This morning, I headed down to Zuccotti Park, formerly known as Liberty Plaza to witness what I assumed would be a massive celebration of Occupy Wall Street’s two year anniversary. Only about 120 people showed up — at least 30% of them were journalists — and protesters who carried large bags or held signs on […]
In 2011, Michael Pellagatti was one of the thousands of protesters of Occupy Wall Street who gathered in Zucotti Park to rally against the nation’s crippling financial system. In 2015, he continues to roam those streets to keep its memory alive and ensure the message is present in the area the international movement started. For […]
Eight Newark students have taken over the Newark Public School system’s superintendent office, which they have been occupying since Tuesday evening. They will continue to demonstrate, they say, until their demands are met. The sit-in, organized by the Newark Student Union, takes cues from national movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Eric Garner protests. […]
Whatever your thoughts on Occupy Wall Street, the protesters were right about at least one thing: The richest one percent own a disproportionate amount of wealth, and they must be stopped. In a new report released by poverty-fighting charity Oxfam, it’s estimated that by next year the one percent will own more than half of […]
Occupy Wall Street cases are still being settled in courtrooms, more than three years after the protest movement became an international obsession. Three clients of attorney Jeffrey Rothman settled their cases against NYC on Monday and they received a combined total of $142,500. The Daily News reports: The biggest chunk goes to Sandra Fields, 68, of Manhattan, […]
On Monday morning, following the world’s largest environmental march ever, an estimated 1,000-plus people took over Broadway in lower Manhattan for a protest dubbed #FloodWallStreet. Activists wanted to voice their displeasure over what they call the climate crisis, many emphasizing that capitalism is a huge cause for the decimation of our planet. (Click gallery above […]
At about 7:15pm, police finally moved in to arrest environmental-occupy protesters after giving the activists an unprecedented amount of leeway to stage demonstrations — dubbed #FloodWallStreet — on several prime blocks of Broadway for over eight hours. Among those arrested during the sit-in this evening was a man dressed in a fuzzy polar bear costume. […]
Cecily McMillan who allegedly elbowed a cop after he grabbed her breast during Occupy demonstrations on March 17, 2012, was found guilty of assaulting a police officer yesterday afternoon. She was denied bail, and will be held at Rikers Island until her sentencing May 19. Assaulting a police officer carries a maximum sentence of seven years. […]
On March 29th, 2014, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. received an aggressively written, pointed letter detailing weaknesses in the current regulations governing the largest banks’ commodities business. Ten days earlier, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation had received a similar one arguing to strengthen the government’s ability to break up too-big-to-fail banks, […]
According to The Guardian, the Museum of Modern Art has acquired a collection of prints curated by the Booklyn Artists Alliance entitled the “Occuprint Portfolio.” It is a collection of silk-screened artists’ prints by Occupy protesters like Molly Crabapple, Jesus Barraza and John Emerson, among many others. Christophe Cherix, the museum’s chief curator of drawings says that while they were […]
