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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…
WATCH LIVE: Occupy protesters return to Zuccotti Park
Demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement returned to New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Wednesday, where the protest movement against corporate influence on American politics first began in September of 2011. Watch live video, courtesy of “Occupy Eye,” below: Live video for mobile from Ustream…
Chomsky: Occupy movement can’t compete with ‘massive corporate propaganda’
In an interview with The Guardian’s Gary Younge, veteran activist Noam Chomsky expressed his thoughts about the Occupy movement and whether it can be expected to have any impact on United States politics. “It was a great surprise,” said of Occupy Wall Street’s explosion on the scene last fall. “There…
15 year old twins win CNN award for video on Occupy Wall Street
A video that fifteen year old twins Anna and Rachel Otto created on “Occupy Wall Street, Day 23″ has won them an award for “Compelling Imagery” in the Second Annual CNN iReport Awards. In an interview with CNN’s Randi Kaye, the two girls described how they had put together a…
WATCH LIVE: ‘Occupy’ protests Bank of America shareholders meeting
Occupy Wall Street portesters are targeting Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting today in Charlotte, N.C., in which they’re demonstrating against the nation’s second-largest bank’s taking of taxpayer bailout money, according to reporting from Reuters. Protestors chanted, “We are the 99 percent.” Occupiers have also told The Huffington Post they…
Twitter challenges subpoena seeking user data
NEW YORK — Twitter is challenging a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street in a case described by a civil liberties group as a major test of online freedom of speech. The motion filed Monday in a…
Ohio bomb plot allegedly hatched by ‘Occupy Cleveland’ members
Four of the five self-described anarchists arrested this week after allegedly attempting to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio were reportedly frequent members of “Occupy Cleveland.” Of the five self-described anarchists arrested this week after allegedly attempting to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, four were reportedly members…
Occupy May Day protesters sense chance to regain autumn momentum
About 80 Occupy Wall Street organisers are gathered in the stuffy basement of a lower Manhattan office building to discuss the final stages of the movement’s most anticipated action this year. On a pair of tables in the corner of the room sit stacks of Occupy literature – magazines and…
Banks cooperating with police to track ‘Occupy’ protesters
The nation’s largest financial institutions are preparing for the upcoming Occupy Wall Street’s May 1st demonstrations by communicating with police, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. Brian McNary, director of global risk at Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, said that banks from America and overseas are working together to “identify, map…
Dana Loesch Is Still Lying About #OWS and Rape
Um, CNN? One of your contributors is saying stupid shit again: CNN contributor and blogger Dana Loesch said Monday at the Tea Party Tax Day rally in Chicago that women “get raped” for supporting liberals and progressives like the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. “What did women receive for supporting the…
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