Journalist and Reason contributor Michael Tracey is covering New York’s Occupy Wall Street as it’s happening. Above is footage he shot today (October 14, 2011) as the protesters marched through the street of Manhattan and had various stand-offs with the New York Police Department. Tracey himself reports being punched in the shoulder while filming. In the above video, around the 1.40 mark, a white-shirted… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 14/10/2011 22:01 Number of articles : 2
The term “Day of Rage” truly seems to apply to one particular Occupy Wall Street protester. A video has emerged on the blogosphere depicting the rather agitated fellow screaming into the camera about the “wealthy” on their “f–ing yachts” who have, purportedly, taken over the country. During his minute-plus long rant, the frenzied activist, whose voice cracked and waned in between violent heaves,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 14/10/2011 20:28 Number of articles : 3
Young demonstrators in Zuccotti Park tells MTV News they ‘can’t easily be thrown out of this space.’ By Joel Hanek Photo: Mario Tama/ Getty Images NEW YORK — On a damp Friday morning (October 14), thousands of protesters assembled in the city’s Zuccotti Park let out cheers of elation and relief. They had been facing what seemed to be an imminent confrontation with the New York Police Department after Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited the park on Wednesday evening and announced that a crew would move in to clean the area forcing the temporary eviction of demonstrators . While Occupiers were prepared to resist the mandatory evacuation, in the end, the private company that owns the park decided at the 11th hour to postpone any cleaning efforts. MTV News was on site at Occupy Wall Street in the early dawn hours tracking all of the events as they went down. At about 6 a.m. ET on Friday, organizers conducted a special general assembly of the Occupy Wall Street movement, informing the crowd that committed supporters who chose to stay in the park once the cleaners turned up would likely face arrest by the NYPD. But then, with minutes to go before the expected standoff, an organizer reported that were was “breaking news.” She went on to read a statement off of her iPhone , announced to the crowd, “I have an announcement from Brookfield Properties. I’d like to read a brief statement from Deputy Mayor Halloway: ‘Late last night we received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park, Brookfield Properties, that they are postponing their cleaning.’ ” Supporters erupted into cheers and used designated Occupy sign language to express their approval. Soon, they were chanting “The people united / Will never be defeated.” Aaron Khandros, a student at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University, had traveled to New York City to show his support, knowing well that he might face arrest if he refused to leave the park. “We came out here because we thought that people were going to come out here and try and shut it down, that Bloomberg was using this cleaning thing as an excuse,” he explained. “This seemed like one of our last chances to express our solidarity with this crowd, so we came as quickly as we could.” Emma Francis-Snyder, an organizer with the Occupy Wall Street outreach program, had been on site since 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. Exhausted (but also rather thrilled) by the events of the previous 48 hours, she explained how the group had spent an anxious night. “We’ve relocated a bunch of our materials to a storage space because we weren’t sure what was going to happen,” Francis-Snyder said, citing the experiences of Occupy Denver and Occupy Austin, where movements had been shut down under the pretext of sanitation. In a bid to be proactive, the Wall Street occupiers decided to clean the park themselves. “There was a lot of stress throughout the night just trying to clean,” Francis-Snyder said hours before the postponement was announced. “There were people working endlessly, tirelessly, trying to gather all of our belongings; trying to figure out what to do with them, where to go. It is what it is — whatever’s going to happen, is going to happen.” Although they had prepared for the worst, some demonstrators said the final outcome was not unexpected. “I think I was in shock. I wasn’t entirely surprised because if you come out here, there are at least maybe 2,000 people out here, and I think that the Mayor knows that the whole world is watching,” Senia Barragan, an organizer with Occupy Wall Street’s press committee, told MTV News. “And they know that we’re a serious movement that can’t easily be thrown out of this space. Share your thoughts on the Occupy Wall Street movement in our comments section. Related Videos Inside Occupy Wall Street
[1]WE HEARD IT FROM THREE BLOCKS AWAY. The Observer left North Brooklyn sharing a cab with a neighboring journalist who had also been covering the protests shortly after 5:30 AM. By the time the cab pulled onto Broadway, after a quiet ride into Manhattan, traffic was at a standstill. It was around then we heard the noise, seeping in through rolled-up windows: yelling and shouting in a distant, chaotic… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The New York Observer Discovery Date : 14/10/2011 16:47 Number of articles : 2
