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Voice of the Youth: Cute Gay Joey Occupies Wall Street

Posted on November 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Joey, 19, is from Brooklyn and is an art student at Pratt. He spoke to the We Are the Youth project about his new hobby: “I’ve been going down to Zuccotti Park at least once a week. My friends and I go there and yell so loud and so much that I’ve been losing my voice a lot. I’m trying to get other people active and not feel apathetic toward it. I’ve been beating myself up a little bit for not going more, but midterms happen…” Don’t beat yourself up, Joey! That’s the job of the riot police. More from Joey here.

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WTF? Hot Cops take down Cute Students at Occupy Cal: Slide Show and Mini-Rant

Posted on November 13, 2011 by | 2 comments

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To protect and to serve: noble ideals. Is this what anyone is hoping for when they apply to the police academy? The police are no more elite than the students. Pawns against pawns: the new kings can afford to watch this like a play. The nearby city of Oakland, including its small businesses, takes the bulk of an assault intended for corporations well insulated from the occupations on the streets. For a statement from the Oakland Police Officers Association expressing their frustration with a ridiculous situation, click here. For updates from The Daily Californian, here.

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Posted in Activism, Berkeley, History, Military, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Youth

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Tax the 1% – Giant Human Billboard on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach!

Posted on November 3, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Cab driver Brad Newsham organized hundreds of cohorts into a Giant Human Billboard Saturday, October 29th, on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Newsham said: “I work hard every day. It isn’t right that I pay higher taxes than billionaires like Warren Buffet. And actually, Mr. Buffet agrees with me on this.”

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Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.

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Happy Fuckin’ Halloween! New Cali Manga from JoJo Mendoco

Posted on October 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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#Occupy Museums! Activist Artists to protest at MoMA, Frick and New…

Posted on October 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A demonstrator lies on the ground in front of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington on Oct. 8 after police pepper-sprayed protestors trying to get into the museum. (Jose Luis Magana - AP)

The artists of the Occupy Movement are heading to New York’s cultural institutions this evening. The activist artists state: “The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite.” MoMA, the Frick and the New Museum are all expecting demonstrators. For the Washington Post article, click here. For signs o’ the times, here. And for sexy revolutionaries, here and here.

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Posted in Activism, Collecting, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, New York, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures

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What would Jesus Occupy?

Posted on October 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Signs o’ the Times: #Occupy Movement Signage Slideshow #OWS

Posted on October 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one!” Some of the best signs of this movement are hand-painted. And desktop designers and pros alike are busy producing sharp propaganda. This is a networked, global movement, with hundreds of local hubs and new websites launching daily. The Occupy Together site offers free posters for download. Designers may also upload their own work for others to use in regional protests.

For naked artists occupying Wall Street in advance of the current occupation, click here. For a statement from the de facto HQ, and a simpatico marine, here. For the Walmart bleacher, who may or may not be an activist, here. And for slide shows of sexy revolutionaries, here and here.

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Posted in Activism, Comics, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, Human Rights, Internet, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures, WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!

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A Global, Legitimate and very Sexy Threat: BIG Revolutionary Slide Show!

Posted on October 24, 2011 by | 1 comment

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The International Business Times has called the Occupy Movement “global in nature” and a “legitimate threat.” It is that. It is also a feast of photography, and the first world-wide movement supported by the new communication technologies that fueled the Arab Spring. Gil Scott Heron was right. The revolution will not be televised. But…it will be tweeted. Photos from Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Denver, Durban, Hong Kong, London, New York, Rome, Taipei, Tokyo, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney and Vancouver.

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#OccupyMordor, porque no podemos permitir que haya un anillo único para gobernarnos a todos

Posted on October 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Occupy Mordor! “Because One Ring Should Not Be Allowed to Rule Them All.” via Juventud Sin Futura – and friend of this site Guo-Juin Hong.

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#OWS comes to small college towns: #OccupyCarbondale and #OccupyArcata

Posted on October 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Photo via Occupy Carbondale

The Occupy Wall Street movement is spreading globally and regionally. Small college towns across the United States demonstrate contrasting responses. Protesters in Carbondale, Illinois have been huddling under a model of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome on the campus of Southern Illinois University. Campus police are considering removing the dome. According to Freshman Derrick Burns: “We had about 20 tents set up. Now look – zero, it’s a shame.” Read more and see video here.

"2:40 and still no police" Photo via Occupy Arcata

Meantime in Arcata, California, home of Humboldt State University, 20 days into a camp-out, there have been some individual arrests, but the protests enjoy wide community support and the City Council is meeting to discuss installation of portable toilets and other amenities at the encampment.

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Posted in Activism, Crime, DIY and Maker Culture, History, Human Rights, Northern California, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Scholarship, Southern Illinois

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