Last night New York's support for Boston was evident on a side of a building. Words of support and love for the usually rival city were projected out of a van onto the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. So how did those projections come to be?
Compared to the protests at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Monday's one-year anniversary action in New York's financial district is small, but the arrest count is comparatively high.
September 17 is the one-year anniversary of the first official Occupy Wall Street protests, and to mark the occasion, protesters are getting the band back together.
In case you were worried you would never get to see the documentary Andrew Breitbart made about Occupy Wall Street, you can rest easy: Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner are on the case.
New York City did not fire Anthony Bologna, the police officer who became internet-infamous for pepper spraying protesters in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street protests, but it sure doesn't have his back, either.
Outside New York's Zuccotti Park, the Occupy Wall Street movement's most high profile locale was Oakland, California, where protesters battled police and then shut down the city's port with just a few days' notice.
Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis police officer who became a meme star after he sprayed sitting Occupy protesters with bright orange pepper spray last November, has left the building at long last.
The Dark Knight Rises is ostensibly a fantasy. So why does it feel like one of the most political movies of the summer?
Twelve people were arrested and several others hurt after a clash involving the LAPD, Occupy protesters, and art fans writing chalk messages on sidewalks.
It's not quite Dewey Defeats Truman, but The New York Post may come to regret its "OWS Murder Link" headline now that The New York Times is reporting that a DNA match supposedly linking a 2004 killing to a March protest was the result of a laboratory error.
Police got an odd clue in an unsolved 2004 murder after DNA pulled from the evidence at an Occupy Wall Street protest in March matched DNA from the older, unrelated crime scene.
If you tweet something, you can't consider it private speech even if you later delete it, a New York judge ruled on Monday, denying for the second time a motion to quash a subpoena against an Occupy Wall Street protester arrested last October.
If Occupy Wall Street activists were worried about the Department of Homeland Security monitoring their activities, wait unilt they get a load of this.
In today's Ad Watch: President Obama goes after Mitt Romney's business career, a conservative group makes an Occupy Wall Street argument, and Republicans try to reach young folks.
Twitter joined the battle to keep New York's District Attorney out of Occupy protestor Malcolm Harris's tweets on Thursday in what might be a landmark move.
One thing we did not expect to hear J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon say is that Occupy Wall Street had "legitimate complaints," especially given that he thinks the financial industry gets victimized when it comes to placing blame for the world's problems.
It was a colorful, tiring, largely peaceful day in New York, where Occupy Wall Street and May Day activists had sprawling marches, massive rallies, and a couple scuffles with police, all to protest corporate greed and money in politics.
There are almost too many Occupy-related plans for May 1 in New York, which Occupy hopes will launch its spring resurgence. To keep it all in order, we've put together a map of the locations where you can expect protest actions on the Tuesday,
As Occupy Wall Street plans big, nationwide demonstrations for Tuesday's "general strike," the City of New York is still dealing with the protesters it rounded up in the biggest single Occupy-related mass arrest: The 732 taken into custody on the Brooklyn Bridge last October.
A day that is expected to be filled with anti-establishment protests all around the globe, began early last night with a roving band of "anarchists" smashing car windows and store fronts in San Francisco's Mission District.
Prosecutors don't have to get a warrant to subpoena your tweets, even if you delete them, because they're public information owned by a third party, a New York judge ruled on Monday.
Last week an independent report found all kinds of blame in the U.C. Davis pepper spray incident, from the administration to the police rank and file, but the first real-world casualty is university police chief Annette Spicuzza, who left the force on Wednesday.
We're not here to pass judgment on why you wound up in police custody, but it may happen, and you should know how to comport yourself while getting arrested and once you're in a holding cell.
Working for the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division must be a sweet gig, as they get to travel to places like New Orleans to infiltrate activist groups there.
The family of Trayvon Martin joined thousands of demonstrators, who teamed up with Occupy Wall Street, to march across New York City last night to protest the shooting death of the Florida teenager.
Occupy Wall Street's springtime resurgence is fully underway as the group tried to occupy a second park in New York this week but found itself again pushed out by police late Tuesday night.
An Occupy Wall Street activist accused of elbowing a New York City cop over the weekend walked free on Monday when a judge denied prosecutors' request for $20,000 bail in an apparent rebuke against the police protest crackdown on Saturday.
