Occupy Joins Forces with Labor Unions on May Day 2012 As CEO’s rack up 15% Pay Increases For Tanking the Economy

While Occupy and labor unions protested against income and wealth inequities engineered by governments across the globe, CEO’s in the United States received 15% pay increases for pushing down wages and benefits, shipping jobs overseas, tanking the economy, and generally mismanaging their corporations. Dude! What happened to my country? The one percent has received 93 [...]

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Occupation Nation: a remix movie exploring the philosophical roots of the recent movement for the 99%.

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Occupy Movement to March On Chicago May 1st

50,000 occupiers from all over the world will be converging on Chicago May 1. “The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there for a rare G8 and NATO simultaneous summit.” They will come with an eye toward planning how to redistribute [...]

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Montreal Students Occupy Banks in 12-Hour Protest Marathon

Students in Montreal and across Quebec continue their protest against tuition increases and austerity measures in education with a 12-hour ¨“marathon of intensive vindication,” according to organizers. Today will see rolling student protests mostly focused against banks. In Montreal, marches leave from Victoria Square every hour and will each take unique routes through downtown. click [...]

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Local Virginia organizers team up with Occupy, unions for the public’s divided attention

“People are overwhelmed with all the economic hardship, most of which has been caused by the bad decisions of the people in power,” said Teresa Stanley, the South Hampton Roads Organizer with Virginia Organizing. “And politicians are focusing on issues that are not where the people are.” Stanley, a long-time… Click here for the complete [...]

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Occupy the movie

There’s a new movie being made. Occupy The Movie is a short film series that will end in a full length documentary. The producers will document the first year of the movement and provide candid interviews of the movement’s key figures. Taken together, this film will leave people feeling closer to the occupy movement, while [...]

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Police arrest Occupy protesters chained to Palm Beach City Hall

Police in West Palm Beach have arrested four members of the Occupy Wall Street movement for trespassing after several protesters allegedly chained themselves to City Hall. West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio last week notified about 20 activists that they had until Thursday to leave protest site, according to The Palm Beach Post. Click here [...]

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‘Occupy’ plans national conference in Philadelphia

Associated Press= PHILADELPHIA (AP) — “A group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement plans to elect 876 “delegates” from around the country and hold a national “general assembly” in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July holiday as part of ongoing protests over corporate excess and economic inequality.” It’s about time we of [...]

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Getting Involved: Join the Occupy Movement

One way to fight the one percent is to join the Occupy movement. Go on line, scroll down to Google, scribble in the name of the town you live in along with the word Occupy, and you’ll likely be at the home page of the local chapter of the Occupy Movement. There are other things [...]

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It’s time to take back public schools from the corporate world-Occupy Education!

Mic check! MIC CHECK! Let the Puppet show begin! LET THE PUPPET SHOW BEGIN!”   The demonstrators who held the floor at a December 14 meeting at Newtown High School in Corona, Queens, were part of Occupy DOE (Department of Education), a mix of veteran teachers, parents and Occupy Wall Street activists that is bringing [...]

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