Occupy Protesters Outnumber Albany Legislators 8-to-1 at Tax Hearing
About 20 Occupy-affiliated protesters crashed a New York state legislative budget meeting Monday morning, but it doesn't sound as if they had much of an audience.
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A group of University of New Mexico students "mic checked" an Israel Alliance talk on their campus Thursday night, when several audience members got up out of their seats and physically attacked the protesting students.
About 20 Occupy-affiliated protesters crashed a New York state legislative budget meeting Monday morning, but it doesn't sound as if they had much of an audience.
The Occupy movement rages on in Oakland, where clashes with police have resulted in 400 arrests and significant damage to City Hall.
As Iowa's Republicans gear up for tomorrow's caucuses, party officials are making tense plans to deal with potential protesters from the Occupy movement.
It's no mystery that the uprising that started in downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Square almost exactly three months ago was inspired in part by the revolution that began in Tahrir Square that began on January 25th.
While the Time's Person of the Year has been distracted protesting the financial industry, the salaries of healthcare CEOs have been skyrocketing.
Other than the venue — a Pabst-slinging bar with a taco truck parked in the backyard called Union Pool — the first general assembly for Occupy Williamsburg looked a lot like any other Occupy meeting.
On Wednesday and Thurday night, Occupy Princeton protesters visited information sessions for J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, respectively.
The latest installment of the Occupy Wall Street protests is an action begun Tuesday called Occupy Our Homes, the centerpiece of which comes as activists plan to move people into foreclosed homes to protest what they say are unfair lending practices by banks.
Now that school-specific Occupy camps have popped up on all eight Ivy League campuses, the expected tension between the students who want to protest Wall Street and the students who want to work there is heating up.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg continued his press tour touting New York City as the place for tech startups in a sit-down with TechCrunch, and he didn't miss the opportunity to brag about how he once dealt with unemployment.
As police slowly converge on the Occupy camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, The New Yorker published what can only be described as a 6,000-word punctuation mark on the outdoor phase movement.
Eviction will bring an end to nation's largest remaining Occupy camp.
Ai Weiwei spent an hour on Tuesday morning — it was Tuesday night in China — answering questions from curious fans and dodging the disappointed comments from one angry hippie in an MSNBC live chat.
The Occupy Harvard protest appears to be entering its second, more serious stage having amassed the support of over 100 faculty members and successfully derailing a Newt Gingrich visit to campus.
Although UC Davis has decided to put its police chief and two pepper-spraying officiers on leave, the school's chancellor says she's not going to budge -- despite silent and not-so-silent calls for her resignation.
Another video of cops spraying seemingly harmless protesters with pepper spray triggers outrage, while a high-powered lobbying firm offers to attack with "negative narratives," for a fee.
On November 10 officials from several cities nationwide held a conference week to compare notes on their respective Occupy protests, but a spokesperson for Portland's mayor insists there's no conspiracy to end the movement.
It's been nearly a week since Harvard guards closed and locked the gates of Harvard Yard to keep the Occupy Harvard encampment for Harvard students only, and now the inconvenience to the entire campus could serve as lesson in solidarity for the national movement.
The comic artist behind Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns unloaded on the Wall Street protesters, and plenty of his fans are firing back.
The Harvard iteration of the Occupy protests is ironically, appropriately, and unwillingly now the most exclusive protest in the country.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker received some unexpected and very vocal visitors during his recent speaking engagement at Chicago's Union League Club.
The organizers at Occupy Wall Street are struggling with a pretty ironic money problem: they have too much of it and there are plenty of people looking to cash in, including cybersquatters.
Plenty of people are comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring and there's now even a catchy name: the American Autumn.
As the name for a protest, the word "Occupy" works okay when you put it in front of "Wall Street," but as it becomes a worldwide political movement, it's pretty iffy.
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