Occupy Wall Street's Livestream Operators Arrested | The Atlantic Wire
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Occupy Wall Street is in the middle of one of its day-long marches in New York Tuesday, protesting the National Defense Authorization Act, but for those following along on the Global Revolution livestream, the real action is happening in the broadcast studio itself. That’s because police have apparently just raided the Brooklyn studio of Globalrevolution.tv and taken some of the project’s key volunteers into custody.
The raid Tuesday follows a notice to vacate that police delivered to the Bushwick studio on Monday night. Victoria Sobel, a Global Revolution volunteer, said Vlad Teichberg and a guy named Spike, both of whom maintain the live feed aggregator, had been taken into custody by police, along with four or five others.
If you were following along earlier today, you may have been startled at about 1:45 p.m. to see the live feed cut away from the street-level action and to the face of Vlad Teichberg, one of the main organizers of Global Revolution. The new shot showed a large, graffittied space where Teichberg and a couple of colleagues were confronting a man they identified as the landlord, who had apparently broken in their door. They put the camera on him, he threatened to call the police, they said he had no right to come into the space by force, and he eventually left.
But Sobel said that was just the start of the day’s conflict. Shortly after the confrontation, the police arrived. “Within the past hour, the police came in and removed people that were inside the studio,” she said. “I believe the police just began knocking on the door and saying they would kick the door down and saying they would arrest people on the spot.” The Global Revolution studio is now locked, Sobel said. The live feed has finished its Hawaiian broadcast and is playing a pre-recorded video. “The message is that even if they take the space, the [broadcast] will continue to be maintained,” Sobel said. But right now, it seems to be out of commission.
Police and buildings department officials had served the Buswhick, Brooklyn space with notices to vacate on Monday night, declaring it ”imminently perilous to life.”
Nice made up excuse.
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The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don’t put government in to meddle. Then with that freedom of maneuver they took huge gambles, and even made illegal actions, and then broke the world system. As soon as that happened then they rushed out to say ‘bail us out, bail us out, if you don’t bail us out, we’re too big to fail, you have to save us’. As soon as that happened, they said ‘oh, don’t regulate us, we know what to do’. And they almost went back to their old story, and the public is standing there, amazed, because we just bailed you out how can you be paying yourself billions of dollars of bonuses again? And the bankers say, ‘well we deserve it, what’s your problem’? And the problem that the Occupy Wall Street and other protesters have is: you don’t deserve it, you nearly broke the system, you gamed the economy, you’re paying mega fines, yet you’re still in the White House you’re going to the state dinners, you’re paying yourself huge bonuses, what kind of system is this?
When I talk about this in the United States, I’m often attacked, ‘oh, you don’t believe in the free market economy’, I say, how much free market can there be? You say deregulate, the moment the banks get in trouble, you say bail them out, the moment you bail them out, you say go back to deregulation. That’s not a free market, that’s a game, and we have to get out of the game. We have to get back to grown-up behaviour.
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Q:Hi, my name's Kraig Campbell and I'm a junior Journalism major here at WSU. I'm in the process of writing up a story for my reporting class, and I thought I'd profile someone associated with the occupy movement here in Pullman. I'm a fan of what you guys are doing, and I thought it would be interesting to get the perspective of someone who is involved with the movement to really say what it's all about. My deadline is Monday so if anyone is interested please let me know.
Anyone interested want to talk to Kraig for his class project?
#occupywallstreet: OCCUPY DENVER ELECTS LEADER
In response to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s insistence that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with City and State officials, and drawing inspiration from the notion that corporations are people, Occupy Denver’s General Assembly has elected a leader: Shelby, a three year…
Goldman Sachs To Be (Mock) Tried By People's Court in Zuccotti Park
Goldman Sachs will be tried this Thursday, November 3, for crimes against the American public. Cornel West, noted civil rights activist, and Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winner, will be among those presiding, and testimony for the prosecution will include individuals who have been directly affected and harmed by the actions of Goldman Sachs. The trial is open to the public, and if you can’t make it? Tune in to WBAI (99.5 FM in New York) or online at www.wbai.org this Thursday, from 10 AM to 12 noon, where it will be broadcast live. If the government won’t do it? We’ll take it into our own hands.
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11 simple ways to support the occupy movement without sleeping in a park « i am lauren leonardi
These are fantastic! If you are like me, you can’t make it to the camp as much as you’d like, BUT YOU CAN STILL BE INVOLVED! Read these 11 simple things you can do…and then do them!
Possible vigil in support of Occupy Oakland and Scott Olsen?
Would anyone be interested in meeting in downtown Pullman (maybe the Cougar Plaza) tonight for an occupation/candlelight vigil in support of the people injured in the Occupy Oakland raids last night? Tear gas, rubber bullets and possibly flash-bang grenades were used to disperse the crowd last night, the crowd that included the disabled and children. Scott Olsen, an Iraq war vet, is currently in serious condition after his skull was fractured by one of those tear gas canisters.
American Exceptionalism
“We urge the Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests.”
— On January 29, 2011, Hillary Clinton to Hosni Mubarak
“Square by square, town by town, country by country, the people have risen up to demand their basic human rights. (…) The United States supports a set of universal rights. And these rights include free speech, the freedom of peaceful assembly…”
— President Obama on the Middle East and North Africa, May 11, 2011.
“I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly. If you refuse to go now, chemical agents will be used.”
— On October 25, 2011, Oakland Police to peaceful protesters
“I will not soon forget that President Obama was at a $7,500 a plate fundraiser in San Francisco while Occupy protesters were being gassed and clubbed right across the bay in Oakland. I plan to keep that image etched in my mind as the 2012 Presidential campaign unfolds.”
— Fordham University Professor Mark Naison (via socialismartnature)
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Protesters had been ordered to leave the park. Those waiting to be arrested were sitting in a circle with their arms locked. Police starting handcuffing them with plastic handcuffs around 12:45 a.m. Many protesters would not get up on their own and some had to be dragged. Most protesters went peacefully. Some of the people waiting to be arrested waved small American flags. About 40 to 50 people remained inside the park after midnight, including Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta), former Atlanta city councilman Derrick Boazman and Joe Beasley, the southern regional director of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Several hundred others were in the street, chanting and carrying signs. Fort was arrested around 1 a.m.
Occupy Atlanta | Police arrest protesters | ajc.com
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OccupyBuffalo: 5th of November
Members of Occupy the Palouse have been talking about supporting our local credit unions as a main initiative at several past meetings. What do you all think about this proposal for November 5th as a day of action?
