In another instance of police brutality during the massive day of protests on Thursday, the NYPD dragged a woman into street by her hair. A CNN reporter caught it on tape.
Today marks the two month anniversary of the OWS protests. In recognition of that, protesters held massive protests today in New York City. Over 1,000 protesters flocked to the streets around the New York Stock Exchange to protest, clogging traffic and clearly disrupting the flow around New York’s financial district.
Bloomberg and the other disgraced mayors flail about looking for a means to control the uncontrollable.
By trespassing, we are saying that mega-corporate occupation of the power and wealth of this nation is illegitimate. We are here to take our power back and do our best to divest from an economic system that harms us and our fellow citizens
Bloomberg says the protesters can return but that they must do so without tents. This is a brand new rule dreamed up by the owners of the park and Bloomberg that would significantly weaken the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the courts are intervening to protect the right to protest.
It’s true that this movement is, in part, about handouts, but it’s not the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are seeking handouts.
Elizabeth Warren, the former Havard professor and progressive Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate released her first television advertisement on Sunday that directly targets the undue influence Wall Street has on government decisions.
As city officials all across the nation embark on dismantling Occupy Wall Street protest encampments, a central grievance of the OWS was broadcast last evening ’60 Minutes’.
As Warren spoke to the audience, a man interrupted and complained about her support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. When the crowd attempted to shout him down, Warren intervened and asked them to let him speak. He said that he was unemployed and that the Tea Party has been protesting Wall Street longer than OWS.
Romney offered a plan strikingly similar to the aforementioned Ryan Plan, except in his plan, Romney would add Social Security cuts on top of destroying Medicare and Medicaid.
Be grateful. That is what I am hearing from my conservative friends and I’m listening and would suggest that all my liberal and moderate friends listen as well. This is life changing information.
After failing to live up to many Republicans dreams of suddenly pulling a Kool-aid man and bursting through the walls of a GOP debate with an announcement to run, Christie has sort of faded out of the national conservation.
In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Romney criticized President Barack Obama for not allowing banks to foreclose on American families fast enough. When asked what he would do to jump-start the ailing housing market, Romney said, ‘Don’t try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.’
You hear a lot of talk in Republican circles about ‘Personal Responsibility.’ It sounds great, doesn’t it? Americans are a rugged bunch. We like to do things ourselves.
Who are the real heretics in this country? The people challenging corporate power and greed or the people who have made Wall Street their god?
A surge of re-energized American citizens positioned in cities across the country are carrying out the grassroots ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement (or the ’99 Percent Movement’) with an intelligent and provoking agenda that invokes real patriotic citizenship – much unlike the backwards Tea Party protests that have done little more than pervert our founding ideals while hidden under the guise of Americanism.
Instead of dressing up like morbidly obese founding fathers and screaming about their leader being born in Kenya and some covert Muslim Socialist, the people of Iceland actually rose up against the overwhelming tide of corporate greed and deception and reclaimed their country.
Mitt Romney strongly believes that ‘Corporations are people,’ and if the plethora of protestors gathering en masse in Liberty Plaza to rally against these corporations, logic can only dictate that the protestors have no compassion for people, right? Getting back to reality, corporations most certainly aren’t people.
Daily updates of the movement will continue, but I thought it useful to report on a few ‘affiliate’ organizations. You will also notice below a ‘Spotted in the Crowd’ list; interesting to see who is popping in on the protests.
A Fox News interviewer tried to catch a protester off-guard with his question, and ended up getting caught off-guard himself.
