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Occupy Wall Street roundup, Day 33
by
Chris Bowers
for
Daily Kos
Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011
at
6:00:05pm PDT
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@AKMamma/Twitpic
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Occupy Wall Street is the protest movement that never sleeps:
Writer and activist Naomi Wolf was
arrested
at an Occupy Wall Street demonstration last night outside of an awards ceremony in New York.
Her personal story on what happened
is worth a read, and shines some light on how opaque permit laws have been used to arrest many demonstrators so far. Here is a video of the arrest:
There have now been
at least 1,885 arrests
of Occupy demonstrators, up nearly 100 from yesterday.
New polling
shows that Occupy Wall Street remains popular with the American public,
even among blue-collar whites
.
The first television commercial for Occupy Wall Street will be
hitting the airwaves soon
:
In a real victory, Occupy Wall Street has helped
successfully shifted the terms of debate
on cable news away from a focus on spending cuts and toward a focus on unemployment and the culpability of the financial sector in our economic woes.
Republicans and right-wing media figures seem to have settled on a new main line of attack Occupy Wall Street:
accusing it of anti-Semitism
.
When asked about misrepresenting his own polling data on Occupy Wall Street,
Doug Schoen partially backtracks and heavily obfuscates
.
Rep. Allen West thinks Martin Luther King would not have backed Occupy Wall Street:
Media Matters has a
handy guide
to all the right-wing smear campaigns against Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Las Vegas
made themselves heard
during CNN's debate coverage last night. Even better, it took place while Erin Burnett, who
infamously slandered
Occupy Wall Street, was on the air:
In two weeks, Occupy Wall Street groups have racked up over 1,000,000 new "likes" on Facebook, rising from
550,000
to
nearly 1,600,000.
Micah Sifry has a
good collection of think pieces
on why Occupy Wall Street made so much more of an impact than other similar, recent protest efforts.
Groups of programmers are getting together in
hackathons
to build new online tools for the movement.
A national Occupy Wall Street convention
is being discussed for July 4, 2012.
Alice Walker has posted
two new Occupy Wall Street poems
.
The legend of the "hipster cop"
continues to grow
:
The next Batman movie may
film some scenes
at Occupy Wall Street in New York.
The People's Mic has now been used for a marriage proposal:
"Will you occupy my life?" Awww.
For over 50 articles a day on Occupy Wall Street, follow the
Occupy Wall Street group
and the
Occupy Wall Street tag
right here on Daily Kos.