February 2012
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Solidarity Call For Jateik Reed, Ramarley Graham... →
On Saturday, February 4, 2012, the community of the South Bronx showed solidarity and support for the family’s and victims of recent police brutality attacks, Jateik Reed and Ramarley Graham. The protesters marched from 161st Street and Third Avenue, to the 42nd Precinct where the public let officers know how upset they were about the officers only being subjected to desk duty pending an...
December 2011
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Video: NYPD Wrongfully Arrested Participants of...
Please, view this video of the arrests made in the Bronx, share and invite others… On Saturday, December 3, 2011, Occupy the Bronx was scheduled to conduct its roving General Assembly in solidarity with Morning Glory Garden gardeners at 11 am. However, upon arriving we were preempted by NYPD Captain Garcia and his legal gang – including some in “community” affairs attire – under his...
November 2011
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“I don’t say this lightly, but the consumer is simply an income stream and...”
– Former JPMorgan executive David Mooney.
This is the kind of thing George Bailey would disagree with. (via occupyonline)
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Occupy The Bronx Event Seeking To (Un)Occupy The... →
Occupy The Bronx Members and Supporters held a General Assembly at the Hunts Point Section of the Bronx. Followed by a march through the community to a Stop and Frisk teach-in seeking to (Un)Occupy The Bronx from the NYPD, then to the 41st precinct condemning NYPD practices and racial profiling.
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Police Beating Iraq War Veteran in Oakland
In yet another clash with Riot Police in Oakland, California, another peaceful Iraq War Veteran gets a beating from the Oakland Police. Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California....
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Run (The Occupy Movement Endures)
“Run” by The Verge of Change Single available on iTunes and CD Baby Nothing comes easy, you gotta fight for the right It doesn’t seem fair for tax to reach heights People who cannot even afford to live life And the rich sit back, relax, remain ni Banks no longer a friend, they’re disliked For their blood sucking ways whenever your card swipes Robbed by...
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#OccupyWallStreet – Live streaming since September...
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» BREAKING NEWS – Judge Orders Protesters Be...
For Immediate Release: November 15, 2011 Contact: Yetta Kurland – 917-701-9590 Daniel Alterman – 917-945-2599 Gideon Oliver – 646-263-3495 Margaret Kunstler – 917-331-8012 New York, NY: At around 6 AM on November 15, 2011, attorneys associated with the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild working as the Liberty Park Legal Working Group obtained a temporary restraining...
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A Call to Occupy | OccupyWallSt.org
#OccupyWallStreet Convening 9 a.m. Sixth Avenue and Canal Street. New York, NY — We are a global movement that is reclaiming our humanity and our future. We have stepped into a revitalizing civic process, realizing that we cannot fix our crises isolated from one another. We need collective action, and we need civic space. We are creating that civic space. To occupy is to embody the...
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Occupy Wallstreet Nov. 15th Riot Police Raid,...
November 15, 2011 OWS tear gassing of the kitchen. - Violent arrests pepper spray #OWS #occuppywallstreet Occupy Wall Street November 15, 2011 - Police Eviction NYPD Raid OWS Zuccotti Park Raw Video: Piles of Trash Near Zuccotti Park NYPD raid video: OWS protesters arrested at Zuccotti Park Police raiding Zuccotti Park in the middle of the night: early news reports and footage...
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From The Bronx We Are The 99%
At 161 Street in The Bronx protesting Chase bank…demanding that the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Standing against Corporate Greed! In Solidarity with the Occupation Movement. Occupy The Bronx! Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Everywhere! via youtube.com Posted via email from Street_Visuals | Comment »
Take Back Morning Glory Garden - YouTube
Morning Glory is a garden created and maintained by youths for years on an abandoned lot. The week of Nov. 4th 2011 Housing and Preservation Development (HPD) came to the garden without any advance notice. They began destroying personal property belonging to the community. On Monday, the community were still angered by the disregard of those responsible for the destruction of the garden and...
People's Assembly, Sat. Nov. 5, to be LIVE...
Bail Out the People Movement / South Bronx Community Congress / Labor-Community Forum Contact Information Ramón Jimenez or Dee Knight November 4, 2011 917-517-1320 646-271-4158 LaborCommunityForum@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4, 2011 People’s Assembly Sat. Nov. 5 to be...
Third International Anti-imperialist Conference of...
Third International Anti-imperialist Conference of International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) Convened jointly with Socialist Party of Bangladesh (SPB) On the occasion of 94th Anniversary of November Revolution and 31st Anniversary of Foundation of SPB Dhaka, November 27-29, 2011 A Call 1. Rise up in protest against aggression, occupation, looting...
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Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor /...
Commentary: What is found interesting is that if the root of many issues being faced by the 99% is caused by the two tiered (Democrate and Republican) political system and their Corporate Croonies rooted on economic monopololy what changes will be achieved in this world, if this incredible movement allows the same system to remain in place? Essential Knowledge For A Wall Street Protestor ...
