Occupy Wall Street

Filmmaker Threatening Lawsuit Over Use Of Occupy Wall Street Footage

When the filmmakers behind 99% The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film were raising money for their project last fall, they framed their project as an experiment in collective creation that mirrored their subject. As they wrote on their Kickstarter page, "In a process that mirrors the OWS movement ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street One-Year Anniversary Begins With 25 Arrests

Tomorrow, it will be one whole year since a group of anti-corporatist raiders met for the first time in Zuccotti Park and deemed themselves Occupy Wall Street. Since then, the national explosion of 99-versus-1 Percent politics has had its ups and downs - in New York, Bloomberg's army of police offic ... More >>

Eight Occupy Wall Street Protesters Found Guilty of Trespassing, One Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail

The week-long trial of eight Occupy Wall Street demonstrators concluded yesterday afternoon with guilty verdicts and a jail sentence. The eight men were part of a crowd that entered a fenced-in parcel controlled by Trinity Church December 17, hoping to turn the space into a new camp for the movemen ... More >>

Judge Allows Class Action In Last Fall's Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrests To Go Forward

A federal judge ruled today that a class action suit against the NYPD over the mass arrest of more than 700 people on the Brooklyn Bridge October 1 can go forward. The march over the vehicular roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge was one of the most visually dramatic events of the young Occupy Wall Stree ... More >>

In Second Occupy Wall Street Protest Trial, Police Claims Again Rejected

Another day, another Occupy Wall Street trial, another black eye for the police. Just two days after the first Occupy Wall Street protest case to go to trial ended with the NYPD's version of events unraveling, the same thing happened again in New York Criminal Court this morning. Jessica Hall, an O ... More >>

Stuart Varney Claims (Based On Literally Nothing) That OWS Is Recruiting Paid Protesters On Craigslist

Good news for the Occupy Wall Street folks: you can now be an OWS "bum" and get paid for it -- that's according to Fox News' Stuart Varney, anyway, who claims (based on literally nothing) that OWS is recruiting paid protesters via-Craigslist to "hang out" in Zuccotti Park today and tomorrow (spoiler ... More >>

Occupy Union Square: The Evolution Of A New Protest Camp

When the NYPD again forcefully evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park more than a week ago, many of those who weren't arrested marched north, leading police on a winding course that finally ended at around 2 a.m. in Union Square. Most of the protesters went home after that, but a handful sta ... More >>

Charges Dropped for 14 OWS Brooklyn Bridge Protesters

During the second week of Occupy Wall Street, way back in October, a march onto the Brooklyn Bridge gave the protesters a much-needed boost of legitimacy. It caused a minor media uproar when The New York Times was accused of changing around what had happened on the bridge. Six hundred and eighty-si ... More >>

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.

[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 >>

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 >>

Occupy Lit: Publishing Employees to Rally Against HarperCollins

NYO​Spotted 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

"Occupy Wall Street" Exploitation Examined By Olbermann and I

​On last night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith and I chewed over the weird way TV and movie cameras have been diving onto Occupy Wall Street, from the Real World casting notice looking for activists to the alleged Dark Knight Rises flirtation with marching extras.

What Does Occupy Wall Street Mean For Art?

The Real World's Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street is Definitely Real

Ted Hall, natural candidate for Real World: OWS.​Yesterday it looked as though Bunim/Murray, the production company behind MTV's Real World, had put out a casting call on Craigslist. Nothing weird there, but the casting call asked for Occupy Wall Street protesters, who don't immediately spring ... More >>

Is 'Real World: Occupy Wall Street' Legit?

