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Occupy Wall Street returns for one-year anniversary as NYPD report arrests
Police in New York have made “multiple” arrests during marches and protests ushering in the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Around 300 people were estimated to have taken part in a rally Saturday, which saw activists head towards Zuccotti Park – the lower Manhattan site which served…
Twitter hands over Occupy protester messages to prosecutors
Twitter has relented in its fight with New York prosecutors to hand over three months worth of messages from an Occupy Wall Street protester ahead of the activist’s criminal trial. Twitter had argued that the posts belong to Malcolm Harris and as such it would be violating fourth amendment privacy…
Protesters blow whistles against New York police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy
New Yorkers blew whistles Thursday in protest against the police department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy aimed at getting guns off the streets. At small protests in Harlem, Manhattan and other corners of the city dozens of people blew on whistles handed out by organizers to show their opposition to what they…
Jay-Z beefs with Occupy Wall Street
Jay-Z is beefing with Occupy Wall Street. Less than a year after he started wearing and selling Occupy-related T-shirts, the rapper has spoken out against the movement, criticising protesters for not being clear about their complaints. “What are you fighting for?” Jay-Z asked in a new interview with the New York Times. “I don’t…
Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs
When the local offshoot of Occupy Wall Street began a five-month encampment in Austin, Texas last fall, the Austin police assigned at least three undercover officers to infiltrate the group and gather information on potentially illegal actions. According to the Austin Statesman, court documents and interviews show that the infiltrators…
Occupy Wall Street plans to block NYSE
Occupy Wall Street will mark its first anniversary this September by trying to blockade the New York Stock Exchange and perhaps carry out citizen’s arrests of bankers, organizers of the social protest movement said Thursday. Occupy has seen a steep drop in support since its founding a year ago when…
Twitter appeals court on Occupy protestor’s disorderly conduct charge
Twitter has lodged an appeal against a New York judge’s decision that it must hand over detailed information related to an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct. In July, Twitter was ordered to hand over almost three months’ worth of messages and other details related to the account of activist Malcolm Harris. Harris was…
Pro-Bradley Manning protesters occupy Obama campaign’s Oakland headquarters
A rally on Thursday demanding justice for whistleblower Bradley Manning was followed by a group of at least sixty protesters showing up at the Obama campaign headquarters in Oakland, California. According to the Washington Whispers blog at U.S. News, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War handed a letter…
Protesters interrupt Ryan in Iowa: ‘Stop the war on the middle class!’
Speaking from the same stage in Iowa where Mitt Romney once declared that “corporation are people,” presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan found himself on Monday being interrupted by protesters who accused him of waging a “war on the middle class.” During an stump speech at the Iowa State…
HSBC seeks to evict Hong Kong ‘Occupy’ protesters
Global banking giant HSBC on Monday sought legal permission to evict a handful of protesters camped outside its Hong Kong headquarters, one of the last remnants of the “Occupy” movement in Asia. The bank named the “occupiers of the ground floor” of its downtown office tower as the defendants in…
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