Protests and Demonstrations

Moms Protest Toys "R" Us and Toxic Greed

Sharpton to Lead Pray-In Protests Throughout City Today

Sharpton, Nicole Paultre Bell Among Scores Arrested at Sean Bell Protests

FBI Seeks Moles to Infiltrate the Minneapolis RNC: Report

Union Protesters to Wall Street: Bullshit, Bastards, Etc.

'What Do We Want? Class War.'

L.A. Cops Fire Rubber Bullets at Protesters Itching for a Fight

Youth Send Message to L.A.

'I Got Aztec Blood and My People Are Homeless'

"Hey, George, Get Out of My Bush!"

More Than 400 Arrested in Philly as Protests Rage

Street Guerrilla Warfare

More Than 400 Arrested in Philly as Protests Rage

Anarchists Take Philly Streets

More Than 400 Arrested in Philly as Protests Rage

Cat and Mouse

Philly Anarchists Stay a Step Ahead of Cops

From Peace to Pellets

ACLU Condemns Police Response

Flash Point: Los Angeles

Arrests Climb as Police Practice Politics of Kevlar

First Tear Gas, Now Bullets

Activists Weigh the Cost of Confrontation

An Uncivil War

Anarchists and Cops Square Off in Washington’s IMF Slugfest

Outside the Frozen Zone

Police, Demonstrators Gear Up for Anti-WEF Protests

Global Retreat

The Real Reason the Forum Bigwigs Are Here: The Swiss Didn’t Want the Hassle

Meet John Doe

The Real Reason the Forum Bigwigs Are Here: The Swiss Didn’t Want the Hassle

Violence in Yemen Caught On Video [Exclusive]

A tipster has sent us graphic videos of the government crackdown on protestors in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. According to CNN, clashes between government forces and demonstrators in Aden yesterday left four dead of gunshot wounds and 26 injured. Protests have been going on across Yemen to de ... More >>

There Will Be a Protest to Protest the Treatment of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Occupy Wall Street is now in its 12th day. This morning brought another march on Wall Street. In other cities, similar efforts are springing up. And, there are now efforts to protest the treatment the protesters have gotten from the NYPD -- most dramatically and media-attention-getting, the pepper- ... 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.

Transport Workers Union Votes Unanimously to Support Occupy Wall Street

​Occupy Wall Street is in its 13th day, with support growing among factions veering from the "grungy unemployed hippie stereotype." There's the event led by two CUNY professors to protest the treatment of the protesters at the hands of the NYPD (Critical Mass has written they'll join in this r ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Wall Street, Which Is Totally Not Like the Tea Party Because Hippies

Back during the Tea Party heyday, months ago, rightbloggers would applaud the guys and gals in tricorners who gathered in public to protest the "ruling class" that, they said, was destroying America, and agitate for a new Revolution. The Tea Party seems to be fading, and now we have Occupy Wall Str ... More >>

Billionaire's March Occupies the Upper East Side

​Yesterday at noon, protesters gathered at 59th Street and 5th Avenue (just across the street from the Plaza Hotel) for the Billionaire's March, a picket of the homes of five of New York's richest men: Rupert Murdoch, David Koch, Howard Milstein, Jamie Dimon, and John Paulson. Separate from ye ... 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 >>

74 Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protests; MLK Memorial Dedication; Demonstrators Killed in Yemen

​A total of 74 people were arrested yesterday as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Times Square. 24 people were arrested and charged with criminal trespass at a LaGuardia Pl. Citibank. Witnesses and protesters say some of those arrested were trying to close their acco ... More >>

Times Square Flooded With Protesters [VIDEO]

The above video shows the scale of yesterday's Occupy Wall Street protests in Times Square. Original estimations had the demonstrators' numbers in the thousands, with some reporting a presence of 20,000 people. Yesterday's protests resulted in 74 arrests--although 24 of those arrests occurred at a ... More >>

Bo Diddley's Son Arrested for Occupying Bo Diddley Community Plaza

​Ellas Anthony McDaniel, the son of legendary rhythm and blues artist Bo Diddley, was arrested Friday morning in a park named after his father while participating in the Gainesville, Florida offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests. The Independent Florida Alligator reports four protesters, ... 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 >>

Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My 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 >>

More Than 78,000 People Say They'll Move Their Money from Big Banks to Credit Unions Tomorrow

via​Tomorrow marks the event created by L.A. gallery owner Kristen Christian, who, tired of bank fees and her treatment at the hands of Bank of America, as well as the behaviors of the big banks overall, decided that she would transfer her funds to a credit union and invite others to do the sa ... 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 >>

