Supporters of Occupy Wall Street [OWS; Twitter #OWS], including unions, community groups and students, arranged for a "permitted" assembly in Foley Square on Wednesday to be followed by a "permitte...

This post presents a very brief tour of the #OccupyWallStreet compound in Liberty Park, in the form of a photo essay, on day 18 of the occupation. reception/information media center celebrity...

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, inside Liberty Plaza, New York City ADDENDUM: The list of participants in the march has grown. This is what was being reported by #OccupyWallStreet as of 8:30 this ev...

Carrying On A demonstrator* at Zuccotti Park on Thursday, Day 13 of the Occupy Wall Street protests. [New York Times photo caption] I saw him almost as soon as I arrived at the Plaza. He was sta...

General Assembly democracy, September 24, 2011 There was never anything mysterious about what the Wall Street protesters have been asking, but the obtuse may now find enlightenment with the appear...

Cornel West returned to talk to the people in Liberty Plaza this afternoon before the 4 o'clock Stock Marker bell daily march; it was a clearly a mutual admiration society I was downtown this aft...

one of the colorful chrysanthemum planting beds inside Liberty Plaza [Park? Square?], a small American flag peeking out from behind rain tarps on the stone pavement below it This post is the secon...

I had wanted to do my own text for this reminder of the benefit for Issue Project Room being held in the West Village this Saturday, Octobber 1, but I think Barry has already said it all. We're bo...

(at dusk, after the police-mini-riots on Saturday) a sign is propped up at the edge of Liberty Plaza; it faced a lineup of hundreds of uniformed police which for hours threatened the eviction of #...

what the march looked like at the foot of Union Square in mid-afternoon today, moments before the police attacked these obviously-hostile miscreants This post will have to be something of a placeh...