United States: Occupy Wall Street Also Speaks Spanish

Mariné Pérez, 30, resident of Brooklyn, New York, did not hesitate at the moment of assuming the responsibility of coordinating the Spanish translation edition of the newspaper Occupy Wall Street Journal, the work of the movement that caused the occupation of the financial district in New York in September 2011. This Puerto Rican activist...  Read @:  Global Voices

Fixating on the Cost of Policing Occupy Protests

The excessive and gratuitous use of police at Occupy protests, especially in New York and other large cities, has led a number of people to wonder how cities are paying for the police to patrol demonstrations and encampments. Now, with a report from AP circulating, those who despise the Occupy movement or have grown impatient with it have ammunition to lash out even more...  Read more:   Fire Dog Lake