It might be lesson one of putting together any ad spot: scrub away anything that might make your company look bad. Especially if your company already looks bad.
So much for not shooting the messenger
Apparently the cop who can pepper spray peaceful college students can pepper spray everything else as well.
Videos shot at the scene show a policeman walking up to the protesters, pulling out his can of pepper spray to display to the crowd, and liberally sweeping the protesters with the stinging substance.
Though protesters aren’t sure of their next move, their morale remains high.
Ten hours before uniformed police officers had pledged to clear Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street’s home since its founding a few weeks ago, the demonstrators debated, discussed, voted on, blocked, formed consensus, blocked again, and then again formed consensus — about playing drums.
“Put some jeans on and fear God. Forget about all this fashion nonsense.” — STEVE DRAIN, spokesperson for the hate group Westboro Baptist Church, who reportedly planned to protest at New York Fashion Week (via New York Post)
Hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators took to the streets this morning to protest government spending cuts. But by late afternoon a splinter group of rabble-rousers—dressed in black and wearing full-face balaclavas—had stolen all the attention.
Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear protesters formed a chain in Stuttgart, Germany on Saturday, which marked the biggest anti-nuclear demonstration since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago.
As the battle continues in Madison, a local filmmaker has released a sequel to his first video to give an up close and personal look at the demonstrators.