OCCUPY YOUR MORAL GROUND
The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same moral principles: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. An economic system that forces the people to bear the risks of the recklessness of a few powerful profiteers, to assume the burdens of others’ privilege, and to pay the real costs of...
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Just in Pictures...
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October 2011
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PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create...
As was unfortunately expected, the House version of PROTECT IP has been released (embedded below) and it’s ridiculously bad. Despite promises from Rep. Goodlatte, there has been no serious effort to fix the problems of the Senate bill, and it’s clear that absolutely no attention was paid to the significant concerns of the tech industry, legal professionals, investors and...
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With Generators Taken By The City - Time's Up!...
Time’s Up! New York City’s Direct Action Environmental group has been working with Occupy Wall Street since its inception. Recently, they have focused on replacing all the gas generators in Liberty Park with Pedal Power Generators. We currently have one up and running, but need your help to build 11 more and power the whole park!We’ve received funding for 5 bikes but need...
Sgt. Shamar Thomas Is Back And He Brought The...
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators marched in a show of solidarity with Occupy Oakland Wednesday night. Leading the march front and center was none other than Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas sporting his uniform proudly. At some point during this chaotic protest due to the overwhelming police presence Sgt. Thomas becomes lost in the crowd after the usual suspects (NYPD) hammered into the...
OWS Is For Real – America Has Lost Its Moral...
by Allen L Roland America has lost its moral bearings! Recent polls indicate that if Occupy Wall Street (OWS) were a candidate for President, it would decisively beat any candidate from either party. 86% of Americans think that Wall Street and its lobbyists have far too much power in Washington and those Americans are taking to the streets demanding real moral change. As I have mentioned...
Video: Chief of Oakland Police denies using flash...
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Footage of Scott Olsen being shot in the head with...
via Vimeo. This footage is proof that Scott Olsen was shot in the face by police without provocation during the Occupy Oakland march on Tuesday October 25. The moment leading up to the shooting, Olsen was standing completely still. He was then hit in the head with a tear gas canister, which is potentially fatal. Also, no rocks or bottles were thrown before Olsen was shot, contrary to...
New Internet Blacklist Legislation will thwart...
This is a friendly message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. View it in a web browser. Dear Friends, The Internet Blacklist Legislation is back and it’s worse than ever. Introduced today, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) seeks to authorize both the executive branch and private parties to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to –...
Meet the 0.1 Percent: The War Profiteers
MEET The 0.1 Percent: The War Profiteers While the Occupy movement targets the 1 Percent, we want to introduce you to the elite among the gang of superrich: the war profiteers. War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.1 percent of income earners in the U.S., and they use their corporations’ massive lobbying dollars...
Video: Jon Stewart Asks "What The [Bleep] Happened...
Godzilla would warrant such a strong police response Last night, Occupy Wall Street protesters marched in solidarity with protesters injured at Occupy Oakland this week. And while things were calm for the most part here, people are still trying to make heads-and-tails out of what happened in Oakland, where police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, flash-bangs and bean bag projectiles at...
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Police Attack Oakland Solidarity March - NYC...
via youtube GENERAL STRIKE & MASS DAY OF ACTION – NOVEMBER 2 - Occupy Oakland Below is the proposal passed by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on Wednesday October 26, 2011 in reclaimed Oscar Grant Plaza. 1607 people voted. 1484 voted in favor of the resolution, 77 abstained and 46 voted against it, passing the proposal at 96.9%. The General Assembly operates on a modified...
AMERICA TODAY: Heartbreaking Pictures From New...
Doug Hardman wakes up every morning with a song in his head—a vague memory of his days on stage. Inside his tepee in the woods outside Lakewood, NJ, at the homeless Tent City, the roosters wake early and the mornings are already cooler. A musician who lost his Florida home in the housing crisis, Hardman says he floats in and out of Tent City, that he’s proud of his kids, and misses the...
New guidance for law enforcement personnel from...
Responding to Persons with Mental Illness By Abigail S. Tucker, Psy.D., Vincent B. Van Hasselt, Ph.D., Gregory M. Vecchi, Ph.D., and Samuel L. Browning, M.S. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin October 2011 While police officers may not consider providing services to persons with mental illness one of their primary functions, they respond to challenges and dangers that ordinary citizens and...
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To the Occupy movement – the occupiers of Tahrir...
Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park, New York. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images To all those across the world currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it’s our turn to pass on some advice. Indeed, we...
BREAKING: Oakland Police Use Rubber Bullets, Flash...
Late last night, Oakland police, under orders from the city, began surrounding the Occupy Oakland encampment in preparation to oust the protesters from Frank Ogawa Plaza. Approximately an hour ago, hundreds of Oakland police officers raided the camp. Dressed in riot gear, the police used rubber bullets, flash grenades, and gas canisters to forcibly evict and/or arrest the demonstrators who...
Cops Defy Orders to Arrest Hundreds of Occupy...
