One Successful Method Of Stopping Police Brutality At #OWS
Girls. They get away with murder peaceful protest. Am I right, guys?
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WWII Vet Owns Town Hall Meeting
The venerable Senator (and Occupy Wall Street supporter) Bernie Sanders held a town hall meeting at a Vermont high school last weekend, where World War II Veteran Verne McGrew stole the show. Listen to the kind man’s wise words. (via sanders.senate.gov)
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UC Davis Pepper Spray LEGO Set
San Francisco artist Doctor Popular used an abandoned newspaper receptacle to install his LEGO diorama of last week’s pepper spray incident at UC Davis. Doc Pop said he wanted “to get people thinking about recent police violence while they were trying to do their holiday shopping.”
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Occupy Wall Street Or Black Friday?
Did these pics come from an Occupy Wall Street protest, or a Black Friday sale? Take a guess!
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The Pepper Spraying Cop Hates Pokemon
Pepper-Spraying Cop used suppress civil liberties! It was SUPER EFFECTIVE.
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Occupy Wall Streeter Calls Ai Weiwei Selfish For Not Liking Occupy Wall Street Enough
This is the same Ai Weiwei who was arrested by the Chinese government for his human rights activism, so, yeah…how dare he not be more involved. From an MSNBC live chat with the outspoken artist, who still faces threat of imprisonment for his struggle against the repressive regime. A commenter named Angelina didn’t think Ai was sufficiently reverential in his response about OWS. This is infuriating.
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Protester Hands Obama A Love Note
A ballsy protester handed Obama this note while shaking hands in New Hampshire today. (via paid2see.tumblr.com)
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#OWS Protestors Interrupt President Obama
A group of Occupy Wall Street protestors interrupted President Obama during a speech promoting his jobs bill in Manchester, NH. I don’t know about you, but I think he handled it pretty well. (via gotchamediablog.com) Watch Video ›
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Fox News On Pepper Spray: “It’s A Food Product, Essentially”
I will say that for one brief second Megyn Kelly seems to concede that this was a bad move by police. But then Bill O’Reilly comes out and says, “I don’t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police. Particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus.” What does that even mean? (via gawker.com) Watch Video ›
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Best Buy’s “Occupy” Themed Black Friday Marketing Campaign
“Mommy, is this what it was like when grunge was co-opted by the mainstream?”
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Video Of A War Vet Getting Beaten By Police At Occupy Oakland
In the video, Kayvan Sabehgi, war veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who claims he was peacefully protesting as part of the Occupy Oakland, Calif., movement on November 2nd. He was protesting in front of line of marching police officers in riot gear. At one point, a single officer appears to command Sabehgi to leave before shoving him and hitting him with a nightstick. Watch Video ›
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Newt Gingrich Tells #OWS Protestors To “Get A Job, After You Take A Bath”
What an elitist asshole.
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How To Talk To A Conservative About Occupy Wall Street
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes takes only a minute to politely enlighten The Daily Caller’s James Poulos after Poulos questioned the Occupy movement’s attempt at shutting down the NYSE.
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Anonymous Fights Pepper Spray With Personal Information
In response to Lt. John Pike’s pepper spraying of UC Davis protestors, the international hacking group Anonymous has put out this video urging people to flood his home phone, cell, email, office, and mail box with messages condemning his actions. What do you think? Is this a fair response to an officer’s use of pepper spray?
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Egyptian State TV Uses The Police Response To #Occupy To Justify Their Own Brutality
Their protests were an inspiration for ours, so why shouldn’t our police’s violent response be an inspiration for theirs? (via think-progress.tumblr.com)
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Oakland Cops Beat Iraq War Veteran
Another day, another batch of police brutality videos. God bless America. (via gawker.com)
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Judah Friedlander Visits OWS, Warns Of Alien Invasion
I honestly have no idea what the man’s talking about. Well, most of what he’s saying anyway. Maybe he’s just ripped.
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Occupy Wrong Street
The lonely protester.
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UC Davis Chancellor Shamed By Student Body
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who approved the police action taken November 18 on her students, gets the silent treatment from her school as she leaves campus. Silence has never been so deafening. (via thesecondalarm.wordpress.com)
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We Are The 99.99%
Are we the 99 percent? “The Guardian” crunches the numbers behind Occupy Wall Street’s rallying cry. Watch Video ›
