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Tag: OccupyWallStreet

The Best #OWS Anthem For Our Times: We Are The Many, By Makana

The Hawaiian musician Makana performed this song live, in an “Occupy With Aloha” t-shirt, while world leaders dined on expensive food and drank wine at the APEC dinner in early November. Oh, the irony. When asked why he did it, he replied, “Why wouldn’t I? I wrote it with the intention of people in power hearing it.”

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What Kind Of Person Pepper-Sprays An 84-Year-Old Woman?

84 year old Dorli Rainey, a former school teacher who has been active in Seattle local politics, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Women’s Movement since the 1950s, was pepper-sprayed by cops at #OccupySeattle on Tuesday. She once wrote, “I believe change begins in the streets, and all citizens have the power to make a difference.”

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