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?
The Republican Party won't be the only group trying to contrast its message with President Obama's State of the Union address tonight: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street want their say, too.
The National Park Service may begin arresting Occupy D.C. protesters. After a panel of House lawmakers pressed the agency to take action on Tuesday, National Park Police could soon crack down on those violating a law against camping.
It always did seem a little out of character for Occupy Wall Street to have an office space, especially one in the Financial District with a receptionist at the front desk and an express elevator, but now after a complaint about people illegally sleeping in the space, the protesters are packing up.
Remember how the guy who owns the WikiLeaks truck was going to sell it and use the money to start building a whole fleet of WikiLeaks vehicles? Well, the eBay sale ended last week and all the bidders backed out at the last minute, so that never happened.
National Park Police will have a much harder time forcing out protesters camped in McPherson Square now that activists attracted by Tuesday's big rally have swelled the encampment's ranks.
After an earlier standoff with police, Occupy protesters have taken their demonstration inside the House of Representatives office buildings, where they tried to reach representatives directly, with varying success.
Occupy Wall Street's money troubles are taking their toll on the group's activity, as it voted on Saturday to stop funding any new projects from its dwindling supply of donated funds, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray wants one of the city's two Occupy encampments to leave, but while he's got no problem with another nearby, the campers themselves don't really want to mingle.
Political attacks on Mitt Romney and his old day job have divided the normally pro-business Republican Party and are giving most Americans their first look at the mysterious world of private equity.
Donations to Occupy Wall Street have nearly dried up, and even as it's spent the majority of money it's raised, an accounting volunteer said there are no fundraising plans aside from just going about the business of being Occupy Wall Street.
Before Occupy Wall Street protesters started sleeping in Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, launching the movement that became one of the biggest stories of 2011, it was a forgotten little downtown park. And, even though it's been "re-occupied," it feels that way again.
Protesters surged into Zuccotti Park Tuesday night shortly after its owner, Brookfield Office Properties, quietly removed barriers that had been restricting access since police removed the encampment there in November.
Conservatives are shocked that several of their top presidential candidates are sounding like Occupy Wall Street protesters, attacking Mitt Romney for his experience as a millionaire investor who sometimes had to fire people -- you know, a job creator.
First the producers of Occupy Wall Street's livestream team got arrested, and now a nasty feud over money and work ethic among the producers of The Other 99 has spilled over into the public sphere. It's been one hell of a week to broadcast the revolution.
Some of the six people arrested on Tuesday for violating a New York City order to vacate a building where the Global Revolution live stream is produced actually live there and won't be able to return once they're released from jail, which is expected sometime Wednesday afternoon.
Americans Occupiers in Zuccotti Park made famous phrases like "the 1 percent" to protest wealth disparity within the U.S. -- but the rest of the world can throw that term right back at us.
Occupy Wall Street protesters have ended their day of marching against the National Defense Authorization Act at Grand Central station in New York City, where, according to one reporter, police began making arrests even before their scheduled 5 p.m. "action."
Occupy Wall Street is in the middle of one of its day-long marches in New York Tuesday, protesting the National Defense Authorization Act, but for those following along on the Global Revolution livestream, the real action is happening in the broadcast studio itself.
Zuccotti Park is once again open to the public, days after police closed it on New Years Eve in response to an Occupy Wall Street demonstration there, so feel free to head downtown because, hey, it's a balmy 24 degrees in New York City right now.
Aside from the field of blue-tarp-covered tents and the People's Library, one of the most iconic images of Occupy Wall Street's Zuccotti Park encampment was the WikiLeaks truck that kept a near-constant vigil across the street. Now the truck's up for auction.
On New Year's Eve, demonstrators briefly removed the police barricades surrounding Zuccotti Park, but since the cops re-assumed control of the space it's been completely closed to the public.
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.
The annual parade of gigantic floats made out of flowers just got underway in Pasadena, and this year's Tournament of Roses has an added contingent from the Occupy movement tagging along at its tail, as well an extra audience of occupiers watching from home.
New Year's Eve is usually celebrated with drinks, chinese food, noise makers and confetti and sealed with a kiss at midnight, but some celebrate differently, like by kissing Lady Gaga, clashing with cops, burning cars in Hollywood and stripping on CNN. Welcome to 2012.
