Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: The Statue of Liberty Re-Imagined
What I see is the Statue of Liberty beautifully re-imagined in a young face with brown skin (consistent with the country's demographic trend line).
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Occupy Demographics: Dirty Hippies?
If you've been consuming the message that the Occupy Wall Street movement mostly consists of hippy youth, take a look at these photos from a OccupyDC organizers meeting.
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Occupy Wall Street: On the Short End of the Supply Chain
It was interesting last week to hear some dissonant notes intermixed with the Steve Jobs remembrances, people chattering about exploitation of natural resources and foreign workers, about corporate power, and the the like. If found this an interesting Occupy photo to the extent it starts to draw the “less...
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My Favorite #OccupyWallStreet Photo So Far
Where's the insta-book? When's the movie?
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All Assumptions Will be Contested
The fact a progressive activist would unfurl the Gadsden flag right here, right now, in such a high-profile way provides a dramatic statement.
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Wall Street Occupation: Looking Down on Mr. Tambourine Man
To the surprise of just about everyone now, however, what both sides are realizing, more so with each passing day, is how much each has skin in the game.
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Preview of Coming Attractions: Obama Jobs Roadshow Meets "Occupy Wall Street"
Can you imagine the pill Obama's communications people must be trying to swallow right now as the jobs roadshow, slickly packaged in a populist narrative, comes in contact with the raw, real thing?
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: The Human Microphone
"Perhaps not remarkable, but telling, is how the protesters remain upbeat and positive, embracing idealism without irony." -- Alan Chin's latest "photo op-ed" from Zucotti Park.
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Occupy Wall Street: Plenty of Media Coverage … of the Bust of a Beautiful Girl
If you can get past the saintly/insanely beautiful girl and her cleavage, what we've got here also is the latest law enforcement adjustment in the battle for Wall Street.
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Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: Beyond the Hula Hoop
If you can avoid rolling your eyes, what you'll be able to see is the hip-shaking arrival of New York City's "first responders" to the utter collapse of economic justice.
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Occupy Wall Street? …Um, Look Again.
It only takes an instant to absorb the basic elements of this picture for you to think, "Oh, one more #OccupyWallStreet photo, right?
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NYPD Occupy Wall Street Pepper-Gate: White Shirts Gone Wild
The images from the pepper spray confrontation reveal more than just police brutality -- they capture the specific overreaction of high-ranking police officers in the fray.
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: Nights at Camp Hashtag
If the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Hippie Kooks
The best thing you can say about big media's token coverage of "Occupy Wall Street?" At least it's artful.
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Class Warfare (Top Down)
I'm sure a John Boehner would point to a photo like this, of all those young and disenfranchised Americans marching on the Stock Exchange, as evidence of class warfare. Except...
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