The 99 Percent has once again outmaneuvered Mayor One Percent. Last week, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hoped to use an unannounced “health and safety inspection” to shut down #OccupyWallStreet once and for all. With cold weather coming, the NYPD and FDNY raided Zuccotti Park and seized the fuel and generators used by the...
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Proving that they aren’t leaving until they’ve inspired meaningful reform to our government and institutions, #OccupyWallStreet protesters kept their vigil in the cold temperatures, wet snow, and high winds. “They don’t know what to make of us now,” one protester told Left of the Hudson on condition we not use her name. “I heard...
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Generators help power the OWS kitchen The New York City Police Department, along with the New York City Fire Department raided Zuccotti Park this morning, seizing generators and diesel fuel used by protesters to power the kitchen and media center. Under the guise of protecting protesters and the park from possible fires, they are...
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Gov. Cuomo Appearing on The Capitol Pressroom, a Syracuse-based radio show and podcast hosted by Susan Arbetter, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reiterated and clarified his threat to veto any legislative redistricting legislation that he finds unfair. “The veto really would inject a certain amount of chaos and uncertainty that really would be in no...
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo New York State Troopers and the Albany, NY Police Department have defied an order to arrest of hundreds of demonstrators near the State Capitol this weekend. Albany’s Mayor Gerald D. Jennings, under pressure from the Cuomo Administration, made the call for the city’s curfew to be enforced on Friday, but the...
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by Cliff Weathers Today, I spent five minutes trying to convince a South Nyack resident that she was not eligible to vote in the general election between Nyack Mayoral candidates Richard Kavesh and Jen Laird-White. She’s lived here for 16 years, yet she doesn’t know she lives in a different village with its own...
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Now’s the time to challenge economic orthodoxy—but only a massive social movement can turn things around.
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The Democratic Party has never had the type of political cover you have now, and you never will again. Now it's time that they listened to the progressive base.
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Peter Seeger, the 92-year-old folk-music legend was joined by popular 60′s folk singer Arlo Guthrie in marching on Columbus Circle in Manhattan’s tony Upper West Side. After his performance at the Clearwater Festival last night, Seeger joined in #OccupyWallStreet demonstrators as they marched past ritzy stores and boutiques. He was joined by Guthrie, the...
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Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger is marching in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet protesters tonight. The 92-year old says he’s “all fired up” about tonight’s march. Seeger performed earlier tonight at Manhattan’s Clearwater Festival, an appointment he makes annually. He will go to the Wall Street area after he finishes performing. In 2009, the energetic Seeger came...
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