Occupy protesters ‘squidding’ Goldman Sachs - BlogPost
Posted at 09:22 AM ET, 12/12/2011 Dec 12, 2011 02:22 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Investment bankers and other employees arriving for work at 200 Wall St. in New York City early Monday morning were greeted by a strange scene: a demonstration by Occupy Wall Street protesters — and massive blow-up squids.
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Update: Thanks to everyone for weighing in about the infographic. The data used was given to us on an exclusive basis from analytics firm Flurry. Indeed, three-quarters of the apps in the App Store are “paid apps,” which was used to calculate the average app price and the subsequent revenue figures in the previous version. However, only one-quarter of the apps actually downloaded are “paid apps,” so the average price per transaction (paid + free downloads) is actually much lower than the average app price in the store.
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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
Busted for Tweeting - “He didn’t produce an official press pass, so that means he was resisting arrest.”
Monday morning marked yet another Day of Action for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Eight cities on the West Coast attempted to shut down ports. (The hashtag #PortShutdown on Twitter is moving a mile a minute.) In New York City, there was a solidarity march targeting Goldman Sachs that began at 7:30 a.m.
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Dec 16, 2011| By: DJs John & Molly Radio Dispatch John spends 37 hours in jail after being arrested covering an OWS protest. Molly appears on Olbermann and writes about it for Salon.
When John Knefel calls, you answer
photo by Jessica Lehrman “Do you know where I’m calling you from?” No John Knefel, I have no idea where you’re calling me from. Usually, I expect you to be calling me from the room down the hall. You know the one, the one where dreams go to die. The one I only occasionally pass as I go through my monotonous, boring, desk-job day.
Jamilah King on the digital divide, John Knefel on OWS arrests
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Writer and comedian John Knefel reaches for his glasses as police pull him away during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City yesterday. This really great photo was taken by Jessica Lehrman in the lobby of Winter Garden, a building owned by Brookfield Property, the same company that owns Zuccotti Park. To get a different view on the same scene, check out a video that someone else was filming at the same time. You can see Knefel falling down around 6:30.
NYPD Pounces On Media At Yesterday's OWS Protest: Gothamist: New York City News, Food, Arts & Events
(Screenshot) After over a hundred Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in the atrium of the World Financial Center, the NYPD ordered them to disperse, and arrested 17 of them for failing to comply. A video of the incident also shows Robert Stolarik, a credentialed photographer working for the New York Times, having his shot blocked repeatedly by NYPD officers. Now, another video has surfaced showing the NYPD arresting a man who appears to be protester Justin Wedes as he passively stands and films the police ordering protesters to leave.
Occupy Strikes Sachs! «
Airing Goldman Sachs' Dirty Laundry Occupiers descended on Goldman Sachs yesterday in solidarity with the West Coast Port blockades which managed to shut down three major ports: Oakland, Portland and Longview. The march in New York began across the street from Zuccotti Park at 7:30 am and ended at 200 West Street where a heavy police presence was waiting with barricades to prevent protesters from blocking the front of the building. Nearly 300 protesters formed picket lines in front of and behind the building chanting, “Everyone pays their tax — everyone but Goldman Sachs!”
17 arrests as Occupy Wall St. protesters march around Goldman Sachs
Jefferson Siegel for New York Da Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters assembe on Church St. in Manhattan to march to the Goldman Sachs headquarters on West St. Some dressed as squid in reference to a Rolling Stone article that the investment bank. "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Police arrested 17 Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Winter Garden Atrium near Ground Zero Monday. The detainees, who were charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct, were among dozens of dancing demonstrators who formed a ring inside the atrium chanting, “Occupy Brookfield!” The 10-story atrium is managed by Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park where OWS reigned for almost two months before cops evicted them Nov. 15.
In video, confrontation between a 'Times' photographer and the NYPD at Occupy Wall Street protest downtown
It still seems like not all New York Police Department officers got that memo from their boss a few weeks ago warning them not to interfere with members of the media during police actions such as those that have been ongoing as a result of the Occupy Wall Street protests. In this video, police are shown getting physical with and intentionally blocking the shots of a credentialed photojournalist covering today's demonstration at the World Financial Center. A New York Times spokesperson confirmed for Capital that the journalist in the footage is Robert Stolarik, who was on assignment for the Times today.
O'Donnell to NYPD: Fire Officers Who Suppressed Press/Arrested Journalists at #OWS
As a writer and political commentator (@David_EHG), I am tempted to preface the video embedded below with bits of my own analysis. Instead, I'll simply step aside for a moment and let you watch Mr. O'Donnell throw daggers of truth at the screen. (A transcript has been included at the bottom of this post.)
A well written article by Matt Taibbi by icewufz Dec 11