Occupy protester's police uniform irks Philadelphia police, union
He's a real-life action hero to the Occupy protest crowd — a gray-haired, mustachioed retired police captain who happens to love the Occupy movement, especially in Philadelphia. Ray Lewis, 60, who served for 24 years as one of Philly's finest, …
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Occupy Wall Street celebrates 6 months since start
By AP NEW YORK — Chanting and cheering down Wall Street on Saturday to mark six months since the birth of the Occupy movement, some protesters applauded the Goldman Sachs employee who days ago gave the firm a public drubbing, echoing the movement's …
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Occupy Consciousness: The American Spring Arrives
We take due notice of the six-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The National Urban League just presented Occupy the Vote at Howard University in Washington, DC on the occasion of the release of the League's 2012 Annual State of …
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OWS Celebrates Six Months by Reliving the Fall
Defenses went up too, including yellow police tape marked “Occupy” and a similarly rebranded roll of orange netting—just like what police have used to surround and trap OWS marches before. Occupiers use orange police netting as a defense against …
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It’s been six months since protestors began the Occupy Wall Street movement that made headlines across the world, but the actual movement was in the works for almost an entire year before it caught on. Several attempts to create a mass movement had already taken place in Zucotti Park, but never reached the fevered pitch that we saw last September. Mike Papantonio talks about this with author David DeGraw, one of the men who helped bring the plight of the 99% to the public’s attention, and his calls to action were the backbone of the Occupy Movement. Follow David DeGraw on Twitter @ampedstatus “Economic Elite Vs. The People” daviddegraw.org
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OWS Still Strapped For Cash As May Day Approaches
"Occupy Wall Street is about our abundant human resources—the creative talent, dedication and sweat equity of people here and elsewhere that have decided to stand up against a corrupt and unjust society run by a powerful elite few," OWS spokesman Ed …
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'Occupy' movement regroups, targets BofA
Occupy Wall Street will unveil a new approach Thursday when it launches a campaign directed at Bank of America Corp. It involves…furniture. By Daniel Massey @masseydaniel After a winter of regrouping, Occupy Wall Street will unveil a new, more …
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A taste of the upcoming feature documentary, Occupy Love. This is a community funded film. www.occupylove.org “Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.” ~ Charles Eisenstein *NAMED ONE OF TOP 10 MUST-WATCH OCCUPY WALL ST VIDEOS* This short film was Directed by Ian MacKenzie http Co-produced with Velcrow Ripper www.velcrowripper.com Camera Ian Mackenzie and Velcrow Ripper Editing: Ian Mackenzie Interview by: Velcrow Ripper Watch video with English/Spanish/French/Greek and many more subtitles www.universalsubtitles.org CHARLES EISENSTEIN is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. READ CHARLES BOOK Visit sacred-economics.com to learn more about his ideas for a new economy. Transcript “This movement isn’t about the 99% defeating or toppling the 1%. You know the next chapter of that story, which is that the 99% create a new 1%. That’s not what it’s about. What we want to create is the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible. A sacred world. A world that works for everybody. A world that is healing. A world of peace. You can’t just say “We demand a world of peace …
It was a National Day of Action for the members of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. On Monday the movement spoke out against the private prison industry. The prison industry is said to have a lot of influence and power and gains major profits from keeping people behind bars. In all, thirteen cities took part in the day of action and Rania Khalek, independent journalist, helps take a deeper look at America’s incarceration problem. Like us and/or follow us: twitter.com www.facebook.com
Free love. No private property. Self identifying one’s gender. More socialist than Marx… Participatory Democracy and the Free Society… Considering the widespread support the movement is receiving from mainstream politicians, the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of the “Occupy” movement are quite bizarre. Some of the video in this video came courtesy of other youtube videos including: youtu.be
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