Today is April 17th, which means it’s tax day in the good ol’ USA . Last year on tax day I stood outside at a Bank of America branch chanting, “Pay Your Taxes.” This year the Occupy Movement held a huge event starting in downtown Seattle’s Westlake Center Square and marching to the downtown Wells …
On Saturday January 21st, 2012, several hundred people from all walks of life joined together in an event sponsored by Occupy Seattle. The occasion was the second anniversary of The Supreme Court of the United States declaring that corporations are people and have the right to free speech, and thus, may now contribute as much …
Keith Olbermann’s a disciple of Edward R. Murrow, but I find his addition of wry humor to the latter’s delivery paradigm to be hit-and-miss, though he maintains an admirable batting average. In contrast to Keith’s surging, bellowing blasts of Mayor Bloomberg, Murrow laid into Joseph McCarthy with this remarkably calm determination that watchers at the …
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On November 5, 2011 I attended yet another Occupy Seattle event. I once again hopped on a bus to the downtown Seattle hub of Westlake Center. Getting there at around 1:00, I joined a protest already in progress at the busy intersection of fifth Ave and Pine Street. Traffic had to be diverted around us …
Occupy Wall Street might express a general angst — in regards to disparity in wealth or TARP, but where are the details and specifics on the actual manipulations, lies and cheating on Wall Street? Here is a video Jim Cramer made with Thestreet.com way back that he’d never make for CNBC on the manipulations he …
The first one was actually taken on my bus ride down to Minneapolis. The guy on the photos and his friends were going to a zombie party/ parade type thing in St. Paul that night. Some of the zombie group ended up at the protest later. The photo isn’t really connected to the protest per …
These photos were taken by Bill Tong, who describes them this way, “Occupy Chicago protestors in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on LaSalle Street and Jackson Street in downtown Chicago. I snapped these photos on different days while on my way to and from work.”