Naomi Klein, Michael Moore and Others Opine on Occupy Wall Street

Heavy Hitters weigh in on Occupy Wall Street.​There were moments of last night's "Occupy Everywhere" symposium that felt like a debutante ball introducing Occupy Wall Street to polite liberal society. To be sure, several dozen occupiers with their sleeping bags on their backs traipsed up from ... More >>

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 >>

Natasha Lennard, NYT Freelancer, Chooses OWS Over Her Job

Natasha Lennard​Supporting Occupy Wall Street has claimed the job of another journalist. This time it's Natasha Lennard, the New York Times freelancer who was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. She recently appeared on a pro-OWS panel; when the Times caught wind of it, they released a statement ... More >>

Live: Anaïs Mitchell Brings Hadestown From (Le) Poisson Rouge To Washington Square Park

by Laura Leebove Anaïs Mitchell. ​Anaïs Mitchell and the Hadestown Orchestra (le) poisson rouge Sunday, November 20 Better than: Watching Occupy Wall Street protesters on TV. Anaïs Mitchell's show on Sunday night began on a crowded stage at (le) poisson rouge and ended in a singalong-pro ... More >>

Shepard Fairey Changes Unpopular 'Occupy Hope' Poster Under Pressure

Fairey's original design ​Shepard Fairey caught quite a bit of flak recently for making an Occupy Wall Street poster in the image of his famous Obama "Hope" design. That kind of thing is anathema to OWS, a movement that prides itself on not aligning with either political party. Fairey has publ ... More >>

Occupy Protests Have Cost U.S. Cities $13 Million

​The Occupy Wall Street protests, now into their second month, have cost 18 cities around the U.S. $13 million so far, according to a new AP report. The costs have mostly been in the area of law enforcement, as cities have ramped up police presences around occupations and sent cops in to evict ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Hunger Strikers Arrested Twice in 12-Hour Span

OWS Hunger Strikers Facebook​A handful of Occupy Wall Street protesters have been holding a hunger strike since Saturday in the hopes of getting Trinity Wall Street, an Episcopal parish downtown that has provided various services to occupiers for some time, to let them occupy a vacant lot that ... More >>

Occupy Goes Home

The movement takes back foreclosed houses after leaving the park

Time Magazine Names 'The Protester' Person of the Year

​For Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue, they've chosen "The Protester." The Awl announces, "Okay, yay, we won!" The spread features simple portraits of and interviews with protesters from around the world -- Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, and right here in the U.S. The attached cover ... More >>

U.S. Troops Leave Iraq; Alleged Cop Murderers Indicted; Protests Continue in Egypt

​The last American troops left Iraq earlier today after an eight-year war and conflict. CNN reports that this was the largest troop drawdown since the Vietnam War. "The United States will still maintain a presence in Iraq: hundreds of nonmilitary personnel, including 1,700 diplomats, law enfor ... More >>

Occupy the Pulpit

Religious involvement in OWS heads upstream

American History, from the Mind of Ken Jacobs, in Seeking the Monkey King

Religious involvement in OWS heads upstream

Occupy Wall Street Goes to Bloomberg's House to Protest Press Arrests

Protesters on Mayor Bloomberg's block today.​Occupy Wall Street protesters staged their second public action of the year this afternoon, returning to Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Upper East Side townhouse to protest the NYPD's treatment of journalists covering the movement. But to the disappointmen ... More >>

DJ Spooky Spinning Tonight for the OWS People's Librarians, Who Are Number 34 on the Voice's "100 Most Powerless New Yorkers"

Caleb Ferguson​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 ... More >>

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 stoppe ... More >>

DJ Spooky, Occupy Wall Street, and the Frictions of Radical Chic

DJ Spooky spinning at Work in Progress last night.​It was an unlikely marriage from the start. When DJ Spooky invited the Occupy Wall Street Library to hold a book-party / dance-party at the chichi Vandam club Work in Progress, it was an open question how the revolutionary politics of the oc ... More >>

Ydanis Rodriguez and Dozens of OWS Protestors Show Up to Court; Nothing Really Happens

​Occupy Everything! Even New York City Criminal Court! That's sort of what happened this morning when dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters who were arrested in the fall were forced to show up to 346 Broadway for their mandatory court appearances. At least it's warmer than Zuccotti? City C ... More >>

Wall Street Frat Bros' Party Is Like Vegas With OWS Jokes

​Last night, DealBook posted the story of what happens when a bunch of high powered financial types get together to party. Thursday marked the "annual black tie dinner and induction ceremony" for Kappa Beta Phi (yes, like Phi Beta Kappa, only not), an invite-only, group for master of the univ ... More >>