Waiting to show their support were a handful of Occupy Wall Streeters doing performance art trying to get their message out to the Pope to address the crimes of Wall Street bankers who have gone unpunished and unprosecuted
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Cat Watters is a journalist, blogger, videographer, photographer and radio host on Peoples Internet Radio. She is an expert at photographing, filming and editing footage of street protests, street actions, political rallies, and other events. Cat writes for Democracy Chronicles from Brooklyn, New York and you can tune in to her radio show at Peoples Internet Radio every Tuesday from 6 to 8pm EST.
Occupy Peace in Kingston, New York With Ralph Nader
Nader held up a flier of the Friends of Peace Pilgrim, Mildred Lisette Norman, who walked all over the country more than once, slept on people’s cots who now has people all over the country supporting her. She was killed by a car that hit her on the highway.
On the Fourth Occupy Wall Street Anniversary
The Occupy Wall Street Movement isn’t dead afterall. As dusk approached at least 500 people convened at the original birthplace of Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Park, also known as Zuccotti Park.
Which Side Are you On?
Nkosi Anderson moderated Thursday evening’s event at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem for the upcoming #RiseUpOctober ‘Which Side Are You On?’ mass march against police murder where the guest speakers were Dr. Cornel West and Carl Dix
Sherry Peel Jackson on America: Freedom to Fascism
Organic News with Cat Watters interviews former IRS Agent and whistleblower Sherry Peel Jackson who spent three years in federal prison for her public stand against the Internal Revenue Service.
Janelle Monae Join Wondaland to Stop Mass Incarceration
Janelle Monae, Jidenna and the crew from Wondaland showed up to support Stop Mass Incarceration and Stolen Lives at Times Square today in support of the Ferguson uprisings one year after the killing of Michael Brown
Support Indiegogo Fundraising For Grassroots Journalism
I have become convinced that crowdfunding can serve to create the necessary independent media that is needed to balance a poisonous equation. It is up to We the People to take back our country.
Police Riot of 88′ at Tompkins Square Park
Amidst the amplified screams coming from the microphone of one of the Thrash bands that played at the weekend memorial to remember the Tompkins Square park Police Riots between police and “skinheads” back in 1988, where a group of homeless youth took over the park
No Human Trafficking Cover Up For TPP Trade Deal
Human rights group are outraged by the State Department upgrade of Malaysia which comes just two months after the discovery of human trafficking camps and mass graves of trafficked persons
Activist Who Filmed Eric Garner Video Back in Court
Another day in Staten Island Supreme Court yesterday for Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the viral video of the chokehold death of Eric Garner last July 17th.