Ted Hall, our nominee for Real World: OWS, in an emotional YouTube video. ​Real World 27 is being cast -- at Zuccotti Park?? The Observer today picked up on a Craigslist ad that -- there's no delicate way to say this -- is a casting call for Occupy Wall Street protesters that would like to be ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: 10 Halloween Costumes of the Movement

#8: Fat Cats on Wall Street​Halloween is one of the few opportunities we have throughout the year to dress as something else, something that we may never be, something that we may never WANT to be, with impunity and without obligation. And while some blogs are telling us that the costume of th ... More >>

Rightbloggers Work on the Nixonization of Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread nationally and internationally, making it hard for even the American media to belittle it. This reality seems to have caught up to the rightbloggers who, as we saw a few weeks back, were at first eager to dismiss the phenomenon as a silly hippie effusion ... More >>

Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protest of Citibank [VIDEO]

​About 20 people were arrested this afternoon after entering a Citibank near Washington Square Park. The New York Observer reports that about 20 demonstrators entered the bank on LaGuardia Pl., some with the intention of closing their accounts. Once inside, security is said to have asked them ... More >>

This Is What the Occupy Wall Street Arrest Pattern Looks Like

C.S. MuncyCops faced off against protesters this morning in the Financial District.​A number of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested this morning during confrontations with the police on various streets in the Financial District. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne puts the number at 14. One man ... More >>

The New York State Young Democrats May Be Kind of Tone-Deaf

Keep the change.​For the past four weeks, we've been bringing you news of the Occupy Wall Street protests roiling Lower Manhattan, as the self-identified 99 percent transform their tales of struggle and deprivation into demands for systemic change. Maybe it's just because we have those voices ... More >>

Penguin Prison Filming Video For "Don't Fuck With My Money" at Occupy Wall Street

Another addition to the growing list of musicians supporting Occupy Wall Street: Chris Glover, the native New Yorker behind the electro-pop project Penguin Prison will be filming a video for the song "Don't Fuck With My Money" tomorrow morning. The synth-wiggle track has been around longer than th ... More >>

City: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Must Agree to Cleaning Or Get Out [Updated]

via DJ Unicorn Thunder HeartsMayor Bloomberg visiting Occupy Wall Street.​Yesterday evening Mayor Bloomberg visited Occupy Wall Street for a while, walking through the park and viewing the inhabitants (we missed him by about five minutes). What he saw combined with complaints from Brookfield O ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street No Longer Allowed Tarps and Sleeping Bags In Zuccotti As Of Tomorrow

Jake MooreLast night in Zuccotti, a protester smoked in their makeshift tent. ​As we reported earlier, the city is coming in to clean Zuccotti Park tomorrow whether Occupy Wall Street likes it or not. (They don't). And now they're stepping up their response another notch: Ray Kelly told report ... More >>

Here Is Video Of Kanye West Standing With The People (But Not Talking) At Occupy Wall Street Yesterday

​The news that Kanye West stopped by Occupy Wall Street yesterday had the Internet atwitter for a chunk of the afternoon. Now, there's video documentation of Kanye standing around Zuccotti Park and letting Russell Simmons do the talking for him (he "didn't want to do any media at all"), explai ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Has Its Own Condom, and It's Free for Protesters

​Yesterday a piece in the New York Post detailed the scandalous, scandalous ways of Occupy Wall Street protesters. To wit, some of them may be hard-drinking, heavy-drugging, sex-having criminals. The Post found one who admitted to the media that he was on the lam and hiding out in Zuccotti Par ... More >>

The Four Best Finds In Occupy Wall Street's Music Library

Over the weekend SOTC pal Ann Powers wondered about what the music of Occupy Wall Street might be, and she discussed the drop-ins by the likes of Jeff Mangum and Talib Kweli as well as the music emanating from the park's current residents; she also mused on the "human microphone," the means by which ... More >>

Kanye West Shows Up At Occupy Wall Street Long Enough For The Internet To Freak Out About It

Liveblogging the news that Kanye West was going to bring all his power to Occupy Wall Street, first broken to the world in a tweet from Russell Simmons, after the fact: 3:45 p.m.: Runnin' Scared's Rosie Gray informs me that Kanye is at OWS. 3:46 p.m.: Let the retweeting commence. 3:47 p.m.: Let ... More >>

Capitalism at Work: Website Sells Occupy Wall Street Products

CafePress.com, a website that, in their own words, is "where the world turns for unique products that express what people love most," has a large section of Occupy Wall Street goods for sale. For example, they offer 371 Occupy Wall Street T-shirt designs, 238 tank top designs, and 155 hat designs. I ... More >>

