WILMINGTON — Dr. Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination for president, stopped at Wilmington’s Spencer Plaza Thursday and met with a crowd of about 20 people — mostly Occupy Delaware protesters. “There is a rising up, a welling up if you will, of democracy and justices all over this country right now, […]
Originally Posted: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/17/us-marine-stands-up-to-the-nypd-at-occupy-wall-street-protests/ This weekend, United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY faced down over a dozen NYPD officers and gave them hell about their brutality that has been plaguing the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. The 24-year-old Marine veteran (2 tours in Iraq) confronted the officers and lectured them about the tactics […]
Reposted from: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/14/2011-10-14_occupy_wall_street_protester_suckerpunched_by_nypd_cop_speaks_out_he_just_lunged.html#ixzz1b0tGu1fz The Occupy Wall Street demonstrator who was videotaped being punched by a police officer during a protest march Friday has lawyered up. Felix Rivera-Pitre, who escaped after he was slugged in the face, has not yet been charged with a crime. And his lawyer, Ronald Kuby, wants to keep it that way. “On […]
Former Gov. Jesse Ventura dropped by Minneapolis to support ‘Occupy’ protesters. Ventura pointed out that the face of the movement cannot be dictated by Democrats or Republicans because both parties were “bought and paid for” — and that he never took a dime in corporate money to get elected.
Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Foxnews.com (as of this writing) has no coverage of this national event on their front page stories. (Hard to imagine for a network that was so gung-ho about the Tea Party!) […]