By Kate Linthicum Chattanooga Times Free Press LOS ANGELES — Many Occupy L.A. protesters arrested during demonstrations in recent months are being offered a unique chance to avoid court trials: pay $355 to a private company for a lesson in free speech. Los Angeles Chief Deputy City Attorney William Carter…
Occupy Assange: Corrupt banks, corrupt money [London,RT]
The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, attended the protests in London that are part of a worldwide action against corporate greed and austerity measures. Assange said that he was there to show his solidarity with the Occupy London movement, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in the…
NYU’s Occupy Wall Street class: The wisecracks
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‘Operation Robin Hood’: The hacker scheme to fund Occupy
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Video: Police shoot man with assault rifle near Occupy protest
By PoliceOne Staff Recently-released video captured the shooting of a man wielding an assault rifle near a Houston Occupy protest in a downtown park last week. 21-year-old Joshua Anthony Twohig fired off several shots inside Tranquility Park on November 21. After several attempts to get Twohig to drop his rifle,…
Philly calm but 4 arrested in LA after Occupy deadlines
Author: Lt. Dan Marcou By Andrew Dalton and Geoff Mulvihill Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Deadlines for Wall Street protesters to leave their encampments came and went in two cities with no arrests in Philadelphia but four people taken into custody in Los Angeles several hours after the midnight deadline…
Occupy camps celebrate Thanksgiving holiday
The Annapolis Capital SAN FRANCISCO — Anti-Wall Street demonstrators in encampments around the country spent Thanksgiving serving turkey, donating time in solidarity with the protest movement and, in some cases, confronting police. In San Francisco, 400 occupiers at a plaza in the financial district were served traditional Thanksgiving fixings sent…
Occupy LA stands out for camp-city cooperation
By Christina Hoag Associated Press LOS ANGELES — When Occupy LA demonstrators recently proclaimed a downtown intersection "our street," police watched as annoyed drivers honked horns and tried to maneuver around gyrating protesters. Officers only moved in after the third intersection takeover _ telling protesters they had to quit or…
Hackers threaten Fox News over Occupy Wall Street coverage
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Anonymous, a group of hackers that has previously attacked Sony and Bay Area Rapid Transit, said it will shut down the Fox News website on November 5. View full post on lulzsec hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
NY man arrested at Occupy Maine encampment
Ryan McLaughlin Bangor Daily News PORTLAND, Maine — A New York man who had outstanding warrants out of that state was arrested over the weekend at the OccupyMaine encampment at Lincoln Park, police said Tuesday. Robert Fecu, 26, of Brooklyn is currently being held at the Cumberland County Jail on…
