Occupy Century Aluminum
75-day winter occupation by retirees ends in victory over corporate giant Century Aluminum.
Open AlbumOccupy Flint: Election Day Action, Nov. 8th
Occupy Flint supporters set up tents on the lawn at Flint City Hall along Saginaw St. downtown, were the 52nd precinct polling station is located. Planning to occupy the space for 24 hours and "stand up for the right of Americans to freely assemble and voice their grievances," they talked with voters and passed out flyers to cars driving by.
Open AlbumOccupy Oakland: General Strike
It was a day to be remembered. More than than 10,000 people, with some estimates as high as 100,000, packed the streets of downtown Oakland in response to the Occupy movement's call for a general strike to shut the city down.
Open AlbumOccupy Oakland: March Against the Police State
Several hundred Occupy Oakland supporters took to the streets Oct. 29th to speak out against the police state they feel has developed in Oakland, California. Clashes with the police earlier in the week saw OPD and officers from other districts shooting tear gas and firing rubber bullets into crowds of demonstrators, severely injuring some.
Open AlbumOccupy Oakland: Oct. 28th - 30th
Daily life in Frank H Ogawa Plaza/Oscar Grant Park where the movement is camped out.
Open AlbumOccupy Detroit: Bank of America Protest - Oct 21st
Nearly 200 Occupy Detroit protesters marched to the Bank of America branch in the Guardian Building a few blocks away from their camp at Grand Circus Park where they joined members of the UAW to demand an end to home foreclosures by the bank.
Open AlbumOccupy Lansing: Oct.15th
Close to 300 Occupy Lansing supporters gathered around the Michigan Capital Building steps for the movement's General Assembly Saturday, Oct 15th. Although this was their first large GA in Lansing, some protesters have been camped out, occupying Reutter Park a couple blocks away since Oct 9th. People with many political views and interests came from all over Michigan to attend the first official day of Occupy Lansing protests at the steps of the Capitol Building.
Open AlbumOccupy Detroit: Day 1
In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been going on in the financial district of Manhattan since Sept. 17th and others that have sprung up around the world, Occupy Detroit supporters gathered at the Spirit of Detroit statue in the heart of the city.
Open AlbumOccupy Grand Rapids: day 1
Occupy Grand Rapids, MI is one of over 1,000 cities across the US to follow the lead of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City.
Open AlbumOccupy Wall Street: March and mass arrests on Brooklyn Bridge.
Occupy Wall Street protestors made their way from Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) up Broadway to the Brooklyn Bridge. NYPD officers eventually corralled (kettled) the group of marchers behind fencing on the bridge and one by one, arrested more than 700 people.
Open AlbumOccupy Wall Street NYC: Marches through the Financial District
Occupy Wall Street protestors march through Manhattan's financial district every day at Wall Street's opening and closing bells. Each time they are surrounded by NYPD officers that often block their way and in many cases arrest them. These are some images from those marches.
Open AlbumOccupy Wall Street: Sept. 27th - 30th
Daily life in Liberty Square across from the former World Trade Center site in Manhattan's financial district and protest marches in and around Wall Street.
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