Monthly Archives: April 2012 »
#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS This article is from the Occupied Media news wire. It was originally published over at the Occupied Wall Street Journal. This week in Occupy, Santa Monica
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Boston NAACP Holds Rally for Trayvon Martin
On a rainy day in April 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ascended the steps of the Boston Common bandstand to deliver a speech. His topic was school desegregation. An estimated 22,000
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Kiss Student Debt Goodbye!!
Saturday afternoon several Boston bastions of political and financial power witnessed a serious public display of affection. On April 7, members of Students Occupy Boston led a Kiss-In against Student Debt at the Federal
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CARTOON: National Security Agency
Image and text by Kip Lyall. To see more of Kip’s work, visit his website
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Camp Charlie Temporarily Evicted from State House Steps
Last night OccupyMBTA.org posted a message saying that Camp Charlie, the group’s 5 day old occupation of the steps of the Massachusetts State House, had been temporarily evicted: Just hours after Occupy MBTA testified
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VIDEO: Making Sense of the MBTA Mess
This past Saturday, a community teach-in was held by members of Occupy the MBTA currently participating in “Camp Charlie”, a public transportation-focused, 10 day occupation of the Massachusetts State House steps. The teach-in focused
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OBIT Springs into Occupy Boston
The Occupy Boston Information Technology team, better known as OBIT, hosted the first Community Gathering of Spring on Monday March 26 at E5. A crowd of about one hundred joined OBIT for vegan sushi,
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“The Attack on Black Men and Boys”: Blackstonian Forum on Trayvon Martin
On Friday April 6th, over a hundred people gathered at Hibernian Hall in Dudley Square for a town hall forum about the murder of Trayvon Martin, who was shot on February 26th, in Sanford,
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Videos From April 4th Rally at the State House
Mic Check In the State House: Adriadne Ross on Occupy the T “The Importance of Radical Direct Action”: More Speak-Outs from the #A4 People’s Assembly
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The Power of Public Comments
Occupy the SEC Working Group April 10, 2012 0This article is from the Occupied Media news wire. It was originally published over at Occupy.com. In March, Occupy the SEC met with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the
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