The FBI Treated Occupy Like a Terrorist Group
Now that it's been over a year since the Occupy movement swept across the country, FOIA requests are being fulfilled, revealing uncomfortable details about how authorities viewed the protestors.
Fans of justice will be glad to hear that New York City will pay for all those books and all that media equipment that the police trashed when it famously raided the Occupy Wall Street camp on November 15, 2011
Now that it's been over a year since the Occupy movement swept across the country, FOIA requests are being fulfilled, revealing uncomfortable details about how authorities viewed the protestors.
Hold on to your riot gear, ladies and gentlemen, because police in New York City are saying that Occupy Wall Street activists deserve credit for helping keep the city safe after Hurricane Sandy.
Jay-Z has drawn the ire of Occupiers yet again. But this time, the 99 percent will take their beef with the rap mogul to the Barclays Center, turf he partially owns.
As far as protester arrests go, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte already has last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa beat.
The New York Post has never been a fan of Occupy Wall Street, but the relish with which they tear at Occupy's reemergence on the scene with yesterday's May Day protests is fairly epic—even by Post standards.
After getting pummeled by market forces for the better part of last year, the lights are starting to flicker back on at Bank of America.
President Obama and his administration have decided to move the G8 summit from the Windy City to Camp David, that wooded retreat in Maryland.
Politco's Dylan Byers introduces us to 29-year-old Nathan Kleinman, a veteran of Occupy Philadelphia who's challenging Allyson Schwartz, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania's 13th district, for her seat in the House of Representatives.
An unknown person appeared to throw some kind of smoke bomb over the White House fence last night during a demonstration by Occupy protestors outside the main gates.
Rachel Maddow's blog team predicted this would happen way back on Halloween day, but Occupy is finally getting igloos.
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.
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Five protesters just got the eat-the-sidewalk-while-we-cuff-you treatment from arresting officers outside of Ron Paul's Iowa campaign headquarters.
A year ago, few people had heard of Anonymous, understood what a DDoS attack was, or even realized that hackers were capable of bringing down entire networks.
News that GE Capital is getting into the retail banking business by purchasing an online bank from MetLife not only shocked analysts; it shocked the market.
Bloomberg Businessweek is getting a lot mileage out of its recent report on what the 1 Percent -- it mostly quotes just the millionaires and billionaires -- is saying about the protesters standing up for the interests of the 99 Percent.
In response to Amazon's price check application, retailers have responded, creating an "Occupy Amazon" movement that unfortunately for them, doesn't help their cause.
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