Monday, January 02, 2012

Occupy Wall Street



oct 2

  • A protest in New York dubbed " Occupy Wall Street " appears to be settling in for the long term. NPR News Headlines
  • In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 400 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon. Seattle Times full feed
  • The arrests took place when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge 's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes. Reuters Most Read
  • Police in New York have arrested several hundred demonstrators involved in the latest protests against banks by a movement known as Occupy Wall Street. BBC Top Stories
  • A large group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement attempt to cross the Brooklyn Bridge, effectively shutting parts of it down, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 in New York. Fox News Top Headlines
  • The group Occupy Wall Street has been camped out in a plaza in Manhattan 's Financial District for nearly two weeks staging various marches, and had orchestrated an impromptu trek to Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon. CTV News Latest
  • The Occupy Wall Street movement finally occupied more than Wall Street, but the outcome was not what they had expected. Daily Beast Cheat Sheet
  • Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have been camped in Zuccotti Park and have clashed with police on earlier occasions. Seattle Times full feed


  • oct 16

  • They were returning from shopping and checking out the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, which Mr. Luetscher said was smaller and calmer than he had expected. New York Times, NY Region
  • This is the red hot moment of Occupy Wall Street on the left and the Tea Party on the right. New York Times, Europe
  • Occupy Wall Street assault: lawyer demands action on policeman 's punch Guardian World
  • Occupy Wall Street demonstrators won a major victory on Friday when Mayor Bloomberg and Brookfield Developers, the owners of New York City 's Zuccotti Park, backed down on their demand that the activists temporarily vacate the park for a cleaning and subsequently abide by new rules banning sleeping bags, much gear and even lying down on the premises. The Nation Blogs
  • Authorities in Arizona arrested nearly 100 people after two separate protests in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. ABC News US
  • " Any inappropriate measure against Iran, whether political or security-related, will be strongly confronted by the Iranian nation, " Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, accusing Washington of inventing the plot to divert attention from the " Occupy Wall Street " protests. Reuters Most Read
  • ' Fred Armisen did his best Mayor Bloomberg, giving his latest opinions on Occupy Wall Street. Daily Beast Most Recent
  • We are indebted to him for raising, albeit obliquely, a key issue that he correctly tied to the heart of the Occupy Wall Street ( OWS ) movement. Washington Post Opinions
  • I live in New York City and went downtown to Zuccotti Park to visit the Occupy Wall Street encampment yesterday. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • In Rome, tens of thousands gathered for a march inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement. Guardian World
  • But Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters in Iran, said that the US accused Iran of terror in order to divert attention from its economic woes and from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. Guardian World
  • In Colorado, about 1,000 people rallied in downtown Denver to support Occupy Wall Street and at least two dozen were arrested. AP Top Headlines


  • oct 22

  • West has been arrested before at protests for causes he supports, including the Occupy Wall Street movement. Washington Post National
  • Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Eric Cantor on Occupy Wall Street. Washington Post Opinions
  • Verizon Communications workers march in past Zuccotti Park in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street campaign in New York October 21, 2011. Reuters Technology
  • The protests in Washington, D.C., are an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. NPR News Headlines
  • Pete Seeger 's grandson says the 92-year-old activist musician is " all fired up " about plans for a late-night march in New York City in support of Occupy Wall Street. Seattle Times full feed
  • A week after protesters took to the streets in several cities across the country, there are signs the Occupy Wall Street movement may be running out of steam in Canada and abroad. CTV News Latest
  • The Occupy Wall Street protests, now in their second month, have increasingly been criticized by a variety of groups, most of them politically conservative, for flashes of anti-Semitism. New York Times, NY Region
  • Future history books will refer to the Occupy Wall Street movement as an epic phenomenon. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • Bank Withdraws From Fund-Raiser After ' Occupy Wall Street ' Gets Place at WSJ Lifestyle
  • Pete Seeger 's grandson says the 92-year-old activist musician is " all fired up " about plans for a late-night march in New York City in support of Occupy Wall Street. AP Top Headlines
  • And rather than concern myself with the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, I 'm sending some money to Somalia, because despite the fact that the Somalians are dirt poor, they have their priorities right. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • The notice says the attack is in support of the so-called 99 % movement, a reference to the Occupy Wall Street protests spreading around the world, and is retaliation against law enforcement for mistreatment of # occupywallstreet, particularly in Boston. Wired Threat Level


  • oct 26

  • Drumming will be limited to two hours per day on Occupy Wall Street. NY Observer Daily Transom
  • Egyptian revolutionary Asmaa Mahfouz speaks at Occupy Wall Street. Guardian World
  • In recent days authorities in several cities around the world have swooped in to evict encampments of anti-corporate demonstrators inspired by New York 's Occupy Wall Street movement. Seattle Times full feed
  • And concerns about student loan debt have been front and center with many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Seattle Times full feed
  • Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com. Fox News Top Headlines
  • Student loan debt also is a common concern voiced by Occupy Wall Street protesters. PennLive.com
  • A market forced out of its old location by Occupy Wall Street has opened at a new spot. New York Times, NY Region
  • The protest in George Square was organised in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, which began last month in New York 's financial district. BBC Top Stories
  • A plurality of Americans agrees with Occupy Wall Street’s diagnosis of what’s wrong. Washington Post Opinions
  • The president expressed a degree of sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement, noting that " people are frustrated, and that frustration has expressed itself in a lot of different ways " -- including both Occupy Wall Street and the tea party. CNN Entertainment
  • The scene was calm but tense early Wednesday as a crowd of hundreds of protesters dwindled to just a few dozen at the site of several clashes between authorities and supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement a night earlier. Boston Herald


  • nov 2

  • Along with protesting financial institutions that many within the Occupy Wall Street movement blame for high unemployment and the foreclosure crisis, supporters of the Oakland events are expanding their message to focus on local school closures, waning union benefits and cuts to social services. AP Top Headlines
  • Khamenei also said the alleged Iranian-backed plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to America on US soil was a " ridiculous scenario " created to undermine the " Occupy Wall Street " movement. Fox News World
  • What that means is that the Occupy Wall Street protestors will need to guard themselves from a different sort of assault, as the Comedy Central animated series makes overweight Cartman the 1 percent who fails his physical fitness exam. MSNBC Entertainment
  • A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement surveys tents set up in Zuccotti Park during the first winter snow fall in New York October 29, 2011. Toronto Sun News
  • A group of " Occupy Wall Street " demonstrators gesture peace signs toward a line of police officers during a protest in response to an early morning police raid which displaced Occupy Oakland 's tent city in Oakland, California October 25, 2011. Toronto Sun News
  • On Saturday morning, I arrived at Occupy Wall Street in New York at about 9: 30. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • Occupy Wall Street protests outrages that all of us see. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • Oakland hopes to become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street movement Wednesday as local organizers, labor unions and advocacy groups called for marches, pickets outside banks, school shutdowns and an attempt to close the nation's fifth-busiest port. The Grio
  • Less than a year later, the Democratic mayor is quickly losing support on all sides of the political spectrum, mostly over her handling of the city 's Occupy Wall Street protests that drew heavy scrutiny. Seattle Times full feed
  • In a clash of New York City mayors past and present, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Mayor Ed Koch took opposing sides at a panel discussion Tuesday over the Occupy Wall Street protests — with Bloomberg coming to the defense of banks and Koch angrily calling for criminal prosecutions of corporate executives. MSNBC Top Headlines
  • Occupy Wall Street has raised more than $ 500,000 in New York alone to support anti-greed demonstrations and, seven weeks into the movement, protesters are finding that having money creates headaches. MSNBC Business