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By Drew Grant 12/13/11 1:11pm

Occupy Wall Street

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Squidding at Sachs (Next Media Animation)

Taiwanese Animation Studio takes on Goldman Sachs' Vampire Squidding (Video)

Yesterday, we wrote a lot about the Occupy Wall Street protesters who put on giant vampire squid puppets and marched down to Goldman Sachs headquarters at 200 West End. Their message may have ended up getting lost in translation, but it did make for an amazing video from Big Apple TV, the New York-centric spin-off of Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio that has brought us American pop-culture in weird, cartoonish installments since about 2010-ish.

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By Drew Grant 12/12/11 2:30pm

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Photos via Stephen Dewyer

Update: OWS Marches to Goldman Sachs Amidst Vampiric Squid Puppets, Promptly Arrested (Video)

Update: The video below also contains footage of The New York Times’ credentialed freelance photographer Robert Stolarik being barred from covering the arrests. Read about it here.

Earlier today, as we noted, Occupy Wall Street marched in solidarity of their West Coast counterparts as they attempted to shut down the major ports of commerce used by global financial banking and security firm Goldman Sachs.

The protesters, carrying and wearing giant squid outfits to represent what Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi described when talking about Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” marched from Zuccotti Park to Sacks HQ at 200 West Street. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/12/11 9:41am

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"Do or do not, there is no try."- OWS

Occupy Wall Street Marches Against Goldman Sachs; Incorporates 'Star Wars,' Vampires

Today is a great day to march against those capitalist fat-cats if you happen to live on the West Coast, on a day that OWS has called “Occupy Strikes Sachs.” (Get it??) Protesters will disrupt ports from Anchorage to San Diego in an effort to block Goldman Sach’s daily shipment order of $705 million in cargo.

But don’t worry…if you live in New York, you can still help out by marching to Sach’s headquarters. Read More

By Drew Grant 12/09/11 4:28pm

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Children + Cops = Cutest mass arrests ever! (FoxTongue)

OWS Co-Opts Anti-Bullying Message to Apply to NYPD Vs. Your Kids

In a very clever campaign swipe, Occupy Wall Street is now co-opting this year’s trendy “anti-bullying”  message–championed by Dan Savage, Lady Gaga, and the cast of Glee– and turned it into an “Stop Bullying Us, Ray Kelly and Michael Bloomberg” initiative. Starring your kids…marching in solidarity with the 99%! Because the police can’t pepper spray children (fingers crossed). Read More

By Drew Grant 12/06/11 6:12pm

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Occupy Your Home (Vimeo)

Occupy Our Homes: OWS Encouraging Families to Move Back Into Foreclosed Homes, But is the Law on Their Side?

As the housing bubble burst and home foreclosures has become lucrative business for some shady firms here in NYC, it’s unsurprising that Occupy Wall Street’s latest movement “Occupy Our Homes” involves eviction-squatting. Today, Occupy Wall Street and over two dozen of its branches across the United States have begun to “give back” the homes that families lost during foreclosure, by helping move residents back into their residence and disrupting public auctions of bank-owned houses. Since at the very least this plan involves breaking and entering, we have to wonder: where are the police, who never miss an opportunity to attend an OWS party?

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By Drew Grant 12/03/11 5:39pm

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LentSpace Park, which protestors hope to occupy.

Update: Occupy Wall Street Launches Hunger Strike Against Trinity Church; Demands Use of Vacant Lot

Update: The New York Observer received a correspondence from a spokesperson on behalf of Trinity Wall Street. The letter is posted below the original article.

While Midtown is teeming with jugglers and puppeteers for its Occupy Broadway debut, another, less festive demonstration is going on downtown. In an effort to convince Trinity Wall Street, an Episcopal church downtown, to let Occupy Wall Streeters use a vacant area of land it owns on Canal and Sixth Avenue, the protesters are going on a hunger strike. Read More