Tag Archives: Occupy
Film Occupy Wall Street at Walker Art Center
Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels, 2011-2012 Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street October 5, 2012 Time7:30 pm Walker Cinema Price $9 ($7 Walker members, students, and seniors) Directed by Jem Cohen Part of Cinema of Urgency Jem Cohen (Instrument, Benjamin Smoke) made these “newsreels” during the Occupy Wall Street protests in fall 2011. In Artforum, […]
Robert Jensen on Talking Radical in a Mainstream World
Click here to see the video. Robert Jensen gives a teach-in on Talking Radical in a Mainstream World for Occupy Austin’s Independence Day gathering. Occupy Austin (7/4/12) describes the goal of the gathering: “We are coming together to write a new declaration. A Declaration that reminds us of the uncertain road that those who founded […]
Dissent Without Permission> Will Protest Permits & Free Speech Zones Halt or Hasten Rebellion?
Dissent Without Permission: Will Protest Permits & Free Speech Zones Halt Or Hasten Rebellion? Posted on July 21, 2012 by IronBoltBruce Occupy New Hampshire “Dissent without permission” may sound like Orwellian doublespeak, but for Chinese, Russians, Americans and others it’s a criminal offense. Will that backfire? IN CHINA, “protesting” without a permit – which defines and limits where, […]
Occupy Protesters’ Rights Must Be Protected, U.N. Says; U.S. Says Nothing
Occupy Protesters’ Rights Must Be Protected, U.N. Says; U.S. Says Nothing By Dan Froomkin Posted: 06/18/2012 4:53 pm Huffington Post In November 2011, a University of California, Davis, police officer used pepper spray up-close on protesters. WASHINGTON — Federal officials have yet to respond to two United Nations human rights envoys who formally requested […]
Chris Hedges> Occupy Will Be Back
Occupy Will Be Back Posted on Jun 18, 2012 Photo by Paul Weiksel, Rights reserved In every conflict, insurgency, uprising and revolution I have covered as a foreign correspondent, the power elite used periods of dormancy, lulls and setbacks to write off the opposition. This is why obituaries for the Occupy movement are in vogue. And this is why […]
Josh Stearns> Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record
Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record by Josh Stearns, May 29, 2012 MediaShift This month, federal agencies and local officials sent two powerful but conflicting messages to the American public about our right to record. On May 14, the Justice Department submitted a letter to the Baltimore Police Department providing in-depth guidance on […]
Arun Gupta> Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?
Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement? Is the government unleashing the same methods of entrapment against OWS that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans? By Arun Gupta May 24, 2012 | AlterNet Photo Credit: Shutterstock With the high-profile arrest of activists on terrorism charges in Cleveland on […]
Videos> OccupyMN Homes> Jackhammer Eviction and Broken Doors at Press Conference
Published on May 25, 2012 by UpTakeVideo In the dark of night, Hennepin County Sheriff’s officers raided a foreclosed Minneapolis home that is being “defended” by Occupy Minnesota according to the group. Occupy says five people were arrested, but the a crowd of fifty people prevented the officers from evicting them from the house. This is the Hennepin […]
Rob Kall> Framing Protesters and Media as Terrorists
Framing Protesters and Media as Terrorists By Rob Kall (about the author) May 21, 2012 opednews.com You need to read this. Three NATO Activists Charged with Terror Plot After Posting Video of Police Harassment We’ve seen the US prosecute and imprison eco-protesters as terrorists. We’ve seen many examples of police arresting people who photograph or video police making […]
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