The 1% have foreclosed on The Fourth Estate

One of the main reasons so many people hate and/or mock the Occupy movement is that what they are seeing and hearing about it are carefully crafted lies. All major news outlets (the "mainstream media") are owned, ultimately, by the 1%, and will not report anything about Occupy that might give people a reason to think that maybe they're on to something. For example, if people had watched the live ustreams of the NYPD clearing Zuccotti Park, instead of reading the newspapers or watching television news, they would never trust newspapers or television news again.

And now this. The photographer has posted these photos at his own blog, and they are making the rounds on tumblr, but shockingly, no "real" news outlet wants anything to do with them (source):





From the photographer:

It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere. I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT [New York Times], local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph. One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer.

The photo at the Observer:



Post this everywhere. Gather as much truth as you can, and send it to everyone—especially those who think that the Occupy movement is "just a bunch of dirty hippies."

Remember facebook and email, too; we often forget just what an echo chamber we live in on dreamwidth, livejournal, and tumblr. The wider world of the United States most often does not see any of this.

Send them to this photo from Occupy Portland of a young woman, unarmed, standing still in a group of peaceful protestors, being pepper-sprayed by a cop in riot gear.

Send them to this photo from Occupy Seattle of an 84-year-old former schoolteacher being helped away after being pepper-sprayed by police after "refusing to disperse."

Do not allow the people around you to continue to believe the lies being told about the Occupy movement. Do not let up. Show them the truth.