From Daily Caller Members of the Occupy movement rallied in support of Chicago public school teachers whose strike for better pay and working conditions continued Tuesday. But according to financial reports from the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund, many retiring public teachers in Chicago receive a pension that puts them in the wealthiest echelons of the [...]
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Occupier Kanye West gives Occupier Jay-Z a $34,000 golden skull
From Breitbart Try this on for hypocrisy: Hip-hopper Kanye West, who attended an Occupy Wall Street rally in October, 2011, just gave rap superstar Jay-Z a $34,000 skull covered in 24-karat gold and red topaz gemstones. West even hired a private jet for delivery of the hand-finished gift from Lions & Sons featuring 1,680 star-cut [...]
Irony watch: union pays Twitter to trend anti-corporate hashtag
From The Blaze As the Occupy movement springs back to life on “May Day” to bring the plight of the “99 percent” to the attention of, well, the “99 percent,” some labor unions are doing their part, even paying Twitter to trend an anti-corporate hashtag. It’s true! Trending right now (worldwide!) is the hashtag “#CorporateGreed.” [...]
Progressive mag encourages readers to support OWS by applying for its Visa card
From The Blaze Want to support Occupy Wall Street? Apply for our credit card! That’s essentially the message from progressive magazine The Nation in promoting its Visa program. In its latest advertising pitch, the magazine encourages readers to apply for the card from a bank recommended by the Move Your Money project — an Occupy [...]
Celebs call for civil disobedience against rich (video)
From Breitbart TV Actors Olivia Wilde, Penn Badgely and Zoe Kravitz have had enough of the rich feasting on the poor. So they shot a video extolling the virtues of the Occupy Wall Street movement and detailing plains to train the “99 percent” in civil disobedience tactics for 2012 and beyond. “Non violent direct action [...]
Anti-occupy DC rally against ‘Obama’s war on nature’
From Weekly Standard The anti-Occupy Wall Street movement—or Occupy Occupy D.C., as they call themselves—held a rally today at Freedom Plaza to call for a “Cease Fire in Obama’s War on Nature.” In particular, the rally goers in favor of freedom came out today to protest “the Obama Administration’s new policy to kill the barred [...]
Occupy Wall Street bank statement shows $99,000 balance, expenses for housing, property damage, bail
From the Daily Caller The Daily Caller has obtained a copy of a December 2011 bank statement mailed to Occupy Wall Street, the anti-capitalist protest group whose leaders’ rallying cry positions them as defenders of America’s less-privileged “99 percent.” But the organization’s bank balance in December may instead re-cast the occupiers as defenders of the [...]
Occupy gets a PAC
From CBS Last week, John Paul Thornton of Decatur, Ala. filed to create a PAC for the Occupy Movement. “PAC” is an acronym for a political action committee, or an organization that campaigns for or against candidates, legislation, and ballot initiatives. Thornton is an active member in the Alabama Occupy movement. He said he came up with the [...]
New occupy chant should be ‘Pelosi! Is! The 0.99%!’
From Daily Caller Here’s yet another sign, if you need one, that Occupy has outlived its political usefulness. Via the Washington Free Beacon (welcome, by the way!): Politico Influence reports that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and minority whip Steny Hoyer raised $400,000 last night at a fundraiser held at the home of Democratic lobbyists [...]
Robert Redford claims Sundance (the corporate sponsored playground for celebrities) is for the ’99 percent’
From Fox News Attention, One Percenters! You can go home now. The Sundance Film Festival is not … repeat NOT … for you. (Except of course our corporate sponsors and super rich celebrity guests. You can stay. As a matter of fact, we’d be lost without you!) That’s the mixed message the was being sent [...]
Pelosi does 180 on OWS
Remember when OWS was the posterchild of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party? Well, it seems Pelosi may be having some second thoughts as she now claims that she and her party have very little interaction with OWS. Read more at Fox Nation.
Self-proclaimed occupy founder accepting millions from Wall Street?
Remember when Elizabeth Warren proclaimed she was the founder of the Occupy Movement? Well, it seems she has no problem taking money from the same folks she publicly decries. From Boston Herald I thought Elizabeth Warren was all about transparency. We are all still waiting for her to file the required financial disclosure form. The [...]
