Mayor Slay’s website hacked by Anonymous after Kiener Plaza eviction threats
As some participants were meeting with six of the Mayor’s aides yesterday over the increasing threats from the city to evict the Occupy camp at Kiener Plaza, hackers made their way into Mayor Francis Slay’s website, retrieving the names and contact info for dozens of Slay supporters, including addresses, phone numbers and e-mails. They posted:
Occupy Patriarchy
If we want an end to capitalism, Patriarchy, too, must be destroyed. Womyn’s Discussion at Kiener Plaza, Downtown St. Louis Wednesday, November 9th at 4 pm & Sunday, November 13th at 3 pm As of now, the plan is to meet every Wednesday and Sunday. At the next discussion we will work on drafting demands […]
Carbondale: Personal Account of Strike from 11/7
The following is a personal account of Day 5 (Monday, November 7) of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Faculty strike. Today was a really amazing day on the SIUC campus. Some undergraduate students organized a rally in solidarity with the Faculty Strike — which has turned into something of an occupation, since the five members […]
SIU Carbondale strike update
The Faculty Association (tenured and tenure-track faculty) at Southern Illinois Carbondale followed through on their threat to strike last Thursday while the other 3 threatening unions reached last-minute agreements. Today the strike entered Day 5, as negotiations with university officials on Sunday night collapsed. The Occupy Carbondale movement has been organizing contniuous demonstrations to support […]
State workers stage sick-out, OccupySTL responds
With the backdrop of Oakland’s extremely successful General Strike (not successful in that we destroyed state and capital, but that Oakland was fucking shut down: many banks and businesses shut down not in support of the occupy movement, but for fear of retaliation, not to mention the always militant longshoremen union shutting down the port), […]
Interview with a U.S. Army Iraq War Veteran at Occupy STL
Eight and a half years ago, Kiener Plaza played host to heated anti- and pro-war demonstrations in the lead up to the Iraq war. Now, the plaza witnesses what is maybe a far more meaningful outburst of public discontent… During a candlelight vigil during the World Series, a local Iraq war Army veteran speaks of […]
Occupy Carbondale maintains occupation in solidarity with 4 looming strikes; March on Nov. 3
On October 22, the general assembly at nearby Occupy Carbondale (IL) released this official statement: “Whereas the reasons Occupy Carbondale chose this location, between the Bucky Dome and Gaia House on the campus of SIUC, are numerous and variable; And whereas one of those reasons was to insist that the SIUC administration give a fair contract to […]
Friday Night, Round Two
Friday night we once again took to the streets, and once again surpassed the initial goal of the march. 150-200 people left Occupied Kiener Plaza, and marched down to the Justice Center (downtown jail). We intended to hold a noise demo in solidarity with striking prisoners in California. Banners included “SOLIDARITY WITH PELICAN BAY AND […]
Friday’s Demonstrations in Images
The afternoon union-initiated march: The evening prisoner strike solidarity demonstration and more: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jgu2mPzQfQ&w=350&h=267]