This past Saturday I was in the city and ran across a Occupy Wall Street Demonstration.
Here are a some picture I snapped with my Rebel.
We are the 99%.
This past Saturday I was in the city and ran across a Occupy Wall Street Demonstration.
Here are a some picture I snapped with my Rebel.
We are the 99%.
See What Eye See 
Wow–love these images! And congrats on Freshly Pressed!
Kathy
Thank you.
Interesting photos. I have posted photos of the St. Paul’s protest site in London at http://dayreturn.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/tea-and-empathy-photos-of-the-protest-encampment-at-st-pauls/
Best Regards,
James
Great shots. It really just made me think about the severity of the situation.
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Excellent work capturing a pivotal moment in protest history!
The world needs more people of your kind !!!
Very effecctive images. It’s interesting how much more of the feel of what is going on in a brief moment is captured by taking pictures of the stages of movement of a crowd at a street corner as they pass. More or less static camera, moving event. Much more personal and involving. Many thanks for these images.
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people last I seen on tva.canal in Quebec capital are doing the same here. but there tenting out. those who are affected keep going with a peaceful protest. to show the world . greed has to stop. and sharing is more better then to horde money.
Can’t say I’m 100% behind the methods but I am 101% behind the cause. Nice shots by the way.
Thank you. Being down there showed me a different side.
Thank you for showing this different side which is not so present in big media.
YES! I am totally with OWS. I hope to get down to the next Occupy Dallas when I can. We have to push hard and make our voices heard if we want change to come. Keep up the good work!
Thanks you. Hope they hear our voices.
Glad you got to capture the moment. I feel like there should be more documented about this generally cause just so much happens everyday.
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Gotta love that Rebel :). Thanks for the great shots and congratulations on getting Freshly Pressed.
Thank you. I love this camera.
I love The Occupied Wall St Journal! Keep the faith NY Occupiers! They can take your tents but they can’t take your freedom! :p
Wow, look at the image of the woman holding the “Occupy Wall Street not Palestine” sign. Great job with the anti-semitism, OWS. No wonder these folks aren’t taken seriously by either side of the political spectrum.
I can’t take you seriously witht hat hat, either.
Uhhhhhhh…I think you are missing the most important point…
How is saying “Don’t Occupy Palestine” antisemitism? I am not an anti-Semite, and I would still say give Palestine back to the Palestinians.
To the writer of this post: great images! I took some shots of both OWS in NYC and Occupy DC (shown on my blog) but they weren’t anywhere near as good as these. Whether or not you agree with the protest, these images are powerful.
Image 1591…I should paste a sign like that on my coat, front and back…As an African American residing in Europe, I have had my share of frustrating police harassment…predominantly in France and Germany…An occurrence in Germany beckoned me to notify Amnesty International and the American Consulate in Berlin and Strasbourg, France. The police backed w-a-y off of me after I hired a German lawyer to represent me. They(German police) don’t bother me anymore…and by that I mean they look the other way when I approach the borders…The French police? Well, that is a different story…recently had an alteracation with six of them after I reversed into the street to merge into traffic…(I was coming from a doctor’s appointment, and had just received shocking news…They(six police officers) tailed behind me with a flickering light, and demanded that I follow them..Shocked, I pulled over, only to be screamed at, and terribly ridiculed…My neck in a brace, surrounded by xrays in two huge envelopes in the passenger side of my car, and a confirmation of my health(written in the French language), I offered these documents to them, which they took greedily, only to fumble through. I explained to them that I had just come from the doctor with shocking news, and they ignored all that I said. However, they tried to insinuate that I was simply a drama queen. (One police officer opened my back door and asked if I had drugs). No lie! They took my car keys, my passport, and told me I couldn’t drive anymore. They failed to phone my daughter or my doctor(at my request) and just acted insanely rude…I Crying and in shock, I intuitively knew that I could not be taken away by these screaming faces in blue. I asked to see a doctor. They phoned an ambulance and the ambulance came and took me to the hospital..A police officer came later and delivered my passport, car keys and a slip of paper with the street address where my car was parked. Later, after calming down, I was able to give the hospital nurse the name of a friend who fetched me. My blood pressure was ovrer 150.
I totally feel for all folk involved at Occupy Wall Street. I pray for the safety of the women and adolescents who spend the night unprotected.
Beware of dirty cops!!!
If I were there, I would be carrying my sign, “We don’t feel no ways tired, we don’t have anything incriminating, but we are hungry!” Thank you for the photos!
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The truth is, Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are socialists and communists who hate freedom. They have an agenda that includes taking freedom away. They want government to be all powerful so it can take freedom away from the people who love freedom.
They hate the free market. They hate Christianity. They hate Israel (Jews). They hate success. They preach love and tolerance, when they, with their profanity, have none.
What they love is Castro’s socialism, Hugo Chavez’s socialism, North Korean socialism, and President Obama’s socialism. They pretend to be oppressed (they know they really are not) in order to achieve oppression.
