Kevin Gosztola and Jon Walker from #OccupyDC

FDL’s Brian Sonenstein is at Zuccotti Square livestreaming from #OccupyWallStreet. He’ll be broadcasting Naomi Klein’s speech, which is scheduled to start at 6pm tonight.

I spent my morning at Freedom Plaza in Washington DC for the beginning of the October 2011 rally. While the event was heavily focused on ending the highly unpopular and expensive wars, it is also about economic justice and stopping the corporate control of government that is destroying the country for the other 99 percent. This was a protest not just against the Republican policies that started under George W Bush, but also the policies that Barack Obama chooses to continue and expand on a daily basis.

I’m at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC with Jon Walker and Kevin Gozstola, where we’ll be livestreaming the occupation. Chip in $10 to our OccupyWallStreet coverage fund and help us do what the mainstream media won’t do.

Two new national polls both find that Congress’ job approval rating has reached a new historic low. Today from the Washington Post: Just 14 percent of the public approves of the job Congress is doing, according to the latest poll. That is lower than just before the 1994, 2006 and 2010 elections, when the majority [...]

New documents obtained by ProPublica through the Freedom of Information Act provide new insights into what a complete disaster the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) has been.  HAMP was created with $50 billion from TARP funds and was supposed to facilitate mortgage modifications by reducing monthly payments for potentially millions of stressed homeowners.  But the [...]

I recently livestreamed my own arrest for protesting the Tar Sands pipeline in front of the White House, using only my iPhone. Part of the media strategy for October2011 demonstration in DC involves asking people to be the media rather than waiting for corporate media to sit up and take notice. So Kevin Zeese of October2011 [...]

One aspect of this broad and prolonged economic downturn is that more and more individuals are moving or continuing to stay in their parents’ home to save money. The impact on those between the age of 25-35, who as a group have experienced very high unemployment, has been especially profound according to new research from [...]

Dr. Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, two of the principle organizers of the October2011 protest in Washington DC, discussed their plans for the upcoming occupation of Freedom Plaza with FDL members at our recent webinar. The demonstration will start on Thursday October 6, and continue until they believe the government responds in a meaningful way [...]