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A One-Percenter Speaks

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Occupy Melbourne's Tent Monsters

It’s illegal to camp out in the parks in Melbourne, Australia, so protesters decided to wear their tents as clothing. In America, this is what we would call trolling the cops. Via mpviral.com Via...

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Calvin and Hobbes #Occupy the Lawn

Found outside a home in Rocklin, CA, the most awesome lawn display ever. Calvin and Hobbes stand with the 99 percent! (via robotmutant.com).

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Iowa Coffee Shop Tosses A Group Of Occupiers

The owner of Java Joe’s in Des Moines gave the boot to a handful of Occupy Iowa demonstrators Friday morning. The coffee shop’s proprietor, who was hosting a scheduled appearance by GOP hopeful Newt...

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Activists Turn 85 Bank Of America ATMs Into "Truth Machines"

Members of San Francisco’s Rainforest Action Network covered 85 Bank of America ATM screens with overlay stickers, the environmental organization reported, to create awareness of “everything BoA...

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"Be the Crisis": The Street Art of Occupy's General Strike

Check out the graffiti and digital art Occupy Wall Street is using to publicize their May Day General Strike! A promotional mural for the Cartoon Network show Delocated in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, got...

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Activists In Seattle Make It Rain Money

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to throw a whole bunch of money off a building and into the street? So did we. Money can't buy love... but it can buy speech? Our Valentine's Day Money...

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NYPD Presence At The Occupy Wall Street Concert

There were plenty of police (and barricades) around Foley Square on September 16, the anniversary of the Occupy movement, but nothing like when a politician or other political operative appears in the...

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Happy Danksgiving: An Elevated Feast

And by elevated I mean infused with cannabis. Macey Foronda / Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed Macey Foronda / BuzzFeed The key to cooking with cannabis is in preparing extractions — usually oil, butter, or...

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Zuccotti Park Zoo: Being There

Cinema verite-style documentary footage of Zuccotti Park at night, before it got cleared out by NYC police on November 15, 2011. View Entire Post ›

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Keith Olbermann Blasts Bloomberg's Handling Of #OccupyWallStreet

Well said, Mr. Olbermann. Bloomberg Now, Bloomberg Tomorrow, Bloomberg Forever! View Entire Post ›

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OWS Raid Set To "New York, New York"

Filmmaker Casey Neistat filmed the November 15th OWS raid and set the beautifully tense scene to the iconic "New York, New York". If you can make it there you can make it anywhere. (Best bit is at...

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The Best Sign At Today's #OccupyWallStreet March

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Striking Photo Of A Pepper Sprayed Protestor At #OccupyPortland

I still can't get over the fact that photos like this have been coming out so consistently from protests in our own country. It's becoming harder not to become desensitized by it. View Entire Post ›

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10 Tips For Filming Occupy Wall Street

Witness, the international human rights organization that trains activists on how to use video for change, have put together these tips on effectively filming and sharing documentation of protests,...

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Shepard Fairey Remixes His Iconic Hope Poster For #Occupy

It's pretty amazing that the artist that helped President Obama get elected is now using his own iconic design to appeal to the President on behalf of the #Occupy movement. View Entire Post ›

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UC Davis Students Pepper Sprayed During Peaceful Demonstration

Police maced a group of students at the University of California, Davis, yesterday after they refused to remove their tents from the quad. About 50 protesters have been camping out there since they...

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Occupy Baltimore Interrupts Karl Rove Speech

To the GOP braniac's credit, he had the cohones cojones to not leave the stage and snap back at the protesters (unlike Scott Walker). Best line of the night: "This is actually the most fun you can have...

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Maybe Occupy Wall Street Has A Point

One horror story in North Carolina might help shine more light on why banks need shorter leashes. View Entire Post ›

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Newt Gingrich On OWS: "Go Get A Job Right After You Take A Bath"

At the faith-based Republican debate Thanksgiving Family Forum on Saturday evening, Newt Gingrich shared his particularly mean sentiments about Occupy Wall Street with Iowa churchgoers. (via...

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We Are The 99.99%

Are we the 99 percent? "The Guardian" crunches the numbers behind Occupy Wall Street's rallying cry. View Entire Post ›

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UC Davis Chancellor Shamed By Student Body

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who approved the police action taken November 18 on her students, gets the silent treatment from her school as she leaves campus. Silence has never been so deafening....

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Judah Friedlander Visits OWS, Warns Of Alien Invasion

I honestly have no idea what the man's talking about. Well, most of what he's saying anyway. Maybe he's just ripped. View Entire Post ›

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Video Of A War Vet Getting Beaten By Police At Occupy Oakland

In the video, Kayvan Sabehgi, war veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who claims he was peacefully protesting as part of the Occupy Oakland, Calif., movement on November 2nd. He was protesting in front of...

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Oakland Cops Beat Iraq War Veteran

Another day, another batch of police brutality videos. God bless America. View Entire Post ›

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Fox News On Pepper Spray: "It's A Food Product, Essentially"

I will say that for one brief second Megyn Kelly seems to concede that this was a bad move by police. But then Bill O'Reilly comes out and says, "I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning...

