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May 24, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Sues Bloomberg And New York City Over Library Destruction
Six months after the New York Police Department launched a secretive dead-of-night military-style operation to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park, conducting mass arrests and destroying thousands of dollars worth of property, Mayor Bloomberg, Police Chief Ray Kelly, and others ar ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
OWS Supporter Argues Sleeping On Sidewalks Is Important Because It Could Inspire Kids To Be Lazy
We seem to have rustled a few feathers in the Occupy Wall Street community yesterday with a post we penned asking whether the OWS movement has finally achieved "joke" status. The post was in response to the general consensus amongst the mainstream media that many of the OWS protesters can't be taken ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Has Occupy Wall Street Finally Achieved "Joke" Status?
Occupy Wall Street's May Day antics were billed as the resurgence of the Occupy movement. Unfortunately for the occupiers, May Day was widely considered to be a "dud," and has many in the media arguing that the movement has become nothing more than a joke -- just a bunch of "bums" running around New ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
May Day in New York City: A Quick Preview
Almost since their eviction from Zuccotti Park more than six months ago, Occupy Wall Street activists have been laying plans for a grand reemergence on May Day. Now the big day has arrived, We'll be running a live-blog throughout the day to keep you updated on developments throughout the city. But ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
May Day! The Voice Staff's Live Coverage of Occupy Wall Street's M1NYC
Good morning, and welcome to the Village Voice's liveblog of May Day 2012, as the Occupy Wall Street movement calls for a "General Strike" and a day of protests around the city. Our reporters and photographers are fanned out across the boroughs. We'll be liveblogging their dispatches right here and ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
Q&A: AWKword On Occupy Wall Street, The Power Of Protest Music, And Hearing N.W.A. For The First Time
N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police" burst into Awkword's life thanks to his baby-sitter. The Manhattan-based rapper visibly remembers the day when his part-time watchdog turned up with a copy of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's anti-establishment rant; hearing the song kick-started his first forays into writing his ow ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
The Music of May Day
Over at Sound of the City, a look at the soundtrack to today's protests. JD Samson of MEN talks to Nick Pinto about the band's concert for the protestors later tonight. Dan Deacon also talks about his afternoon performance and AWKward muses about the Occupy Wall Street movement in general. There's ... More >>
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April 29, 2012
Occupy Guitarmy Hoping to Make Music a Central Part of May Day
You can't arrest a song! That's part of the idea behind one faction of a large network of demonstrations and protests planned for May Day -- the day of action this Tuesday that some suspect will push Occupy Wall Street into the spotlight again in a major way. The group Occupy Guitarmy has acti ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
This Week in the Voice: Bail is Busted
This week in the Voice, out today: Nick Pinto busts bail and explains how jail really works, writing about OWS and incarceration: "As the Occupy Wall Street movement has introduced a new young generation of mostly white, mostly middle-class activists to civil disobedience, arrest, jail, and the inne ... More >>
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April 23, 2012
Stand Up, Man: Das Racist, Immortal Technique, Dan Deacon, Tom Morello To Play May Day For Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street's plans for May Day are starting to take shape, and amidst the pickets and skill-shares and marches and mayhem, it's looking like there's going to be a lot of music too. We already told you about the Guitarmy being mustered for next Tuesday, but organizers have also announced a n ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Dreams Of A Giant Jam Session May 1
"Band seeking 1000 guitar players. Other instruments also welcome. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Tom Morello, Willie Nile, and Sergio Ortega." Occupy Wall Street is raising a "Guitarmy." For months, activists have been preparing for May Day, laying plans for teach-ins, bank blockades, marches ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Affiliates Chain Subway Gates Open For Fare Strike
A group calling itself the "Rank and File Initiative" claimed credit yesterday for opening up more than 20 subway stations throughout the city for free entry. Chaining open emergency gates at stations on the F, L, R, Q, 3, and 6 lines during rush hour yesterday morning, the anonymous activists post ... More >>
News
March 28, 2012
Occupy Spring
The protests are back and building to a May Day to remember
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Offers Shitty Response To Feces-Dumping Allegations
When we contacted Occupy Wall Street yesterday to ask about allegations that the group is responsible for dumping two giant buckets of feces and urine at two lower Manhattan locations, we thought we'd get some sort of spirited response either denying or embracing the allegations.We were wrong -- ... More >>
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March 18, 2012
Occupy Wall Street's Six-Month Anniversary March Is Underway (UPDATE)
Though the St. Patrick's Day Parade might be the most high-profile march of the day uptown, downtown Occupy Wall Street is marking their six-month anniversary with a march that takes protesters back to the financial district and, specifically, the place where the movement began: Zuccotti Park (a.k.a ... More >>
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March 18, 2012
Arrest Count 73 At OWS Saturday, Police Say, As Occupiers Wait For Arraignments
