Occupy Movement
A protestor confronts police during a rally for International Worker's Day, May 1, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. The Occupy movement joined workers, immigrant-rights activists, anarchists and other protesters in a May Day march and rally.
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The G20 (protests), the Occupy movement, the Quebec (student protest) situation are clear signals of increasing anger over the lack of fairness in our system
It is often claimed that Black Blocs 'infiltrate' protests. Black Blocs have even been identified as the 'cancer' of the Occupy movement ... By making such accusations, spokesmen for social movements present themselves as respectable in the eyes of the elites at the risk of undermining solidarity and legitimizing police repression and the criminalization of dissent.
The protest movement is part of a wider phenomenon, such as the Occupy movement, that stems from a widespread discontentMore quotes »
Around the web
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Activists from Many Nations Condemn Chevron
SAN RAMON, California, U.S., May 31, 2012 (IPS) - More than 100 people gathered Wednesday outside the gates of Chevron's sprawling headquarters in upscale San Ramon in the San Francisco Bay area of California, where police and security barred those witho 5/31/12 from Inter Press Service News Agency Read more »
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Occupy the World? A summary of the Occupy Movement
I have been covering the Occupy Movement since the very beginning with my first interviewee being Bill Csapo from Occupy Wall Street. Since then I have spoken and interviewed “Occupiers” from every major Occupation. So what has changed and where are thes from Voice of Russia Read more »
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Occupy's rights violated
I have watched with interest the reaction of LR city government to the Occupy Movement in general and particularly the treatment of OLR in recent weeks. The motivation for evicting the OLR protesters from their downtown encampment as articulated by City from Arkansas Times Read more »
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China: Treatment of Occupy Movement Protesters Proves US Applies “Double-Standard” in Human Rights Accusations
Beijing on Friday swiftly hit back at Washington’s annual report on China’s human rights, saying in a report that the US government’s crackdown on protesters in the Occupy Wall Street demonstration is the real illustration of American democracy. In the r from Ocean Beach Rag Read more »
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Occupy Supply Skill Share: NATO 5 Occupy and the War on Terror
The 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago has been on of the most anticipated events in the Occupy Movement since it started. Mimicking the tactics of the NATO representatives in Chicago, police raided an apartment in Bridgeport with out a warrant. FDL Dissenter’s from Firedoglake Read more »