ALBANY — In a tense battle of wills, state troopers and Albany police held off making arrests of dozens of protesters near the Capitol over the weekend even as Albany’s mayor, under pressure from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration, had urged his police chief to...
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Wall Street protest plans global rally ahead of...
Canada-based Adbusters wants the Occupy Wall Street protest movement against economic inequality to take to the streets to call for a 1 percent tax on such deals ahead of a November 3-4 summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in France. “Let’s send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3 trillion easy money that’s sloshing around the global casino...
CIA Kidnapped, Tortured "the Wrong Guy," Says...
by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Video Interview and Report Former CIA Operative Glenn Carle. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA’s clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn Carle’s office in December 2002 and presented the veteran CIA operative with an urgent proposal. ...
Native Americans Share History of Oppression...
The fall temperatures were mild but the rhetoric was heated as some of the 1,000-strong Occupy Denver participants heard Glenn Morris, a leader of the American Indian Movement – Colorado (AIM), condemn centuries of occupation. “‘Occupied’ doesn’t always have a good connotation for us,” he said to loud applause. “We’ve been ‘occupied’ for 519 years.” He spoke in the...
End of Twitter/Demand Progress
Friends, A bit of an emergency: The rumor all over Capitol Hill is that the House version of the Internet Blacklist Bill will be introduced this week, probably on Wednesday. Please click here to urge your Congressmember to NOT COSPONSOR the legislation. Our allies on the Hill say the bill’s so bad that it could effectively destroy Youtube, Twitter, and other sites that rely on...
Noam Chomsky at Occupy Boston (Video's 1-3)
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Courts Rule US Government Above the Law
via grtv.ca Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has declined to hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videos that it had been ordered by the courts to preserve. The case revolves around 92 videos, depicting hundreds of hours of interrogations of detainees. The tapes allegedly contained evidence of torture, and the CIA was ordered by numerous courts to produce the videos in relation...
Joe Rogan on Occupy Wallstreet
Joe Rogan shares his thoughts about the Occupy Wallstreet protests on his podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience. Podcast Episodes sampled: 141: Joe Rogan & Duncan Trussel 147: Joe Rogan, Redban & Duncan Trussel 148: Joe Rogan, Redban & Kevin Pereira Download the Pocast For Free on Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272 Song used:...
Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The...
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The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us – It’s...
Ampedstatus.org Editor’s Note: The following post includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” Release Date: 9.28.11 We have endured financial oppression for long enough. In a time of national crisis and shared sacrifice, the richest one-tenth of one percent of the population cannot...
Prolonged solitary confinement is torture, says...
18 Oct 2011 | Posted by Sandra Guy Prolonged solitary confinement is torture, says expert Listen / Download Juan Mendez Long term solitary confinement in excess of 15 days could amount to torture and should be banned, says Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Quoting scientific studies, Mendez says...
September 2011
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SEE NYPD White Shirt Order Other NYPD: "Everybody...
At 1:14 you can hear a police officer say “Hey guys, everybody lock somebody up,” talking to a bunch of other police officers after protestors left Union Square on Sept. 24. This is just after the police arbitrarily arrested Glenn Davis Jr., as seen here . This is just before things got really ugly at the intersection of W. 12 Street and University Place, as seen here and here...
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Demonstration in Solidarity with Occupy Wall...
via youtube TIME: Friday, September 30 · 5:30pm - 7:00pm Place: One Police Plaza (NYPD Headquarters) We the undersigned condemn recent police attacks against the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations underway in Lower Manhattan. The NYPD has: -pepper sprayed people in custody -violently arrested non violent demonstrators -curtailed the expressive activities of demonstrators in Liberty Square...
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PEACEFUL FEMALE PROTESTORS PENNED IN THE STREET...
While on a peaceful march near Union Square in downtown Manhattan, multiple female protestors were penned up in the street by orange mesh baricade, then maliciously maced. The women were peaceful and unarmed. They were secured by barricade with an overwhelming police presence. And they were then sprayed directly in the face with pressurized mace… WeAreTheOther99 continues to...
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PACK THE COURTROOM - ORGANIZERS ARRESTED...
PLEASE COME TO ONE CENTRE STREET TODAY AT 7PM - JOE & BRANDON ARE TWO MXGM MEMBERS WHO ALSO PARTICIPATE IN COPWATCH SO WE NEED TO BE THERE FOR THEM IF AT ALL POSSIBLE - THEY SHOULD BE GETTING ARRAIGNED AROUND THIS TIME AND WE NEED TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR THEM AND SHOW THAT WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT TROY DAVIS’ UNJUST EXECUTION Joe will be arraigned at Midtown Community Court sometime...
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Occupy Wall Street Activists Disrupt Sotheby's Art...
Activists from the ongoing occupation in lower Manhattan called “Occupy Wall Street,” infiltrated an art auction at the famous Sotheby’s auction house and gallery to give voice to the demands of the Occupy Wall Street movement and to stand in solidarity with Sotheby’s workers who have been locked out in an ongoing labor dispute. Video of the action is below: ...