Protest Reports

23 April 2012

Report from the ground at Occupy Wall Street

There were protests by OWS at Federal Hall National Memorial on Friday April 20, 2012, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange.

Before OWS protestors moved to the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial on Monday...

18 April 2012

Citizens protest for tax justice outside Columbus office of Senator Rob Portman

Tom Over

We need street theater and music. These issues are too important to leave to chants. But some of them were “We got to beat, beat beat back the corporate attack,” and “Rob Portman robs the poor man” and “1,2,3, 4, 5, everybody for the...

27 March 2012

The National Occupation of Washington, DC Seeks to Lift Occupy to New Levels With Powerful Educational Programs

Kevin Zeese

The National Occupation of Washington, DC which begins on March 30th and ends on April 30th will include protests, music and art but its anchor is education of the movement.

The major educational activities begin on April 2nd...

20 January 2012

Corporations Are Not People. Money Is Not Speech.

Tom Over

Those two key ideas were written on protest signs and they were sung and shouted thru the 25 degree air when about 70 people of a variety of ages gathered near the federal courthouse on Marconi Boulevard. Columbus joined communities all...

10 January 2012

American Electric Power Target of Symbolic Citizen's Arrest

Tom Over

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20 November 2011