How can you say that, who gave you the power to decree who is and who isn't part of the 99%? He's a national socialist too boot, a neo-nazi. All the socialist are attracted to #ows, why do you suppose that is? Here as some more news worthy updates.... The evidence is astounding from day ONE. At some point you have to come to terms that socialism is certainly a core value from the roots of this movement. Albeit not everyone supports it, and clearly many do not understand socialism but is a very strong essence of the movement. I mean, theres hundreds of stories and video that show socialism and anti-sematic signs and rants. There come a point where you can no longer say "that doesn't represent us", it come from the movement. Another update: David Duke is now with #ows. This is revolution, a worldwide thing..... what exactly does that mean?
Occupy Madison loses permit City officials temporarily denied Occupy Madison a new street use permit Wednesday after protesters violated public health and safety conditions and failed to follow the correct processes to renew or amend a permit. The permit, which expired Wednesday at noon, required Occupy Madison protesters to relocate from their current space at 30 West Mifflin Street, also called 30 on the Square. A neighboring hotel's staff alleged voiced concerns about having to recently escort hotel employees to and from bus stops late at night due to inappropriate behavior, such as public masturbation, from street protesters. <s> "[The protest] is indeed a work in progress," Streeter said. "We will continue to address issues as they come up." Daily Cardinal [no comment]
Occupy Chicago Mocked by Board of Trade Occupy Chicago (inspired by Occupy Wall Street) was mocked by some at the Chicago Board of Trade. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains.
Cops Sue Occupy Wall Street Protesters? Updates on the Occupy Wall Street movement (in Oakland, San Diego, Nashville, North Carolina and New York City) are provided by The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur, including the president of the NYPD's Sergeant's Benevolent Association considering a lawsuit on 'violent' protesters.
Yeah.. good luck with that. If the NYPD isn't in enough hot water.. http://gothamist.com/2011/10/28/hundreds_of_cops_gather_in_support.php http://www.wpix.com/wpix-16-nypd-cops-supervisors-indicted-for-corruption-20111028,0,866977.story
A Message to All Police Officers From Occupy Wall Street Mike Ruppert addresses those police officers who have begun a campaign of violent and brutal attacks at some of the Occupy Wall Street protesters around the country, and around the world. In this video, Mike mentions the lecture he gave in 2001 at Portland State University. It was while he was getting ready to speak that I introduced myself to him, and told him that I would do anything I could to help him. As you will understand if you take the time to watch this entire video, and pay attention to what he says, I have tremendous respect for him. I hope that many people spread this video around.
Occupy Nashville: Newspaper demands apology from gov. for reporter's arrest | The Tennessean http://www.tennessean.com/article/2...rotesters-released-after-second-night-arrests
Cops Mock Poor People, Calls Prosecutors "Pieces Of S--t," Claim Ticket-Fixing Is Just The Way It Is: Gothamist: New York City News As 16 NYPD officers were arraigned at a Bronx courthouse yesterday to face charges related to the department's massive ticket-fixing probe, around 500 off-duty police officers, including paralyzed NYPD officer Steven McDonald, showed up to voice their support for "professional privilege." According to the Times, the officers shoved away television cameras and jeered at people receiving public assistance at a benefits center across the street. According to the Daily News, some of those assembled shouted "you piece of sh*t!" at prosecutors. Ahh, the sweet sounds of CPR. While many off-duty officers and PBA members held signs that bore slogans of, "It's a Courtesy Not a Crime," ticket-fixing charges weren't the only ones aired in court: grand larceny, drug charges and unrelated corruption were also found in the probe. Four of the policemen charged helped a man escape assault charges. Flatscreen TV-loving Jose Ramos, who is at the center of the probe and was the only cop charged who remained in jail on $500,000 bond, was caught on a wiretap saying, "I stopped caring about the law a long time ago." When some Bronx residents, who were waiting in line for government assistance next door, shouted "Fix our tickets!" the officers and supporters responded with a ugly chant of "E.B.T." "To be ridiculing people in the welfare line across the street doesn't endear you to the public eye," an unnamed official said. "It's hard to see an upside in the way the anger was expressed, especially in Bronx County, where you already have a hard row to hoe in terms of building rapport with the community," a professor of police studies at John Jay College tells the paper. "The Police Department is a very angry work force, and that is something that should concern people, because it translates into hostile