Pre-Occupied The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street. by Mattathias Schwartz [New Yorker]

Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally Lasn will run a page with his own looped cursive scrawl on it. From this absorbing work, Lasn acquired the habit of avoiding the news after dark. So it was not until the morning of Tuesday, November 15th, that he learned that hundreds of police officers had massed in lower Manhattan at 1 A.M. and cleared the camp at Zuccotti Park. If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest—Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began thinking of reasons that this might be a good thing.

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"Occupy Now" involved in anti-fur protest at Neiman Marcus? [cbs]

(CBS) DALLAS - It's already hard enough to get a handle on the goals of the Occupy Now protesters - but is it possible the movement also had a hand in an animal rights protest in Dallas on Black Friday?

Authorities said Friday's demonstration at the Neiman Marcus flagship store involved throwing paper cups of fake blood at window displays, and ended with two people in jail, CBS Dallas reported.

Neiman Marcus spokeswoman Ginger Reeder says the store by fur protesters every year on Black Friday. Reeder says People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is normally behind the protest, but this year a group calling itself Occupy Now was claiming to have organized it.

Members said they staged the protest with a group calling itself Animal Connection of Texas.

However, Occupy Dallas quickly took to its facebook page to claim Occupy Now was an offshoot group and that they were not responsible.

A police report estimates damage to the store ate around $3,000. According to the report the two people who threw the blood onto the building were arrested without incident.

They were charged with criminal mischief.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57332405-504083/occupy-now-involved-in-anti-fur-protest-at-neiman-marcus/

Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power [video]

Democracy Now

How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from "the outrage phase" to the "hope phase," and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. "Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power," a panel discussion hosted by The Nation magazine and The New School in New York City, features Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore; Naomi Klein, best-selling author of the "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"; Rinku Sen of the Applied Research Center and publisher of ColorLines; Occupy Wall Street organizer Patrick Bruner; and veteran journalist William Greider, author of "Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country." [includes rush transcript]

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