The “Occupy Wall Street” protests in the financial district took a dramatic turn on Saturday when protesters tried to march across the Brooklyn Bridge. When police arrested 700 of the demonstrators, the event quickly turned into one of the largest arrests of non-violent protesters in recent history. [youtube]ezYoxIYJjSo[/youtube] Some protesters […]
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https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/03-6 The protests that began in Wisconsin this year, and which now also fill the streets of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and this week, Washington D.C., have gotten the attention of the American political class. And how could they not? 2011 is becoming a remake of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, […]
Scathing, blistering, truth-telling op-ed from columnist David Weidner. This is awesome.
The conversation that began on Wall Street on September 17 has swept northward to Boston, and inspired a powerful national movement. [youtube]TUi6CWGPb3I[/youtube] Joining with nearly 100 actions in cities from Los Angeles to Dallas, Chicago,and Washington D.C., concerned citizens have come to speak out for greater economic equality.
The largest crowd so far. Read the rest here
“There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the […]
[youtube]d39biIxeuss[/youtube] An epic story of about 20 families that uprooted from suburbia and made their homes for good in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the U.S. Lykins Neighborhood 64127 Inner City KCMO to invest thier lives into the youth and poor. We’ve seen it all, yet together as […]
https://gawker.com/5843908/anonymous-leaks-personal-details-of-cop-who-pepper+sprayed-wall-street-protesters Anonymous is on the hunt for the cop featured in a video pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters for no apparent reason. They say they’ve found him, and are circulating a document with his and his family’s personal information. This could get ugly. According to a document posted on Pastebin.com, the cop […]
https://www.businessinsider.com/occupy-wall-street-is-getting-ugly-2011-9 [youtube]moD2JnGTToA[/youtube]
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