President Obama ought to be ashamed of what he and those he has sent out into the street are attempting to do to their fellow Americans.
Connie
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They were at an Obama fundraiser last night protesting the money he was raising for his campaign from the rich and connected. If you think this is being run by Obama, you are dead wrong. Have you been to an Occupy? Doesn’t sound like it.
Yes I have been to an Occupy. I was down there for Thanksgiving with food form those still at the park to eat. Thanks
Sorry, I was a asking ConnieW. But thanks for answering. 🙂
LOl…Okay Cool
There is no free market. Neither you, nor your parents, nor your parents grandparents, have ever lived in a ¨free market economy.¨ That assumption on your part is the critical error in your foundational argument. Hhhmm, seems worshipping dollar bills, as the fat cats, and most americans, on wall street do, may be just a bit, uh, unchristian, don´t you think? I think that might break a couple of commandments, there.
So capital-ism : holding the value of a piece of paper as above all other concerns, is good? While social-ism: holding the value of human social realtionships above all other concerns, is bad? I just don´t quite get that . ..
Image 1579 ….the young woman with the sign…..poignant photo…she saddens me…the grammatical error(I was an English major) isn’t as important as her need for love…
I really don’t appreciate it when the men and women who risk their lives every day to protect us are portrayed as part of this problem. Our peace officers and our soldiers are the reason we have the freedom to protest and I am eternally grateful for their service.
Stay strong NY – the original “Occupy” – Here in Arizona, the movement grows. Personally, I am “occupying” in the hopes that my grandson will not be subjected to a dictatorial, corporate government representing & propagating its own self-interest.
— Sensei John
Hello, I’m a student studying Photography in England. This same movement is happening in St Paul’s in London. Here’s the link if you’d like to take a look at some of the images I managed to capture. http://melissastapleton.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/london-occupancy-documentary/
There’s other post’s of there about this movement too!
Thanks for checking out my blog. I visited yours and you have good shots. Keep on snapping.
These are great shots. Awesome job on capturing so many of the different posters. Congrats on being freshly pressed!
Thanks a million.
Exactly, Dounia. The images capture a lot of the frustration so many ordinary people are feeling. Plus it’s a good example of the diversity of NYC 🙂
Great photos!!!
Thanks you.
Thank you for putting the pictures out there and letting people draw their own conclusions. A true artist. Well done.
Thank you. There are always 3 sides to a story.
Powerful photos. Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks you
in the right place, in the right time – nice shots. and greatly fitting name for your camera to be in the 99% crowd 😉
ciao
Thanks…Ciao
Great job!! You totally captured the feel of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, at least as I’ve experienced it. Great to see all those faces. We are the 99% 🙂
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Nice to see a bit more of the reality occupying wall street rather than the goofies that the media broadcast.
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Great post
Thanks a million
These photographs tell thousands of words and convey my deepest emotions. I feel chocked up viewing them. I was born in the 1960s so this unrest I guess is in my blood.
Thank you. I wanted to go see for myself. And it is truly different from what the main media portrays.
Don’t let up. Keep going and don’t stop. To all the Youth: there were protestors before you, now you are one of them. Don’t quit like the others, there is too much at stake.
Thanks for your unselfish sharing and yes–your bravery– with this blog, this post! I have been tweeting about you for months! I am most PLEASED to be in the 99% while being very DISPLEASED with the 1%! And I am a white Southern mother and grandmother, about to be 65, with a college eductation, two very brilliant and successful and well-educated adult children and daugther-inlaw and two very bright and gifted preschool granchildren. We must never let the world forget that it needs US far more than THEM!
Thanks for stopping by to view my blog. Have a wonderful 65th when it comes.
What interesting pictures. Facinating to see so many people from all walks of life taking part. Loved also reading the signs. :o)
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Super on-the-ground pics, Nik! Two signs that really grabbed my attention were: “Who says crime doesn’t pay” and “Occupy Wall Street Instead of Palestine. The only criticism I have of the “occupiers” is that there are too many voices directed at too many issues.
There should be one voice directed at the one machine that is the cause of all the economic and financial chaos that has infected, not only America, but the Western Nations as a whole. And that one machine is the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. That parasite must be abolished. Congrats on being freshly pressed. Peace and blessings.
Thank you for stopping by. Wanted people to see what I see.
Protesters on Wall Street: hmmm… sounds familiar. But they call this thing peaceful and the tea party violent????? The Tea Party was SITTING, BEING QUIET, and holding up signs. From these pictures, the people are STANDING, not only standing, they’re WALKING, SHOUTING, PLAYING DRUMS, and holding up signs. Ummm, no, the news reporters and commentators have their heads screwed on the wrong way. Somebody needs to speak up to this issue. The world ought to know THE TRUTH.
I love the message this conveys. Thanks for giving it more publiciy.
