OWS Day 37 Slideshow
Monday, October 24th, 2011
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OWS Day – 37 – Student Debt
Monday, October 24th, 2011
I interviewed Nathan a college graduate who is deep in debt and unable to find work.
OWS Day 37 – War No More
Monday, October 24th, 2011
I interviewed Rose, a long time peace activist and Day-1 occupier. She longs for the end of war.
Apology to a Postal Worker –
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011This is a short post to apologize to Steven the postal worker gathering signatures to save the Post Office from cuts at OWS today. Sorry, I screwed up the audio in your video again. I promise to get it right the next time I see you. Please leave any information you want to get out there in the comments.
Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). Under PAEA, USPS was forced to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years in an astonishing ten-year time span” — meaning that it had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health benefits of employees it hasn’t even hired yet, something “that no other government or private corporation is required to do.”
As consumer advocate Ralph Nader noted, if PAEA was never enacted, USPS would actually be facing a $1.5 billion surplus today
The Voices of OWS – Day 30
Monday, October 17th, 2011Occupy Washington Square – OWS Day 29
Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Occupy Wall Street general assembly inside the central fountain in Washington Square Park shortly before 11PM yesterday.
Mic-check is the call and repeat technique that sprang-up out of the necessity because NYC law prohibits the use of bullhorns or any amplified sound without a permit. Here they are announcing their plan to occupy Washington Square Park. The park officially closes at midnight. And they did strategically disperse at midnight, but a few remained. See Josh Harkinson‘s video below. He was reporting for Mother Jones and barely escaped arrest doing so.
This land was made for you and me. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Ben Shepard of Time’s-Up at OWS Day 28
Friday, October 14th, 2011
I’ve never seen Ben so happy as he was this morning after the massive overnight crowd and media presence deterred the city from evicting the people from Libery Park. He talks about his history of creative protest trying to create public spaces.
OWS – Day 28
Friday, October 14th, 2011
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
A huge crowd stayed overnight in Liberty Park last night. I think the crowd and the media coverage kept the city from evicting the protesters on their pretense of dire sanitation needs. I’ve heard the park called Liberty Plaza or Square as well, but the name seems to be settling on Liberty Park. Some say that Zuccotti Park is its slave name, that makes me laugh. The brooms are for cleaning up Wall Street as well as keeping the park tidy. The courageous Granny Peace Brigade protects the park.
