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The Thinnest Blue Line - Valiant Officers Who Protect Citizens From Their Own

Jerry Ashton | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Civil Disobedience, Police, New York Cops, Nyc Culture, Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Eviction, Civil Rights, Occupy Wall Street Arrests, Occupy Movement, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Nyc, Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, New York Police Department, Cops, New York News
Jerry Ashton

Is Ray Lewis a renegade, or does he embody the characteristics of the "true American" that people think about when we picture "common" people in history who have stood up against powerful forces?

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Camping Ban In Effect.. Sort Of

Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Denver Police Camping Ban, Video, Occupy Denver, #Occupydenver, Denver Camping Ban, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Urban Camping Ban, Denver Homeless Ban, Denver Police Department, #Occupywallstreet, Denver Homeless, Occupytogether, #Ows, Denver News

After Denver city councilors passed a controversial ban on "unauthorized" camping in mid-May, critics argued the city had effectively criminalized hom...

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Saki Knafo

Police Retreat From Foreclosed Home In Minneapolis After Standoff With Occupy Protestors

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Cruzy Family Raid, Minnesota, Cruz Family, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Foreclosure Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Eviction Protests, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy Homes, Cruz Family Minnesota, Ows, Foreclosure, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Minneapolis, Foreclosure Protests, Business News

On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protestors from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...

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How Green is My Occupy? Rio+20 Enviromentalists Team With #OWS

Jerry Ashton | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: United Nations Climate Change, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Environmental Justice, Environmentalists, Rio De Janeiro, Occupy Wall Street, United Nations, Environment, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Occupy Climate, Occupy Rio+20, New York News
Jerry Ashton

Occupy is rallying its foot soldiers as well as a major online army to see that the upcoming U.N. Rio+20 Earth Summit. I imagine that in the Main Street Media, this will be billed as, "Tree Huggers Meet Wall Street Bashers."

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Beyond May Day, Frustrated Immigrant Movement Forges Ahead

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Labor, May Day, Workers, Undocumented Immigrants, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Illegal Immigration, Georgia, Immigration, Arizona, Arizona Immigration Law, #Occupywallstreet, Unions, Politics News
Michelle Chen

May Day 2012 didn't have a concrete agenda, but it opened a forum for voices that are typically silenced and ignored. And while racist hostility pervades the mainstream political arena, Occupy may be one of the only spaces left for immigrants to speak up without fear.

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Wheelchair Sports Camp Talk New EP (LISTEN)

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Denver Music, Denver Hip-Hop, Denver News, Denver Indie Music Scene, Female Emcees, Queer Emcees, Mydenver, We Are the 99 Percent, Kalyn Heffernan, Best of Denver, Indie Hip-Hop, My Denver, Hip-Hop, Denver Hip Hop, Denver Culture, Colorado, Video, #Occupydenver, Occupy Denver, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Colorado, Wheelchair Sports Camp, #Occupywallstreet, Where We All Live, #Ows, Denver News

If you don't know who Wheelchair Sports Camp are yet, you will soon. Led by MC/Producer Kalyn Heffernan and joined by vocalist/saxophonist Abi McGaha ...

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Arrests Exceed 7,000 As the Occupy's Movement's Spring Plans Unfold Across the Nation

Chris Ernesto | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Protest, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News
Chris Ernesto

ith the May Day arrests of at least 116 people at Occupy protests around the country, there have now been a minimum of 7,106 Occupy arrests in 114 cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began in New York on September 17, 2011.

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MAY DAY STRIKES BACK! Occupy Denver Rallies All Day (PHOTOS, LIVEBLOG)

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.01.2012

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Occupy Denver has announced that they will be holding a sleep-in tonight at 9:30 p.m. at the Pavilion on 16th Street Mall in protest of the preliminar...

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Mayday! Mayday! "Mayday!" Bankers Panic Over May Day Demonstrations

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, May Day, Union Square, Labor Unions, May Day Protests, Occupy Movement, Labor, March Against the War on Women, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Illegal Immigrants, May Day Rallies, #Occupywallstreet, New York News
Jerry Ashton

May Day is a holiday for the 99 percent. It is a day for people to come together, across all those lines which too often divide us -- race, class, gender, religion -- and challenge the systems that create these divisions.

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Occupy Denver Preps For May 1st 'General Strike,' Posts Event Schedule

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: May Day, Denver News, Occupy Wall Street May Day, Occupy May 1, May 1 Denver, Colorado, Video, May Day General Strike, Labor Strike, General Strike, May Day Denver, Occupy Denver, #Occupydenver, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Colorado, #Occupywallstreet, #Ows, Denver News

Occupy Wall Street activists are preparing for a nationwide series of demonstrations and are calling for a "general strike" on Tuesday, May 1st--also ...

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Occupying With Noam Chomsky

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.30.2012

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Greg Ruggiero

"Occupy," says Noam Chomsky in his new book, "is the first major public response to thirty years of class war." One of the movement's greatest successes has been simply to put the inequalities of everyday life on the national agenda, influencing reporting, public perception and language itself.

