In Solidarity With Mexican Protestors, Activists Take Direct Action Against Communications Magnate Carlos Slim & Saks Fifth Avenue
[NEW YORK, NY] New York City community leaders (full list below), Yo Soy 132, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy DC will gather today at La Fuente to announce a growing coalition — Two Countries ONE VOICE — gathered in protest of Carlos Slim’s monopolistic business practices. This press conference will announce a four-day protest that […]
VeganCorner Is Building A Grassroots Nexus Between Vegans & Local Businesses
[LONG BEACH, CA] Two animal rights activists-turned-entrepreneures, Nathan & Adriana Pope, have announced a fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo.com to help finance the hard-launch of their one-of-a-kind website VeganCorner.com. VeganCorner serves as the vegan’s answer to the popular reviews website Yelp* and also acts as a social platform where vegans can support each other’s choices with […]
Holding the New York Post Accountable for Occupy Wall Street “Murder” Libel
On July 11, 2012 the New York Post ran a 37 paragraph story on a tenuous connection between DNA found on a sequence of chain left behind at a direct action and DNA found at a 2004 crime scene where a Juilliard student was found murdered. Side-stepping both logic and decency toward the victim’s family […]
Coalition of Activists & Occupiers Announce Plan to Crash David Koch’s Southhampton Fundraiser for Mitt Romney
[SOUTHHAMPTON, NY] At 4pm on July 8th, 2012 a diverse coalition of activists and occupiers from across New York will descend upon a fundraiser for presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Southhampton home of billionaire David Koch. Citing the ever-growing and pervasive influence of Koch Industries’ money on our electoral system, organizers from Occupy Wall […]
Endorsement Vote Shows Occupier Congressional Candidate George Martinez Neck & Neck With Incumbent Nydia Velazquez
[NEW YORK, NY] Occupy Wall Street activist George Martinez’s campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives may have initially been labeled a quixotic effort by the press but it is quickly proving to be otherwise. In an endorsement vote tally released on June 19th by Democracy for New York City (the New York chapter of Howard Dean’s Democracy […]
Coalition for Public Education Launches Paul Robeson Freedom School
[NEW YORK, NY] A coalition of public education advocates announced today the launch of an innovative 8-week educational program for Brooklyn youth most affected by the destructive policies enacted in the public school system. Housed in an historic church building in Williamsburg, the Paul Robeson Freedom School will carry on the long tradition of the […]
NY1 Excludes Occupier Congressional Candidate George Martinez From Debate
[UPDATE] This morning, Michael Nitzky of NY1 announced the postponement of the debate due to the untimely passing of Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez’s mother. We send our deepest condolences to the Velazquez family. We hope that the postponement provides the time for the management of NY1 to reconsider its position and include Mr. Martinez as a […]
Occupy Wall Street Activist George Martinez to Run for NYC’s 7th Congressional District
[NEW YORK, NY] George Martinez, a Brooklyn native, hip-hop artist and seasoned Occupy Wall Street activist has announced his candidacy for Brooklyn’s 7th Congressional District. In a clear statement honoring Occupy Wall Street’s non-partisan process, an autonomous parallel movement calling itself “Bum Rush The Vote” has announced it’s intentions to grab political seats using the same […]
Activists Declare Victory as Ruling Cripples Indefinite Detention Under the NDAA
[New York, NY] Today as congress prepares to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) a federal judge has handed down a ruling that would prohibit the enforcement of two highly controversial sections within the NDAA should it pass. The 68 page ruling handed down by the newly-appointed NYC Federal Judge Katherine Forrest issues a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of section […]
Comprehensive Resource List & Schedule of Actions for the May 1st General Strike #M1GS
While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing something extraordinary: the first truly nationwide General Strike in U.S. history. Building on the international celebration of May Day, past General Strikes in U.S. cities like Seattle and Oakland, the recent May 1st Day Without An Immigrant demonstrations, the national general strikes in Spain […]
An Injury to One, is an Injury to All: Occupy the Justice Department on April 24th
Now that the celebrated, radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, is off death row, many dare to imagine the next step—his release from prison. On December 9, 2011 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, where over 1,100 people gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of Mumia’s incarceration, Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked our nation to “rise to […]
Help The Alyona Show Find the Congressman at the Heart of Tim DeChristopher’s Isolation
