The rally last week at Manhattan’s Riverside church was packed. Several thousand people crammed into the famous hall where Martin Luther King once gave a 1967 speech against the Vietnam war and for a fight against poverty. The gathering was part of the Living Wage New York campaign, which aims to force companies who receive [...]
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November 27, 2011
November 26, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: how protesters made the Zuccotti Park eviction inevitable
It took a couple of hours on 15 November for hundreds of New York Police Department officers, under the orders of mayor Michael Bloomberg for what he claimed were deteriorating health and safety concerns, to tear down the encampment that protesters spent eight weeks constructing in a privately owned public space they came to know [...]
November 25, 2011
NYPD raid on Occupy’s Zuccotti Park camp destroyed thousands of books
November 25, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis NYPD raid on Occupy’s Zuccotti Park camp destroyed thousands of books [Since most NYPD morons don't read, it was likely no big deal to them.] 23 Nov 2011 What started in September as a few piles of books on a tarp in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, the de facto headquarters [...]
November 21, 2011
Al Qaeda sympathizer plotted to bomb police, N.Y. mayor says
November 21, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Al Qaeda sympathizer plotted to bomb police, N.Y. mayor says –Suspect is identified as ‘lone wolf’ American citizen 20 Nov 2011 Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday an ‘Al Qaeda’ sympathizer who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City has been arrested on numerous charges. Bloomberg [...]
November 18, 2011
Mass arrests at Occupy protests
18 November 2011 Last updated at 00:47 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Protesters in New York clashed with police on Thursday morning Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are marching on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York after a day of protest that has seen solidarity rallies across the US. More than [...]
November 17, 2011
Michael Bloomberg’s brave new world | Amy Goodman
Democracy Now! coverage of the OWS eviction from Zuccotti Park and its aftermath, 15 November 2011. Video: DemocracyNow! We got word just after 1am Tuesday that New York City Police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot [...]
November 16, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: engage, don’t evict | Editorial
New York‘s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, decided it was time to act. Having wrestled with the opposing rights – Occupy Wall Street Movement’s first amendment right to free speech, and the public’s right to health and safety – he decided (surprise, surprise) that the latter trumped the former. An increasing number of large tents and other [...]
November 15, 2011
Were police right to evict the Occupy Wall Street camp? | Poll
Last night, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered protesters to vacate their camp in Zuccotti Park. A few hours later riot police with batons moved in to forcibly evict protesters. Do you think the NYPD’s actions were justified?
November 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: police evict protesters
12.31pm / 7.31am ET: Will sheer tiredness finish off what the NYPD began? Adam Gabbatt tweets: Crowd seems to have dispersed a little from Foley Square – not surprising given many been up all night. Drummers are having a good time tho 12.21pm / 7.21am ET: Michael Bloomberg is scheduled to hold a press conference [...]
October 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street protesters claim victory in Zuccotti Park standoff
Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated after plans to clean up the lower Manhattan park they have occupied for more than a month were cancelled at the last minute amid a tense standoff with police. The announcement was made at around 6:20am on Friday, some 40 minutes before workers were scheduled to enter Zuccotti Park. Demonstrators [...]
October 7, 2011
NYPD spied on city’s Muslim anti-terror partners
October 6, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis NYPD spied on city’s Muslim anti-terror partners 06 Oct 2011 Reda Shata considered himself a partner in New York’s fight against terrorism. He cooperated with the police and FBI, invited officers to his mosque for breakfast, even dined with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Despite the handshakes and photo ops, however, [...]
October 6, 2011
Occupy Wall Street protests: ‘The rich get richer’
The Occupy Wall Street protests continue with hundreds of union members joining the march at Zuccotti Park as students walk out over rising tuition fees and levels of student debt. One assistant professor criticises former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney’s description of the protests as “class warfare” while New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says demonstrators [...]