Tag: Occupy Wall Street

Aaron Barr, Cybersecurity Analyst Who Was Hacked By Anonymous And Infiltrated Occupy Wall Street, Gets Fired

Aaron Barr, Cybersecurity Analyst Who Was Hacked By Anonymous And Infiltrated Occupy Wall Street, Gets Fired

NEW YORK — Just last week Aaron Barr, the former HBGary Federal CEO whose email was hacked by Anonymous in February, was ”schooling” the FBI on security and social media. Now he’s been let go from his new job at another federal contractor, Sayres and Associates. His former boss at Sayres told HuffPost it was because [...]

January 21, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Eric Cantor on occupy wall street: i’m upset democrats are ‘joining in the effort to blame others’

Eric Cantor on occupy wall street: i’m upset democrats are ‘joining in the effort to blame others’

WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) backed away from calling the Occupy Wall Street protesters “mobs” on Sunday, but he doubled-down on going after the political leaders who have condoned the movement. At the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., last week, Cantor said he was “increasingly concerned about the growing mobs [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
David Axelrod on occupy wall street: GOP doesn’t understand protests, America’s anger

David Axelrod on occupy wall street: GOP doesn’t understand protests, America’s anger

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) — A senior political adviser to President Barack Obama is charging that the Republicans seeking the presidency don’t understand the American public’s pent-up anger over corporate excesses. David Axelrod tells ABC’s “This Week” that the American people “want a financial system that works on the level. They want to get a [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Iran’s Khamenei Warns US Over Assassination Claims

Iran’s Khamenei Warns US Over Assassination Claims

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader warned the United States on Sunday that any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would elicit a “resolute” response. Two men, including a member of the Iranian special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Spreading Protests Yet to Jell

Spreading Protests Yet to Jell

ROME — Italian riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday in Rome as violent protesters hijacked a peaceful demonstration against corporate greed, smashing bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles. Elsewhere, hundreds of thousands nicknamed “the indignant” marched without incident in cities across Europe, as the “Occupy Wall Street” protests linked up with [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Occupy Wall Street Protests Around The World

Occupy Wall Street Protests Around The World

Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, tens of thousands rallied across the world this weekend to protest corporate greed and austerity measures. In London, hundreds of protesters listened to Julian Assange addressing the crowd on the steps of Saint Paul Cathedral. Protests in Rome took a violent turn as anarchists smashed [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Wall Street Protests Spread As Thousands Gather In Europe, Asia

Wall Street Protests Spread As Thousands Gather In Europe, Asia

ROME (AP) – Tens of thousands nicknamed “the indignant” marched Saturday in European cities as protests against capitalism and austerity measures went global. Violence broke out in Rome, where some protesters smashed shop windows, torched cars and attacked news crews. The “Occupy Wall Street” protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Rupert murdoch heckled at california education summit

Rupert murdoch heckled at california education summit

SAN FRANCISCO — Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement heckled News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch during a speech at an education forum Friday, accusing the media mogul of trying to profit from public education. Activists repeatedly interrupted Murdoch as he gave a keynote speech at a downtown San Francisco hotel about how technology could [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Teachers protest rupert murdoch at school summit

Teachers protest rupert murdoch at school summit

SAN FRANCISCO — Teachers in the San Francisco Bay area picketed Thursday outside an education conference that features News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as a keynote speaker, saying they believe he and other business leaders want to profit from reforms discussed at the summit. More than 100 demonstrators marched outside the Palace Hotel, which was [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Why i went to occupy L.A. instead of synagogue

Why i went to occupy L.A. instead of synagogue

A little more than a month ago, I became a Bat Mitzvah. In Judaism, that means I am now an adult and have pledged to keep the traditions of my faith. And yet it was for those very reasons that I decided to spend Yom Kippur – the holiest day of the Jewish year – [...]

October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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