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.
And evidence is now emerging that the website has played an important part in seeding and enabling the protest movement Occupy Wall Street and its international offshoots. 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. Assange went on to say: Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask | Books | The Observer. 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.
"I suppose I've gotten used to the fact," says the 58-year-old, "that some of my fictions percolate out into the material world. " But Moore has been caught off-guard in recent years, and particularly in 2011, by the inescapable presence of a certain mask being worn at protests around the world.
A sallow, smirking likeness of Guy Fawkes – created by Moore and the artist David Lloyd for their 1982 series V for Vendetta. "That smile is so haunting," says Moore. Alan Moore at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2010. 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. Specific demands are pointless, because the entire political, social, and economic system in which we exist has rotted out from the inside. As someone who wrote about the prophecies of indigenous cultures such as the Maya and the Hopi, I believe the time we are in is one of constantly accelerating transformation. As of yet, we lack the language to express the new world that supersedes the old one, even though we feel it in our hearts.
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.
Particularly at the level of the mass culture. But that may well have just changed. Exactly. 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.
Sure, you can clear the protesters out from this or that park in the middle of the night, or send in riot-geared police to clear a campus sidewalk, but that doesn't mean you've won. Quite the opposite. Welcome — Department of English, UC Davis. Occupying History | 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.
#usdor” PUH-LEEZE! No. US Day of Rage was started by Alexa O’Brian – a fierce advocate for free and fair elections and the removal of corporate influence from our political systems. Did you know that the Supreme Court of the United States can’t tell the difference between me and GE? When I started hearing about ALEC, I was like, c’mon! After learning about ALEC, I found it humorous that the FBI put US Day of Rage under surveillance because of support from hacktvist group Anonymous.
But Alexa – the woman behind the moniker that began my education was rarely in the limelight – at least to the best of my knowledge. Ms. 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. The overwhelming sentiment expressed by the occupiers: This changes nothing. They said they may find another spot (although that was proving difficult after eviction from a backup location). Or they may be physically disbanded. But it was hard to find anyone who said he thinks the movement will break up. That's because Occupy Wall Street, which began as a global online phenomenon, had continued to grow well beyond the park. "This is a setback for Occupy Wall Street," said Bill Dobbs, a member of the PR team in front of barricades blocking the freshly scrubbed park.
In fact, the Occupation has already done what was intended. Encampments will likely still come. 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 + Via HuffPost Miami: When an Occupy Miami member offered evicted protestors vacant apartments in a building he owns in Downtown Miami's Overtown neighborhood, it seemed like the perfect solution: the 'Peace City' space would provide headquarters for the movement and shelter a small faction of the group's most vulnerable members.
But it hasn't gone well. Other tenants say the building has become a cesspool of drug use and violence while non-resident Occupy Miami members are trying to distance themselves from the 'radicals' -- all while the two factions are wrestling for control over Occupy Miami's social media sites and future plans. From the Miami New Times: The feud between the Overtown occupiers and more mainstream members has only gotten worse. OWS reports via its website: Occupy Long Beach is defending the mother's home. The woman had the apparent seizure has been identified by the New York Observer as Cecily McMillan: To read the full story, go here. - Show quoted text - Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez Arrested, Injured at Occupy Wall Street Raid | PolitickerNY.
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. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes.
His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. At the same time, Mr. Anon2world: #occupychicago @OccupyChic... #OccupySacto | Occupy Sacramento | 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. Unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression (with the exception of a brief blip in the early 1980s). 2. At the same time, corporate profits are at an all-time high, both in absolute dollars and as a share of the economy. 3. 4.
Three charts illustrate this: The top earners are capturing a higher share of the national income than they have anytime since the 1920s: CEO pay and corporate profits have skyrocketed in the past 20 years, "production worker" pay has risen 4%. After adjusting for inflation, average earnings haven't increased in 50 years.
It took the country 15-20 years to pull out of that slump and fix the imbalances. Occupy movement goes global - in pictures | World news. 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.
"We'll still stay but we'll be more uncomfortable," campaign organiser Josh Lees told AAP this morning. "A bunch of stuff was just taken. "Police moved in without any notice, no discussion ... and just started grabbing stuff and throwing it into a truck which they then drove off. " Despite the setback they intend staying indefinitely. They met this mornign to thrash out the "next phase" of the protest.
Numbers at the site are expected to swell around midday (AEDT) when a separate mining protest is staged. The behaviour of the Occupy Sydney protesters has been praised by police. 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.
“We have been talking about the increasing inequality in this county for a long time. I think what’s wonderful about the Occupy movement is that they captured this with … ‘We are the 99 percent.’ I feel like what we are doing is echoing a very smart thing that the occupiers began with,” Henry said. Labor has pitched in on the political side. 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. We stand together with occupations all over the world. 3 We refuse to pay for the banks' crisis. 4 We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable. 5 We want regulators to be genuinely independent of the industries they regulate. 6 We support the strike on the 30th November and the student action on the 9th November, and actions to defend our health services, welfare, education and employment and to stop wars and arms dealing. 7 We want structural change towards authentic global equality. 9 This is what democracy looks like. 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. Just minutes before the appointed hour, the word came down that the park's owners, Brookfield Office Properties, had postponed the cleanup.
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Occupy Chicago grows and grows apart. Plenty of opinions about spreading 'Occupy Wall Street' protests. Robert Steele: Day of Rage = Electoral Reform & Integrity Plus General RECAP on Purple Public & Third Party Rising. Occupy|Puerto Rico. The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world | Micah White and Kalle Lasn. 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. Pair Networks - World Class Web Hosting - Account Control Center. Occupy Wall Street Protests Rock New York City. AmpedStatus - Knowledge Is Power. Occupy D.C. protesters plan big rally for Thursday. Wall Photos.