DCPI has confirmed to us that 73 people were arrested over the course of the day at the Occupy Wall Street protest staged yesterday, while OWS maintains that then number is over 90. Our reporter Nick Pinto headed over to 100 Centre Street for the arraignments of those that were taken into custody, b ... More >>
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March 11, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Finance Report Reveals Money Woes; Press Team Unfazed In Statement
Yesterday, NY1 brought our attention to the news that New York's Occupy Wall Street appears to be tight on funds, findings based on on a weekly report for March 2 posted on the New York General Assembly's website. The Accounting Working Group report reads: "at our current rate of expenditure, we wil ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
NYPD Ready for Today's Occupy Wall Street Movement at Bryant Park
The New York Police have sent out a department-wide memo to prepare for today's Occupy Wall Street event, which is scheduled to take place 9am at Bryant Park. The protest, titled "Shut Down the Corporations #F29", targets, among others, Bank of America for supposedly selling subprime mortgages--whic ... More >>
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January 14, 2012
OWS Plans Vigil for Martin Luther King Jr., Zuccotti is Going Global, Organizers Say
You know how the cold has kind of made things difficult for Occupy Wall Street to keep things going here in New York City? That and all the evictions and stuff. Well, some of the organizers (generally, they don't like that word, but they are organizing this event!), are hoping to reinvigorate the lo ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
DJ Spooky Spinning Tonight for the OWS People's Librarians, Who Are Number 34 on the Voice's "100 Most Powerless New Yorkers"
As the Voice's Nick Pinto was reporting last night, Zuccotti Park re-opened after Brookfield Properties emoved the barricades surrounding the plaza. One of the first elements to re-assert Occupy Wall Street's presence was the People's Library. The librarians and were a constant presence from the be ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Jumaane Williams and Ydanis Rodriguez Visit Barricade-Free Zuccotti Park, Call on Mayor to Discuss OWS Tomorrow
The barricades that have enclosed Zuccotti for nearly two months since Occupy Wall Street was evicted came down last night after several advocacy groups sent a letter to the city's Department of Buildings challenging the park restrictions. Today, two vocal occupiers in the City Council stopped by th ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Occupy Wall Street to Establish $100K Bail Fund
At last night's General Assembly, Occupy Wall Street passed a proposal to set up a $100,000 fund solely for bailing people out of jail. It's the largest chunk of funds that OWS has allocated for one purpose, and represents nearly a third of the budget. The fund is meant to get protesters out of jail ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
The First Occupy Wall Street Legislation?
In the post-occupation hangover, a (or the) big question is whether or not and to what extent Occupy Wall Street's message will have managed to translate into actual policy. OWS itself has strenuously refused to get involved in coming up with any legislation, since the movement wants to esche ... More >>
News
December 14, 2011
Occupy Goes Home
The movement takes back foreclosed houses after leaving the park
Blogs
December 8, 2011
NYU to Offer an Occupy Wall Street Class Next Semester
nyu4ows.tumblr.comOccupy Wall Street is now official enough to enter the halls of higher education. Next semester, NYU's department of Social and Cultural Analysis will offer a course called "Cultures and Economies: Why Occupy Wall Street?" The course description:
News
December 7, 2011
To the Barricades, Variously
A new wave of student activism hits New York City
Blogs
December 2, 2011
Occupy the Airspace: Surveillance Drones for the 99 Percent
Max BraunWho's drone? Our drone!At many points in the last two months, Occupy Wall Street's relationship with the New York Police Department has felt like an urban guerilla war, with skirmishes flaring up block by block across Lower Manhattan and particularly contentious conflicts -- the Taki ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Protester Would Like You to Pay His Bills For Duration of Occupy Wall Street
An Occupy Wall Street organizer has found a creative solution that many hard-core protesters face: How do you Occupy full-time and pay the bills? In Dicey Troop's case, the answer is: Ask the Internet to send you money. Troop is one of the people who manages the @LibertySqGA account, which ... More >>
News
November 23, 2011
Look for the Occupy Label
The uneasy marriage between labor and Occupy Wall Street
Blogs
November 23, 2011
OWS People's Library to Address Post-Raid Loss and Destruction of Books
The Occupy Wall Street library will hold a press conference today at 12 p.m. to address the destruction of its collection during the Zuccotti raid and its inability to find many of the lost materials at the Sanitation building where confiscated OWS stuff has been stored. The presser will be on the 2 ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Groundbreaking New York Post Report: A Couple Guys Stayed in a Hotel
The New York Post rubs its hands gleefully today with a new "scoop": they've found two people connected with Occupy Wall Street who stayed in a fancy hotel. Therefore, the entire movement is a sham. Peter Dutro, "one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee," and Brad S ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Poll Shows That 56 Percent of Americans Don't Care About Occupy Wall Street
A new Gallup/USA Today poll shows that 56 percent of nearly 1000 respondents neither agree nor disagree with Occupy Wall Street. Fifty-nine percent don't know enough about the movement to have an opinion on it. To top it all off, there's been an increase in disapproval from 20 to 31 percent. The pol ... More >>
News
November 16, 2011
Occupational Hazards
Could Occupy Wall Street survive without an occupation?
