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Entries Tagged as '#Occupy Wall Street'

February 13th, 2012 · No Comments

Occupy Wall Street's issues – Economic justice, tax rates and the decline of … Red, Green, and Blue Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. By David Brin In an earlier political posting I pointed out that the top federal income [...]

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February 4th, 2012 · No Comments

Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action' The Guardian Before the evening was through, the 25-year-old known for documenting Occupy Wall Street became a story himself. Following a raucous march through lower Manhattan, hundreds of Occupy demonstrators made their way to an abandoned community centre. See all stories on this topic [...]

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January 28th, 2012 · No Comments

Occupy Wall Street West – Wells Fargo and Bank of America Shutdown Bay Area Indymedia by Rubble Occupy Wall Street West held a day of action to “shut down" the SF Financial District on January 20. Major banks and financial institutions were targeted along with a number of other predatory corporations including Bechtel Corporation. See [...]

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January 24th, 2012 · No Comments

Occupy Wall Street lawyers drop legal challenge, judge says no camping at Zuccotti New York Post By DAREH GREGORIAN Lawyers for the Occupy Wall Street movement have dropped their legal challenge to a court ruling barring their clients from camping out in the park, The Post has learned. The attorneys notified the judge who'd been [...]

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Occupy Wall Street Advocates: Brookfield Violating Zoning Laws at Zuccotti Park

January 10th, 2012 · No Comments

http://www.dnainfo.com/20120110/downtown/occupy-wall-street-advocates-brookfield-violating-zoning-laws-at-zuccotti

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OWS Meets Trinity Episcopal Church

December 21st, 2011 · No Comments

No Room at This Inn! by LAURA FLANDERS Occupy Wall Street attempted to set up a new camp on a dusty strip of church-owned land in lower Manhattan, Saturday. Occupy 2.0 failed (at least 50 protestors were arrested) but the effort did succeed in stirring up a storm about property, power and the church just [...]

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Think back to how some Tea Partiers brought guns to their protests…

December 21st, 2011 · No Comments

They Don’t Shoot Rightwingers, Do They? What If Occupiers Armed Themselves? by BRIAN J. FOLEY You’ve probably noticed that our government and corporate-owned media treat the Occupy Movement differently from the Tea Party.

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“Why I Occupy” Show in Times Square

December 18th, 2011 · No Comments

Published on Sunday, December 18, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Occupy Movement Puts on a “Why I Occupy” Show in Times Square Protests Mark The Third Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street’ by Danny Schechter New York — Saturday marked the third month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. It was also Bradley Manning’s Birthday. It was one of [...]

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Occupying Power

December 16th, 2011 · No Comments

Published on Friday, December 16, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Occupying Power by Bret Weinstein Three months ago, a small band of patriots triggered the turning of a historical page. They did it by stepping out of their expected roles within the socioeconomic hierarchy, and stepping into Zuccotti Park, which they then occupied continuously for two months, [...]

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On OWS, plus new book

December 8th, 2011 · No Comments

Time on OWS, plus new book on movement

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