New York, how do I love thee
There are 14 million people in the United States currently looking for work. But that's not enough to stop Caroline Regidor moving to the city of dreams to hang out with artists, hipsters and Occupy...
View ArticleMelbourne Occupied
There were around a thousand people in Melbourne City Square this morning, estimates Jeff Sparrow, before confrontation unfolded. It will take time for the Occupy movement to develop a program but...
View ArticleOccupy Melbourne turns violent
The Occupy Melbourne protest turned violent this morning when police descended on demonstrators shouting chants such as “the whole world is watching”. This video, filmed on a demonstrator’s iPhone, is...
View ArticleDoyle breaks up the Occupy Melbourne party in the city square
Victoria Police have acted on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle's demands to evict members of Occupy Melbourne from their indefinite camp in City Square, calling in the force's shield-wielding riot squad to...
View ArticleI, litmus: reflecting on arrests at Occupy Melbourne and Sydney
For all the criticism of the lack of direction and focus and solutions that the local Occupy movement is engendering, maybe that’s precisely why it is politicising people: because it’s accessible,...
View ArticleA tale of two cities: Occupy Melbourne and Sydney
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has expressed solidarity with the Occupy movement, a stark contrast to the vitriolic attitude held by Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, writes Matthew Knott.
View ArticleOccupy Melbourne: a strategic failure for Robert Doyle and the police
Camping in Melbourne City Square was almost sure to be seen as a provocation by a Lord Mayor whose tone has eerily channelled a private school headmaster’s, writes Peter Chambers.
View ArticleLet’s not occupy ourselves with simplistic messages
The lack of a unifying -- but inevitably simplistic -- message is in fact the strength of the Occupy movement. The call for messages is divisive and too definitive, writes Robin Cameron.
View ArticleTwo occupations: Occupy London and Palestine
As someone who has witnessed the humiliations daily endured by Palestinians living decade after decade under ‘occupation’ the word occupation was for Richard A. Falk an inalterably dirty word. That is...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street no more?
A surprise late night raid by police cleared Zuccotti Park of all its Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have been camping for weeks. The park has been reopened but a judge declared the city could ban...
View ArticleThe Occupy Wall Street raid, as seen by protesters
The NYPD cleared out Occupy Wall Street protesters at 1am this morning. How did they do it? Check out this footage and photos from protesters, showing tear gas, sound cannons and a bulldozer.
View ArticleAP staff tweet and scoop the wire
The rules at Associated Press state that staff can't break news via social media that isn't yet on the wire. Which is why staff aren't getting rapped over the knuckles for tweeting that an AP journo...
View ArticleMeet the 84-year-old Occupy Wall Street protester
The image of 84-year-old activist Doril Rainey being pulled out of the Occupy Wall Street crowd after she was pepper sprayed by police during the late night raid has made her the new face of the Occupy...
View ArticleCelebrating two months of Occupy Wall Street with 200 new arrests
Around 10,000 people have taken to the streets of Lower Manhattan on an official Occupy Movement Day of Act, after police removed protesters from their camp at Zuccotti Park earlier this week.
View ArticleIt’s up to you New York, New York
Brilliant footage from the recent Occupy Wall Street raid (with particular focus on the behaviour of the NYPD), juxtaposed with the soundtrack of Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York.
View ArticleI punk’d Occupy Wall Street
Remember when the internet buzzed with rumours that Radiohead would visit Occupy Wall Street for a secret performance? Malcolm Harris admits that he pranked the protests via Gmail.
View ArticleNaparstek quits The Monthly … Leveson latest … UK journos tweet from court …
Ben Naparstek -- the baby-faced wonder who was roundly ridiculed for becoming editor of The Monthly at the age of 23 only to make the magazine more widely-read than ever -- has now quit to join...
View ArticleFrom Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Facebook
Occupy movement computer geeks are turning their attention away from the street and onto the creation of a new social media platform designed to encourage and facillitate protests, writes Sean Captain.
View ArticleMass arrests on Occupy’s six month anniversary
In a new sign that the Occupy movement is waning -- if not dying -- dozens of protestors inspired by the Arab Spring were arrested in New York on the weekend, reports Chris Francescani.
View ArticleUS court rules that your tweets don’t belong to you
In the case of Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris, a New York judge has ruled that prosecutors are entitled to access Harris' tweets on the grounds that they are not actually owned by him,...
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