It’s been a full year since Occupy Wall Street was evicted from their seized stomping ground at Zucotti Park, and about a year since anyone has bothered to care about them. There is, however, still a hopeful few that cling to the idea that they actually have any viable solutions in the [...]
Occupy Wall Street has now taken to the business of buying debt directly from debt collectors in order to effectively “erase it.” They have announced a “Rolling Jubilee” in order to raise private donations that they will turn around and use to erase distressed debt (school loans, medical bills, mortgages, etc.). [...]
Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, and all-around off-key warbler Serj Tankian have banded together to compose the ultimate Occupy Wall Street anthem. The final product, “We Are the 99%” proves a few things: Sometimes, the whole is less than the sum of its parts [...]
Occupy Wall Street protester Jackie Barcliff turned himself into NYPD custody on Friday night. Barcliff, 44, surrendered after seeing his photograph appearing in several publications. Police arrested Barcliff for the September 10th rape of a fellow OWS protester, and also for the August 10th rape of a 14-year old girl. Barcliff [...]
Thursday, NYPD identified and released the photo of a man wanted for the rape of an Occupy Wall Street protester earlier this week. Police state that Jackie Barcliff, 44, met his 56-year old victim during Occupy Wall Street events. On the night of September 10, Barcliff allegedly raped his victim [...]
A member of the Occupy movement is gaining some internet notoriety after creating a “Kill Mitt Romney” page on Facebook. Joshua Scott Albert, he administrator of the page, has also drawn the attention of the Secret Service, according to Fox News. The page was created on August 11th, and was [...]
The goal of the Occupy movement is to overthrow capitalism and institute a communist government, according to Occupy organizer Mike Golash. Golash, the former president of the Amalgamated Transit Union local 689, was videotaped at an Occupy DC general assembly on Sunday stating, “Progressive labor is a revolutionary communist organization. Its objective [...]
Much of Occupy Wall Street has been quiet lately. Even the National Gathering in Philadelphia on July 4th didn’t pull in the numbers they had expected or hoped for. What little focus Occupy had dissolved when the tents were torn down across the nation. Occupy Boston certainly hasn’t been the [...]
The attending members of the Occupy National Gathering worked really hard on July 4, and the end result was a document. That document is titled “A Vision For a Democratic Future.” http://www.occupynationalgathering.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FINAL-A-Vision-For-A-Democratic-Future.pdf The Vision states that it is not a list of demands, nor does it propose exactly how a [...]
On July 5, from the Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia, a band of protesters set out on a 99-mile journey to fight the evils of capitalism. Their Mordor: Zucotti Park, the site of the original Occupy Wall Street protest. Like Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, their journey, dubbed the 99-Mile [...]
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