interactions with people." Indeed, it's been recently reported that morale in the NYPD is at rock-bottom due to a litany of scandals. Daily News columnist Joanna Molloy called the incident yesteday "a disgrace," writing that it was "ridiculous" to refer to ticket-fixing as a "courtesy" because "the cops who erased parking tickets did so mostly for their girlfriends, their cousins and their buddies, leaving the rest of us to pay up." She continues: "When 16 cops act as if they are above the law—and 500 more turn up to support them…they ruin it for the rest of the 35,000 cops on the force." Mayor Bloomberg took the same tact in his radio broadcast on Friday, saying "it's a tiny percentage of the people" who serve in the NYPD that were indicted. Interestingly enough, even that "tiny" group of people got something that even eluded Dominique Strauss-Kahn: they got their perp walk "fixed," and were loaded into black vans, away from the media's lenses. Source: http://mobile.gothamist.com/2011/10/29/cops_mock_poor_people_calls_prosecu.php
From Occupy Denver: westongentry Wes Gentry Police are using mace on hostile protesters. #OccupyDenver 33 minutes ago westongentry Wes Gentry Police are firing rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd at #OccupyDenver. Almost got hit by both. 26 minutes ago westongentry Wes Gentry .@jsteffendp got hit in the back with rubber bullets. She is fine. Easily the most hostile #OccupyDenver protest I have seen. 20 minutes ago westongentry Wes Gentry Broadway from Colfax to 14th ave. is closed. More riot police are moving in on the crowd. Pepper spray is still in the air at #OccupyDenver. 16 minutes ago westongentry Wes Gentry Andrew Cleres, 21, bleeding from a rubber bullet to the arm. He was shot out of a tree at #OccupyDenver. twitpic.com/77t3u5 12 minutes ago westongentry Wes Gentry Riot police have retreated to the middle of Broadway at #OccupyDenver. Video of the first confrontation forthcoming. 6 minutes ago
@The Wrong Guy. I know it's been said many times, but I'd like to chime in with my thanks for your efforts re: #OWS info
Thanks to The Wrong Guy, WWP is one of the best ressources for diversified OWS news (minus mindless and embarrassingly willfully ignorant Faux News "they're against corporations but they have cell phones (and some have yucky consensual secks), doh-lol-pwned" crap). Thanks from me too, TWG.
Current headline and pic at the Huffington post <3: The Revolution Will Be Streamed (but what does an anonymous press badge mean?)
OccupyWallStNYC #OCCUPYWALLSTREET Here's breakdown of where our donations come from. (SPOILER-Not much from 1%'ers...) nydailynews.com/new-york/1-pro… #ows 1 minute ago ‘1%’ proving Occupy Wall Street protesters right when it comes to donations - NY Daily News When it comes to Occupy Wall Street donations, the "one percent" are proving the protesters 100% right. People with annual earnings of a quarter-million dollars or more donated just 1.39% of the $325,000 given nationally to the grass roots movement, according to figures from online fund-raiser WePay. The self-proclaimed "99 percent" living in parks and plazas from coast to coast have received most of their financial support from the middle class since the first Occupy-affiliated account opened Aug. 5. People earning between $35,000 and $100,000 were most likely to redistribute their wealth, providing nearly 60% of the donations, WePay figures show. "The middle class is really giving the bulk of the money," said WePay CEO Bill Clerico, who left his job as an investment banker to start the company in 2008. "In the last 30 days, donations have really snowballed as more movements have joined Occupy Wall Street." More: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-street-protesters-donations-article-1.968985
There is a standoff between protesters and police at Occupy Denver. Maybe this was the last straw: KforKallisti Kallisti Hare Krishnas arrived! #OccupyDenver 32 seconds ago It freezes occasionally, but there's live video from the front lines at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupydenver303 Global Revolution is also providing a live feed, at http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
This isn't new but I haven't seen it posted and it just showed up on some news service I follow. http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-15/news/30283700_1_fellow-protesters-peaceful-protest-quakers
No idea about the veracity of this one, though there is a pic. http://thejobmouse.com/2011/10/28/we-are-wall-street-wall-street-strikes-back/ more at link
http://www.google.com/search?q=Quakers occupy http://www.pym.org/peace-and-concer...s-support-quaker-presence-occupy-philadelphia and especially http://www.pym.org/node/2670
