In a dance as old as time (or 2011), Occupy Wall Street types headed to New York's Financial District to protest corporate greed, and the NYPD responded by marinating some of them in pepper spray. Here's a video:
Judge Ronald Zweibel of the New York Supreme Court has just sentenced Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan to 90 days at Rikers Island, including time served, with 5 years probation, according to reports from Twitter and a Livestream outside the courtroom.
Nine jurors in the Cecily McMillan case have reportedly written to the judge to ask for leniency in her sentencing. In the very short letter, obtained by the Guardian, the jurors write:
Yesterday, an Occupy Wall Street protester named Cecily McMillan was convicted by a New York state court of assault on a police officer. But what happened to her on the night of March 17, 2012, when she was arrested during a raid at Zuccotti park, is very much up for debate. These photographs, provided by an…
An Occupy Wall Street activist faces up to seven years in prison after she was convicted of assaulting an NYPD officer during a protest at Zuccotti Park in March 2012.
The former University of California Davis police lieutenant who brutally pepper-sprayed a group of peaceful Occupy protesters was awarded a $38,000 workman's compensation settlement from the school last week. The payout is about $8,000 more than each of the assaulted demonstrators received in a settlement from the…
If the grim news about our slow-cooking world has got you down, you might be an environmentalist. Recycling bins, hiking boots, and that reusable grocery bag you got at the farmer's market are other signs that you may have ecological beliefs and concerns. To the industrial propagandists, even your awareness of the…
When 20-year-old New York photographer Shay Horse dropped by his first Occupy Wall Street march on May 23rd, 2012, a friendly fellow protester approached him and started making small talk. "He just asked me what my name was, what my involvement was, pretty general stuff," Horse says. From then on, Horse ran into the…
A spinoff group from the Occupy movement is seeking to launch its own prepaid debit card, as a prelude to offering a more complete set of financial services. Ridiculous? Not at all. In fact, taking over some of Wall Street's business could be the most useful thing Occupy Wall Street could do.
Tomorrow is September 17th, the second anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street protests in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. A number of new books and commentary pieces mark the lasting political impact movement. But we should also remember the Occupy memes that touched our lives. Above is an image posted by …
It's been over a year and a half since Occupy Wall Street took over the streets and the internet. At the time, David Graeber was pegged as the "anti-leader" of the leaderless movement, a prominent scholar and activist in whom many of the intellectual and social strains of the movement came together.
Occupy Wall Street won a major legal battle earlier today when it agreed to a settlement from the city of New York that will pay the activist group over $230,000 in damages and legal fees. The settlement includes $47,000 in damages for Occupy Wall Street's 5,500 book library, most of which was destroyed or damaged…
Now that they're done pepper spraying defenseless protesters, the NYPD is working with Occupy Wall Street to combat crime. In the weeks after Hurricane Sandy, the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn was without, as the New York Post puts it, "power or electricity," leaving residents and businesses vulnerable to any…
Occupy Wall Street's visibility may have been reduced in recent months, but that's only because the movement has been working hard under-the-radar to launch the next big phase of its protest: The People's Bailout.
Finally, an Occupy Wall Street protestor has clawed back money from the banks. Sort of. You may remember Stacey Hessler, the Florida mother of four who became a bogeyman for conservatives after she "abandoned" her family to join the Occupy protests. The New York Post is reporting today that Hessler has divorced her…
Wall Street's favorite Times reporter and Lorimer Street's favorite twentysomething blog agree: Occupy Wall Street Sux.
Today is the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. The masses that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge and occupied Manhattan's Zuccotti Park for months seem like a weird fever dream of drumming and chanting; the Dow reached its highest point in five years last week, as if to underscore OWS' vanishment. But shit is…
In a lengthy new T Magazine profile of rap kingpin Jay-Z, novelist Zadie Smith got the Jigga Man to open up about, amongst other things, his feelings on last year's Occupy Wall Street takeover of Zuccotti Park. Smith reports Jay got "agitated" when she brought up OWS before launching into a mini-rant about what he…
Robert Stolarik, a freelance photographer for the New York Times, had this happen to him while "taking photographs of a brewing street fight at McClellan Street and Sheridan Avenue in the Concourse neighborhood," according to the Times:
