Posts Tagged ‘Occupy’

Occupy London stage protest inside St Paul’s

LONDON (Reuters) – Four women chained themselves to the pulpit in St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday in support of the anti-corporate Occupy London movement, before cutting themselves free after being threatened with arrest, London police said. The women from the Occupy London and Christianity Uncut movements said their four-hour protest was also a show of [...]

Occupy Wall Street marks anniversary with NYSE protest

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A few hundred Occupy Wall Street activists gathered in New York's financial district on Monday but police kept them well back from the New York Stock Exchange, which they had threatened to surround as part of a day of protests marking the movement's one-year anniversary. The New York Police Department arrested [...]

Occupy Wall Street plans to surround NYSE to mark anniversary

(Reuters) – Occupy Wall Street marks its first anniversary on Monday, and, in a bid to rejuvenate a movement that has failed to sustain momentum after sparking a national conversation about economic inequality last fall, activists plan once again to descend on New York's financial district. The group, which popularized the phrase "We are the [...]

Occupy Wall Street plans to surround NYSE to mark anniversary

(Reuters) – Occupy Wall Street marks its first anniversary on Monday, and, in a bid to rejuvenate a movement that has failed to sustain momentum after sparking a national conversation about economic inequality last fall, activists plan once again to descend on New York's financial district. The group, which popularized the phrase "We are the [...]

How Occupy has defined the election

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Open thread: Occupy, real America and heat

What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … Book Review: is Obama’s America really different than Real America, by DemFromCT Looking for answers on the jobs crisis? Look at businesses, not workers, by Laura Clawson How Occupy has defined the election, by Armando You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, by Jon [...]

Angry Chinese occupy government office, smash computers in environment protest

QIDONG, China (Reuters) – Angry demonstrators occupied a government office in eastern China on Saturday, destroying computers and overturning cars in a violent protest against an industrial waste pipeline they said would poison their coastal waters. The demonstration was the latest in a string of protests sparked by fears of environmental degradation and highlights the [...]

Insight: Can Occupy Wall Street survive?

(Reuters) – More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coining the phrase "We are the 99 percent," the movement's survival and continued relevance is far from assured. Donations to the flagship New York chapter have slowed to a trickle. Polls show that public support is [...]