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Protests and Demonstrations

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    On the Eve of May Day, a Raft of Suits Against the NYPD Over Treatment of Protesters

    There are fewer than 24 hours to go before Occupy Wall Street activists, unions, and immigrant groups launch a day-long series of protests that may well constitute some of the largest demonstrations in the city's recent history. All indications are that the police are getting ready too: large group ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Q&A: Dan Deacon Talks Politics, Patriotism, And Occupy Wall Street

    Dan Deacon is one of several big name musicians playing a free concert in Union Square tomorrow at 4 p.m. We spoke to him recently about why Occupy Wall Street resonates with him and why he considers himself a political artist. Village Voice: You're playing a free show in Union Square for May Day, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Occupy Wall Street Escalates The Battle For Union Square

    The Battle for Union Square continues. The branch of Occupy Wall Street protesters who have colonized Union Square for the past three weeks continue their nightly standoff with the New York Police Department, which each night deploys more than fifty officers to clear the park and stand guard along ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Tonight! Occupy vs. Police, The Rap Battle

    One of the things that has kept Occupy Wall Street vital over the past six months is the way protesters constantly reassess and adjust their tactics. In the last two weeks, the new Union Square encampment has proved an especially vivid laboratory for that process, as each night police move in overw ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Tibetan Hunger Strikers Enter Day 29 of Protest Outside The United Nations

    Despite the hospitalization of one protester and police pressure, three Tibetans -- including one monk -- have entered the 29th day of a hunger strike outside the U.N., decrying China's harsh oppression of the Himalayan state. Dorjee Gyalpo, 59, was taken to the hospital on Monday, Tsewang Rigzin, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    December 28, 2011

    Occupy the Pulpit

    Religious involvement in OWS heads upstream

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Andre Gregory, Actor, Screenwriter: OWS Not All That Different From Early Vietnam War Protests

    Today, amid the roiling Occupy Wall Street protests, we bumped into Andre Gregory, who wrote and acted in the iconic 1981 film, "My Dinner With Andre." Standing on the sidewalk outside Trinity Church on Broadway, Gregory, now 77 and looking very fit, said he decided to attend the protest because he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Cooper Square Committee Protests Cooper Union Over St. Mark's Bookshop Rent

    Jocelyn Silver​Cooper Union held an inauguration ceremony today at noon for new president Jamshed Bharucha. In keeping with the revolutionary trend sweeping NYC, the Cooper Square Community Development Committee and Businessmen's Association staged a rather low-key protest for the struggling S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Felix Rivera-Pitre, Protester Sought for Arrest After Being Punched by Cop, Inspires March to D.A.'s Office

    C.S. Muncy​One of the more recent instances of alleged police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters involves Felix Rivera-Pitre, who was allegedly punched by a police officer identified as Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona last week after the movement won the right to stay in Zuccotti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2011

    Citibank Releases Statement Regarding Arrests

    Yesterday, we reported that 24 people were arrested after protesting at a Citibank near Washington Square Park. The above video shows the demonstrators locked inside the branch and police arriving on the scene. Some protesters say they were merely trying to close their accounts, while the police ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street: Actually Sort of Good for the Cops?

    Along with Mayor Bloomberg's recent sentiments that "protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city aren't productive" comes a slightly different, still employment-based, perspective, which is the NYPD's recent announcement that Occupy Wall Street has cost taxpayers $2 m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street Vs. Tea Party Protests. Guess Who Wins?

    And the Tea Party loses! In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman writes an op-ed piece that states what we've all been thinking about Occupy Wall Street.

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Peter Yarrow and Kyp Malone at Occupy Wall Street

    Radiohead, everybody knows, didn't play a free show for the Occupy Wall Street protesters last Friday. But there's been a stream of high-profile musicians showing up in Zuccotti Park to offer their support. This afternoon, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary set up on a makeshift bandstand and pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    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 rally, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    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-s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street, Day Three: Inefficiency Starts to Cripple Protest

    This is what democracy looks like.​The Occupy Wall Street protest drew thousands of demonstrators to the Financial District this weekend, when the markets were closed and the neighborhood was largely a ghost town. This morning, as the inexplicably-timed protest entered its third day, demonstr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Groups Plan Counter Protests to NOM and Westboro Church on Same-Sex Sunday

    MENY will use this to keep Westboro Church from raining on their parade​Same-sex marriage is now less than two days away! Both NOM (the National Organization for Marriage) and Westboro Baptist Church are coming to town on Sunday to protest the happy occasion. We've just gotten word how two ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    Meet John Doe

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Clip Job: Mailer Wouldn't Duck and Cover

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    Protestors, Former Queens Beep Exchange Taunts Over Willets Park

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2008

    FBI Seeks Moles to Infiltrate the Minneapolis RNC: Report

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2007

    Moms Protest Toys "R" Us and Toxic Greed

    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 >>

  • News

    April 11, 2006

    Grandmothers of Invention

    Older is bitter—when it comes to the war in Iraq. A peek inside the granny-power movement.

  • News

    January 18, 2005

    Cops Turn Pepper Spray on Anarchists

    Older is bitter—when it comes to the war in Iraq. A peek inside the granny-power movement.

  • News

    August 24, 2004

    Guantanamo on the Hudson

    Judge orders immediate release of 470 protesters

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Cuisine de Clink

    Planning to protest the RNC? Fine dining awaits you at the city's swankiest prisons

  • News

    September 9, 2003

    CityState

    Planning to protest the RNC? Fine dining awaits you at the city's swankiest prisons

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Outside the Frozen Zone

    Police, Demonstrators Gear Up for Anti-WEF Protests

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Arrest Watch: NY Jails Called Unprepared

    Seven Activists Freed

  • News

    September 11, 2001

    An Uncivil War

    Anarchists and Cops Square Off in Washington’s IMF Slugfest

  • News

    July 24, 2001

    Death in Genoa

    Anarchists and Cops Square Off in Washington’s IMF Slugfest

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    From Peace to Pellets

    ACLU Condemns Police Response

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    Flash Point: Los Angeles

    Arrests Climb as Police Practice Politics of Kevlar

  • News

    August 1, 2000

    Anarchists Take Philly Streets

    Arrests Climb as Police Practice Politics of Kevlar

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