It’s only taken three resignations and scores of bad publicity, but St. Paul’s Cathedral has announced that they won’t be pursing legal action against the few hundred protesters camped outside their doors.
CNN reports that a couple from Long Island, N.Y. is seeking to trademark “Occupy Wall Street” to sell T-shirts, bags and other items featuring the phrase. Forget the obvious irony in the effort to make money off a leaderless movement that rails against greed. Can the trademark-seeking couple pull it off?
Some say statistics can prove anything. Now the NYPD claims the Occupy Wall Street movement is responsible for a surge in gun crime.
Another blue-skied weekend at Occupy Wall Street saw the usual congeries of activists, drummers, pontificators and sympathizers in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.
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 Huriya,” (I Love the Life of Freedom).
Occupy Wall Street: now with more famous arrests.
Call them expensive flyers, if you will.
Just because they’re in the 1% doesn’t mean they can’t support the movement.
Got cuffed in Zuccotti Park? It’s never been easier to let your friends and family know that you’ve been arrested, thanks to a handy app called “I’m Getting Arrested” for Android.
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.