Tim DeChristopher was thrown into the isolation of the Secure Housing Unit or SHU reportedly because one angry Congressman complained about a letter DeChristopher sent while in low security custody in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.You can read the letter here…While our followers likely know about imprisoned environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, many do not know that […]
Thousands of New Yorkers Demanding Justice for Trayvon Martin will Rally Today In Union Square
[NEW YORK, NY] On March 21st People from across the city and movements come together to stand in solidarity with the family of Trayvon Martin as they seek justice for the murder of their son. Organizers of the New York City protest are asking people from across the city to throw on their hoodie and […]
Occupy Wall Street Sets Sights on Romney Fundraiser at Waldorf Astoria
[NEW YORK, NY] A pop-up occupation will confront Governor Mitt Romney as he arrives in New York for a fundraising luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 11am on Wednesday, March 14th 2012.This event targeting the presidential hopeful and his fundraising base of special interest lobbyists is one of the first in a series of actions some occupiers are calling “The American […]
From the Panthers to #OWS Repression & Resistance
A night of training & discussion on the issue of state repression against Leftist political movements in history and today. A panel discussion will feature Laura Whitehorn, radical activist, Weather Underground member and former political prisoner, Bob Boyle, attorney who represented activists and political prisoners targeted by the COINTELPRO program, Cisco Torres, former Black Panther and defendant in the San Francisco […]
Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection
On the evening of February 16, a group of about 20 artists, designers, muralists, art historians and activists gathered at Interference Archive in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to discuss a selection of posters that have emerged out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The event was organized by Occuprint—a collaborative project that curates, collects, prints and distributes various posters and […]
The People’s Pamphlet: Boutique Publishing for the 99%
Occupy Wall Street is a peoples movement that continues to evolve and change shape. As an organic experience it is hard to quantify, even harder to map trends or forecast directions, and almost impossible to draft demands from. If OWS had a primary objective (and some argue that it does) it would be to return […]
The State of the Occupation Address, 7pm This Monday at Housing Works
THE STATE OF THE OCCUPATION ADRESS! A Discussion & Launch for the Declaration of The Occupation, 2nd Ed. 7PM, JANUARY 30TH, 2012 HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE 126 CROSBY STREET, NY Directions | RSVP via Facebook Join Dr. Benjamin Chavis, co-founder of Occupy the Dream; Allison Kilkenny, contributor for The Nation, In These Times and co-host of Citizen Radio; Malik Rhasaan, co-founder of Occupy the Hood; Rachel […]
Occupy Wall Street, Patti Smith, Russell Simmons to Honor the Spirit of Dr. King with Vigil at Riverside Church
In the past week The Sparrow Project has had the privilege to work closely with Occupy Wall Street to coordinate, promote, and execute a PR campaign surrounding a massive global solidarity event honoring the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Continuing King’s message of non-violence, racial equality and economic justice Occupy Wall Street & […]
The Art of Insurrection: An #OWS Creative Roundup
At the heart of insurrection, beneath both good and ugly, is something eerily beautiful. This beauty sits with the unbridled passion of the insurrectionaries. With such passion creativity explodes …on canvasses, in printed materials, on film, scrawled on the walls of public places, etched across ad-spaces, or braided into songs. The exponential growth of the […]
The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Help print 100,000 copies of the Declaration of the Occupation by donating at THIS LINK. With a generous outpouring of support from activists, artists, and occupiers The Sparrow Project was able to print the first 10,000 copies of The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City but we are going to need your help to reach our […]
Show Your Support for the Galapagos Preservation Society
A few weeks ago we logged edited the footage below that our good friends The Galapagos Preservation Society (GPS) gathered on one of their recent trips to the region. GPS as well as Darwin Animal Doctors (DAD) are providing a very important service in one of the world last ecosystems that has yet to feel […]
Occupy Wall Street & the Legacy of Martin Luther King
I’ve been pondering a lot about Martin Luther King, lately; more than usual. Every day, down at Liberty Plaza, I can’t help but think that, had he not been murdered, he would be with us. This was especially salient on Tuesday night, October 18, when I did the People’s Mic with Jesse Jackson. Whatever […]
Please Help the Sparrow Project Print the First Declaration of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
Help us print the People’s Declaration of the Occupation of Wall Street on 10,000 booklets by donating at THIS LINK. Please help The Sparrow Project print tens of thousands of pocket-sized booklets of the first declaration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. We have access to a terrific offset printer, recycled paper, and soy inks, […]