So interesting! I’ve been taking pics around these parts too (Central Arkansas) – just haven’t had time to organize and post them in the blog.
I don’t care to make a political statement. But I would like to comment on the need for some physical conditioning for policemen!
Ronnie
Great pictures. NY is a fantastic city — you are so lucky to have been there to witness this. Congrats on being FP’d.
beautiful! inspiring people power!! ^_^
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My Father was born in Northern Italy. He came to this country in 1926 thru Ellis Island at age 16. As a child, I remember him telling my Mother, there were only two goals in his life in coming to America. One, was to speak English so good, that people would not know he came from a foreign country, and Two, he wanted the honor of being an American Citizen. My Father accomplished those goals. If he could arise from the grave today for just a little while, he would immedatedly get ill again, and die quickly out of observation of these bums who fill our streets and parks with their dope, and their shit! These people only bring dishonor to our land.
It’s wonderful to see people of all ages involved. It’s not just kids at the universities,so I don’t think this will die out soon.
Very nice shots. I like the guy who looks a little like Dennis Quaid in the olive drab jacket giving you the thumbs-up with the creepy smile, best.
~RCS
i hope US government make good things to make the life of US people better, my good wishes from Saudi Arabia ^_^ .
Occutards – What a disgusting pathetic display of human debris. I can almost smell the stench.
nice shots! i also had the chance to visit Zucotti Park abt a month and half ago. check out my experience at http://voodooxchpstks.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/wall-street-under-arrest/
Excellent excellent work! OMG, now I actually feel guilty for not being there. Perfect, see how effective your blog is! The signs are incredible. The guy’s sign about protecting our children, the card board box that says “who said crime does not pay”. The lady with the banner, “occupy Wall Street not Pakistan”. It is like actually being there because these people are us. “we” or “we the people”. Excellent blogging. Best I have seen today.
These are some really fantastic photos!
I keep wondering what occupy a wall street is all about Other than being jealous about someone else’s fortune. Granted the financial markets of been slandered some of the biggest group of been arrested .
Brilliant. Thanks so much for being there.
This is REAL journalism, Nikki. The messages of those panels are right not for Wall Street Demonstration only, but for every demonstration today in the World.
I put a link to your blog on my FB page.
Thank you for re-posting
What interesting photos, it’s amazing it’s still going on!
Nice pictures. The thing that struck me most was the sheer diversity of the protestors. Of course, that made me look at the pictures of the cops again, and yep, there’s diversity there too, it’s just that your eyes are drawn to the uniform. And that’s why I’m uncomfortable with the 1%/99% slogans – they lump the opposition into a homogenous group and the reality is far more complicated than that. Maybe that’s why a photographic record of all this is going to ultimately be of more value than the millions of words written about Occupy worldwide (and I speak as someone who’s blogged quite a few of those words!).
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed.
Great pictures! I went to the London camp at St Pauls and thought the whole thing was pretty inspiring.
I LOVE ANURAG SINGH
Sum’s up the Movement, showing its people from all aspects of society not just “the Hippies”
I love the guy holding the “Pizza is not a vegetable” sign. He’s protesting about something that seems pretty insignificant at first, until you realise it’s just showing how mental the world has become! Saying pizza is a vegetable is getting around rules about healthy lunches; how many other rules are they ‘getting around’ by finding loopholes? Ones involving money, mostly!
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Amazing! Vibe of revolution!!!
Cool pictures.
These people are doing exactly what needs to be done. Once the political hierarchy understands the some of the public has been rattled to the point of cognitive contempt, they will attempt to control the situation as if it were an infestation. This exercise in futility only goes so far, as we’ve seen. The second violence takes hold, these groups of people will spearhead a now martyred movement that not only has a logical spine to it, but the support and empathy of others alike who have been driven from their careers and financial security because of the beasts of avarice.
We can only hope that this sparks a national intellectual revolution, as it would be the first step to securing our nation, more than a decade into the new century. Excellent photos, by the way. You definitely captured the lifestream of heart that these people are putting into this protest.
I like the photos as well “Link things has to be shown to have a secure nation.
Couldn’t agree more! 🙂
I support 1%. The 1% own the 99% and the 99% are getting pissed off about it. The 1% say they worked for it, but somehow now a lot has changed from the medieval period where lords governed absolutely. Now they just own everything in sight.
wow!
Great pictures!
Thank you for sharing!
Great Images. People are wanting hope because of the bad economy. Even though most people around me like my family does not agree with occupy wall street movement.
Well shot. Thanks for sharing!
Thank goodness finally some Occupy news on FreshlyPressed. Congrats!!!
wow this is great article. I liked your article. very beneficial for us. Thank you.
You could be credited as best fotoreporter of the event. Is nothing alike in the media footages.
Thank you so much. I really do appreciate that.
Snapshots of these crowds are doing nothing but fueling the movement……. thanks for the support
Hey, subtle must be your mddile name. Great post!
Great photos read my post on Occupy the vote
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