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    The OB Media Rundown for 1/3/12

    January 3rd, 2012 · · Daily Media Rundown, News and Announcements 2 comments

    Occupy the NH Primary: ‘Bird-Dogging Political Candidates’

    The Occupy schedule shows a busy weekend, starting Friday in Manchester with music and entertainment and a teach-in called, “Bird-Dogging Political Candidates,” led by activists Arnie Alpert and Olivia Zink. There is a “funeral procession for the American Dream” scheduled to be at Saint Anselm College during Saturday’s debate. Other catchy lecture titles include:

    http://tinyurl.com/7m7mhuf

    Occupy New Hampshire Primary

    Two Occupy protesters braved freezing temperatures in Laconia, New Hampshire, on Thursday to stand silently outside a Rotary lunch meeting where Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman made his 130th campaign appearance in the state. They held a sign that read “Occupy NH Primary” and also a large mock ballot with a tick next to a “We the People” option instead of the Republican or Democrat options.

    http://tinyurl.com/7trxk7u

    Occupy Iowa caucus protesters storm Democrats’ war room

    A newly-opened Democrat “war room” in Iowa found itself under siege on Sunday night, when a group of Occupy Iowa caucus protesters infiltrated the premises and demanded to meet senior Democrat officials.

    Abour 15 protesters entered the base at the Renaissance Savery hotel, complaining they were being prevented from meeting with Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Some gained access to what the DNC is calling their war room – a centralised space set aside for providing press briefings during the Iowa caucuses – before being escorted out by police.

    http://tinyurl.com/7nyjrud

    Democrats continue to stonewall Occupiers in Iowa: Protests respond by holding mass ‘die in’

    The event was conducted at the Hotel Savery at 401 Locust Street in downtown Des Moines Monday afternoon. Witnesses said protesters laid down on the floor of the hotel’s lobby and refused to leave. Twelve people were arrested for trespassing. The group said it wanted to talk to Democratic Party officials that were working in the building. The protesters said the die-in showed how corporate money in politics is killing U.S. democracy.

    http://tinyurl.com/88jkdso

    The Morning Crawl. There are 864 stories in today’s crawl, a compilation of RSS news feeds from MSM and major alternative media. Go here for the crawl or click the “continue reading” link below to continue reading the digest, which has much fewer links but may include more articles from smaller  sources and commentators that publish less frequently.

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    The OB Media Rundown for 1/1/12

    January 1st, 2012 · · Daily Media Rundown, News and Announcements Comments Off on The OB Media Rundown for 1/1/12

    New: ‘The Morning Crawl’,  a wide-ranging RSS feed roundup with an Occupy breakout section. There are 842 stories in today’s crawl. Due to different search modalities, the crawl and digest below may differ in their search results so scan both if you have the time.

    http://procesverbal.dyndns-blog.com/NewsFeeds.html

    Morning digest

    ‘Action in the street’ – Occupy Boston invites revelers to pen resolutions

    It wasn’t exactly Occupy First Night, but the self-dubbed 99 percenters managed to lay claim to a share of yesterday’s citywide New Year’s celebration. “Action in the street is what we’re all about,” said Ben Janos, an Occupy Boston activist, as he and several protestors handed out “We are the 99%” buttons in Copley Square.

    http://tinyurl.com/7las3mt

    Boston says goodbye to 2011

    But not everyone came to celebrate. The crowd included members of Occupy Boston, the protest group evicted earlier this month from their two-month encampment on Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. A small group stood with a red wagon draped in a miniature canvas tent emblazoned with the message, “You can’t evict an idea.”

    “We really want to get the message out that we’re still here,” said Kevin Maley, 27, of South Boston as he handed out “We are the 99%” buttons. “Our objective is to keep the movement going and connect with people.”

    http://tinyurl.com/6r45w2c

    Movement Man – Meet Chris Faraone, Occupy reporter for the Boston Phoenix

    Over the past few bleary-eyed months, with little concern for health, nutrition, or REM cycles, Faraone has spent almost every waking hour honing his insight into America’s economic counterculture. He has covered Occupy like a one-man swarm: embedding full-time at Boston’s Dewey Square encampment; visiting other movements around the country; juggling feature stories, blog posts, radio spots, and Twitter fights. The recent eviction and dispersal of the Occupy Boston HQ turned into a marathon two-day reporting session interrupted only by a three-hour nap and a French Dip sandwich. “I’ve stayed up twenty-four hours in the past couple of weeks more than I ever have in my life,” he says. “I’m so used to holding my piss at this point that I forget to go.”

    http://tinyurl.com/7sb9gf2

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    The OB Media Rundown for 12/30/11

    December 30th, 2011 · · Daily Media Rundown One comment

    Judge makes decision about Twitter use in private session

    A Suffolk Superior Court judge made a decision in a private conference during a hearing held yesterday about a Twitter user linked to Occupy Boston, but it will be stayed for 10 days to allow attorneys to appeal, a court official said yesterday.

    http://tinyurl.com/chzdojh

    Twitter user ‘amused’ by DA’s probe

    An apparent target of the Suffolk District Attorney’s Twitter subpoena – part of a probe into alleged hacking of Boston police email – claims to have nothing to do with the case, and finds it entertaining that authorities want the microblogging site to cough up personal information.

