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Rolling Jubilee: How Occupy Wall Street aims to bail out the 99% by buying and forgiving debt
Rolling Jubilee is a plan to use money pooled from donations to buy distressed consumer debt at marked down prices. Lenders often sell debts for pennies on the dollar to third parties who either try to collect on it or bundle it up for resale. But, instead of collecting it like a debt agency would, the group, known as Strike Debt, would forgive the debt.
Dozens arrested as Occupy movement marks first anniversary with protests
New York police on Monday arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street activists who gathered in the city’s financial district, where they sought to disrupt traffic and surround the New York Stock Exchange as part of a day of protests to mark the movement’s first anniversary. (Photos: Reuters; Getty Images)
Dozens arrested as May Day Occupy protests turn violent
Occupy Wall Street protesters smashed windows in Seattle, were chased through New York streets by police on scooters, and clashed repeatedly with officers in Oakland on Tuesday in May Day demonstrations intended to revive their movement against economic injustice. (Photos: Reuters; Getty Images)
Police move in on Occupy Toronto protesters in St. James Park
Police have moved in to enforce the eviction order at St. James Park after making three announcements requesting protesters leave.
Officers have been moving through the park from tent to tent, asking protesters to vacate the area. The central gazebo has been barricaded, with boards and signs on all sides, and a few people remaining within.
City bylaw officers have also arrived in the park and were taping pieces of paper, each with a letter and a number, to tents and structures. One bylaw officer explained they were photographing all the structures for the purposes of record-keeping.
Occupiers were beating a drum and chanting “we occupy” and “make the rich pay.” Protesters had been shouting at police, with a spontaneous chant erupting of “Whose park? Our park.”
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A large group of Occupy Toronto protesters have vowed not to leave their campsite after they were issued with new eviction notices by council officials
Occupy Toronto: Protesters must vacate park, judge rules
Occupy Toronto protesters must pack up their tents and leave St. James Park, where they have been camping out for more than a month, a Superior Court judge has ruled.
In a decision released Monday, Justice David Brown found the city was within its rights to force an end to the demonstration, calling it a “reasonable limit” on the group’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“If the protesters possess a constitutional right to occupy the park and appropriate it to their use, then the next protest group espousing a political message would have the right to so occupy another park, say, Moss Park; and the next group the next park, and so on, and so forth,” Judge Brown wrote in his 54-page ruling. “So would result a ‘tragedy of the commons,’ another ironic consequence of a movement advocating greater popular empowerment.” (Photo: Mark Blinch/Reuters)
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Wall Street shutdown fails as hundreds of Occupy protesters clash with police
Hundreds of Occupy protesters have clashed with police in New York’s financial district as authorities battled to thwart their bid to shut down Wall Street.
Police barricaded the narrow streets around the New York Stock Exchange and used batons to push protesters onto the sidewalk as they marched through the area during the morning rush hour to prevent financial workers getting to their desks.
About 75 people were arrested, police said, but by 11 a.m. protesters had returned to nearby Zuccotti Park, which had been the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement’s camp headquarters before police evicted them from the space on Tuesday.
Protesters banged drums and yelled “We are the 99%” — referring to their contention that the U.S. political system benefits only the richest 1%. Some chanted at police: “You’re sexy, you’re blue, now take
Occupy Toronto protesters given midnight deadline to leave parkBylaw officers have served eviction notices to Occupy Toronto protesters just a day after Mayor Rob Ford reiterated warnings that the city would move “soon” against the encampment.Just hours after the forced removal of the New York camp where the Occupy movement first took root, Toronto police accompanied bylaw officers pinned sheets of paper to tents requesting that all traces of the campsite be removed immediately. (Photos: Darren Calabrese/National Post)
Occupy Toronto protesters served eviction notice
Bylaw officers have served eviction notices to Occupy Toronto protesters, pinning sheets of paper to tents requesting that all traces of the campsite be removed immediately.
Toronto police officers accompanied bylaw officers as they went from tent to tent.
“We are working to ensure the bylaw officers can do their jobs properly,” Constable Wendy Drummond said.
Occupy Toronto protesters are planning a general assembly at noon to decide how best to respond to the eviction notices.
“We don’t want to see a repeat of Wall Street,” said Taylor Chelsea, referring to the dismantling of the occupy protest in New York earlier Tuesday, which led to dozens of arrests. (Photo:Darren Calabrese/National Post)
Michael Moore’s $2M hypocrite house: film director lives like the 1% he condemns
It’s no secret that Moore has made millions from his muckraking documentaries, and there’s no reason he shouldn’t have. As one of the most successful documentary film-makers ever, he’s successfully tapped a rich vein of anti-capitalist rhetoric that sells well among U.S. liberals.
What puts Moore in the Gore camp is his refusal to admit he shares the wealth of his targets, as if wealth and success in themselves are dishonourable. In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan he quails when asked to admit “the bleeding obvious”, i.e. that he’s a member of the 1%.
“How can I be in the 1%?” Moore responds. “Even though I do well, I don’t associate myself with those who do well. I am devoting my life to those who have less and have been crapped on by the system.”
Moore would be much more worthy of respect if he were more honest, and acknowledged his own wealth and lifestyle if he wants to condemn others. Success is nothing to be ashamed of, or justification for the kind of public ridicule Moore likes to direct towards it. The real evil is greed, and the corruption that often accompanies it. But greed is not a private preserve of the wealthy, and isn’t nearly as easy a target as the crime of being rich. (Photo by The Michigan View)
New York police evict Occupy Wall Street protesters in late-night crackdown
Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement early on Tuesday from the park in New York City’s financial district where they have camped since September, dismantling their tent city and arresting about 70 people.
Authorities declared that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park — which had become a sea of tents, tarps and protest signs with hundreds of demonstrators sleeping there — posed a health and safety threat.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said that about 70 protesters were arrested in the park during the nighttime operation for defying orders to leave and several more were arrested nearby, although most left voluntarily. (Photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Just how big is Occupy Toronto? The camp by the numbers, and what it looks like from above
City manager Joe Pennachetti said on Thursday that Toronto will take “appropriate steps” regarding the Occupy Toronto camp in a downtown park starting next week. So just how big is Occupy Toronto? Emily Innes takes a look at the numbers behind the occupation.
