Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street – Two Americas: Corporate Profits All Time High, Wages All Time Low
by DSWrightFollow for Occupy Wall Street We already know that America has the highest level of inequality in the developed world and that the recent crisis wiped out 40% of wealth for most Americans, hurting everyone but the rich. But here are some new records in inequality within the system itself, from Business Insider: 1) [...]
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 [...]
The Kansas City Star – May Day protesters, shareholdes complain to KCP&L Executives
By STEVE EVERLY The Kansas City Star SHANE KEYSER Chanting slogans and waving posters, Pay Up KCP&L was joined by the 99 Percent Activists in protesting the Great Plains Energy shareholder meeting at the Country Club Plaza Library on Tuesday in Kansas City. May Day Demonstrators around the world and across the United States took [...]
Occupy Wall Street
Tonight: Shut Down Sotheby’s! Posted 9 hours ago on May 2, 2012, 2:48 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Tonight, at an exclusive 7pm auction, Sotheby’s is expected to sell Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream” for $80 million dollars. Outside, Occupy and labor allies will protest the Upper East Side art auction house in solidarity with [...]
The Guardian – Occupy May Day protests across US as activists & unions link up
Demonstrators march down Broadway during a May Day protest in New York City. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images The Occupy Wall Street movement has attempted to breathe new life into its campaign against inequities in the global financial system with a series of May Day protests across around the US. Thousands of people turned out in [...]
Witness Bahrain
For Immediate Release: Thursday 4pm: NY groups to hold emergency rally outside Bahraini Embassy on 57th day of political prisoner Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja hunger strike When: Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 4pm Where: Bahrain Consulate, 866 2nd Avenue, New York, NY Occupy Wall St. Global Justice Working Group, along with several other organizations, are holding an [...]
The Occupied Wall Street Journal
#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines by Jennifer Sacks and SIUKittyPie on Apr 11, 2012 YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Fight For Your Right…to Sleep: An OWS member sleeps on a Union Square-adjacent sidewalk – beneath a giant Citibank ad for home loans – seizing a legal loophole that allows for permanent overnight [...]