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#1 Click this link to see Blog page --> 10/10/2011

I found the #Occupy Peoria page on Facebook. This announcement of the first planned march was there. I haven’t convinced myself I want to go walk downtown Peoria again but I am certainly intrigued by the movement. I will also be curious to see if the local media will even bother to report the march. And how people will see it. I am afraid Peoria is so conservative they won’t be able to face the truth.

MjL

#2 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/11/2011 #2

Riiigght. Common Sense tells you to sit back and let Wall St.
and Corporate Persons continue to ruin our economy, jobs and
lives. It is just “Ideology” to expect economic justice. #Occupy

MjL

#3 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/13/2011 #1

#Occupy

MjL

#4 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/13/2011 #3

#Occupy
Communism? Seriously?
What is the matter with people who dream up this nonsense?

MjL

#5 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/20/2011 #8

Typical hippie punching nonsense. It is not about jobs,
the lack of them or about stupid media memes about lazy
protesters. It is about criminal Wall St., banks and
corporations ruining our economy and future. And NONE
of them went to jail for these crimes against society.
#Occupy

MjL

#6 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/20/2011 #5

Disgusting. Wall St. and corporations ruin our
economy and this looney toonist tries to reverse
reality. This is an abuse of free speech!
#Occupy

MjL

#7 Click this link to see Blog page --> 10/21/2011

You can probably tell I get a little exasperated with the media nonsense surrounding #Occupy Wall Street. The rich own the media and they are determined to bury the facts about how Wall St., the banks and the filthy rich have ruined our economy. They are trying to make it out like there are just a few whining hippies who don’t know what is going on are too lazy to get a job and are asking for hand outs. What the protesters really want is too see economic justice. Not one banker has gone to trial for their crimes yet millions of Americans have lost their homes and jobs.

MjL

#8 Click this link to see Blog page --> 10/21/2011

Dave Simpson’s editorial in yesterdays Pekin Daily Times is a perfect example of your comment about the media nonsense surrounding the #Occupy Wall Street movement. So much so that I think maybe your comment was prompted by it.

Michael T.

#9 Click this link to see Blog page --> 10/21/2011

Hi Michael,
Close but not quite. I was prompted by the stream of political cartoons. Shortly after my comment above I saw the editorial you speak of and had to leave my 2¢ worth there too. It would seem a lot of people can’t understand a simple protest about corporate greed without some kind of political subtext. All politicians of every party are owned by the greedy who pay into their campaign slush funds. The idea that the rich do anything for America anymore is very outdated. #Occupy

MjL

#10 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/21/2011 #27

And again more stupidity —— with the added right
wingnut misdirection that it has anything whatsoever
to do about anybody asking to be given anything other
than justice about the Wall St. criminals. #Occupy

MjL

#11 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 10/31/2011 #9

#Occupy A hammer and sickle? Seriously? Seriously stupid.

MjL

#12 Click this link to see Blog page --> 10/31/2011

#Occupy
Occupy Wall Street:
New York Police sending drunks to Zuccotti Park?

MjL

#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/03/2011 #2

Several hundred noisy and colorful “Occupy Vancouver” protestors march in support of the “Robin Hood Tax” through downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on October 29th, 2011, two days before Halloween. The tax would levy a 1% fee on bank profits and foreign currency exchange.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/04/2011 #5

Thousands walk of protesters march through the streets to close the Port of Oakland as part of a general strike called by the Occupy Oakland demonstrators in Oakland, CA, on November 3rd, 2011.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#15 Click this link to see Blog page --> 11/08/2011



A pair of San Franciscans has given a pointed word picture to support the #Occupy Wall Street protests in the form of Occupy George, five graphic stamps placed on $1 bills.

The differing red overlay graphics use stats—and even pie charts!—to vividly explain how America’s wealthiest 1% dominate the country’s financial landscape.

As the Occupy Wall Street protests continue, this new movement aims to occupy American currency one dollar at a time. Already about a week old, Occupy George supporters have been working around the clock to trade run-of-the-mill bills with a bored looking George Washington for Occupy George bills with printings.

