egypt. Are the NYPD and FBI Trying to Frame Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street? 50 Portraits From Occupy Wall Street (Slideshow) I've herded steer. This predicament does not bode well. More students marching chanting "who's streets? Our.
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