NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Occupy Wall Street and other housing activists are heading to neighborhoods hit hard by foreclosure Tuesday to protest the mistreatment of homeowners by mortgage lenders. Occupy Our Homes said it has scheduled a day of protests, with events scheduled in 25 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities. Among the actions expected to...
In a press release issued on November 15, the PEN American Center deplored the violation of press freedoms in connection with the Occupy Wall Street protests. Journalists (including reporters from news outlets including CNBC, NBC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters) were barred from streets in lower Manhattan surrounding Zuccotti Park, where hundreds of police in riot gear descended...
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Follow live updates on the Occupy movement across the US here. 10am:[1] Occupy Wall Street protesters are taking part in an “11-mile neighbourhood march” this morning, walking from Washington Heights in north Manhattan to the OWS base of Zuccotti Park. Demonstrators say the march will “connect New York’s communities with the Occupy Wall Street Movement”. Local elected officials and community...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Contact: Lacy MacAuley, Institute for Policy Studies; (202) 445-4692 mobile; lacy@ips-dc.org Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies; (617) 308-4433; chuckcollins7@mac.com[1][2] Wealthy People Show Support for Protests with new website: “We are the 1 percent. We stand with the 99 percent.” Washington DC – Resource Generation and Wealth for Common Good today announced...
