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“The Tea Party I’ve always thought is very much like Occupy Wall Street. They say, ‘We don’t want it any more. We want to stop it.’ And you say, ‘Oh good. What do you want to stop?’ And they can’t answer it. Both are groups of people who think that we’re going in the wrong direction. They may not have …

Video by JMG reader Phillip Davis. On September 16, 2012 a concert was held in Foley Square to mark the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys) was the emcee. Other performers included Michelle Shocked, Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), Tom Chapin and The Chapin Sisters, Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High!” McMillan, Vermin …

Today is the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and this morning protesters are attempting to block access to the Stock Exchange. Click over to Gothamist for their live streaming video.

The first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement is this week. In addition to today’s concert in downtown Manhattan, there will be a march tomorrow morning. ACT UP will be there. Via press release: ACT UP NY (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) announced plans to endorse the Sept 17 demonstration celebrating Occupy Wall St.’s first anniversary. Members of ACT …

Their clip description: The Guitarmy had returned from their 99 Mile March from the Occupy National Gathering. We had greeted them at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and together we marched to Zucotti Park and celebrated. A feeling of glory days returned was in the air. To the NYPD we certainly seemed a menace, as a series of actions reminiscent …

Via Seattle Times: Activists tossed $5,000 off a downtown Seattle building Wednesday to protest money in politics. Dollar bills came swirling down just after 5 p.m. at Seventh Avenue and Pike Street, to the delight of tourists. The money was printed with the words “money as speech silences us all,” a statement of protest against court rulings that consider political …

As news cameras rolled, a former Wall Street banker appeared to swallow poison moments after he was convicted of burning down his Arizona mansion. Paramedics pronounced him dead minutes after he went into convulsions on the court room floor. All eyes were on the court clerk as she read the verdict on a single count. Then the jury left the …

And insurance company stocks drop. Details.

“This Sunday, as every fourth Sunday in June, the streets of New York will fill with prideful marchers celebrating Pride Month. There will be similar marches, too, in cities around the country. Sunday marks the forty-third year since the uprising in a Greenwich Village bar called Stonewall that supposedly started the modern gay revolution. The myth is that a few …

Lawyers for the men say undercover police planted evidence as part of a campaign to discredit the Occupy movement.

Gothamist blogger Jen Chung gets this week’s headline prize: Jesus Christ, Look At This Protester’s Package!

More photos.

As you doubtlessly know by now, Occupy Wall Street protesters are staging May Day strikes across the nation today. But all eyes are on NYC. Labor groups, immigration advocates, Occupy Wall Street protesters and other activists are planning marches and other events in Manhattan with the aim of bringing daily business to a standstill on International Workers Day, or May …

Nine members of ACT UP have just chained themselves across Wall Street as the opening bell rang on New York Stock Exchange floor. Protesters are demanding that a tax be added to all stock transactions in order to fund HIV/AIDS treatments worldwide. The above photo was sent to us from the phone of famed NYC club promoter Chip Duckett. Stand …

ACT UP will demonstrate on Wall Street tomorrow. To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the AIDS activist group ACT UP will return to its roots and stage a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street — on Wednesday, April 25 — starting at 11 am at City Hall and ending on Wall Street. Hundreds of protestors are expected to converge for …

Citizens United, the astroturf group that turned corporations into people, has promised a coming “unmasking” of the Occupy movement, which according to the teaser trailer is populated by drug addicts, rapists, and communists.