Occupy Denver tension escalates dramatically | abc13.com The simmering tension near the Colorado Capitol escalated dramatically Saturday with more than a dozen arrests, reports of skirmishes between police and protesters and authorities firing rounds of pellets filled with pepper spray at supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Denver police spokesman Matt Murray said 15 people were arrested in the evening confrontation, where authorities were moving to prevent protesters from setting up tents in the park, which are illegal. Officials say the demonstrators had been warned several times that the tents would not be allowed and those who attempted to stop police from dismantling the camp gear were arrested. Protesters have been staying in the park for weeks, but tents have repeatedly been removed. More:http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=8411190 Witness: The police 'attacked' (only real word for it) when part of the crowd tried to put up tents police came roaring in on motorcycles. There was no baiting by the crowd and the march was full of ppl from all ages, ethnicity and backgrounds. The whole thing popped off when a cop ran over a guy on a motorcycle (just rammed into him). the guy got upset and pushed the back of the guys motorcycle. HE DID NOT KNOCK THE BIKE OVER. Next thing I know four swat team members (including the cop on the bike, who dropped the bike and went after the guy) went after this kid and beat the shit out of him. This happened 5 feet from where I was. I was sobbing and yelling for them to stop. The cops fired rubber bullets AND pepper spray at random into the crowd. Mind there were PEACEFUL ppl of all ages, including a 5 year old boy I saw with tears running down there face. I went to the rally with no expectations or motivations outside of curiosity. To be perfectly honest, part of me thought that something, anything must have happened in Oakland, NYC, etc to bring about such actions by police. Today, that changed. The DPD acted like brutes. They fired rubber bullets into a tree (at least 20 rounds) because a guy up there filming said-quite nicely, natch- "I don't want to come down." This is our America. We're all fucked. More: http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywalls...per_spray_and_rubber_bullets_were_fired_into/ Photos: http://www.tannerspendley.com/occupydenver Twitter: CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w The Denver cop that beat up @EisMC2 will be up soon. #OccupyDenver #CabinCr3w 1 hour ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w . @EisMC2 is safe and on her way home. The cops d0x is well underway... #OccupyDenver #CabinCr3w 1 hour ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w d0x on Ethan Aldridge the @denverpolice officer that beat up @EisMC2: stickypaste.com/view/84437673 #CabinCr3w 1 hour ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w RT @EisMC2: 0hai #EthanAldridge FUCK YOU. I don't know how you can sleep at night beating up 5'2" 95lb GIRLS 1 hour ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w RT @EisMC2: GOOD NEWS: Rumors that 2 #DenverPolice officers TURNED IN THEIR BADGES because of tonight's #BRUTALITY 1 hour ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w #CabinCr3w Publishes Personal Information Of Abusive #Denver Cop - goo.gl/KqL9T #OccupyDenver 35 minutes ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w What to call Ethan Aldridge? Ask how he likes to beat up woman at #OccupyDenver: 303 642 7927 32 minutes ago CabinCr3w C@b!n Cr3w #occupydenver demanding response from governor hickenlooper (@hickforco) re use of excessive force on peaceful demonstrators. join them! RT 13 minutes ago
Police attack Occupy Denver protesters At least 15 people were arrested in Denver after clashes erupted between protesters and authorities near the steps of Colorado Capitol. A group of about 2000 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement was met by the police using rubber bullets and pepper spray. Courtesy http://www.youtube.com/user/grigsbyguy
PortlandPolice Portland Police Looking forward to a peaceful and lawful Occupy Portland march today. #occupyportland 15 hours ago mamabigdog Mamabigdog Riot cops have air guns of some kind. Can't tell if face covering is tear gas protection. #occupyportland 1 minute ago OccupyPortland OccupyPortland #PPB SWAT team moving in to Jameson Square to forcibly remove peaceful #occupyportland protesters. This is what a police state looks like. 1 minute ago 1acrimosa 1acrimosa Riot police about to enter Jamison Square and @OccupyPortland asking them why they're in riot gear when the occupants aren't armed. 1 minute ago mamabigdog Mamabigdog Here come the horses again. Police moving in behind them #occupyportland 40 seconds ago
Occupy Portland live video: http://www.livestream.com/occupyptown Occupy Portland Twitter updates: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/OccupyPortland
Occupy Los Angeles Day 28 News Coverage News report on the twenty-eighth day of Occupy LA includes interviews with protesters, clips from the rally, and more. Edited and hosted by Margot Paez of Insight Out News, http://www.insightoutnews.org/ More info on Occupy LA: http://www.occupylosangeles.org/
42 arrested at Occupy Austin Sunday (or, "Discarded used condoms indicate imminent end of world") Austin police arrested 38 Occupy Austin protesters early Sunday morning outside of City Hall. Police said protesters refused to leave when ordered and engaged in civil disobedience. Four more arrests were made shortly before 5 pm Sunday evening.
