June 4th, 2012
The Boston Occupier – Nato Dispatches: The Other Side of Sunday
Dan Schneider June 4, 2012 A handmade sign at the Occupy Chicago Convergence Center. (Photo: Dan Schneider) The following is a collection of dispatches from May 20, 2012, a major day of protests against the NATO Summit in Chicago. The vision of the protests presented here is solely the view of the author, and may [...]
“Family Guy” writer suffers nerve damage from Occupy LA
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick Meighan My name is Patrick Meighan. I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy” & a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people [...]
Carrie Medina, Citizen Journalist, describes the NATO 2012 Protest
NATO 2012: Dissidents vs. The War Machine June 4, 2012 Story and Photographs by @CarrieFoTruth When I left for the NATO summit, I expected the police in Chicago were going to be oppressive against protesters, if not downright violent. There had been quite a bit of media buzz around the Chicago Police Department having spent [...]
Occupy Wall Street – Lessons from the victory at Sotheby’s
by OccupyWallSt From a January 27 Occupy Wall Street action at the MoMA in support of the locked out Sotheby’s workers. Photo by @NEREphotography, via Occupy with Art This article was written by Gary Roland for and published by Waging Nonviolence in their series Occupy Spring. Check out their blogs! Last September 22, when Occupy [...]
Occupy the Future by Occupying Art
A bit of irony is connected with the plague that hit Milan in 1486 during which it was estimated that 50,000 people died. So wretched was the city at this time that the entire court including Leonardo Da Vinci moved to Vigevano outside of the city. When Leonardo suggested to Ludovico that the cause [...]