occupy wall street

Occupy Wall Street is a protest movement which was initiated on September 27, 2011, in New York City's financial district. The movement was launched by the Canada based non profit organization Adbusters Media Foundation and has spread to nearly all major western cities. While it was initially devised as an anti-capitalist protest against Wall Street bankers and triggered by the global financial crisis, the Occupy movement has come to be an international protest against any type of economic or social inequality.

Adbusters claimed inspiration from the Arab Spring, which was a wave of demonstrations and civil uprisings occurring in the Arab World during the winter of 2010 and spring of 2011. Occupy Wall Street's most popular slogan is "We are the 99%", referring to the concentration of wealth among the top 1% income earners, which includes corporate top management and bankers, viewed in contrast with the much smaller earnings of common people, or the other 99% of the population.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “occupy wall street”

• in Politics
  Why “Income Inequality” is a Losing Issue and How to Fix It
  Most Americans don’t care about income inequality. But they do want everyone to get a fair chance.
  by jimmyzuma / on May 24, 2012
• in Politics
  Everything in Moderation, Politics on the Brink
  Politics as usual evolves into a war of impossible ideologies.
  by jwalk6 / on Feb 22, 2012
• in Entertainment
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  by missbobetier / on Jan 15, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “occupy wall street”

 

• Occupy The DOJ

  
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  Victims of illegal foreclosures and other outraged citizens have taken their protest to the doors of the US Department of Justice today. Armed with furniture as well as banners, anger and wit.   Barricades coming down, couches coming in, banks stole our homes, so we’re moving in. For color commentary, ...
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• Occupy Our Homes at the Department of Justice

  
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• Forget the IRS Scandal. Check out the Spying on Occupy.

  
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• Think the IRS Was Bad? Try the Spying on Occupy Activists

  
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  By Matthew Rothschild, May 20, 2013 This was not a mere bureaucratic foul-up. It was a systematic effort to monitor leftwing activists who were simply exercising their First Amendment rights. read more
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• How people get rich

  
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• Government surveillance of the Occupy movement

  
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  A new report. Honestly, if so-called progressives were as feisty about government intrusion as the teabaggers, this report wouldn’t fall on deaf ears. But since they’ll look at it and say they’re “not sure” what’s been proved, nothing will happen. Because progressives treat everything like they’re in ...
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• Spying on Occupy Activists

  
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  By Matthew Rothschild, June 2013 issue How local law enforcement and Homeland Security help Wall Street. read more
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• Apparently the FBI and Homeland Security were too focused on the Occupy movement to prevent the Boston Marathon bombing.

  
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  Courtesy of Truthout :   The ACLU was able to obtain documents of intelligence reports filed in 2011. They reveal that on September 30, the DHS-funded Boston Regional Intelligence Center, or BRIC, was collecting information about an upcoming Occupy Boston rally in Dewey Square, just two days after Russia sent ...
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• Interview: Kevin D. Williamson of NRO Explains Why The End is Near, And It’s Going To Be Awesome

  
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  There’s been a lot of talk in the Blogosphere on how to “Enjoy the Decline,” spurred on by the popular book with that title by econo-blogger Aaron Clarey on America’s future — or the lack thereof. But what happens next? What happens after the decline? As Kevin D. Williamson, who writes the ...
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• Occupy Love (2013)

  
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  Occupy Love (2013) This CA movie directed by Velcrow Ripper from . Occupy Love movie released on May 3, 2013 starring by Carson O’Brien as Slowrider1978 and The Troll. Tagline: – Score: 0/10 by 0 votes Movie Plot: OCCUPY LOVE captures the heart of the movement of movements that is sweeping the planet in response ...
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• Occupy Opposes LA Foreclosures

  
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  Occupiers Keep Fighting for LA Homeowners (via www.laprogressive.com )   Upset with Wells Fargo’s foreclosure practices, protesters held a demonstration on May Day that briefly shut down one of the bank’s branches in downtown Los Angeles. The action was organized by Occupy Fights Foreclosures, an Occupy Los ...
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• Social Liberalism: Simple-minded and Pernicious Memes

  
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  When I wrote my first post on liberalism as more of a social phenomenon than an intellectual one , I imagined a series of posts dealing with many different implications of that idea.  So far I’ve written three other posts in the series on topics ranging from slogans to  leftist intolerance and political ...
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• When Asked About #MayDay Communist Hammer & Sickle Flags NBCNY Reporter Replies: “What Do They Represent?”

  
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  Commie flags waving during the May Day protests in NYC May 1st, 2013 Rolling over and playing dead between the ears… ( Mediaite ) –While covering a May Day rally in Manhattan’s Union Square on Wednesday, NBC New York reporter Ida Siegal was cornered and asked if her network planned to show the communist ...
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• Here’s What You Can Buy With Your Foreclosure Settlement

  
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  Filed under: News Despite a $3.6 billion foreclosure settlement that had banks sending checks ( some of which bounced ) to wronged homeowners, many saw the payouts as a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. According to Salon , 679 homeowners who faced foreclosure -- even though they were never once in default -- got checks ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did Occupy Really Change Contemporary Art?

  
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  Screenshot from the _New Republic_ I almost spilled coffee on myself yesterday when I read this bombastic headline in the New Republic : “ How Occupy Changed Contemporary Art .” Then I laughed out loud. It’s just that I die inside a little bit more each time when I read yet another “art review” written ...
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• Michael Parenti: Make-Believe Media

  
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  with Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org May 1, 2013 SmellsLikePodcast on Apr 30, 2013 Dr. Michael Parenti is an internationally-renowned lecturer and author, most recently of ‘The Face of Imperialism’. In this interview, he discusses the use of entertainment media ...
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• Occupy May Day 2013 events in NYC

  
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  Occupy May Day NYC update: -Police actions and arrests noted in NY Times article: At Least Five Protesters Arrested (especially during Tompkins Square to Union Square march) -Story and video of the NYC march, with comments by former NY Governor candidate Jimmy “Rent Is Too Damn High” McMillan and others at ...
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• In the Archives: An Easy Chair in an Uneasy World (1920)

  
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  It may be heresy to admit on a website dedicated to American humor that I find great relief in the British variant. Since I first learned of knights who say Ni! I’ve thoroughly appreciated heady concepts wrapped in silly nonsense. I have even found principles to incorporate in my general code of conduct , for ...
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• Stock Transfer Tax Continues the Work of Occupy Wall Street

  
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  Green Party urges passage of Wall Street transaction tax Occupy Wall Street leveled a challenge to the 1%: We won’t pay for your crisis. Until we get a Wall Street transaction tax, they’re not even helping to alleviate the mess they made. The Green Party of the United States is calling for passage of ...
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• Social Media = Social Activism; Connecting Global Minds Via Facebook

  
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  We (you, me, Niv) have no clue about all the forces and influences in this political flash point in the Middle East. What we can know, is the people in the area. We can listen to the humans rather than the politicians. We can ask for poetry and heart rather than manifestos.
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