The day of Hurricane Sandy I was volunteering with Occupy Sandy and the Hartsdale Fire Department in Staten Island. We came to help out those who were affected by one of the worse storms on record.
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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.
21st National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality
October 22nd is a day that people around the nation have mobilized every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
Rally for Greening Revolution with Jill Stein and Amaju Baraka
A few hundred people showed up last night to hear Dr. Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka at an event at Hostos College in the Bronx to learn more about the progressive Green Party platform.
PHOTOS: Occupy Farms Standing with Standing Rock
With it’s roots firmly grounded in activism, sustainability, agriculture, building networks, spirituality, philosophy and radical pacifism, Arc 38 strives to embody a living experiment in community building
America Divided at NYU’s Tishman Hall
Zach Galifianakis travels back to his home state to investigate how North Carolina has become a bellwether for how the money of a few has come to dominate our democracy
PHOTOS: Green Party Supporters Calling For Open Debates
Before the start of the debate on Monday night, supporters for the Green Party candidate Jill Stein came out to Hofstra to call for open debates
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
This real life detective story is told in a film noir style with cartoon animations, secret documents, hidden cameras, and a little help from Law and Order detectives Ice-T and Richard Belzer, plus Willie Nelson
PHOTOS: Activist NYPD Officer Edwin Raymond Promoted to Sergeant
The auditorium at 1 Police Plaza was bustling yesterday as the promotional ceremony was getting underway for hundreds of officers being promoted to Detective and Sergeant including NYPD reformer Edwin Raymond
PHOTOS: Black Lives Matter Philly March at DNC
African Americans, Caucasian, Asians, Palestinians, people of all ethnicities, backgrounds and ages came out to show support for what has been happening to mostly young black males who have been gunned down by police
The Eric Garner Chokehold Two Years Later
Demonstrators from Stop Mass Incarceration and the Green Party came to Staten Island yesterday for the 2nd anniversary of the killing of Eric Garner by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo