#OCCUPYOAKLAND is taking over the highway!

Absolutely enormous crowd hit the street in Oakland in support of Oakland. They took over a highway;  there’s got to be a good 100,000 people there.

#OCCUPYDENVER – “Livin’ in the Land Where the Whip Still Cracks”

From DenverDirect I went to Occupy Denver yesterday because Michael Moore was going to make an appearance, and I did get some footage of the statement he made. But before he arrived, this gentleman appeared, and made one of the most moving statements I have heard from the Occupy movement to date. There are problems [...]

Who are the 99 percent? Who are we?

“I did everything I was supposed to and I have nothing to show for it.” It’s not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously. Nor was it their press strategy, which largely consisted of tweeting journalists to cover a small protest that couldn’t say what, exactly, it hoped to [...]

Police brutality charges sweep across the US (FINALLY!)

From The Guardian   Officer Michael Daragjati had no idea that the FBI was listening to his phone calls. Otherwise he would probably not have described his arrest and detention of an innocent black New Yorker in the manner he did. Daragjati boasted to a woman friend that, while on patrol in Staten Island, he [...]