SEC: Who do you protect?
“Who do you serve? Who do you protect?” At Occupy Wall Street we chanted this at the riot police. Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff rejected a settlement deal that Citigroup tried to...
View ArticleWE WILL REBUILD: 11/15/11 and 9/11/01
Occupy Wall Street was born in the shadow of the towers. Go down the hill one block, as we often did to get to the free internet computers at Charlotte’s Place, and the construction site for the...
View ArticleTidbits
Some things that have been really pissing me off lately: 1) Ever notice how Ron Paul’s running 2nd in Iowa polls and in New Hampshire polls is 3rd place and far ahead of the general pack, yet all the...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: Radical Inclusiveness
On December 17th, we tried to re-establish our physical camp at another vastly underused public/private space downtown, Duarte Park. When the police starting arresting hundreds of us at Duarte, we...
View Article“But I’m just a tiny consumer and they’re a humongous financial institution!”...
Never doubt that you can make a difference. According to research/consulting firm Javelin Strategy and Research: Bank Transfer Day and the Occupy Movement have received tremendous attention, and for...
View ArticleThe Feeling of Power: Occupy as a Model for Democratic Government
Democracy: Do we want the symbol? Non-U.S. readers, insert your own flag here Or the reality? General Assembly at Occupy LA. Note that the person currently speaking has no qualifying prerequisites...
View ArticleUnmarked Law Enforcement Cars at OWS
“I’m with Victor Toro and The M.I.R. / So watch out for those snitches in that unmarked car” –Rebel Diaz Below is information about some cars I happened to observe yesterday. I don’t know how useful...
View ArticleSpring
About a month ago, I bought a rosemary plant at the farmer’s market. Not having had much success in the past at nurturing plants, I asked the man who sold it to me for advice. He said to keep it warm...
View ArticleEurope is becoming the Third World, doesn’t like it; USA already halfway...
“The maid resisted. What do we do?” The slogan is from signs carried by people in Greece’s aganaktismenoi or “outraged” movement, a widespread protest against austerity policies that has taken the...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: 1st Birthday
Some notes I took on the ground: 9:44AM, Broadway & Morris: Blond guy says on mic check that cops rushed in & grabbed 2 of us while we were making speech on mic about Bank of America’s...
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