Protests and Demonstrations

Human Rights Body Criticizes U.S. for NYPD's Policing of Occupy Wall Street

New Yorkers, if they've been paying any attention at all, have known for a long time that the way the NYPD treats journalists and protesters doesn't exactly live up to what you'd expect in a democratic society with a free press. Now, it looks like the NYPD's actions in relation to Occupy Wall Stree ... More >>

More Pepper-Sprayed Protesters Sue NYPD

The legal aftermath of of the NYPD's crackdown on street protest over the past year continues to unfold, with another lawsuit filed against the department in federal court. The most recent suit is filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund on behalf of two protesters, Johanne Sterling and Josh ... More >>

Jackie Barcliff Sought By Police In Rape, Assault Tied to Occupy Wall Street Protest

In an unusually dramatic and verbose posting from police spokespeople, the NYPD says detectives are looking for a man identified as 44-year-old Jackie Barcliff (at right) in connection with an appalling rape and assault of a female Occupy Wall Street protester on Monday. Barcliff appears to be the ... More >>

16 Arrested In Student Debt Protest Last Night

Several hundred people marched through the West Village last night in what has become a weekly protest against growing student debt. The march was framed as a gesture of solidarity to the general strike currently roiling Quebec, and the marchers adopted several of the signatures of that strike, ban ... More >>

Fox News' Stuart Varney Does Nada To Correct False Claim Intended To Humiliate Occupy Wall Street

Yesterday, Fox News' Stuart Varney claimed he found an ad Occupy Wall Street placed on Craigslist offering $10 an hour for people to pose as protesters and "hang out" in Zuccotti Park for two days of protest. As we revealed yesterday, Varney's claim is bullshit -- Occupy Wall Street had nothing to d ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Occupy Wall Street Is Finally Occupying Wall Street (Or At Least Trying)

Seven months after they first set up camp in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters are actually occupying Wall Street. But after a relatively uneventful week of lawfully sleeping on the sidewalk near the New York Stock Exchange, the protesters have been met with a strong police response over ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Occupy the Pulpit

Religious involvement in OWS heads upstream

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 >>

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 >>

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

by Laura Leebove 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-propelled march to nearby W ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

'Occupy Fountains' Ride Planned for Today in Midtown

"Occupying" is clearly not confined to Wall Street, having occurred over the weekend in Washington Square Park and, we hear, being planned for Tompkins Square Park this coming Saturday and Sunday. All the while, Occupy Wall Street Protesters are remaining at base camp in Zuccotti Park, where Mayor ... More >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 rally, w ... 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-s ... More >>

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 >>

Meet John Doe

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

FBI Seeks Moles to Infiltrate the Minneapolis RNC: Report

Moms Protest Toys "R" Us and Toxic Greed

Outside the Frozen Zone

Police, Demonstrators Gear Up for Anti-WEF Protests

An Uncivil War

Anarchists and Cops Square Off in Washington’s IMF Slugfest

First Tear Gas, Now Bullets

Activists Weigh the Cost of Confrontation

Youth Send Message to L.A.

'I Got Aztec Blood and My People Are Homeless'

From Peace to Pellets

ACLU Condemns Police Response

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

More Than 400 Arrested in Philly as Protests Rage

Anarchists Take Philly Streets