Archive for the ‘OWS’ tag
Queer Rising and Occupy Faith: Small protest groups making a big difference
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Interviews with Queer Rising (queerrising.org, @queerrising) and Occupy Faith (occupyfaith.com): small protests groups making a big difference. Plus, 36,000 students strike in Quebec and hundreds protest outside California’s San Quentin prison.
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On Linsanity, reports of Occupy’s death have been greatly exaggerated
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Allison and Jamie talk about Linsanity and small Occupy offshoots that are making a big, big difference, plus tons of rich people who continue to be rewarded despite their history of fail. Also, Listener Mail.
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Citizen Radio’s Q&A, all about tasers, undercover police impregnating activists
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Allison and Jamie answer your Twitter questions, Allison recaps Occupy DC’s recent victory, plus a story about an Occupier being tasered, right-to-work states, Keystone XL, and when undercover police impregnate activists.
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Occupying Egypt, dispatches from Oakland solidarity marches
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Independent journalist Austin Mackell (@austingmackell) and independent producer Aliya Alwi (@aliyaalwi) join the show to discuss the Egyptian revolution, Occupy Maspero, and the links between the Occupy movements in the east and the west. Allison reports on NYC’s Oakland solidarity march, and Jamie shares from weight loss advice.
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Hundreds arrested at Occupy Oakland protest, Bank of America’s fail
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Hundreds arrested at Occupy Oakland protest, Bank of America continues to fail at everything, all about a fetus in a jar, Google thinks Allison is a 30-year-old man who is interested in Iran.
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Immy Humes, director of “F**KED: The United States of Unemployment”
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Interview with Immy Humes, director of ”F**KED: The United States of Unemployment,” the new Salon series that explores the lives of the 99ers. Humes discusses the epidemic of long-term unemployment and why it’s essential to not forget the millions of jobless Americans.
Jamie mocks McDonald’s, Allison discusses Adbusters’ latest call for 50,000 people to Occupy Chicago in May for the G8, and Mayor Emanuel’s authoritarian ordinances.
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On dropping out and Occupy’s influence in Obama’s SOTU
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Occupy played a big role in President Obama’s State Of The Union address, Jamie responds to the president’s idea to outlaw dropping out, and Listener Mail.
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Russell Simmons on veganism, Occupy Wall Street, and more
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Russell Simmons (@uncleRUSH) joins the show to discuss Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Dream, veganism, his credit card, and Def Jam.
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Response to Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford over at Black Agenda Report took issue with my report on the Occupy Wall Street protest in Harlem. Well, “took issue” is a nice way of saying, “Calls me a southern white racist.” Anywho, I responded via email. Hopefully, he’ll post the response at BAR. If not, enjoy reading it here!
Hey Glen-
Caught your blog post and wanted to have a chance to respond. Hopefully, you’ll post this at Black Agenda Report.
The first aspect of my article you seem to take issue with is the the turnout I reported. I’m not sure what media outlet is reporting 400 individuals were there, but that estimate is way too high. An estimate of a couple hundred people is more accurate, albeit still generous.
Regardless, the count is a secondary issue when compared to your main beef: the erroneous claim that I stated Occupy Wall Street should “stay away from Harlem.” This is, quite simply, false. I never wrote that.
What I did say is that OWS did a poor job of outreach in Harlem, and I stand by that. All I can convey to my readers is what I witnessed first hand, and that was several tense conflicts between Harlem residents and the Larouche followers. Again, all I convey is what I saw happen, and that was many passersby expressing anger at the image of Obama-as-Hitler paraded around by the Larouchies.
The result was mass confusion. Occupy’s productive messages about Stop And Frisk and NDAA were lost in the circus created by the Larouchies. Again, not Occupy’s fault (I attempted to explain in the article that it’s not as simple as Occupy banning the Larouchies because they’ve been part of the movement since the beginning,) but I had to report what actually happened.
The claim that I spoke as an “old school southern white racist” is libelous. Simply because I attempted to report on larger cultural trends in Harlem (the gentrification, institutional racism in things like subprime mortgages and Stop And Frisk) doesn’t mean I think that Occupy should be, as you again erroneously state, “segregated.”
As I’m sure you know, Occupy is a diverse movement, and I don’t claim otherwise in the article. The only point I made is that, at this particular protest, it was comprised of majority-white individuals.
I have to report what I actually saw, and that was a group of majority-white individuals show up to the Apollo Theater protest, some of whom carried an Obama-as-Hitler poster, which angered many Harlem residents. That doesn’t mean I “want a segregated Occupy.” As a reporter, I’m not in the habit of telling Occupy what to do at all. My beat is more of a “Here’s what went down” thing.
I would hope we can disagree on stuff like protest counts and Occupy’s strategies without resorting to name-calling and vicious libel in the future.
Best,
Allison Kilkenny
Dispatches from Occupy West, if you thought SOPA was bad, meet ACTA
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Susie Cagle (@susie_c) joins the show with dispatches from Occupy West, Allison gives Occupy updates, if you thought SOPA was bad, meet ACTA, EU approves oil embargo against Iran.
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