Wall Street Actually Occupied (Briefly)

Release Date 15 Oct, 2011 in Fast Company

 
   
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Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, like the rest of us, must obey the law

New York Daily News - Bryan Smith - 15 Oct, 2011
The crowds gathered in Zuccotti Park need to understand something: New York City is not trying to cramp their First Amendment rights. To the contrary, most of the city's political leaders have expressed outright support, if not softer sympathy, ...

Scores arrested across US in 'Occupy Wall Street' protests

NDTV.com - 15 Oct, 2011
Washington: Scores of protesters against corporate greed were arrested as the "Occupy Wall Street movement" movement swelled across America leaving police struggling to corral or remove demonstrators from downtown parks and plazas. ...

Day of global Occupy protests gets underway

msnbc.com - 15 Oct, 2011
Ahn Young-Joon / AP A South Korean protester holds a sign inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement during an "Occupy Seoul" rally Saturday. A day of worldwide protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States began Saturday ...

Anti-Wall St protests spread to Australia

ABC Online - 15 Oct, 2011
It may be unfolding across the other side of the world, but the Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired similar protests in Australia. Hundreds of people turned out to protests in city centres on Saturday, saying there are fundamental problems with ...

Cleanup delayed, protests continue

Winnipeg Free Press - Karen Matthews, Meghan Barr - 15 Oct, 2011
Andrew Burton / The Associated Press An Occupy Wall Street protester tackles a police officer in New York on Friday. (CP) NEW YORK -- Anti-Wall Street protesters exulted Friday after beating back a plan to clear them from the park they have occupied ...

Winnipeggers rally today in support of movement

Winnipeg Free Press - Alexandra Paul - 15 Oct, 2011
FROM Cairo to New York to Winnipeg -- the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon hits the city today with a series of protests and a tent city at the Legislature. "We're beginning a march at 11 and it's going to different points in the downtown area and then ...

Have-not venting has LONG HISTORY

Winnipeg Free Press - Allan Levine - 15 Oct, 2011
A young woman holds up a sign as passersby take in the scene at the Occupy Wall Street headquarters at Zuccotti Park in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. The protest is entering it's fourth week this week. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) For the past few ...

'Corporate greed' protests spread around the world

NEWS.com.au - 15 Oct, 2011
TAKING A STAND: Brisbane has joined the list of cities across the world taking part in the so-called Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, with a peaceful demonstration starting on Saturday at the Post Office square in the CBD. ...

Wall Street Protests Spread to Asia-Pacific Region, London

BusinessWeek - Soraya Permatasari, Kanoko Matsuyama - 15 Oct, 2011
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Protests against widening income disparity took place across the Asia-Pacific region today as demonstrators organizing via social media from Tokyo to Sydney joined London in the Occupy ...

Protestors occupy Sydney's financial hub

Ninemsn - Martin Andrew Zavan - 15 Oct, 2011
Over 500 Sydneysiders gathered in the city's financial district on a sunny Saturday afternoon to express solidarity with the US Occupy Wall Street movement and protest topics ranging from corporate greed to environmental ...

Wall Street sit-in protest goes global

Hindustan Times - 15 Oct, 2011
Protesters worldwide geared up for a cry of rage on Saturday against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed. Galvanised by the past month's Occupy Wall ...

Global protests spread to City

The Press Association - 15 Oct, 2011
Protests against the global financial system which have seen huge demonstrations in New York's Wall Street will spread to the City of London on Saturday. A number of campaign organisations, including direct action group UK Uncut, say they will support ...

Wall Street protesters energized by park decision

Wall Street Journal - 15 Oct, 2011
AP NEW YORK â€" Anti-Wall Street protesters went into Saturday campaigns emboldened by a change of plans among park property owners and police to usher them out of their lower Manhattan encampment for cleanup and impose restrictions that would have ...

Wall Street protest spreads globally

Brisbane Times - Jonathan M Katz - 15 Oct, 2011
Americans protesting corporate greed and inequality faced down authorities in parks and plazas across the US ahead of what organisers describe as 24 hours of public action in cities around the world. Groups spanning the globe from Asia to Europe - and ...

Occupy protests spread to cities around the world

CNN (blog) - 15 Oct, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement spilled into main streets around the world Saturday as crowds chanted and marched in a global movement of discontent. Protesters took to the streets in Europe, the United States and Asia following online organizers' ...