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May Day: Occupy Denver Preps For General Strike

Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: May Day, Denver News, Occupy Wall Street May Day, Occupy May 1, May 1 Denver, Colorado, Video, May Day General Strike, Labor Strike, General Strike, May Day Denver, Occupy Denver, #Occupydenver, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Colorado, #Occupywallstreet, #Ows, Denver News

In what could become the largest protest of the year so far for the Occupy Wall Street movement, OWS organizers are preparing for a general strike on ...

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They're Baaack - The OWS Movie Goes Global With Help of Social Media

David Fagin | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Twitter, Financial Reform, Mitt Romney, Media, Facebook, Citizens United, Movies, Occupy Movement, Barack Obama, Social Media, Obamacare, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Banks, #Occupywallstreet, Nypd, Entertainment News
David Fagin

The OWS movement has refused to go quietly. They're still right there, in spirit, and -- given this Thursday's world premiere of While We Watch, the documentary which chronicles the OWS movement -- one could even argue, stronger.

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5 Things "Mad Men" Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street And 3 Tips Madison Avenue Can Offer OWS In Return

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.23.2012

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Jerry Ashton

With a creativity Madison Avenue would envy, OWS people continually invent new ways to promote the agenda and vex the establishment.

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OccupyThisAlbum - 99 Artists on 99 Tracks for the 99%

Jerry Ashton | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Protest Songs, Wall Street Bailout, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Wisconsin Protests, Ows, Culture News
Jerry Ashton

Where are the songs for Occupy's time in history? Who will write the words and music and poetry? Will we find our voice? These questions have been answered in full and emphatically with OccupyThisAlbum.

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What Is Solidarity? A Pamphleteer's Occupation

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Protest, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Noam Chomsky, Pamphlet, Books News
Greg Ruggiero

Who in their right mind would start a new small press at a time when the economy is so bad, e-books are rising, and book stores, libraries and perhaps the printed word itself are getting shoved down the same path as vinyl records and record stores?

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The Revolution Will Be Published And Made Easily Available

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Occupy Handbook, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Business News, Paul Krugman, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Business News

You know what those chirping birds and blooming flowers mean? It just might be warm enough to start re-occupying. Now, there's now a handbook to he...

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Occupy Faith: Prophets Over Profits

Gavriel Brown | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Christianity, Palm Sunday, Passover, Occupy Faith, #Occupywallstreet, Lent, Judaism, Social Justice, Occupy Wall Street, Jewish Social Justice, Interfaith, Religion News
Gavriel Brown

Soon, we will recount the story of the Exodus, but today we recounted the greed that spiraled our nation into debt, our coasts into environmental disasters and our working poor into unaffordable health care.

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Mic Check! The People Speak (Part 1)

David DeGraw | Posted 05.06.2012

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David DeGraw

The following is the first of a new seven-part series featuring statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99% Movement.

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Waking Up Wall Street, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mob

Cole Hill | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Unemployment, #Occupywallstreet, Generation Y, Economic Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, New York News
Cole Hill

This August, I lost my job. Losing a job isn't news, especially today, but this brought about your standard existential career crisis. Plus, telling my story this way is a lot more postmodern, and thus trendy, so just roll with me.

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Somebody

Matthew Modine | Posted 05.02.2012

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Matthew Modine

2012-03-02-Screenshot20120302at7.59.14AM.jpgEverybody is each of us. If you think you're too small to make an impact, remember how annoying it is to try and sleep with a mosquito in your bedroom.

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Occupy Denver To Hold Anti-ALEC March, Tour Of Denver

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 02.29.2012

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Occupy Denver has announced that on Wednesday, Feb. 29, they will be holding a rally and guided tour/march against ALEC, the American Legislative Exch...

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Occupy Holy Week, Occupy Passover: Dancing In The Worldwide Earthquake

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Shalom Center, Martin Luther King, Palm Sunday, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Dc, #Occupywallstreet, Passover, Easter, Occupy Faith, Christianity, Lent, Judaism, Religion News
Rabbi Arthur Waskow

The week evokes memories and teachings about resistance to tyranny, racism, economic inequality, ecological disaster and militarism. Remembering this past, we should renew our work to resist these evils in the present.

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Occupy The Truth: Whistleblowers Conference Rolls Into UC Berkeley

Greg Archer | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Government, Government Bailout, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Activism, College, Federal Government, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Government Spending, UC Berkeley, Bradley Manning, Bradley Manning Wikileaks, #Occupywallstreet, Annie Sprinkle, Occupy Movement, Video, Naomi Pitcairn, San Francisco News
Greg Archer

An upcoming three-day political huddle, dubbed "Occupy the Truth: Whistleblowers Conference," piqued my interest. Think of it as an advocate/activist/info-gathering fest.

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Roseanne Barr Jumps Into The Occupy DC Fray

DCist | Posted 02.15.2012

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Sometimes, Twitter hands you a decent story. And sometimes it's a circus. This is more the latter, but it piqued our interest. Last night, Sam Jewler,...

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