Protests meant to mark the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street have thrust the movement back into the spotlight, mostly due to one particularly violent and ugly confrontation.
From Zuccotti Park to Indianapolis to Ontario, St. Patrick's Day was marked by arrests and mayhem.
If you were to travel past New York's Zuccotti Park on Thursday evening, it would have looked a bit like it did last fall, as Occupy Wall Street protesters rallied there after six of them reportedly got arrested while protesting Bank of America.
Of the $737,000 or so Occupy Wall Street reports it has raised in donations since its inception nearly six months ago, it's managed to spend or earmark more than $700,000 of that, according to its latest finance report.
Has the leaderless Occupy movement found its perfect non-leader in Rolling Stone's vampire squid-hunting provocateur?
When Andrew Breitbart died last week, he was rumored to be working on some hot stories that would embarrass Barack Obama and the left so badly some suggested darkly that the right-wing muckraker might have been assassinated.
Occupy Wall Street activists are up in arms over a new report describing Homeland Security officials monitoring Occupy demonstrations, but a closer look reveals much ado about nothing.
Occupy Wall Street is shaking its dust off with a march and series of rallies in Manhattan and elsewhere Wednesday and so far one person's been arrested.
It was just like old times at Zuccotti Park on Tuesday night, as protesters marched to the tiny downtown Manhattan square with their sleeping bags and police rolled out the paddy wagons.
Occupy Wall Street is going on a press offensive to correct a round of stories on Wednesday that reported it was planning a national assembly for the summer, the latest example of the decentralized movement seeing its name used in ways its founders don't support.
The next major action planned by Occupy Wall Street is a nationwide general strike set for May 1, and to promote it they've started producing a lot of great-looking works of propaganda that largely downplay the involvement of Occupy itself.
The formation of an Occupy Wall Street super PAC by an activist in Decatur, Alabama is sparking a backlash from the movement's organizers in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
Embracing Occupy Wall Street means embracing the language of the 99 percent—even when you're filing for a super PAC.
Occupy protesters interrupted a Rick Santorum campaign speech in Tacoma on Monday night, but unlike previous "mic-check" shout-downs, police didn't remove or quiet the protesters, forcing Santorum to shout over them for most of his speech.
After the weekend's crackdown on camping at Occupy D.C., the final high-profile Occupy encampment in the country has been reduced to a tiny collection of tents.
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.
After a pre-dawn raid, Occupy D.C.'s McPherson Square encampment is no more.
Malcolm Harris, a 23-year-old writer and editor, was informed by Twitter early this week that his account had been subpoenaed by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. He's concerned about law enforcement's reach into the newfangled social platform and is seeking to quash the subpoena, calling out, among other things, the method by which it was delivered.
New York Police officers continue to interfere with photographers and reporters trying to cover news, and a New York Times photographer who was prevented from shooting an arrest at an Occupy Wall Street rally last weekend said police had reason to hide their actions from the press.
One of the ways Occupy Wall Street has spread its message so broadly is through live streaming video, but after a well-known live-stream operator got accosted on Sunday, it's starting to look like some Occupy protesters are becoming pretty touchy about who controls that live feed.
Whatever you think of the two Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who became famous for getting pepper sprayed and beaten by police, you have to admit their lawyer is pretty funny.
After a violent and ugly battle at Occupy Oakland this weekend, the Occupy D.C. protest is bracing for a fight today when a noon deadline to evacuate two Washington parks expires.
Occupy D.C. is one of the last major Occupy encampments left, and now its last stand has been scheduled.
Occupy Wall Street protesters get arrested a lot, and for many different charges. Sometimes those charges are just plain silly.
Have a story we missed? A link we have to click? A sharp opinion about the news? Instead of waiting for us to post it, tell us on the Open Wire.
Submit your news and ideas | See all reader postsThe Atlantic Wire is your authoritative guide to the news and ideas that matter most right now. Our team tracks newsmakers and opinions across the entire media spectrum: newspapers, web sites, television, radio and magazines.
But we do more than just collect information. By synthesizing, analyzing and summarizing what’s out there, and adding new information when we can, we are a news engine that gives you a quick and valuable account of the issues of the day.
Have a hot tip? A story we missed? Tell us on the Open Wire
How to send us editorial or technical feedback
Get Five Best Columns in your inbox each morning (preview)
