09 January 2012
Over in Occupy Boston, occupiers there have been trying to address how to handle people who are registered sex offenders, particularly "Class 3" -- the most dangerous level usually reserved for convicted rapists and other egregious sexual assaults. After a general assembly last night tabled a proposal that would isolate someone who was a Class 3 sex offender, at least 20 people walked out of the meeting.
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07 January 2012
A lawyer for the Bay Area Media News Group, a group that consists of many Bay Area newspapers including the Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News, sent a cease and desist order against Scott Johnson, an Occupy Oakland member who is behind the Occupied Oakland Tribune website and newspaper yesterday. BANG alleges [...]
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29 December 2011
Few could have predicted the coming of the Occupy movement and the ripples it created on the fabric of American society. In its short, three-month life, the movement has shifted the political calculus from the drum-beating march toward uncompromising austerity to the real and largely ignored issue of economic inequality that has spread to the middle class like a contagion.
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28 December 2011
A number of wonderful developments have come from the Occupy Movement, mainly in the realm of conversation. Perhaps the most enlightening, albeit frustrating at times, has been a critical exploration into the words occupy and violence.
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08 December 2011
Interesting piece that talks about how after the breakup of so many occupy camps across the nation, a number of movements are essentially going "underground," evolving into direct action cells that are more flexible and more cloak and dagger about planned operations.
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07 December 2011
The long-anticipated raid on Occupy SF's encampment, one of the last main camps left throughout the country, was dismantled early this morning, resulting in 70 arrests.
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05 December 2011
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to sell legislators and business leaders on a plan to raise the tax rate on millionaires while offering cuts to middle class families.
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05 December 2011
An #occupyoakland General Assembly of 308 people voted down a contentious proposal that would have changed the name of the movement to "Decolonize Oakland," with only 68 percent of the people there supporting the change.
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05 December 2011
This photo was taken by Chris Wieland during the “Battle of the Barn” at Occupy DC last night. This shot captures the deeply intimate eyes of a protester; you can see the intensity, the passion, within them.
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05 December 2011
During a nine-hour standoff with National Park police in Washington D.C.’s McPherson Square over a temporary wooden structure, 31 occupiers were arrested, including David, who defied officials until the end. The Battle of the Barn, as media have been calling it, involved a 17-foot-tall wooden structure with no foundation that was to be used to [...]
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