The newly minted Occupy George bills then get exchanged at the Occupy Wall Street site for a fresh set of plain greenbacks. The website shows you how you can participate; and it gives sources for all the information printed on the money.

MjL

#16 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/12/2011 #2

Photographer, Baron DaParre takes a picture of young model Danette Vega below an effigy dressed as a Wall Street banker hanging from a telephone wire on October 28th, 2011 in Miami, FL. As protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protesters continue around the country an artist known as Above, created the installation which hangs above a mural that reads “Give a Wall St. banker enough rope and he will hang himself”.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#17 Click this link to see Blog page --> 11/14/2011

#Occupy
Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement

MjL

#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/16/2011 #3

Rioting Police peacefully clear Occupy Oakland encampment - An officer walks past members of the Occupy Oakland interfaith coalition before others arrest them for refusing to obey a dispersal order in the early morning hours of November 14th, 2011 in Oakland, CA. The Occupy Oakland encampment was surrounded by rioting law enforcement officers and all those who refused to leave were arrested.
Peacefully? When did para-military forces rioting in armor become a peaceful thing? America is no more a #Democracy. #Occupy

MjL

#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/29/2011 #1

Occupy LA people protesters block the streets around Los Angeles City Hall before the midnight deadline by city officials to shut down the encampment on Nov. 27th, 2011. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last week gave demonstrators outside City Hall until 12:01 am Nov. 28th to dismantle their campsite and leave.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#20 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/30/2011 #4

An Occupy Los Angeles supporter holds her gas mask as she sleeps at the camp in front of Los Angeles City Hall.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#21 Click this link to see Blog page --> 12/01/2011

I have been pondering the #Occupy Wall Street activities and conclude that I agree with them for the most part but have serious doubts they will bring about meaningful change.

The one thing they have brought to our attention is how much our society has embraced the #PoliceState. Around 5,000 people have been arrested to date. Most of those arrests were NOT for civil disobedience but for freedom of assembly.

I am even further surprised at how all the Teabaggers who were carrying signs about the Constitution seem to have evaporated. One would think they would join a protest about the loss of our fundamental right to assembly and free speech. Guess not.

MjL

#22 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/07/2011 #3

U.S. Park Police attempt to remove Occupy DC people protesters from a wooden structure in McPherson Square on Sunday December 4th, 2011
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#23 Click this link to see Blog page --> 12/09/2011

Only in America maybe? A TV show gets a permit to build a fake tent city to film an episode about #Occupy Wall Street when the actual protesters are beaten, pepper-sprayed, shot and arrested when they did the same thing. I guess it was OK as long as somebody was going to make some money off of it. What happened to America?

Law & Order TV Show Shut Down by Occupy Wall Street

MjL

#24 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/09/2011 #4

Ana Casas Wilson, center, who has cerebral palsy, sits with her mother, Rebecca, in front of her home during a news conference in South Gate, CA, on the foreclosure of her home by Wells Fargo, with the help of Occupy protesters and other supporters. People Protesters in several U.S. cities demonstrated in a day of action billed as “Occupy Our Homes” to stop and reverse foreclosures, demanding that banks keep families in their homes.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#25 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/14/2011 #4

People Protestors sit on top of a container truck after blocking the Port of Oakland, Monday, Dec. 12th, 2011, in Oakland, CA. The “Occupy Wall Street” movement, which sprang up this fall against what it sees as corporate greed and economic inequality, focused on the ports on Monday, knowing hoping the day of action demonstrations would cut into the profits of the corporations that run the docks and send a message that their movement was not over.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#26 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 01/01/2012 #3

Cute. Comparing people protesting outrageous crimes by bankers
and Wall St. to a dictator of a repressive regime. #Occupy

MjL

#27 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/09/2012 #5

Signs are seen at the “Occupy” camp in Manchester, NH.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#28 Click this link to see Political Cartoons page --> 01/10/2012 #26

Ironically this confused toonist answered the question
accurately; it turns out the help wanted section has absolutely
nothing to do with the Wall St. protests. Obviously this toonist
is so misinformed (or ignorant) as to confuse people protesting
the evils of the filthy rich as being jobless. #Occupy

