Sister of Slain Kent State Protestor Responds to Urban Outfitters’ Blood Spattered Sweatshirt Stunt
MENDOCINO, CA — On Monday, September 15, 2014, in a crass marketing exercise, —shoddily enveloped in deniability— Urban Outfitters made available on their website, a sweatshirt, with a Kent State University insignia, appearing to be tattered and blood spattered. The launch of this item cut deep with many, triggering painful thoughts of contemporary school shootings, ugly […]
10 Arrests in 87 Minutes: The Anatomy of the NYPD’s Protest Dispersal Process
[NEW YORK, NY] On the eve of the second anniversary of the Occupy movement, two video activists, have released a 10 minute short film providing perhaps the most detailed civilian account to date of the NYPD’s process of crowd dispersion during mass mobilizations. The video, shot on September 17th, 2012, during Occupy Wall Street’s first […]
All Day, All Week, Occupy All Streets: George Martinez’s Response to Jay-Z
[NEW YORK, NY] George Martinez grabbed national headlines when he became the first Occupier to qualify as a major party primary candidate for the United States House of Representatives, but few know that the fledgling politician also has a seasoned career as a celebrated hip-hop emcee in New York City’s grassroots political hip-hop scene. Last […]
Notes on a Nation for Sale: How The Koch Brothers & a Blackwater PR Executive Picked a Fight with The Sparrow Project
Long Island, NY — On July 8th, 2012 The Sparrow Project was honored to play a role in coordinating an action targeting a Romney 2012 Campaign fundraiser at the Southampton home of billionaire David Koch. This action was part of a non-partisan coalition effort with widespread support from both mainstream and grassroots groups who wished to challenge the […]
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 […]
