Occupy Orlando participant Tim Osmar will be facing jail for the third time Thursday, March 29th for chalking protest slogans on public sidewalks. He has already served 18 days.
With fare strike posters and the chaining open of Subway service doors, Occupy Wall Street and members of the Transit Workers Union of New York launch successful day of Economic Disobedience trageting Wall Street, MTA bosses.
A group emerging from Occupy Wall Street is helping bring down the Bank of America. To promote its campaign and call for national days of action against the company, participants of F The Banks set up a temporary living-room occupation of a Bank of America outlet in Manhattan Saturday.
AMO is pleased to announce its first grant recipient: A massive, participatory arts event called "The Line". This Tuesday, March 6th, over 5,000 people will gather in NYC to form 'The Line' which aims to be the longest unemployment line in the world. The line will stretch nearly 3 miles through New York, from Bowling Green along Broadway up to Union Square, and hold its position for 14 minutes – 1 minute for each million unemployed Americans.
A new documentary asks a key question about cultural organizing: Can fantasy and fiction tell a more truthful story about our political experience than what's being said in the 'real world' of media and politics? To answer that, Spanish filmmakers Leónidas Martín and Núria Campabadal turn to several 'real life' fictional characters who would know, from the legendary Superbarrio of Mexico City, to the comic-book character Unemployed Man, to Reverend Billy. Many Occupy-related projects are included, from Anonymous to Occupy Comics, to the Occupy Ninjas.
KAPOW! A team of Heroes-for-Hard-Times took the streets on Halloween to fight back against corporate criminals and their Wall St. henchmen in an epic brawl that went from Liberty Square to the the doorstep of Global Finance itself, the New York Stock Exchange.
Cultural Strategies: Use costumes, characters and humor to make complex economic ideas easy to understand.
