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New Haven Register
March 9, 2018
Richard Lucas, a graduate assistant at Yale's Afro-American Cultural Center enrolled at the Yale Divinity School, said the tactic taken in Nashville ... “We are the 99 percent,” she said, a reference to a slogan of Occupy Wall Street, a protest against wealth inequality at the beginning of the decade.
Billboard
March 1, 2018
And she's lent her voice to a number of important political causes, finding herself on the frontlines of the civil rights battle in Selma, Alabama, the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation. Baez deserves the chance to rest aÃâà...
Nashville Post
January 18, 2018
Speaking to a room full of people as he clicks an old-fashioned carousel slide projector, Green says there is an "epic battle in progress" as he shows pictures of protesters with an "Occupy Wall Street" sign and NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. "On the other side are the people," Green says,Ãâà...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
October 28, 2017
The official concept of progressive stacking was coined by the Occupy Wall Street movement, The Nation reported. At their assemblies, individuals who chose which members could speak in "the stack," an Occupy-specific term for the queue, could often opt to allow members of historically marginalizedÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
August 23, 2017
The New York meeting, which included around 90 people, took place at a community center only a short walk from Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street got its start six years ago. The plan for November 4 resembles that 2011 protest in more ways than one. Not only does the tactic of urban occupationÃâà...
Nashville Scene
July 20, 2017
You know, my teachers were Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark and Harlan Howard. I got to Nashville in 1974, you know, I knew what you're supposed to do. ... They're lefties, you know, they're Occupy Wall Street people. What do you say to people who say singers shouldn't talk politics, the “shut up andÃâà...
KQED
June 1, 2017
Author Roxanne Gay talks about her new memoir on food and self-image; Micah White explains how he co-created Occupy Wall Street; Quilt maker and pioneer LGBT activist Cleve Jones talks about his memoir; and Ayelet Waldman joins her husband Michael Chabon for a panel on their new collection ofÃâà...
KQED
June 1, 2017
Author Roxanne Gay talks about her new memoir on food and self-image; Micah White explains how he co-created Occupy Wall Street; Quilt maker and pioneer LGBT activist Cleve Jones talks about his memoir; and Ayelet Waldman joins her husband Michael Chabon for a panel on their new collection ofÃâà...
ABC News
October 30, 2011
Occupy Wall Street has material on its website explaining laws regarding blocking streets, sidewalks and parks. Encampments have sprung up in public plazas, parks and squares across the country, often complete with tents, eating spaces and meeting areas. Demonstrations are continuing in Nashville,Ãâà...
CBS News
October 29, 2011
DENVER - Police have moved into an encampment of Occupy Wall Street supporters and are arresting demonstrators who have ignored orders to leave. ... NASHVILLE: State troopers for the second straight night arrested anti-Wall Street protesters for defying a new nighttime curfew imposed by theÃâà...
CL Charlotte
December 31, 1999
When the time came for Walker to start seriously pursuing his theatrical ambitions, he thought about moving to Atlanta or Nashville, but settled on Charlotte, whose ... After watching the Occupy Wall Street movement take form on TV in 2011, he heard that a similar movement was happening in Charlotte.
