The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park on a glorious mid-September Saturday and, so far, many of its larger marches have taken place in the warmth of New York’s Indian summer. But winter has been looming, and on …
Early in the second week of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, a man in a gray t-shirt stood on the park’s steps and put his hands to his mouth. He led the crowd of about a hundred or so in reciting an Arabic poem: “Aheb Aisht Al …
October 15 had been touted as a global “Day of Action,” called for by the “indignatos” protesting austerity measures in Spain. Beginning in New Zealand, the action moved west, ending in scuffles with police in New York …
Since September 17, the protest movement calling itself Occupy Wall Street has been encamped in Zuccotti Park, a patch of concrete and greenery amid the towering buildings of Lower Manhattan. That nearly came to an end Friday morning.
Updated: Friday October 14, 6.30am ET. As the days ticked by, September rolled into October and the Occupy Wall Street movement dug in at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, a question loomed: How long would they stay once cold weather came?
As Occupy Wall Street enters its fourth week, the movement appears to be gaining strength. But what’s next for the stalwarts at Zuccotti Park?
Zuccotti Park on Thursday night was as packed as I’ve seen it on a weekday since the movement began nearly three weeks ago.
Nearly a week ago at Occupy Wall Street’s camp in Lower Manhattan, the head of the movement’s labor working group announced that the protest had received support from the Transit Worker’s Union-Local 100. Today, the TWU and …
When the Occupy Wall Street protesters bedded down on Friday night, their two-week-old movement appeared to have found a central message.
From the inside, the throng of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters marching through Lower Manhattan on Saturday felt chaotic. The crush of people, more than 2,500 in all, flowed north from their camp in Zuccotti Park towards the …
As the Thursday sun began to drop over the Hudson River in New York, one of the protesters at the Occupy Wall Street gathering jumped up onto a concrete benches on the north side of Zuccotti Park and yelled, “Mike check! General …
Nearly two weeks ago, an estimated 3,000 people assembled at Battery Park with the intention of occupying Wall Street.