A long-shot Democratic Senate candidate hoping to unseat New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is courting the Occupy Wall Street vote, saying he embodies the movement's politics and will consult with its members daily.
New York City can be a real grinch sometimes, especially if you're a protest movement with a history of antagonizing the authorities.
The latest Occupy Wall Street encampment to fall to a city police force was in Denver overnight, where retreating protesters left cops a set of burning shelters to deal with as they made their way out of the camp.
The retired archbishop said Trinity Church should work with protesters now camping on its vacant lot. Then he clarified: protesters shouldn't break the law, either.
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.
Egypt's three-week long sit in against military rule, known as "Occupy Cabinet" is taking a terrifying turn as the ruling military junta has resorted to throwing rocks and using violence against this set of "Occupiers".
The New York Times sent the New York Police Department an e-mail this week saying they weren't happy about the NYPD's treatment of one of their photographers, and the NYPD has responded, though not to everyone's satisfaction
Back in October, protesters arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge and other early Occupy Wall Street marches promised to clog up Manhattan's court system rather than take any kind of deal if their charges weren't fully dismissed, but only 40 percent are sticking to that plan.
Writer and editor Malcolm Harris has taken to Gawker to out himself as the man responsible for starting a false rumor this September that Radiohead would be playing a concert at Occupy Wall Street, and he's got some shady excuses for why he did it.
Occupy Wall Street has never made an official demand, nor has it worked directly with politicians, but this week a group of organizers from New York agreed to meet with members of congress about legislation, before canceling the meeting at the last minute lest they offend the consensus-driven movement.
Cartoonist Ben Sargent on America's missing middle class.
This Saturday will be the one-month anniversary of the massive protest that followed Occupy Wall Street's eviction from Zuccotti Park (and the four-month mark since Occupy Wall Street began), and to mark it the protesters plan to occupy another space in Lower Manhattan.
After a morning of protests that focused on a goofy new tactic called squidding, a second Occupy Wall Street action turned tense as police confronted protesters and journalists -- including a New York Times photographer taped in a back-and-forth with a stubborn cop.
One of the reasons Occupy Wall Street has been so notable is the movement's often outrageous creativity in coming up with protest tactics, and their latest one is one of the strangest and most specific.
Protesters who said they wanted to shut down ports along the West Coast Monday appear to be getting traction in Oakland, Portland, and Long Beach, where they've blocked access roads and stopped trucks from making deliveries.
Occupy Wall Street supporters from San Diego to Anchorage are planning a "West Coast Blockade" on Monday, hoping to shut down the nation's major ports with massive protest marches.
In nine months, the Democratic National Convention will get underway in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in this time of active street-level politics associated with Occupy Wall Street, the city's already working on a plan to control unrest by essentially outlawing occupying.
There are a lot of layers of meta to last night's "occupation" of a Law and Order set depicting Occupy Wall Street, but somewhere in there a few members of the so-called 99 percent are pretty seriously put out that protesters disrupted a crew of workers just trying to make a living
There was supposed to be a police crackdown at Occupy Boston overnight, but instead the protest site turned into a very literal love fest when a couple got married there as protesters stood down cops.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that police didn't stop journalists from covering the Nov. 15 clearing of Zuccotti Park: "We didn't keep anybody from reporting, you just had to stand to the side."
A fake "Zuccotti Park" camp built for an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU quickly became the target for the real Occupy Wall Street protesters who moved in to claim the tents as their own on Thursday night.
It's pretty well-established that Occupy Wall Street is no fan of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, but after one Occupy-friendly videographer test-flew a video-capturing drone he hopes to use to film protests, it looks like they've got something very specific in common.
Just after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, San Francisco police stormed a downtown Occupy Wall Street encampment, using tactics that have begun to sound commonplace after New York police used them on occupiers in Zuccotti Park.
Police officers in Denver used a sock puppet Twitter account to harass Occupy Wall Street protesters, calling them "idiots."
As winter sets in for real in much of the country it seems each weekend brings news of a new crackdown on a different Occupy encampment, but a few are holding fast.
At an Occupy Wall Street protest of President Barack Obama's fundraiser in New York on Wednesday, members of the press say police kept them out of an area cordoned off for protesters, in conflict with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's recent directive that cops not interfere with media.
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