Occupy Wall Street

Here's your Occupy Wall Street spring preview
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Here's your Occupy Wall Street spring preview

Warmer weather doesn't only mean the return of the romper — it's also bring that other sexy back. And which sexy is that? Why, the… Rachel Krantz   |   03.23.2012   |   Comments (9)
Study: Rich people are greedy, value cheating as a virtue
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Study: Rich people are greedy, value cheating as a virtue

UC Berkeley recently did a study that found rich people are more likely to "commit unethical acts because they are motivated by greed."… Sean Morrow   |   02.28.2012   |   Comments (7)
Links: Have you been stalking your ex's Pandora?
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Links: Have you been stalking your ex's Pandora?

The Frisky's Jennifer Garam offers guidance to anyone who's ever realized that they've replaced book-reading with… Moze Halperin   |   02.17.2012   |   Comments (0)
Watch cops arrest activists protesting NDAA in Grand Central Terminal
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Watch cops arrest activists protesting NDAA in Grand Central Terminal

President Obama's New Year's Eve signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the military spending bill that flouts our… Jeff Mills   |   01.4.2012   |   Comments (8)
Occupy Movement now building its own Facebook
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Occupy Movement now building its own Facebook

Looks like Facebook will be getting some scrappy up-start competition from the members of the Occupy Movement. Even though many of the various… James Brady Ryan   |   12.29.2011   |   Comments (0)
Smithsonian, New York Historical Society collecting materials from Occupy Wall Street
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Smithsonian, New York Historical Society collecting materials from Occupy Wall Street

As the home of the Star-Spangled Banner, the Apollo lunar landing module, and Henry "The Fonz" Winkler's leather jacket, the… EJ Dickson   |   12.26.2011   |   Comments (4)
"We are the 99 percent" is Yale's quote of the year
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"We are the 99 percent" is Yale's quote of the year

Yale University has taken a break from assembling its smoking jacket-and-pricey-scotch alumni packages to bring us the top quotes of 2011. Occupy… Kristin Hunt   |   12.18.2011   |   Comments (7)
Hollywood photographer does a UC Davis themed photo shoot
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Hollywood photographer does a UC Davis themed photo shoot

The Hollywood photographer who conceived Mischa Barton with raw meat on her face, Lindsay Lohan the blood-gorged starlet, and the… Delia Pless   |   12.16.2011   |   Comments (2)
Occupy Wall Street has opened a Williamsburg branch
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Occupy Wall Street has opened a Williamsburg branch

Occupy Wall Street hasn't been blowing up so much lately, but that's all about to change. Troubled by dwindling numbers and pesky court… Delia Pless   |   12.14.2011   |   Comments (10)
<em>Time</em>'s 2011 Person of the Year is "The Protester"
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Time's 2011 Person of the Year is "The Protester"

Joining an illustrious list that includes both You and Hitler, "the Protester" has been chosen as Time's 2011 Person of the… James Brady Ryan   |   12.14.2011   |   Comments (1)
Occupy Wall Street protesters shut down filming on <em>Law & Order: SVU</em> episode about them
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Occupy Wall Street protesters shut down filming on Law & Order: SVU episode about them

Some would argue that there's no greater honor than having your life depicted in an episode of Law and Order: SVU, but Occupy Wall Street… Virginia Smith   |   12.9.2011   |   Comments (6)
<em>Watchmen</em> creator Alan Moore takes on <em>Sin City</em>'s Frank Miller RE: Occupy
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Watchmen creator Alan Moore takes on Sin City's Frank Miller RE: Occupy

While there are plenty of brilliant writers and artists currently working in the world of graphic novels and comic books, two titans stand… Rick Paulas   |   12.5.2011   |   Comments (23)
Three arrested in Occupy Wall Street hunger strike, as movements lose steam
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Three arrested in Occupy Wall Street hunger strike, as movements lose steam

While Friday's Occupy Broadway was a decidedly lively event, things were a little more somber for three Occupy Wall Street protesters engaged… Jeff Mills   |   12.5.2011   |   Comments (8)
Occupy LA encampment not exactly evicted yet
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Occupy LA encampment not exactly evicted yet

Perhaps taking a cue from the media debacle that hit Mayor Bloomberg after NYPD used the cover of darkness to raid the Occupy Wall Street… Rick Paulas   |   11.28.2011   |   Comments (1)
Dog-upy Portland combines Occupy Wall Street, Portland, dogs
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Dog-upy Portland combines Occupy Wall Street, Portland, dogs

A small group of pissed-off Portlandites (Portlanders? Portlandians? Portlandim, to use the Hebrew plural form?) gathered outside a Bank of… EJ Dickson   |   11.20.2011   |   Comments (3)
Newt Gingrich says that OWS protesters should "take a bath," "get a job"
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Newt Gingrich says that OWS protesters should "take a bath," "get a job"

At the Thanksgiving Family Forum in Iowa Saturday, GOP candidate/guardian of upstanding moral righteousness/giant pumpkin with teeth and hair… EJ Dickson   |   11.20.2011   |   Comments (55)
Revolutionaries, unite: Third Eye Blind has released a song for OWS
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Revolutionaries, unite: Third Eye Blind has released a song for OWS

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, Bob Dylan wrote: "So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." As Occupy Wall… Delia Pless   |   11.18.2011   |   Comments (7)
Man o' the month Brett Ratner was once a Wall Street fat cat
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Man o' the month Brett Ratner was once a Wall Street fat cat

To borrow the parlance of a defunct VH1 weekly news program, Tower Heist director Brett Ratner is having the worst month ever. He was booted from… EJ Dickson   |   11.15.2011   |   Comments (2)
Protesters have been cleared from Zuccotti Park
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Protesters have been cleared from Zuccotti Park

Zuccotti Park has been forcibly cleared of its protesters by police in order to "clear and restore" the birthplace of the Occupy Wall… Virginia Smith   |   11.15.2011   |   Comments (15)
"Sin City" creator Frank Miller slams the Occupy Movement on blog
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"Sin City" creator Frank Miller slams the Occupy Movement on blog

Frank Miller, creator of such comics as Sin City and 300, has some words for the Occupy Wall Street protests and its many spin-offs. These words… James Brady Ryan   |   11.14.2011   |   Comments (20)