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ACT UP announces via press release: 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 a daylong …

Two women who were pepper-sprayed by the NYPD as they were held inside a protesters pen have filed a lawsuit. The incident was caught live by local news cameras and the video instantly went globally viral, fueling other Occupy protests around the nation. Chelsea Elliott and Jeanne Mansfield are suing Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna in Manhattan Federal Court for blasting …

In order to thwart legislation intended to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown, Wall Street firms have donated twice as much to the Romney campaign as they’ve given to Obama. The financial services industry is poised to set records in one arena in 2012: politics. The beleaguered sector is pumping tens of millions of dollars into campaigns and …

(Via JMG reader Joe)

A queer contingent of Occupy Wall Street will protest the Human Rights Campaign this weekend outside their black tie Manhattan gala at the Waldorf-Astoria. An excerpt from their press release: Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Occupy Wall Street, a caucus of the NYC based Occupy Wall Street movement, announced today that it will protest a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Gala honoring Goldman Sachs on …

Via press release, here are the NYC details for the Occupy Wall Street protest planned for around the world. At 6:30 p.m. hundreds of Occupy Wall Street activists will assemble on the steps of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue) and at 7:00 p.m. begin a massive candlelight march to nearby Riverside Church (490 Riverside …

The Seven Mountains dominionists, who believe that God has ordered Christians to control the “seven mountains of American culture,” say that Satan has a firm grip on Wall Street and is “sending his kings” to run to the other six mountains. I think that’s what this loon is saying. I get so distracted with that holy magic marker-ing.RELATED: Explaining the …

So sez the Global Language Monitor.

That covers Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and Europe’s widespread austerity riots. The stories start here.

NYU is adding a course about Occupy Wall Street, which is fitting considering how much of the student body took part. The course will explore the history and politics of debt and take a deeper look at the economic crisis the movement is protesting. It will be taught by SCA profesor Lisa Duggan. “Occupy Wall Street has done us all …

In other news, Christie has endorsed Romney.

Occupy Tallahassee invaded Glenn Beck’s book signing at Barnes & Noble to deliver their now-familiar “mic check” style of protest. Patriotic Beck fans denounced the protesters with shouts to “Go home and call your mommies!”

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After the conclusion of his opera Satyagraha, last night minimalist composer Philip Glass exited Lincoln Center to address a gathered crowd of Occupy Wall Street protesters. OWS stressed that they were not there to specifically diss Glass’ opera. Instead the protest was directed “at a certain disparity between its lofty moral message and the machinery of corporate arts funding.” (I …

[Photo Credit: Julie Turkewitz] Thirteen AIDS activists were arrested in downtown Manhattan today in a joint protest organized by Housing Works, Occupy Wall Street, and others. Among their demands is the institution of an unprecedented tax on millionaires with the revenue specifically directed to fight HIV/AIDS. Via press release: In the tradition of the working-class hero of Sherwood Forest, the …