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Jason Leopold Over the past year, I’ve filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and other government agencies in hopes of prying loose documents I need to support my investigative reporting efforts on a wide-range of issues and policies. One of the frustrating realities about the FOIA process is the enormous backlog of requests government agencies have to contend with, which [...] WARSAW — Nearly 100 Polish websites shrouded their pages in black early Tuesday to protest against Warsaw’s plan to sign a multilateral anti online piracy accord this week. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) aims to create international standards for intellectual property protection, but some groups oppose it as limiting Internet freedoms. Poland, which joined the EU in 2004, has committed to signing ACTA on Thursday. Popular Polish websites including satirical joemonster.org and demotywatory.pl donned black shrouds for [...] (CNSNews.com) – Although an Occupy Wall Street protest group in Pasadena, Calif., tried to get a slot to march in the Rose Parade on Jan. 2, officials with the parade said no. The group now plans to march down the street behind a group of police cars that mark the end of the parade. In November, the Occupy group announced its plans to “occupy” the parade, but the Pasadena Tournament of [...] BY BRIAN KOENIG Occupy Wall Street’s latest grievance centers on student loan programs and higher education reform, and the group’s most recent campaign involves a movement-wide boycott on student loan debt repayment. Early Monday afternoon, a crowd of faculty and student organizers assembled at the southeast corner of New York City’s Zuccotti Park to announce Occupy Student Debt, a national initiative directed at recruiting student loan borrowers and requesting that they [...] From CNBC: The National Lawyers Guild said it has obtained a court order that allows Occupy Wall Street protesters to return with tents to a New York City park. Leslie Gersing for CNBC.com The injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules, which were published after the Occupy Wall Street protest began. Those rules would bar protestors from bringing tents, tarps and sleeping bags into the park. At a morning news conference at City Hall, [...] Good riddance! The NYPD arrested 70 protesters as they moved in on Zuccotti Park early this morning and began clearing out the thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters who had taken over the space for nearly two months. More than 1,000 cops marched on the lower Manhattan encampment shortly before 1 a.m. and handed out fliers ordering demonstrators to get out and remove their personal property. The cops were followed by Sanitation workers, [...] NEW YORK (PIX11)— As the Occupy Wall Street protest moves into its second month at Zuccotti Park, a small group of demonstrators has plans to up the ante — departing from the Lower Manhattan park and heading toward the nation’s capital on foot. The group plans to kick off their two-week, 240-mile march at noon Wednesday when dozens will leave the park and make their way to Washington, D.C. According to Kelly Brannon, the march’s organizer, [...] Chuck Bruckmann/WLS Radio CHICAGO (WLS) – An online petition is asking Mayor Rahm Emanuel to let Occupy Chicago protesters stay in Grant Park without being arrested. Organizers of the local anti-Wall Street protest say the petition had collected nearly 10,000 signatures Friday. Police arrested 175 protesters early Sunday after hundreds refused to take down tents and leave Grant Park when it closed at 11 p.m. the night before. Organizers didn’t seek a permit to [...] Chuck Bruckmann/WLS Radio CHICAGO (WLS) – An online petition is asking Mayor Rahm Emanuel to let Occupy Chicago protesters stay in Grant Park without being arrested. Organizers of the local anti-Wall Street protest say the petition had collected nearly 10,000 signatures Friday. PHOTO GALLERY: Occupy Chicago Continues Police arrested 175 protesters early Sunday after hundreds refused to take down tents and leave Grant Park when it closed at 11 p.m. the night before. Organizers didn’t [...] There was a time when Nassim Taleb media appearances were a daily thing. Then he decided to take a sabbatical from the public’s eye, and literally fell off the face of the planet. And while over the past year or so, he has gradually resurfaced, his extended discussions on various topics are still almost as rare as a double digit move in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Tonight he broke [...] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a “resolute” response. Two men, including a member of the Iranian special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in New York federal court with conspiring to kill the Saudi [...] By Jim Rubenstein Credit unions across the land are “seizing this marketing opportunity”, as CUNA officials put it Tuesday, to take advantage of the favorable industry media coverage following the announcement of Bank of America’s $5 monthly debit fee. There also appeared to be stepped-up online chatter—even spreading internationally on blogs and Twitter—about the so-called “Bank Transfer Day” Nov. 5 when consumers are exhorted to move [...] NEW YORK (AP) — They were out to change the world, overthrow the establishment and liberate the poor. But first somebody would have to do something about those bongo drums. At the Occupy Wall Street protest camp in Manhattan, protesters agonized over what to do about drum players who had turned part of the site into an impromptu dance floor. The [...] Pajamas Media While there have been intense arguments in the media recently about hints of anti-Semitism which have erupted at New York’s Occupy Wall Street protest, very little attention has been paid to similar problems cropping up at other “Occupy” events around the country.
