Hundreds of riot police descended on Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park after midnight, in a surprise sweep of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Occupiers are regrouping at other parks and preparing a “Shut Down Wall Street” action Thursday.
The fear of being seen as “socialist” is deep seated. It is time to get over it, and reclaim the word, as gays did the word “queer.” The concept that the Earth and its wealth belong to society must be redeemed. Everything, ultimately, is riding on it.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, in the third Internet edition of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, discusses 150 years of social struggle on New York's Lower East Side in light of the Wall Street protests.
From The Villager, Oct. 13: SUV driver arrested after assaulting pedestrian An interaction between a driver and a pedestrian in the East Village turned violent Friday evening when the former chased the latter into the St. Mark’s Bookshop, grabbed her… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The Occupy Wall Street movement is refreshingly independent from the usual sectarian factions that control left-wing protests in New York—but was called by Adbusters magazine, which activists have let off the hook for egregious anti-Semitism.
The “Truthies” and sectarians who protested in downtown Manhattan continue to fetishize 9-11 as much as the patriots they loathe. For both the patriots and the protesters, it is all about the USA—while the Muslim world is finally moving on.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for a federal investigation and Senate hearings into an Associated Press report asserting that the CIA helped the New York Police Department in spying on the city’s Musilm communities.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, exiled from New York's WBAI-FM for his political dissent, has launched the first Internet edition of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade.
A driver’s license is a license to kill. James Bond has nothing on NYC auxiliary cops. From MyFoxNY, July 3: Officer Identified In Police Van Incident The driver of the auxiliary police van who accidentally hit a [sic] killed a… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
An appeals court in New York allowed a Con Edison suit against the Port Authority to proceed. The case concerns the destruction of an electrical substation at 7 WTC, and could help clear the air on the building’s controversial collapse.
From the NY Daily News, June 17: 91-year-old Brooklyn man Milton Levine killed in hit-and-run A callous driver struck a 91-year-old man on a Brooklyn street Thursday – and sped away after he saw the victim hit the ground, sources… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Bill Weinberg‘s purge from WBAI-New York for his political dissent is protested in a NY Daily News editorial, “Noncommercial, counterculture icon WBAI radio spirals into self-destructive 9/11-conspiracy madness.”
