Along with the dozens of (popular) websites that went black today, hundreds of people gathered in New York City to protest against SOPA and PIPA, two egregious bills that Congress was actually thinking about passing, that would have serious negative implications for the free speech, creative expression and the general spirit of the internet. Read more »
Fox News attempted to cover the post-election-fraud protests in Moscow, but decided that the truth wasn’t exciting enough, so they spiced it up with some footage of the riots in Athens, thinking that no one would notice the fucking palm trees. Read more »
Just like at Liberty Plaza, police barricades have been placed at Baruch College to limit the movement of people, however, in this case, it’s not Occupy Wall Street protesters who are being restricted, but students. Read more »
Fifteen people were arrested during a protest against tuition hikes that spilled into the lobby of a Baruch College building where CUNY trustees were meeting to discuss the increase. Students were warned to leave the area and many of them sat down instead. Read more »
So, there’s currently a guy dangling from the Tappan Zee Bridge with a banner protesting a Rockland County politician who you probably never heard of, causing lots of traffic and the mobilization of rescue personnel. And it’s all happening in real time. Check out the slow-swinging action. UPDATE: After a brief dip, he’s in custody.
For the first few weeks this place was “occupied,” you could spend a couple of hours here and be satisfied that you were a small piece of a valuable equation. If enough freshly shaved middle-class Joes stood with the hard-core “protesters” who were camping on the plaza, Wall Street’s fattest cats would look down at the increasing number of well-kept bodies massing on their doorstep and think: Uh-oh, maybe today’s not the day to strip-mine those retirement funds. Read more »
The UK’s Daily Mail broke out some thermal imaging equipment in London recently to show that a large majority of Occupy Wall Street inspired protesters don’t stay overnight in the tents they set up and leave them mostly empty, a claim demonstrators say is flat out bullshit. But when they did the same experiment in Zuccotti Park, the results were the exact opposites with plenty of warm bodies detected in each tent. With that settled, can the paper now stop their infrared peeping?
Kathe Kollwitz of the Guerrilla Girls tell ANIMAL: “We support all the Occupy groups and that includes Occupy Museums! We wish we could have been there yesterday.” While the Guerrilla Girls were busy with activist workshops in Chicago this week, we spotted this protestor at Zuccotti Park referencing the collective. Read more »
To show solidarity and their knack for theatrics, an interfaith group of religious clergy pledged support for the Occupy Wall Street protesters on Sunday. They carried signs and a makeshift golden calf around Zuccotti Park that was meant to represent Wall Street greed and the idolatry of money or something. Apart from all the dramatic bluster, the daring storytellers did offer demonstrators some practical assistance and said they are welcome to use their facilities to sleep and wash up. (Photo: PeaceCouple/flickr)
On Wednesday, the streets of Lower Manhattan hosted the largest demonstration to date since the protests began on September 17th and that’s because the unions were there, en mass. The TWU Local 100 was the first labor organization to support the Occupy Wall Street movement and with a a little help from their members, as well as other unions too numerous to name, they filled Foley Square to capacity, with the crowd filling the public space from Duane to Worth Streets. Read more »
Editor-in-Chief:
