Projects tagged "Occupy Wall Street"

OWS Subway Storytelling
Practitioner:
OWS, Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Nov 17 2011
In the Fall of 2011, after the Occupy Movement was in full swing, and meetings, actions and info sharing had expanded beyond Zuccotti Park, meaningful messaging and outreach tactics were were activated on a near daily basis.
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Why Occupy Should Be the Left's Tea Party
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
May 2 2012
By Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones May Day was a success, but Occupy needs to rethink itself if it wants to change America.
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Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti Park
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Dec 5 2012
By Rebecca Davis and Meena Hart Duerson Those who believed the Occupy Wall Street movement was all but dead after its dramatic removal from Zuccotti Park last fall may have been surprised to see the group pop up again in the days after Hurricane Sandy. But this time, they weren’t organizing protests – they were calling on their large network to come to the aid of those hit hardest by the storm.
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Singing to Disrupt Housing Auction
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Apr 17 2012
Demonstrators aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement sang their way into handcuffs during a Bronx foreclosure auction Monday to protest the housing crisis that continues to plague the borough. They serenaded a courtroom of real estate investors with the lyrics, "Y'all are speculating off people's pain. With all due respect, you should be ashamed."
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"Superheros" Occupy the NYC Halloween Parade
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street, Occupy
Date:
Oct 31 2011
No matter how nuanced current superhero comics may be, to the general public they are still fairly simple. Superheroes are the good guys, supervillians are the bad guys, and it’s easy to see who is who. That’s why kids like to dress up as superheroes on Halloween — and why should they have all the fun?
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Guerrilla gardening?
Practitioner:
Artists Agnes Dene, Alan Sonfist, Rufus Chaney, Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Nov 30 1959
Plants growing through urban cracks and concrete remind us of the power of nature. Whether its a tree or a blade of grass pushing its way through cement, an underlying chaos( or natural order) lives just beneath the surface of physical and mental organizational structures created by man.
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Free Subway Ride
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Mar 28 2012
Wednesday's Free Subway Ride? That Was Occupy Wall Street
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Mar 12 2012
A crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. "Bank of America took our homes so we though we'dmove in here!"  
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