Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street. Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally Lasn will run a page with his own looped cursive scrawl on it. From this absorbing work, Lasn acquired the habit of avoiding the news after dark. So it was not until the morning of Tuesday, November 15th, that he learned that hundreds of police officers had massed in lower Manhattan at 1 A.M. and cleared the camp at Zuccotti Park. If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest—Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began thinking of reasons that this might be a good thing.
“Eerie timing!” White reached Lasn by telephone shortly before nine. My Visit to Occupy Wall Street's Bat Cave. The main hallway of "the Occupied office" <a href=" Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Near the top of an office building at a secret address on Broadway in Lower Manhattan there’s a door hung with a yellow placard, reading, “This is a good sign.” Open that door and you’ll meet a man sitting at a folding table behind a Toshiba netbook. “It’s obviously kind of a hub where information flows though,” Nathan Stueve, a member of OWS’ press team, tells me. Details about the Occupied office are hard to come by, a reflection of the movement’s post-eviction shift from radical transparency into something more akin to stealth mode. A member of the OWS Workspace Affinity Group, which oversees the space, declined to give me a tour or answer questions about it.
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Protest. OCCUPY WALL STREET: Analyzing Their List Of Grievances... On Friday, the two-week old protest group finally issued a manifesto detailing what many are calling their "demands. " But the manifesto isn't a list of demands so much as a list of grievances. Some of these grievances, it turns out, are perfectly reasonable. Others are dubious. Still others are ridiculous. The protestors still haven't stated what they want. Here's an annotated copy of the manifesto...
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice [good start—the bailout WAS mass injustice—I'm still pissed-off about it], we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people [unfair blanket smear], self-interest over justice [also an unfair smear], and oppression over equality [oh, please—Procter & Gamble makes toothpaste—it's not their job to worry about "equality"], run our governments ["run" is a bit strong, but "influence" is certainly fair].
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.