Moviehole
Q: What do you think of Occupy Wall Street, would you protest yourself and how would you react if your money was taken by somebody else? Brett Ratner: We did not plan Occupy Wall Street. When Eddie came up with this idea, there wasn’t any financial…
http://www.moviehole.net/201253916ben-stiller-eddie-murphy-brett-ratner-brian-grazer
Irish Times
Earlier today, the Occupy Dame Street movement today said it would continue to stand by the couple, describing them as the “poster boys and girls of the boom times”. Activists said they would go to the Kelly’s home in St Matthias Wood, Killiney…
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0420/breaking12.html
Death and Taxes
By DJ Pangburn 11 hours ago On May 1 (May Day), or the International Worker’s Day holiday, Occupy Wall Street will stage a general strike. Oddly, though, union workers suffer under the yolk of a piece of 1947 GOP legislation called the Taft-Hartley Act…
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/182013/striking-for-dummies-how-to-skip-work-to-join-occupy-wall-streets-may-1-general-strike/
Washington Post (blog)
At a time when Americans owe more on student loans than on credit cards — student debt is topping $1 trillion for the first time — and the Occupy movement has highlighted the rising furor over spiraling student debt, the issue has moved higher on the…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-mcconnell-to-house-dont-shut-down-the-government/2012/04/20/gIQA4BdHVT_blog.html
Metro.us
Metal barricades now line the steps of Federal Hall and the street in front of the building. Protesters estimate at least ten people were arrested as Occupy Wall Street continued its daily presence on the steps of Federal Hall, though police did not …
http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/1140977–nypd-makes-more-arrests-as-ows-continues-to-occupy-federal-hall-steps
More than 100 Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protesters invaded a courtroom inside the Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday afternoon in an effort to disrupt foreclosure auctions, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Police arrested a total of 37 people…
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement will join this Friday in Washington DC the campaign for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly serving sentences in the United States. Alicia Jrapko, US Coordinator of the International…
The University of California has replaced a campus police chief who resigned over her role in the pepper-spraying last fall of peacefully protesting students allied with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Spokesman for the movement denies any connection to the posting of the image on a page claiming to be affiliated with Tampa’s Occupy Wall Street chapter. By Haaretz Tags: Jewish World anti-Semitism A spokesman for the Occupy Tampa movement denied any …
Ology
Points to you if you remember what the initial protest was about — tuition hikes in the UC system, which are admittedly horrendous — as this protest, like so many other Occupy Wall Street-related events, eventually became about itself.
http://ology.com/post/71343/occupy-wall-street-and-the-problem-of-the-police-chief