Day 86: Live Coverage of the Occupy Movement

Special Coverage:Â As we enter Day 86 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event.

Occupy Moves to the Home Front

Nathan Schneider, Op-Ed: Occupy Wall Street found a new home this week—not a new park, or a plaza, or a square, but a house. Just weeks after the eviction from its encampment in the financial district, hundreds of occupiers joined local community members in a foreclosure tour of the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn through the rain, which concluded with a celebratory block party as a family reclaimed a foreclosed home owned by Bank of America. NYPD Freakout: ‘I Have a Gun on Me’ Video Report: “Arresting 18 members of the 99 Percent Movement, hundreds of New York City police displayed tense and angry behavior in response to a peaceful #D12 protest in the Winter Garden atrium, owned by Brookfield Properties, at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. ‘Don’t get in my face,’ one officer told a citizen trying to observe the arrests. ‘I have a gun on me, okay? I don’t want any people coming that close to me.’” READ  |  DISCUSS  |  SHARE Occupy the Classroom? Dani Rodrik, Op-Ed: Early last month, a group of students staged a walkout in Harvard’s popular introductory economics course, Economics 10, taught by my colleague Greg Mankiw. Their complaint: the course propagates conservative ideology in the guise of economic science and helps perpetuate social inequality. The students were part of a growing chorus of protest against modern economics as it is taught in the world’s leading academic institutions.