Times Square Could Get Occupy Wall Street Billboards

EpicStep, a kickstarter-esque website that crowdsources funds for billboards, has pledged to pay for an Occupy Wall Street billboard if 20,000 people vote for it on their website. People can vote on the design and city where it will be built, and if enough people vote, EpicStep will fund it. If 200, ... More >>

Occupy the Hood Aims to Bring More Minorities Into the Occupy Wall Street Fold

Occupy Wall Street wants to represent the "99 percent." But if you've been down to observe the goings-on at Zuccotti Park, you'll have noticed that the majority of participants are white, which -- at the risk of sounding obvious! -- does not represent 99 percent of the U.S. population. Now, labor un ... More >>

Kristen Christian, Who Created 'Bank Transfer Day,' the November 5 Bank Boycott, Tells Us Why

Earlier today we wrote of what appeared to be an Occupy Wall Street-related bank boycott planned for November 5th. We've spoken to Kristen Christian, the 27-year-old creator of the event, who has clarified some things. For one, it's not an Occupy Wall Street-organized event, though members of the Oc ... More >>

NYC Students Stage Walkouts in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, students from around New York will walk out of their classes and march down to City Hall this afternoon. Once at City Hall, the students will join the larger Community/Labor March to Wall Street, which already has almost 3,000 people attending on Facebook. A few mont ... More >>

We Are the 1 Percent, Say a Few People

In response to the tactics of Occupy Wall Street, which self-professed "Capitalist Pig" Jonathan Hoenig described in SmartMoney earlier this week as a mob using force and intimidation to achieve their collectivist goals -- he bases this on Merriam-Webster's third definition of "occupy": "to take or ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: Live Updates From the March

The Community/Labor march to Wall Street is on, with thousands of people filling Foley Square, where marchers are assembling prior to the march, which begins at 5 p.m. They're scheduled to head past City Hall and to Zuccotti Park to "unite in solidarity." Nick Pinto (@macfathom) and Rosie Gray (_@ro ... More >>

UrbanBaby Moms Weigh In On Occupy Wall Street: 'The Protesters Are a Bunch of Idiots'

​Finally, moms on smug-parenting site UrbanBaby are speaking out on the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests. The discussion thread we looked at today starts out like this: "I hate that I'm too much of a p*ssy to actually occupy Wall Street with the rest of the 99%. Finally, people are standing ... More >>

Over 700 Arrests Made on Brooklyn Bridge; Hospital Wants to Release Hinckley; Typhoons Hit Philippines

As we reported yesterday, Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested while marching over the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Times reports police made over 700 arrests. Demonstrators claim authorities misled them by saying they could march on the bridge. Officers arrested people who weren't on the pe ... More >>

'Occupy Wall Street Journal' Surpasses Kickstarter Goal

Occupy Wall Street is starting to look less like an extended camping trip (kind of): It now has a mailing address, an info line, and it will soon have its own newspaper. The Occupy Wall Street Journal has surpassed its $12,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter and looks like it might actually be a rea ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Now Has a Mail Address And an Info Line

Occupy Wall Street will be two weeks old on Saturday, and they've been camped out in Zuccotti Park long enough to start receiving packages: (Liberty Plaza is what the protesters have renamed Zuccotti Park.) They also now have a designated info helpline, 347 603 6258.

80 Arrested Saturday In Occupy Wall Street Protests; Second Avenue Subway Gets Graded; Marathon World Record Set

Nick Pinto​Approximately 80 were arrested Saturday in connection with Occupy Wall Street, according to the NYPD's press office. Throughout yesterday afternoon Occupy Wall Street used Twitter to chronicled arrests and various acts of force being used by the NYPD against protesters. They say at ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Tweets Reports of Tear Gas, Arrests (UPDATED)

​ In Occupy Wall Street's eighth day, protesters claim on their Twitter account today that they have been targeted by tear gas, and at least 50 people have been arrested during their march through the city this afternoon headed toward the United Nations building [Updated per retraction from a ... More >>