Wall Street protesters energized by park decision

CBS News - 15 Oct, 2011
A man affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests tackles a police officer during a march towards Wall Street in New York, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The official cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a ...

Wall Street protesters energized by park decision

Houston Chronicle - Karen Matthews, Meghan Barr - 15 Oct, 2011
A man affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests tackles a police officer during a march towards Wall Street in New York, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The official cleanup of a plaza in lower ...

Wall Street sit-in protest goes global

Reuters Canada - Michel Rose - 15 Oct, 2011
MILAN (Reuters) - Protesters worldwide geared up for a cry of rage on Saturday against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed. ...

Why they're 'occupying' Wall Street

National Post - Lucas Jackson - 15 Oct, 2011
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement march through the financial district of New York on Wednesday. Conrad Black, National Post · Oct. 15, 2011 | Last Updated: Oct. 15, 2011 12:00 AM ET The so-called "Occupy Wall Street" movement, ...

Wall Street Protesters Energized by Park Decision

ABC News - Karen Matthews, Meghan Barr - 15 Oct, 2011
Anti-Wall Street protesters head into Saturday campaigns emboldened by a change of plans among park property owners and police to usher them out of their lower Manhattan encampment for cleanup and impose ...

Occupy protesters' New York park eviction delayed

San Francisco Chronicle - Karen Matthews - 15 Oct, 2011
Andrew Burton / AP A protester prays during an Occupy Wall Street march toward Wall Street. Clearing Zuccotti Park of protesters is on hold. Anti-Wall Street protesters exulted Friday after beating back a plan to clear ...

Activists prevail on cleanup | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-10-15

Philadelphia Inquirer - Karen Matthews, Colleen Long - 15 Oct, 2011
Owners of a New York property put off plans for a scrubbing. Protesters are camped at the park. By Karen Matthews and Colleen Long Associated Press NEW YORK - The owners of a New York plaza where protesters have camped out for a month decided Friday to ...

Occupy Wall St., Striking a Chord

Salt Lake Tribune - Greg Sargent - 15 Oct, 2011
By Greg Sargent Despite nonstop conservative disparagement of Occupy Wall Street and sneering coverage from the mainstream media at the outset, the most detailed polling yet on the nascent movement suggests that the public holds a ...

Game changer or just games?

Ottawa Citizen - Robert Wright - 15 Oct, 2011
The modus operandi of Occupy Wall Street is a mélange of Great Depression, Civil Rights and Vietnam-era social protest, leavened by a Woodstock carnival atmosphere and powered by Arab Spring-styled social media.; But is it really, as its fervent ...

Occupy Wall Street coming home to Canada

Ottawa Citizen - Robert Hiltz - 15 Oct, 2011
A protest movement that started with a few thousand people camping out in the cold concrete jungle of downtown Manhattan, before spreading across other US cities, is making its way north to where ...

Has turned decidedly political

Ottawa Citizen - 15 Oct, 2011
Princeton professor and civil-rights activist Cornel West threw his weight behind the protest early on, attributing to it a rainbow-coalition sort of legitimacy. "It's a democratic process, it's a non-violent process," says West, ...

'Power of the people has prevailed'

Montreal Gazette - 15 Oct, 2011
Demonstrators in Zuccotti Square got a reprieve Friday when plans by Brookfield Office Properties to clean the park - a move many expected to lead to a confrontation with police - were delayed. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the company will continue ...

OWS TV breaking mainstream silence

RT - 15 Oct, 2011
United States, New York : Members of Occupy Wall Street are arrested as they clash with police during a celebration march after learning that they can stay on Zuccotti Park in New York, October 14, 2011. (AFP Photo / Emmanuel Dunand) Anti-corporate ...

Throwing punches and mowing them down with motorbikes: The shocking videos ...

Daily Mail - Mark Duell, Paul Bentley - 15 Oct, 2011
The police has been accused of shocking brutality after videos emerged showing officers in New York punching Occupy Wall Street protesters and mowing them down on motorbikes. As demonstrations turned bitterly violent, ...

Dozens arrested in NY 'Occupy' protests

Aljazeera.net - 15 Oct, 2011
Arrests came as protesters marched in celebration at cancellation of clean-up that threatened to evict them from park. US police have arrested a number of people in New York after a march towards the city's financial district, to celebrate the ...

 

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