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#OWS Protestors Interrupt President Obama

A group of Occupy Wall Street protestors interrupted President Obama during a speech promoting his jobs bill in Manchester, NH. I don't know about you, but I think he handled it pretty well. View...

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WWII Vet Owns Town Hall Meeting

The venerable Senator (and Occupy Wall Street supporter) Bernie Sanders held a town hall meeting at a Vermont high school last weekend, where World War II Veteran Verne McGrew stole the show. Listen to...

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UC Davis Pepper Spray LEGO Set

San Francisco artist Doctor Popular used an abandoned newspaper receptacle to install his LEGO diorama of last week's pepper spray incident at UC Davis. Doc Pop said he wanted "to get people thinking...

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Breitbart To Occupiers: "Stop Raping People!"

Andrew Breitbart really lost it Friday night on Occupiers protesting outside the Conservative Political Action Conference. View Entire Post ›

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Video: Palin Takes On Occupiers

A few protesters tried to disrupt Sarah Palin's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference today. They didn't last long: the crowd (and Palin herself!) chanted "USA, USA" at the occupiers...

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Twitter-Loving Judge's OWS Ruling Is Full Of #LOLZ

Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris saw his bid to stop prosecutors from subpoenaing his Twitter records shut down by Manhattan's geekiest judge, Matthew Sciarrino Jr. View Entire Post ›

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#OccupyParis Is Not Impressive

The #Occupy movement is off to a slow start in France. View Entire Post ›

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#OccupyMicheleBachmann

Michele Bachmann gets occupied by the 99% during a campaign event in South Carolina. (via gotchamediablog.com) View Entire Post ›

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Occupy D.C. Comics

"Village Voice" cartoonist Ward Sutton had some ideas of his own how D.C. Comics should reboot their characters. It's never too late, D.C.! We've got at least an entire year until Election merch goes...

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Colin Powell On #OccupyWallStreet Protestors

#Occupy protestors receive some kind words from a somewhat unlikely place. View Entire Post ›

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Ally Bank Commercial Remixed As A Bank Robbery

This politically-charged mashup edits Ally Bank's "Stop Accepting Nonsense" commercial the way it should be -- with spliced fragments of bank heists from Hollywood movies. That's your money they're...

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Legal Advisor To Oakland's Mayor Resigns Over Brutalization Of #Occupy...

Dan Siegel will no longer be advising Mayor Jean Quan on legal matters. Instead he has decided to stand with the 99%. This comes after Siegel urged people to head to the protests last night to stand...

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#OccupyWallStreet's Statement On Their Eviction

The evicted protestors speak out. They do not seem to be going away. View Entire Post ›

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Banksy Contributes A Sculpture To Occupy London

The famed street artist put together a pretty fantastic piece for the protests. But then again, I always hated Mr. Moneybags so maybe I'm biased. (So in putting this together I discovered the Monopoly...

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CollegeHumor's 'We Are the 1%'

One day after Funny or Die released their Occupy Main Street video, CollegeHumor puts out the almost identical 'We Are the 1%' parody. Granted, this was a pretty obvious idea. (via...

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Where #OccupyWallStreet Headlines Come From

Jest shows where all kinds of #OccupyWallStreet headlines come from. (via gotchamediablog.com)View Entire Post ›

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A Marine's Response To #OccupyOakland Violence

After the violence of the other night, it came out that one of the victims was a marine and two-time veteran of the Iraq war. Another marine took to reddit to respond.View Entire Post ›

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Pat Robertson Says #OccupyWallStreet Not For Christians

The holy man says demonstrations should only be held for those who are oppressed.View Entire Post ›

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47 Photos Of #OccupyWallStreet Bearing The Cold

Citing "potential fire hazards," city officials confiscated six power generators and dozens of fuel canisters from the OWS camp this weekend. But protesters are still hanging in there -- despite the...

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The Truth About #OccupyWallStreet

Disclaimer: In this political banter, we cover the shocking truth about Occupy Wall Street from the POV of conservatives who aren't taking kindly to the prostests.View Entire Post ›

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Protestors Occupy U.S. Senator's Office

About 20 to 30 protestors began a peaceful demonstration inside Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office this morning in Washington D.C. Organizers of the group say they want to speak to him...

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Insane Raw Footage Shows Just How Giant #OccupyOakland Is

Occupy Oakland is so big that a photograph couldn't even capture it. This is mind-blowing to see.View Entire Post ›

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Oakland Police Hospitalize ANOTHER Military Veteran

Former U.S. Army ranger Kayvan Sabeghi was badly beaten with batons by Oakland police as he was on his way home from an Occupy demonstration Wednesday night. Sabeghi, a local business owner, was denied...

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Governor Scott Walker Speech Interrupted By Occupy Chicago

Five minutes into Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's speech at Chicago's ritzy Union League Club, the union buster was interrupted by some unexpected guests. About 70 of them, actually.View Entire Post ›

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