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Saki Knafo

Occupy Wall Street, Faces Of Zuccotti Park: The Woman In Pink

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.01.2011

Melanie Butler was watching a news clip about Occupy Wall Street in late September when she noticed that all of the demonstrators talking to the repor...

Police Move In On Occupy Colorado Springs

Posted 11.21.2011

In the midst of crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street movements across the country, police in Colorado Springs removed protesters from Acacia Park at 1 a.m...

Hacker Group Attacks Cop, Claims Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street

Posted 11.18.2011

Hackers affiliated with the groups Antisec and Anonymous said Friday that they were releasing over 38,000 private emails belonging to Fred Baclagan, a...

Saki Knafo

The Fire Hazard At Occupy Wall Street: Was It Real Or Just A Pretext?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.16.2011

In the wake of yesterday's evictions, hundreds of protestors stood outside Zuccotti Park waiting for word from the court on whether they would be allo...

Police Now Ticketing Occupy Denver... Donors?

Posted 11.14.2011

Want to make a donation to Occupy Denver? They'd appreciate it (the movement subsists on donations), just don't stop your car in the street to do so....

Occupy Denver Clash With Police Again, 17 Arrested

Posted 11.13.2011

Occupy Denver protesters clashed with Denver police again Saturday night in a battle over the groups' belongings blocking the sidewalk. 17 protesters...

Saki Knafo

Faces Of Zuccotti Park: The Columbia Professor

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 01.11.2012

This is the seventh piece in a series profiling the protestors at Occupy Wall Street. Even before it became clear that the economy was streaking to...

Saki Knafo

Did The NY Post Instigate An Attack In Zuccotti Park?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 01.04.2012

Recai "Rocky" Iskender woke up in his Zuccotti Park tent yesterday morning to the unpleasant sensation of being kicked in the head. He scrambled out o...

Saki Knafo

Occupy Wall Street: Faces Of Zuccotti Park

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 01.03.2012

This is the second piece in a series profiling the protesters of Occupy Wall Street. Balance was standing around with some of the other protesters ...

Occupy Denver To Vacate For Veterans

Posted 01.03.2012

When Occupy Denver first set up in Denver's Civic Center park, some expressed displeasure at their choice of locale. For one, the park officially clo...

WATCH: Michael Moore To Rally Occupy Denver

Posted 01.02.2012

Occupy Denver has claimed a fair share of media coverage lately, and with good reason: The group has endured freezing temperatures, around 10" of snow...

Saki Knafo

Faces Of Zuccotti Park: The Bill Collector

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 01.02.2012

This is the first piece in a series profiling the protesters of Occupy Wall Street. Jerry Ashton lives in New York, but he was out of town six week...

WATCH: Occupy Denver On Keith Olbermann's Show

Posted 01.01.2012

Debate on Saturday's escalation among police and Occupy Denver protester relations spilled into the national discussion as reports of police firing pe...

Saki Knafo

A Bone To Pick: The Dogs Of Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.21.2011

Jordan McCarthy, 22, has been living in Zuccotti Park since the beginning of Occupy Wall Street. And because Jordan's been living there, so has Calvin...

WATCH: #OccupyDenver March On 16th Street Mall

Posted 12.20.2011

On Saturday the Occupy Denver movement clashed with police dressed up in riot gear with chants of "Shame!" and, "This is what a police state looks lik...

#OccupyDenver: Stalemate Meeting With Mayor

Posted 12.19.2011

On Tuesday afternoon Denver Mayor Michael Hancock met with three representatives from the Occupy Denver movement and there appears to be a stalemate. ...

Tyler Kingkade

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Propose A National Convention, Release 'Demands'

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.18.2011

WASHINGTON -- While an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters flooded into Times Square on Saturday, there was still a regular New Y...

LISTEN: Think #OccupyDenver Doesn't Have A Clear Message?

Colorado Public Radio | By Anna Panoka | Posted 12.18.2011

As anti-Wall street protests continue around the country and around Colorado, Occupy Denver demonstrators are holding their ground, even after police ...

American Apparel Hoodie Sales Skyrocket as Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread Worldwide

Chris Michael | Posted 12.18.2011

Chris Michael

"I got black 'cause it's good at hiding food stains like turmeric. And the comfortable cotton-poly blend really comes in handy when the police start pepper-spraying us without provocation."

NOT GOING ANYWHERE

Posted 12.17.2011

The tactics used by the state and city to disperse, discourage or shut down the Occupy Denver movement only seem to be making the protesters more dete...

WATCH: 2,000 Protesters March Downtown Saturday, 24 Arrested

AP/HuffPost | Posted 12.16.2011

By P. SOLOMON BANDA and THOMAS PEIPERT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Police in riot gear had just cleared Wall Street protesters out of their ca...

#OccupyEverywhere: University of the Streets

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 12.14.2011

Anya Kamenetz

College debt has emerged as one of the major issues of the Occupy protests, and the young people involved are discovering two things: that education can be free, and that they can educate themselves and each other.

#Occupy Denver EVICTED

AP | Posted 12.14.2011

By P. SOLOMON BANDA and THOMAS PEIPERT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Police in riot gear had just cleared Wall Street protesters out of their ca...

UPDATE: Occupy Denver Gets The Boot

Posted 12.13.2011

Less than 24 hours after members of Occupy Denver handed Gov. John Hickenlooper an open letter requesting to continue camping at the Lincoln Park site...

Why Liberals Should Welcome Occupy Wall Street

The New Republic | John B. Judis and Jonathan Cohn | Posted 12.13.2011

The Occupy Wall Street movements may not survive the onset of cold weather and rain. But, along with Elizabeth Warren's fledgling Senate campaign in M...