    “Suffice to say it amused me greatly. I won’t be losing any sleep over it,” the tweeter, who goes by the name GuidoFawkes, told the Herald via email from Wexford, Ireland, last night. “I hadn’t even heard of the Occupy Boston crowd until this blew up. I’m a firm believer in the benefits of free enterprise capitalism and don’t sympathise with their aims.”

    http://tinyurl.com/c8wyr7y

    (CNN) Occupy Boston activist’s Twitter info subpoenaed

    A decision by Massachusetts prosecutors to subpoena the Twitter records of an Occupy Boston activist, as well as records linked to two Twitter hashtags, has free speech advocates up in arms, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment.

    http://tinyurl.com/br4nor4

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    The OB Media Roundup 12/29/11

    December 29th, 2011 · · Daily Media Rundown 2 comments

    Occupy blogger fighting subpoena

    The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is fighting on behalf of a blogger with apparent Occupy Boston ties who has been subjected to a subpoena that authorities filed through a social media site.

    Peter Krupp, an attorney from Lurie and Krupp LLC, who is working on behalf of the ACLU, said the ACLU has moved to have the subpoena, sent to Twitter, quashed on First Amendment grounds. A hearing has been continued to today in Suffolk Superior Court.

    http://tinyurl.com/cpchr7k

    Suffolk court is occupied by Twitter

    A judge is expected to decide today whether to unseal court documents involving prosecutors’ attempts to obtain Twitter user information – including from an account linked to Occupy Boston – as part of a probe into the alleged hacking of Boston police email.

    Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol S. Ball temporarily sealed the case yesterday during a brief conference requested by Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Benjamin A. Goldberger.

    http://tinyurl.com/cahke6p

    Twitter Subpoena Reveals Boston PD Is After User Information

    It appears as though Twitter has ignored request from the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney’s office that a subpoena for user information be kept under wraps.

    http://tinyurl.com/cab8ncs

    Occupy the future – As it evolves, the movement is building on a network laid down in the encampments

    After barreling straight ahead for more than three months, Occupy is at its first fundamental turning point. Encampments in city after city have been eviscerated and plowed under. In Boston, after a judge ruled that the Dewey Square Occupation wasn’t protected as free speech, protesters – with the help of police – broke camp and dispersed. All this while critics say the movement has to either take a new form or perish.

    But in fact, Occupy has been moving toward that new form for months. Since early October, hundreds of activists from Occupations nationwide have been building connections by phone, e-mail, and Internet relay chats. Now, despite lower public visibility, this network is metamorphosing into something stronger and more sustainable – approaching what renowned group dynamics guru Clay Shirky calls “movement nirvana.”

    http://tinyurl.com/bq3poal

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    The OB Media Rundown for 12/28/11

    December 28th, 2011 · · Daily Media Rundown 4 comments

    BPD Subpoenas Occupy Boston Twitter Accounts, Mistakenly Confuses Handles & Hashtags

    Perhaps what’s most interesting about the subpoena, though, is that the BPD and the DA don’t seem to understand Twitter at all. First, “Guido Fawkes” is the user name associated with the account @p0isAn0N, not a separate account. On top of that, @p0isAn0N tweeted earlier today that the BPD actually meant to target @p0isAnon, a different account associated with Anonymous.

    Second, @OccupyBoston is an account that has been inactive since March 2010. The subpoena most likely meant to target @Occupy_Boston, the unofficial official account for the Occupy Boston movement. Similarly, for #d0xcak3, they most likely meant user @DoxCak3, who has ties to Anonymous, although it’s unclear.

    http://tinyurl.com/d7umsme

    Twitter Subpoena Reveals Law Enforcement Monitoring OWS Via Social Media

    Twitter has been subpoenaed for information related to Occupy supporters’ accounts, proving that law enforcement agencies have been monitoring OWS supporters’ activity on social media. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts is fed up with being mocked, ridiculed, and criticized by faceless Tweeters, so it’s taking matters into its own hands.

    http://tinyurl.com/7jmnh2e

    DA cautioned over Twitter subpoenas

    A prominent civil liberties -advocate is warning prosecutors to tread lightly as they subpoena information on the Twitter handles linked to the hacking of -Boston police email. The Suffolk District Attorney’s Office asked Twitter to stay mum abut its subpoena for user information, but one user targeted was among the first to post a link to a copy of the -subpoena.

    “Never declare war on the young,” said Harvey Silverglate, a noted civil libertarian. “They’ll outlast you. They’ll outthink you. They’ll outdo you. … That may be the lesson the DA’s office is about to learn.”

    http://tinyurl.com/83z3twb

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