Some Visible Differences Between Protests in Russia and the U.S.
Whereas pro-Kremlin youth are showing up in the streets of Moscow and doing a lot of drumming, we don't have a lot of pro-corporate youth turning out in America's streets or the Occupy encampment in Washington forming drum circles in the name of the free market.
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Occupy Congress
If the effort lasts, perhaps it'll actually become less unusual to see the people in the people's house.
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#OccupyOurHomes Meets the "Housing Authority" — Roll Tape
How smart, simple and confident it is for the movement to not only occupy the foreclosed home but to co-opt officialdom's own institutional ritual for keeping the public at bay.
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Occupy: Moving Day
Call the canvas-inspired visuals juxtaposed with the brick-and-mortar White House, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the visual down payment on today's move, by Occupy, into foreclosed home. You could also call it Occupy's moving day.
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Gimme Shelter
Perhaps the strongest driver for building this thing was the emotional strain, and daily tightrope walk, of living with Occupy's profound impermanence.
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You Can’t Arrest An Idea
One of the more powerful images to come out of the Occupy movement, it speaks to a larger truth than the surgical put-down of the LA encampment.
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LA Eviction: Witness to Power or The Man and the Money Shot?
You see, what really concerns me when you drive out all the bloggers, and the live streamers, and even the hoards of corporate media from the park by a certain witching hour is: how much leverage is really there to bear witness, and to keep the man honest?
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Baghdad, California: LAPD Evicts OccupyLA with Embedded Media. (X's Indy Cams, Too)
Well, the revolution actually will be televised -- the same way the Iraq and Afghan wars were, which is with a few hand-picked embedded reporters and photographers escorted around by the men and women in blue.
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Iran British Embassy Attack Meets Quentin Tarantino
Given the worldwide protests we've been seeing for months filled with robo-cops, civilians in gas masks and cardboard commentary across the spectrum, this certainly takes those visuals to the next level of "post-modern."
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Occupy Pepper Spray Attacks Beyond Davis and Bologna
So, how often has pepper spray been used to attack Occupy protesters? The likely answer is: more often than the more widely circulated photos would have us assume.
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Simeon to Cyborg: Is Anti-Democratic Meme (& "Arresting" Pics) Dooming Progressive Protest?
The photo may be fitting too well with the anti-democratic meme of late that progressive movements are incoherent. Worse, he looks grotesquely simian, as if political demonstrations were a form of devolution.
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As Occupy Encampments Dwindle, the Legacy
This photo, from Occupy LA, brought to mind the rite of passage so many young people have experienced over the past few months.
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Pepper Spray Friday: The Issue Still Pattern of Abuse by Police
Bill Johnson, director of the Kinston Department of Public Safety, confirmed the use of pepper spray but downplayed the incident. “(There was) a little pushing and shoving going on in the crowd and that type of thing, and it started to elevate a little bit,” Johnson said Friday. “The...
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Occupy: Weathering the Early Phase
Given its fortitude and creativity, I'm pretty sure Occupy will survive this first chapter. And despite the bitterness of the past few weeks, I believe the gonzo will survive also.
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Taking it to the Kittens: The Pepper Spray Cop Meme — and What It Means
It's in that exaggeration and incomprehensibility of these cascading photoshopped images that we feel some relief that, no, nobody would go that far -- that our iconic images of Marilyn, and the indelible vision of John and Yoko meeting the press in bed, and all our kittens (and kitten...
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Occupy Davis: The Walk of Shame
If there has been a strong moral and collective dimension to the Occupy movement from the beginning, it only continues to grow stronger. The behavior we see in the "sit down" is truly extraordinary. That kind of focus and intent cannot be meditated, it can only be inspired.
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Occupy Oblivion
Following Occupy's eviction from Zuccotti Park just 36 hours before, and in light of similar evictions across the country, nerves were raw as protesters marked the two month anniversary of the movement.
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