Shepard Fairey Designs 'Occupy Hope' Poster

 

Artist Shepard Fairey has designed a new poster for the 99 Percent Movement featuring a protester in a Guy Fawkes mask, based on his iconic image of Obama.

(via think progress)

Tonight, Queer Rising Will Occupy Times Square

Where do queer homeless kids go on Xmas? That's what the ginormous billboard above Times Square's Forever 21 will ask passersby beginning at 6 p.m., as Queer Rising stages a demonstration below. The billboard will also offer the curious a phone number to call, if they really want to know about the unlucky kids' holiday plans: "Cuomo: 518-474-8390."

The homeless youth population is disproportionately made up of LGBT folk. And what scant resources are availible to them are chronically under-funded and under-licensed.

Watch Scott Lively Get Occupied

Scott Lively, the Christian fundie fellow who may or may not have helped to put Uganda's LGBT population in mortal danger, has been Occupied. Yesterday, a whole mess of LGBT folk and their allies turned up at his Springfield, MA, coffee shop (Holy Grounds) to mic check the hate away. Watch the video, AFTER THE JUMP ...

[Thanks to Joe. My. God. for sending this around this morning. Good find!]

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BENETTON: The View takes on the 'UnHATE' campaign.

ROBOTBOYS: Dubsteppin.

DOMINANT JEANS: I wonder if they make a submissive pair, too?

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: The raid on Zuccotti Park.

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NYPD Reportedly Drag OWS Protester by Her Hair: VIDEO

Dozens were arrested earlier today at Occupy Wall Street protests, USA Today reports.

Police said about 75 were arrested, including a woman in a wheelchair who was trying to block traffic. There was some minor scuffling as those arrested refused to walk and were carried away. Protesters had to break into two groups as they encountered police at each intersection leading to the exchange. Broadway was closed because of snarling traffic.

One video circulating on the web shows a woman being dragged across cement by police.

An iReporter on CNN wrote:  'We noticed that cops were pulling the girl by her hair. People starting yelling that it was police brutality. That's when I started filming,' he said."

The NYPD also dragged the woman by her backpack.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Thousands March on Wall Street: WATCH LIVE

Big march happening now. OWS is attempting to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.

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NYT update:

Hundreds of protesters attempting to reach the New York Stock Exchange left the area around Zuccotti Park around 7: 40 a.m., clashing with the police near Cedar Street as officers in riot gear tried to block their way.
Many members of the group pushed through lines formed by police, waving signs and banging drums as they moved.

“Sidewalk!” an officer shouted, shoving a protester out of the road.

Another protester held a sign nearby: “Tear down this Wall Street.”

About 8 a.m., much of the group had been stymied near Pine and Nassau Streets, as officers installed barricades and arranged themselves in tightly packed rows to prevent passage. Vehicles remained mired in traffic at this intersection, since officers had not been able to close the street in time.

UPDATE: People have been arrested.

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