By many accounts, Zuccoti Park is much quieter today, on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, than it was last year or during the movement’s 2011 inception. Still, that hasn’t stopped police from harassing protesters like they always do, or from taking advantage of a 150-year-old law that allows them to arrest anyone wearing […]
To mark the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, documentarian Paul Sullivan released this film he made of the protests and police response that happened last year. The footage is infuriating, as cops repeatedly violently grab peaceful protesters out of the crowd, throw them to the ground, and cuff them. At the end of the […]
While we in the United States are accustomed to choosing between Democratic, Republican, and maybe an unlikely handful of Libertarian or Green candidates for political office, Australian voters faced a list that was more like a fast-food menu for their recent September 7 election. Beyond the Labor, Liberal, and Green party politicians that make up […]
“Johnny Weir is a traitor! He’s a self-proclaimed Rusophile and he’s going to Russia to fuck and eat red caviar,” yelled the best-dressed man in a room. At the Chelsea LGBT Community Center’s town hall meeting of about 150, Michael Lucas of Lucas Entertainment (link NSFW) declared an all out Olympic boycott as the only […]
For over 30,000 prisoners in California, today marks Day 5 of a massive strike. Those in solitary confinement will continue to go without food, while those in general housing will protest work, until they’ve achieved their goal: to be treated with basic human dignity. One of the major aims is to save thousands of unjustly […]
David Horvitz sent out a tweet last evening saying he is looking for a collector to purchase his student debt. Damn, I really wish I thought of this. Looking for a collector… twitter.com/davidhorvitz/s… — dh (@davidhorvitz) April 24, 2013 Let’s assume this is a a sincere gesture. Can the transition of the debt from Horvitz […]
Over the weekend, we learned that the Manhattan district attorney will not prosecute NYPD Deputy Inspectors Anthony Bologna and Johnny Cardona, who were caught on video respectively pepper spraying and punching peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters in Fall 2011. Fortunately, there’s still the prospect of holding the two cops accountable, in the form of a […]
Although many news outlets have done a horrendous job with their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, the New York Post in particular is by far, the media’s most prolific offender. First they “reported” that 12 people died while the official death toll stood at 3. Then they falsely accused a 20-year-old Saudi national of […]
Last night, the Illuminator van–formerly of Occupy Wall Street, then of Stamp Stampede, now back in the hands of Occupy offshoot the Illuminator Affinity Group–took to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to project a message of support to the city of Boston in the wake of the tragic marathon bombing. Messages included simple affirmations of […]
Yesterday, the City of New York agreed to pay over $365,000 to settle a lawsuit over the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library. When the NYPD unceremoniously raided and evicted the Zuccotti Park Occupy encampment in November 2011, officers destroyed the library and many of the 5,500 books inside. As Allison Burtch put it […]