Below you will find some photographs and a video taken at the Occupy Los Angeles encampment which reveal how there is a growing [...] Organizers of Wednesday’s anti-Wall Street protest in San Francisco got what they wanted after surrounding the Wells Fargo Bank corporate headquarters and blocking its entrances: 11 demonstrators arrested and plenty of headlines. In New York, police arrested four people outside JP Morgan Chase offices, where protesters called in vain for a meeting with Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. But on the same day in San Jose, [...] Protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street moved uptown on Tuesday to demonstrate outside of some of New York’s richest residents’ homes. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Occupy Wall Street is on the move … uptown. Why uptown? Because that’s where the rich folks live! Community groups and progressive organizations that have been working with the broader Occupy Wall Street movement marched on Tuesday to the homes of JP Morgan [...] Kurt Nimmo p>Protesters encamped at Freedom Plaza across from the White House sent out an email late Sunday announcing a meeting to discuss a plan to stay on after a permit expires tomorrow. “The thousands of people of the October2011 Movement who have been occupying in Freedom Plaza since October 6th and the hundreds of those people who have been sleeping in Freedom Plaza are [...] View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com. A protest that began with a few dozen demonstrators on Wall Street has now grown to thousands in Dallas and other cities as the group flooded New York City for the 19th-straight day. The Occupy Wall Street protest was duplicated as Occupy Dallas Thursday morning. Most protesters are fed up with some aspect of the economy. Hundreds marched from Pike Park near the American [...] By www.thetrader.se Ft.com Citic Securities, China’s biggest brokerage by market value, declined in its Hong Kong trading debut, [...] The subject of a massive manhunt in the South Bay is a producer for the San Jose cable access station CreaTV. Shareef Allman is seen in a YouTube video interviewing Jesse Jackson at a Walter Hawkins Memorial Celebration. The clip dated Septemeber 24, 2010, lists Allman as executive producer and host. Police said Allman walked into a meeting at his workplace in Cupertino at 4:15 a.m. [...] Check out an aerial shot of the Occupy Wall Street protest going on right now. We’re on the ground covering the rally. (See? Right…there.) This aerial shot is from CNBC… Source Uploaded by democracynow on Oct 5, 2011 www.DemocracyNow.org – As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its twentieth day, New York City’s most powerful unions are set to march today from City Hall to the movement’s encampment in the Financial District. The demonstration will be bolstered by the walkout of potentially thousands of students at major public universities in New York City where tuition rates are [...] Reuters Police officers reach into a crowd of protesters to make an arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge during an “Occupy Wall Street” march in New York on Saturday. NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The “Occupy Wall Street” protest moved through its 16th day on Sunday, continuing with no end in sight after at least 700 people were arrested over the weekend. Live streaming video of the movement on Sunday featured [...] Here is an honest assessment of what’s going on with the Occupy Wall Street protest by someone who has been part of it for, it seems, at least several days. It was forwarded to an email list I monitor by a friend of the writer. If is assessment is correct, it’s important to pay attention to this movement as it could lead to all sorts of [...] Video by Jeanne Mansfield My boyfriend Frank and I are heading toward Liberty Square to check out what’s going on at the Occupy Wall Street protest, when we stumble upon the afternoon march toward Union Square. So we join up and walk along behind. The crowd looks like maybe 300 people, mostly punk-styled kids and folks carrying their computers (for live streaming, we found out later) [...] www. DemocracyNow.org – It is day 10 of the “Occupy Wall Street” campaign. On Saturday, more than 80 protesters were arrested as hundreds took part in yet another march to Wall Street. Many of them were committing civil disobedience by walking in the street, but some say they were on the sidewalk when officers with the New York City Police Department used nets and physical [...] ibtimes.com Following reports of police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters, Anonymous has issued a series of messages warning the authorities that the violence will not go unpunished. The reports of police violence emerged Wednesday following conflicting reports of police arresting protesters. A number of statements by Anonymous subsequently emerged claiming members of the media team covering the event had been [...] Protest dwindles after bid to ‘occupy’ Wall Street http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-19/wa… Hundreds of people spent the night sleeping in New York’s Wall Street district after failing to occupy the heart of global finance to protest against greed, corruption and budget cuts. Hundreds of demonstrators who descended on Lower Manhattan on Saturday with the aim of staying at least until the open of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday had planned [...] The CRS has always been renowned for employing particularly tough officers Photo: REUTERS By Peter Allen in Paris 2:27PM BST 21 Apr 2011 France’s riot police have complained about being “treated like children” following a new ban on drinking alcohol while on duty. The CRS (Republican Security Companies), which made its name quelling student demonstrators during nationwide disturbances in 1968, has always enjoyed a glass of beer [...] |
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