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January 19, 2012December 15, 2023

Collateral Torture: Clark Stoeckley’s 24 Hour Bradley Manning Performance This Weekend

Clark Stoeckley, famed most recently for his escapades with his Wikileaks truck, and EIDIA House announce this performance and in situ installation:

Collateral Torture
January 20 to February 18, 2012
Live 24-hr continuous performance
Reception: 7pm, Friday, January 20
EIDIA House Studio

Clark Stoeckley”s 24-hour live performance will portray a day of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s tortured imprisonment“”commencing at 5pm on Friday the 20th and concluding at 5pm on Saturday the 21st. This performance will be recorded, and the documentation will be projected in Plato’s Cave for the remaining duration of the exhibition.

EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place, Basement Left
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
646-945-3830
http://www.eidia.com/

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November 21, 2011December 15, 2023

Pepper Spray Cop Meme Goes Viral

‘Casually Pepper Spraying Cop’ Meme Takes Off
by Mark Memmott
NPR.org
November 21, 2011

When he walked down a line of seated Occupy protesters Friday at the University of California Davis and shot pepper spray directly at them, campus police Lt. John Pike likely never thought that video of the incident would go viral on the Web, that there would be outrage not only at the school but around the nation, or that “casually pepper spraying cop” would quickly become one of the year’s top memes.

All those things did indeed happen.

And as Buzzfeed.com’s Matt Stopera tells NPR, when he and others look back at the end of the year to judge which memes took off, “this is definitely going to be one of the bigger, more important memes.”

Read more, but there are many more images on BussFeed, peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com, and The Washington Post. Continue reading “Pepper Spray Cop Meme Goes Viral”

November 10, 2011December 15, 2023

How a Protest Became a Movement

Reawakening The Radical Imagination: The Origins Of Occupy Wall Street
Huffington Post
November 10, 2011

Three months ago, a loosely organized group of activists concerned about growing income inequality, corporate greed and the global influence of powerful financial institutions decided to make Lower Manhattan its home, setting in motion a movement known as Occupy Wall Street.

Since then, tens of thousands of people who share Occupy Wall Street’s concerns have taken to the streets throughout the United States and around the globe, shifting the national discourse away from the federal deficit and toward financial woes of a more personal nature, like student debt.

Now Occupy Wall Street is much larger than its initial small group of organizers. President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have given it a nod. Many among its now-broad base of supporters hold conventional political views. Some 64 percent call themselves Democrats, according to a recent AP-GfK poll.

The movement didn’t get that big simply because AdBusters, a Canadian magazine, sent out a flashy email promoting it, or because the hacker collective Anonymous flicked out a few tweets. Instead, it took a group of about 200 committed activists 47 days to outline the ground rules that have allowed the protest to flourish. Continue reading “How a Protest Became a Movement”

November 5, 2011December 15, 2023

How Do You Illustrate Corruption?

How Do You Illustrate Corruption? Artist Rachel Schragis Explains
by J.A. Myerson
Truthout
5 November 2011

Rachel Schragis is a 25-year-old New York City-based artist, educator and activist who created a flow-chart visualization of the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City. Since the image was posted on Facebook, comments began pouring in and the image was disseminated widely, not only among Schragis’ friends, but eventually by complete strangers.

It was featured on the Al Jazeera blog and several art blogs the next day. Occupy Wall Street’s Internet Working Group put it on the New York City General Assembly web site. Occupations and individuals all over the country have requested paper copies. There are now, two weeks after the image’s completion, plans for four different kinds of print distribution.

A scalable version (so you can read it) of the flow-chart is here.

J.A. Myerson interviews Rachel Schragis. Continue reading “How Do You Illustrate Corruption?”

November 3, 2011December 15, 2023

OWS Launches Newsletter

From the OWS News Team: Introducing OWSnews.org – News of, by and for the 99%

OWSnews.org is being launched by journalists and organizers at New York”s Liberty Park occupation and over 20 other occupied locations throughout the US. This service is specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% Movement. Our website also features many social networking capabilities which allow registered users to create their own profile, share ideas and easily communicate with many other journalists and OWS activists. You can be one of the first people to join this network by creating your own profile and contributing to the site by registering here: OWSnews.org/register.

Before jumping into our first newsletter, we would like to bring your attention to a voting feature that is present on all of our news reports. It is a Reddit-style function which allows people to vote reports up or down. Moving forward, we will use this voting process as an online General Assembly editor to determine which news reports will get featured on the homepage. Once you are registered for the site, please vote up the reports that you like.

As we are currently coordinating and developing an editorial process with over 1000 occupations throughout the US and internationally, we thought it would be appropriate to launch by honoring and featuring some of the journalists that have spent years dedicated to investigating and exposing the crimes of Wall Street. We have an amazing list of contributors, including Amy Goodman, Eugene Jarecki, Glen Ford, Bill Black, Dylan Ratigan, David DeGraw, Kevin Zeese, Adbusters, Nomi Prins, Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Matt Taibbi, Mark Ruffalo, Cornel West, Naomi Wolf and more…