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By Foster Kamer, Adrianne Jeffries and Drew Grant 11/20/11 5:10pm

Occupy Wall Street

A poster for the protest

Your Daily Occupy Wall Street Primer: A 24-Hour Drum Circle at Mayor Bloomberg’s Mansion, No RSVP Necessary!

(Though not intended to be all-inclusive, this page will be updated as events occur. Have a suggestion? Leave it in the comments!)
Contents
Key Organizers and Affiliated Groups
NYPD and the City’s Reaction
Media Coverage: Must Reads
Celebrity Support

Latest Updates

Update, Day 64: Newt Gingrich continues to call Occupiers names. A 24-hour drum circle begins outside Mayor Bloomberg’s mansion, while in Oakland, police manage to clear Occupiers out of their camps “without incident.”

Update, Day 63: The second marriage in Zuccotti Park…and it’s a gay wedding! A video of police using spray on  University of California’s demonstrators enrages protesters around the nation. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 11/10/11 12:44am

Confrontations

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Class War? Occupy Wall Street, Unions Protest at Sotheby's–8 Arrested [VIDEO]

You could hear them a block away; their whistles and chants preceded them. About a hundred protesters stood outside Sotheby’s at the beginning of the auction house’s contemporary evening sale, the last important art sale of the year. ”We’re fired up! Won’t take it no more!” The crowd outside Sotheby’s was made up of N.Y.P.D., the auction house’s security, students from Hunter College, union members and Scabby, the oversize balloon rat who never seems to miss a strike, as well as a Scabby-sized balloon fat cat who squeezed a cigar in one paw and a union worker in the other. Picketers hoisted cutouts of the heads of Sotheby’s COO and CEO at the ends of long poles. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 11/08/11 1:44pm

Modern Justice

East Village Slumlord Must Now Answer to Twitter

Some East Village residents are about to bring the social media pain on Jakobson Properties, the no-fee rental shop that notoriously cuts corners when it comes to building maintenance. EV Grieve noticed these signs around the neighborhood, encouraging tenants to tweet their complaints about piles of trash, leaky roofs, lack of hot water, power outages and so on to @Jakobson_fix_it, ideally with a photo. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 11/07/11 9:24am

Sad Endings

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In Which It Is Affirmed That JFK Is No Place for a Cat

We thought we’d closed the book on Jack the Cat when the feline, lost during a mishap in American Airlines baggage handling, was found after two months and rushed to a vet. The story seemed set for a Disney ending. But sadly, malnutrition and dehydration wore Jack down, and he has died despite intensive care. “Jack has gone over the rainbow bridge,” writes the administrator of the Facebook group that publicized news about the lost cat. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 11/02/11 2:26pm

GADGET SITES

The Verge: Editor Explains How Aol Exodus Begat Bankoff-Bankrolled Blog

The Verge launched yesterday in the early a.m. without a hitch: a sleek tech news site complete with longer analysis, forums, a product database and a Q&A with insanely-popular Apple blogger John Gruber to ensure a nice inaugural traffic boost.

"For me, this was an idea that was forming for a long time," said Josh Topolsky, former Engadget editor and current editor and co-founder of the new site. The editor—Jimmy Fallon's gadget consultant and electronic musician—was getting notes from co-workers as he spoke to Betabeat this morning by phone ("26, 27 editorially-focused employees? Okay, I'm being told it's 29").  Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 10/26/11 11:26am

Cats!

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Jack the Cat, Facebook-Famous Feline, Has Been Found at JFK

It’s an airport miracle! Jack the Cat, who went missing during baggage handling by American Airlines two months ago, has been found alive.

Search parties were organized via Facebook and American Airlines papered JFK with missing cat fliers; but the chances of finding the cat had started to look slim. “The chances of Jack surviving or being returned readily get minimized each and every day,” one former communications representative for United Airlines told The Observer last week. “It’s a very dangerous place, an airport. Lot of moving parts and moving vehicles and moving machinery.”

And yet somehow Jack managed to avoid them all. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 10/21/11 1:14pm

The Education of Occupy Wall Street

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Occupy Wall Street Upgrades Duct-Taped Donation Buckets

Occupy Wall Street is lookin’ more profesh by the minute. The movement’s finance committee has replaced the paint and water gallon buckets it was using to collect $1,000 a day in cash donations with lockboxes chained in place. “Occupy Wall Street General Fund,” the box says in Sharpie, marking one of the movement’s first blatant attempts to establish a centralized authority. The lockboxes are “official;” the kids with the bucket labeled, “$ FOR PUPPIES,” are not.

The old method:

By Adrianne Jeffries 10/18/11 9:03pm

Cats!

jack the cat

Unhappy Jack! American Airlines’ Meowing PR Headache

Don’t worry kitty, they’re coming for you. The search for the fugitive long-haired tabby was still on in Far Rockaway when we checked in with American Airlines this week. “We continue our efforts to search for Jack and we remain hopeful that he will be found,” said Ned Raynolds, a representative for the company, from whose care the cat escaped about six weeks ago in the jungle of J.F.K. International Airport. “We haven’t given up.” Read More