MjL

#29 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/28/2012 #4

A mask is seen placed on a statue of Britain’s Queen Anne at the ‘Occupy’ camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#30 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/16/2012 #5

An Occupy Wall Street person demonstrator wearing a mask depicting the face of Repuglican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney protests outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York where Romney was holding a fundraiser.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#31 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/18/2012 #5

Chanting and cheering down Wall Street on Saturday to mark six months since the birth of the Occupy movement.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#32 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/02/2012 #1

A police lieutenant beats swings his baton at Occupy Wall Street activists on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 in New York. Hundreds of activists with a variety of causes spread out over New York City Tuesday on International Workers Day, or May Day, with Occupy Wall Street members leading a demonstration charge against financial institutions.
May Day #MayDay #Occupy

MjL

#33 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/17/2012 #1

Occupy Wall Street people protesters gather in Washington Square Park in New York, September 15th, 2012. Occupy Wall Street marks its first anniversary on Monday, and, in a bid to rejuvenate a movement that the media has failed to report has failed to sustain momentum after sparking a national conversation about economic inequality last fall, activists plan once again to descend on New York’s financial district.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#34 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/18/2013 #3

People Protesters representing the Occupy Wall Street movement stand together demonstrate at Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock Exchange, Sept. 17th, 2013, in New York. It has been two years since people protesters first pitched tents in lower Manhattan, sparking the movement known as Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#35 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/19/2013 #5

Police harass watch Occupy Wall Street participants protesters as they walk march from the United Nations to New York’s Bryant Park. The walk march promoted a “Robin Hood Tax”, a .5% levy to be applied to financial service companies, with proceeds to be used for social services.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#36 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/21/2014 #5

Claire Lebowitz, 31 from Brooklyn, stares into a giant eye outside Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday, March 20th, 2014. Lebowitz, who was arrested in Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street, refused to have police perform an iris retinal scan and ended up being held in jail for a second night before being arraigned. She came to court to file an appeal to her lawsuit challenging the scans.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#37 Click this link to see Blog page --> 04/16/2014

The message I’m getting from the domestic terrorist #ClivenBundy case is that if you are going to dispute something in America be sure to show up with automatic weapons.

Puts a whole new spin on the next #Occupy demonstration. I guess the reason those folks got attacked with rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas and billy clubs is because they weren’t prepared to charge in on horseback with an AK-47 in hand?

MjL

#38 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/20/2014 #5

Police stand guard in front of the members of the Occupy movement during a clash in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong, Oct. 17th, 2014. Police have begun to take measures to remove the blockades put in place by pro democracy supporters following weeks of protests.
Occupy Movement #Occupy

MjL

#39 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/17/2020 #7

#Occupy

MjL

#40 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 09/17/2021 #9

In 2011, a demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street began in New York, prompting similar actions protests around the U.S. and the world. #Occupy
#Occupy

MjL

#41 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/01/2021 #12

In 2011, more than 700 Occupy Wall Street people protesters were arrested after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours in a tense confrontation with police. #Occupy
NYPD kettled them on the bridge to arrest them.
Announced it was a “mob action”, then wouldn’t let them leave.
#Occupy

MjL

#42 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/15/2021 #13

In 2011, hundreds of rioting police officers in riot gear attacked raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City in the pre-dawn darkness, assaulting and evicting hundreds of protesters and then demolishing their belongings and the tent city. #Occupy
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MjL

#43 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/17/2021 #10

In 2011, Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signal they weren’t ready to quit, despite the assault breakup of many of their encampments by rioting police. #Occupy
#Occupy

MjL

#44 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/28/2021 #15

In 2011, Occupy Wall Street protesters defied a deadline to remove their weeks old encampment on the Los Angeles City Hall lawn. #Occupy
#Occupy

MjL

#45 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/01/2022 #19

In 2020, rioting police in Seattle forcibly cleared the city’s “occupied” protest zone under orders from the mayor after two recent fatal shootings in the area. #Occupy

They allowed it to exist for a month —— expecting it
to dissolve in chaos. Instead it began to flourish as
a police free zone and that had to be stopped.

#Occupy

MjL