Take off your bras and get ready to burn them! Not only is it the first day of May, but it's also the return of everybody's favorite movement, The Occupiers!
It was an ugly scene today in Downtown Albany when police went in and took down the Occupy Albany camp. They even had to use pepper spray on several protesters.
When I heard about this, I immediately had a flash of the Monty Python sketch of the Spanish Inquisition. Just the way I found out made it kind of ironic and funny. I found out about this, on Facebook. Yes, the most heavily trafficked social networking website in the world. The irony of course that flash mobs are supposed to be a surprise and it was a posted public event. "Nobody expects the
Time will tell whether Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha’s involvement with the Occupy Movement will find its way into any of his future song lyrics. But for now, the rapper and rocker has written a poem for those who have been motivated into action by corporate greed and the division between those who have and those who have not.
The City of Albany as laid out some new rules for the Occupy Albany protest group. It includes limiting the number of tents they can have on site as well as the number of porta-potties. As they say, if you don't like, go home.
Police in Oakland, California took back the space outside of City Hall on Tuesday, but a short 12 hours later hundreds of protesters came back forcing them to use tear gas on them.