OccupyLA #OccupyLA On #Nov2 #OccupyLA will march in #solidarity with the #OccupyOakland #oo General Strike 5:30 PM First & Spring City Hall #OWS 1 minute ago
harrysiegel Harry Siegel Is NYPD shipping in lowlives from other parks in bid to worsen #zuccotti East-West split? My @nydailynews story nydn.us/u1HVf4 #ows 34 minutes ago At Occupy Wall Street central, a rift is growing between east and west sides of the plaza - NY Daily News The “model” civilization that’s sprung up at Zuccotti is itself increasingly divided between the stakeholders in the nascent movement who feel invested in the emerging economic, social and cultural causes of “the 99%,” and hangers-on, including a fast-growing contingent of lawbreakers and lowlifes, many of whom seem to have come to Zuccotti in the last week with the cynical encouragement of the NYPD. More: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/...rowing-east-west-sides-plaza-article-1.969320
Daily Kos: Rat Bastids: Credit Company Cyber-squatters Capitalizing on OWS (Updated) I was looking online for an Occupy movement in my city, and was for a moment delighted to see there was already a website for it with an explicitly OWS-related domain name. Unfortunately, when I clicked on the website, I was led to a very deceptive link farm that has "Occupy-ish" overtones if one were just scanning it briefly (it includes the slogan "We are the 99%" in the title bar, so don't be deceived just looking at the Google page). The actual content, however, is all ads for credit services and real estate companies. And it isn't just my city, but numerous cities that have been preemptively hijacked in this fashion. If you are unaware of an Occupy movement in your city, you might consider Googling "Occupy (insert city name)" to see whether cyber-squatters are parasiting off the movement to drive traffic into such link farms. And even if there is an active movement underway, these assholes are probably still using it to pimp credit services. <snip> ...we have the following information about the squatter company: NameMedia, Inc. of Waltham, MA. The hosting service that hosts the sites is Ardennes Technologies... More (and list of domains): http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/...Cyber-squatters-Capitalizing-on-OWS-(Updated) http://www.google.com/search?q=Ardennes Technologies http://www.google.com/search?q=NameMedia Waltham
Occupy_Police Police For The 99% BREAKING: Largest Union in Oakland (SEIU) Reportedly Joining #OccupyOakland's General Strike on 11/2 dailykos.com/story/2011/10/… via @dailykos 53 seconds ago
MTV Continues to ‘Own’ Occupy Wall Street With OWS Award For Rage Against the Machine | The New York Observer In case you were wondering if the the True Life: I’m Occupying Wall Street, Real World: Occupy Wall Street, or the other efforts MTV has made to co-opt this revolution will somehow just fade away, this should help answer your question. Today, MTV announced its O Movie Awards would be giving out a special “Occupy Wall Street” award to Tom Morello, lead singer of Rage Against the Machine, for his performance in Zuccotti Park. More: http://www.observer.com/2011/10/mtv...-with-ows-award-for-rage-against-the-machine/
Official refuses Tennessee governor’s orders to break up ‘Occupy Nashville’ | The Raw Story Just one week after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) saw his order to push an “Occupy” protest out of a public park at night, Tennessee’s governor is experiencing a similar problem. Gov. Bill Haslam (R) has twice given the order to crackdown on protesters at “Occupy Nashville,” only to see it denied by judicial commissioner Tom Nelson. In Tennessee, a judicial commissioner has the authority to determine whether crimes have been committed. “The magistrate’s position is sort of a safety valve to prevent overzealous officers from putting people in jail for no reason,” Nashville attorney Jim Todd said to the Associated Press. Nelson ordered the release of 29 protesters arrested last Thursday because “the state had not given the protesters adequate notice that it was changing the rules.” Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/...overnors-orders-to-break-up-occupy-nashville/
Hartmann: 1% - It's not about your bank account but your patriotism The bankster 1% in Chicago had a little message they wanted to get out to the 99% movement camped out in the streets below. So someone at the Chicago Board of Trade poured leaflets out of the window - to rain down on the demonstrators below. The leaflets read "We are Wall Street, it is our jobs to make money...Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you're only going to hurt yourselves. What's going to happen when we can't find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We're going to take yours." As we all know today - that's not a threat...it's a promise - Wall Street has never had a problem taking what's not theirs. Whether it was the trillions they took from the economy when they ran their housing bubble scheme - or the trillions more they took from the taxpayers when they demanded a bailout - Wall Street just churns other people's money and skims their vig off the top. And they've been doing it in a pretty outrageous way - what once was considered both an immoral and even illegal way - for the 30 years since Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act, leading to an explosion on Wall Street of what was then called M&A or Mergers and Acquisitions business.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/...eveal-goldman-sachs-bullying-community-banks/ Reminiscent of the tactics against Wikileaks.