Band: Relient K Song: Africa [Toto Cover] Album: K Is For Karaoke (2011) Genres: Pop rock, Pop punk, Alternative rock, Christian rock Record Label: Mono Vs Stereo Album length: 7 tracks Street Date: June 28, 2011 Tracklist: Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) Baby (Justin Bieber) One Headlight (The Wallflowers) You’re The Inspiration (Chicago) The Distance (Cake) Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) Motorcycle Driveby (Third Eye Blind) Doctor Worm (They Might Be Giants) Interstate Love Song (STP) Here Comes My Girl (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) Africa (Toto) Surf Wax America (Weezer) Inside Of Love (Nada Surf) Everybody Wants To Rule the World (Tears for Fears) Luckymann’s Music (HQ) http://www.youtube.com/v/tIw_bVeynWQ?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Read the original: Relient K – Africa [Toto Cover] K Is For Karaoke Album 2011
In the latest issue of Great Britain’s GQ , Kristen Stewart admits that Robert Pattinson is her boyfriend . Exciting? Yes. Controversial? No. But the actress also was asked by the magazine about her experience as a student and gave the following revealing answer, explaining that she was “self-conscious” with her peers due to her acting career – and her teachers made things worse: “They didn’t want to do the extra work or put packages together so I could keep up while away. My teachers failed me. Not one, but all of them. I’m always slightly ashamed in a way about what I do. I’m slightly embarrassed, as I had such serious ambitions when I was younger, I just never imagined that I would ever have a reason not to go to school. But then this happened.” Kristen dropped out and became home-schooled because, she admits, “school became genuinely uncomfortable.” Fortunately, life has turned out okay for the actress. Remember who she’s dating, after all.
As the Occupy Wall Street “movement” rages on, the protesters Herman Cain hates are realizing that their mission is being heavily advertised … why not make like the GOP Presidential hopeful and create a memorable tagline for it? All the marches and sit-ins to protest socioeconomic inequality are being videotaped and photographed so much that it’s become social media phenomenon as much as a political one. Depressing as the subject matter is, these are pretty good. Here are our Top 10 favorite Occupy Wall Street signs, as seen on Twitter:
Alice Walton’s birthday ended with her in jail Friday night. The 62-year-old daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, and one of the 10 richest peeps in the U.S., Alice was arrested by Texas Highway Patrol and charged with DUI after she was nabbed for speeding in a construction zone. Those work zones get you every time. Why not slow down when you see the “fines doubled” sign? Well, guess that doesn’t matter if you have $20 billion … Alice Walton, who refused a breathalyzer test, “was determined to be intoxicated during a field sobriety test,” according to Senior Trooper Gary Rozzell. She was booked into the Parker County Jail after 11 p.m. Friday, reports the local news, and released on $1,000 bond around 8 a.m. on Saturday. Her attorney, Dee J. Kelly, said in a statement: “She was returning home from a birthday dinner with friends at a Fort Worth restaurant. She accepts full responsibility for this unfortunate incident and deeply regrets it.” Two thousand miles away, Occupy Wall Street protesters are cheering. She also might want to use some of that fortune on a haircut. Just saying.
Armani has released three new photos of Megan Fox from its upcoming holiday collection, to which we’d like to say: thank you, Armani! Past ads featuring the actress have focused on her body – we especially recommended THIS VIDEO – as Fox modeled for the company’s lingerie line. But the above pictures take a close look at her face and represent Armani’s new cosmetics campaign, which will hit stores in time to be stuffed into your loved one’s stockings. Speaking of stuffing things into dark places… sorry. Nevermind. We’ll just let you stare at Fox now.
David Boreanaz, star of Bones , cheated on his wife. More than once. He’s not alone there, but is fairly unique in that he not only admitted his infidelity, but claimed in a recent interview that it strengthened his marriage to Jaime Bergman. While he likely meant that the couple is stronger than ever nowadays, it was probably not meant to come off as an endorsement of cheating on her in the first place. That’s why we somehow doubt he accepts the offer of $250,000 put forth by pro-adultery website Ashley Madison to be their new celebrity spokesman. Just a hunch. David Boreanaz is a famous cheater. But don’t expect him to advocate for it . THG NOTE : Rachel Uchitel and David Boreanaz did bone (pardon the expression), but that is not the affair he admitted to last year. That was with an unknown woman he accused of attempting to extort him following his infidelity. The company’s shameless, CEO, Noel Biderman said this: “We feel Mr. Boreanaz would be the perfect fit for our brand as he has given a voice to something we have been saying for years: People enter into affairs to save their marriage.” “Mr. Boreanaz had the courage to admit that.” “The rest of the cheaters in Hollywood – there is no shortage on Ashley Madison, but we are not naming names might also find this kind of confession liberating.” Right. We’re sure that’s exactly what he had in mind.
