Tiananmen protest leader thrilled by ‘Occupy Boston’ demonstration
By Eric W. DolanWednesday, October 12, 2011 20:01 EDT Chai Ling, former commander-in-chief of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student movement, on Wednesday visited “Occupy Boston” protesters to provide them with encouragement. “Without pressure to provide a public space for these protests to continue, the movement will not be sustained,” she said in a statement.
OWS: 'Occupy' protesters prepare for winter
Winter is not a good season for an outdoor protest. Just ask any union member who has picketed in Minneapolis in, say, January. So when the cold began to descend on the Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in cities around the United States, conventional wisdom had it that their movement would wither. Skip to next paragraph
Understanding Occupy Wall Street
Critics of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement complain that the protesters don’t have a policy agenda and, therefore, don’t stand for anything. They're wrong. The key isn’t what protesters are for but rather what they’re against -- the gaping inequality that has poisoned our economy, our politics and our nation. In America today, 400 people have more wealth than the bottom 150 million combined.
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. Protest movements that grow into something important tend to have a sense of humor. I can’t help but love that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called the protests “growing mobs” and complained about fellow travelers who “have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.” This would be the same Eric Cantor who praised the Tea Party movement in its raucous, confrontational, foaming-at-the-mouth infancy as “an organic movement” that was “about the people.”
The Occupation Movement has Broken Through a Wall in America
The Occupation Movement has Broken Through a Wall in America Corporate Greed is on the Table by DAVE LINDORFFCounterPunch.org October 7-9, 2011 As I headed out in my ’94 Volvo to drive from Philadelphia to Washington for the first day of October2011.org, the occupation of Washington, I spotted some trouble: the ABS warning light on my dashboard panel was lit. Stopping at my neighborhood mechanic to get his okay for the drive, I found him busy inflating the tire of a new white Mercedes.
Thom Hartmann: Conversations wtih Great Minds - Naomi Klein Occupy Wall Street. part 1
For tonight's "Conversation with Great Minds" - I am joined by award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and internationally best-selling author - Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s and reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is also syndicated internationally. Her writing has appeared in dozens of other major newspapers - including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The Los Angeles Times. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s magazine earned her the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College in Canada. In 2007, her book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" became a number one international best-seller.
Kanye West makes silent stand with ‘Occupy Wall Street’
By Andrew JonesTuesday, October 11, 2011 9:05 EDT Occupy Wall Street received an unexpected visit Monday afternoon by music star Kanye West. Accompanied by hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, the rapper made his way to Zuccotti Park to have a first-hand view of the demonstrations. He declined to take questions from the media, letting the former head of Def Jam Records speak for him. “Kanye has been a big supporter spiritually of this movement, and he’s just here to stand with the people” Simmons said.
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Occupy Wall Street Sparks Great New Mass Movement
The Occupy Wall Street protest is the spark of a great new mass movement for economic justice, for economic democracy. This movement is finally answering the question, “How long are Americans going to continue to roll over and just take all this abuse?” And the answer: “No longer.” Michael Moore, in his movie “Capitalism: A Love Story,” singlehandedly put crime tape all around Wall Street. But now hundreds and thousands of protesters are symbolically doing it, too. They recognize, as he did, that the bankers on Wall Streets are criminals who destroyed the economy and thereby robbed millions of Americans of their jobs and life savings.
