Local Activist Claudia De La Cruz Nominated For Mujeres Que Inspiran Award
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Claudia De La Cruz, Founder and Executive Director of Da Urban Butterflies (DUB) Youth Leadership Development Project has been nominated as a candidate for 2012′s ‘Mujer Que Inspira by Revista Siempre Mujer’ (Women Who Inspire by Siempre Mujer Magazine). It is a well-deserved nomination and even more exciting, if she [...]
Put You On: Rich Medina x Tatyana Fazalizadeh – Get Angry
Get Angry is a collaboration between Rich Medina and painter Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Inspired by the fervor of protest that threatened to boil over in 2011, Tatyana created a series of paintings to illustrate the various movements – from Tahrir Sq to Wall St, from London to Troy Davis, from Slutwalk to the demand for gay marriage rights – [...]
Uptown 2011 Movers & Shakers: Ydanis Rodriguez – A Man of the People
By NY State Senator Adriano Espaillat (@Adriano4Senate) It’s tempting to label 2011 as the Year of Ydanis. But it wouldn’t do justice to the long, hard-fought battles he has fought – and won – on behalf of our community. Born in the Dominican Republic, Ydanis Rodriguez has activism in his DNA. From building schools to [...]
New York Family: “Occupy” Parenting | NY Press
By New York Family A mother from Inwood took her eight-year-old son out of school for the day last month to give him a lesson that she felt he wouldn’t get inside a classroom. She brought him down to Ground Zero. And then she headed uptown to Zuccotti Park for the Occupy Wall Street protests [...]
OWS Update: N17 – Pictures From The National Day of Action
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy)
End To End For The 99% March – The Video
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Flashing Lights: Paul Lomax’s Portraits of The Wall Street Occupiers
Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto)
OWS Update: National Day of Action is Today
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Ydanis Rodriguez Says Cops Assaulted Him in OWS Arrest | DNAinfo
By Shayna Jacobs MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — After spending 17 hours in jail, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he was assaulted by a cop during the dramatic sweep of Zuccotti Park that temporarily broke up the Occupy Wall Street encampment Tuesday morning. Rodriguez, bearing cuts on both sides of his face, allegedly ignored the orders [...]
State Senator Adriano Espaillat Releases Statement Regarding the Arrest of Ydanis Rodriguez
“Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is an outstanding public servant and a strong, thoughtful leader in Northern Manhattan. I am proud to continue my full support for Council Member Rodriguez because I know he is advocating for the 99% of New Yorkers who have been left behind in this economy. “Furthermore, Council Member Rodriguez and the [...]
OWS Update: Video Of Raid & Ydanis Rodriguez Arrest | ABC News
See the 1:54 mark to see Ydanis Rodrigues speak of the arrest. Also, click here for our coverage of this important march. We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com. Your email:
The Heights march downtown | NYC in Focus
The Heights march downtown from NYC in Focus on Vimeo. Occupy Wall Street moved to Washington Heights on Monday as more than 200 people gathered for a march to take over Manhattan streets. The crowd swelled to over 1000 people as they marched the 11 miles down to Zuccotti park. As they did, they passed [...]
The Uptown Tweet of the Week
Presenting the Uptown Tweet of the Week, our pick that represents the good, the bad, and the lovely in this week’s UC Twitterverse… Click here for more Uptown Tweets of the Week. Also, click here for our coverage of this important march. We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, [...]
Hundreds join 11-mile march along Broadway to Occupy Wall Street | Manhattan Times
Written by Gloria Pazmiño Northern Manhattan came out to show its support of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement this past Monday morning, as hundreds gathered on the corner of West 181st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Local residents came out holding signs, megaphones and banging on drums to take on the 11-mile trek along [...]
End To End For The 99% March – Democracy On The Move
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) Democracy is on the move. Yesterday, I could not help but be profoundly encouraged by the sheer awesomeness and magnitude of people power. On that fateful day, many of us who had never marched before decided that enough was enough. That the status quo [...]
Signs of Troubled Times – Pics From the End To End For The 99% March
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is [...]
Altagracia Guzman, 81, Marches From Washington Heights To Wall Street With Occupy Protesters | Huff Post
BY Cristina Costantini Altagracia Guzman, 81, walked slowly but purposefully from northern Manhattan to the financial district, virtually the entire length of the island, in an Occupy Wall Street demonstration intended to introduce more Latinos and blacks to the cause. “When I came here 45 years ago there was inequality and racism, and still to [...]
Uptowners to March On Wall Street | Northattan
BY Tania Rashid (@TaniaRashid) A coalition of community organizations, elected officials and labor unions plans to lead hundreds of Uptown residents from Washington Heights to Zuccotti Park on Monday. This is the first time communities of color from Northern Manhattan have organized to join the Occupy Wall Street movement. The march is expected to include [...]
They’ll Occupy themselves with an 11-mile trek from Washington Heights to Wall Street | NY Daily News
BY Michael J. Feeney Upper Manhattan leaders and residents are getting their walking shoes ready for an 11-mile walk to join the Occupy Wall Street movement in lower Manhattan. Community leaders, uptown residents and labor union representatives will come together at W. 181st St. and St. Nicholas Ave. on Monday morning to march down Broadway [...]
End To End For 99% March On Monday November 7th
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Occupy The Heights On Saturday October 29th @ McKenna Square
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