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Occupy Wall Street and the End of Zuccotti: What's Next?
C.S. MuncyPolice clear Zuccotti Park on Monday night.This week, I have a story in the print version of the paper about what would happen if Occupy Wall Street was no longer occupying Zuccotti Park. The story went to print before the city evicted the protesters on Monday night. Some aspects ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Library Says 'It's Time to ShutDownNYC' After Books Reportedly Destroyed
Occupy Wall Street has tweeted that the 5,554 books comprising the OWS library have been trashed by the NYPD in the raid. GalleyCat reports that @OWSLibrary has been tweeting about the eviction and the destruction of their books, documents, and artwork throughout the night.
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November 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Can't Bring Tents, Sleeping Gear, or Zzzzs Back to Zuccotti Park
Nick PintoOWS legal team after the ruling.Judge Michael D. Stallman of the Supreme Court of New York just issued a ruling denying Occupy Wall Street's request for a temporary restraining order that would allow them to return, sleeping gear and all, to Zuccotti Park. Two most interesting par ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
[UPDATED] Jay-Z's Occupy All Streets Shirts Are Back On Sale
via Roc4Life.comThe Occupy All Streets shirt, in happier times. 1:15 p.m. UPDATE: They're on sale now, although they're backordered enough that if you buy today, you won't have a shirt shipped your way until December 16. Perfect for a "conscious yet inspired enough by the Watch The Throne tou ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
The Dumbest Thing I've Read About Occupy Wall Street
Trolling the gossip boards as I'm wont to do for a living, I came across the dumbest of many idiotic anonymous comments about Occupy Wall Street, the growing grassroots movement that takes aim at the corruption in our financial system and the way it's wreaked havoc with Americans' well being. ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
Occupy Lit: Publishing Employees to Rally Against HarperCollins
NYOSpotted at Occupy Wall Street by the Observer: employees of News Corp-owned book publishing company HarperCollins are staging a rally next Wednesday, making this the latest union action to throw its lot in with OWS. "Employees of HarperCollins have been working without a contract for alm ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
Rich People Love Fast Food; Wacky Waffle Dishes in the City
A new report reveals that as household incomes increase, so do visits to fast-food restaurants. [LA Times] A new website has been created to help purchase food for Occupy Wall Street protesters from local food vendors. [DNAinfo] In honor of Andy Rooney, who died last week after a brief illn ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Occupy Wall Street is Getting Bathrooms
One of the most contentious issues that's affected Occupy Wall Street's relationship with the surrounding community has been bathrooms. At multiple Community Board 1 meetings, downtown residents have complained that OWS' lack of facilities has lead to some pretty negative consequences, the gr ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Luncheon at OWS in Zuccotti Park Is No Sunday in the Park
Sunday in the Park by Georges Seurat Despite reports dripping with sarcasm (or maybe it was saliva) in the New York Post and other blue-blood rags about demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street encampment feasting on gourmet vittles, my visit there this afternoon proved otherwise.
Blogs
October 31, 2011
MTV Milking Occupy Wall Street For All It's Worth
Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street. First there was Real World 27, which will include Occupy Wall Streeters if everything goes to plan. Then there was True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street. Now there is the O Music Awards, where there is a new category for Most Memorable OWS Performance and it' ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
FDNY Confiscates Occupy Wall Street's Generators
The fire department and police department paid Occupy Wall Street a visit this morning and took their power generators. The FDNY says they were looking for anything that posed a fire hazard: generators, fuel, gas tanks, etc. According to reports, the materials were removed peaceably. This i ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Gains Traction With Neighbors as CB1 Passes Resolution
Zoe SchlangerMusicians at Zuccotti Park. Last week, sub-committees of Lower Manhattan's Community Board 1 drafted a resolution in hopes of easing tensions with their new neighbors, Occupy Wall Street. Last night, the full board passed the resolution by a large majority. Held at a public sch ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
MTV's 'True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street' Coming Very Soon
Bryan, a star of 'True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street'Last week we confirmed that MTV's Real World is looking for Occupy Wall Street protesters to be on season 27. But that's not all: MTV is also coming out with an episode of True Life starring Occupy Wall Street protesters, as New York Tim ... More >>
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October 22, 2011
Oscar Winner Doing Documentary On Occupy Wall Street
The excitement around the Occupy Wall Street protests are being recorded for posterity. Fisher Stevens--the well-known actor who produced the Oscar winning 2009 documentary The Cove and directed/produced Crazy Love--is doing a doc on the whole amazing scene.
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October 21, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Faces Its Neighbors At Contentious Community Board Meeting
Zoe SchlangerDrumming is one of the biggest problems neighbors have with Occupy Wall Street.Last night, the Quality of Life and Financial District sub-committees of Community Board 1 held a hearing in Lower Manhattan. The topic was Occupy Wall Street, specifically the tense relationship the n ... More >>
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