While a not-so-small army of police officers barred members of the 2012 Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia from crossing a street to enter a free, public concert, Occupy Detroit live-streamer Diara Lo caught this unusual discussion. In it, a Philadelphia police liaison and several articulate Occupy members, some from New York, engage in a thoughtful, [...]

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle [...]

Residents of Detroit’s Goldengate neighborhood reported Tuesday that police visited it and ticketed some of the people who are living in abandoned houses they helped make habitable as part of the Goldengate Restoration Project, project member Erik Shelley said. Shelley, who wasn’t in the neighborhood at the time but spoke to people who were, said [...]

Listen the VTV Radio interview,  ODFP in Philadelphia with Terry Hall. Neil Kiernan brings you an inside look at what’s going on during the 2012 Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia.