Over the past couple of years, the world hasn’t been short of tumultuous, large scale protests. From the Occupy Wall Street movement to the overthrow of leaders in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen in what’s been termed the Arab Spring, the fight for democracy across the globe has not been a silent one. The International Centre of Photography in New York is currently hosting an exhibition aimed at generating conversation about these incredible events. Work on show will be from a number of different photographers all from the centre’s own alumni, providing an incredible stretch of diversity in how the movements are portrayed. If you’re hungry to understand the world beyond your western bedroom, this unearthing exhibition will not be one to miss.

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American artist and author, Molly Crabapple, took part in the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street Movement last week which saw Lower Manhattan once again transformed into a city under siege. Crabapple was ‘inspired to see people care passionately about inequality issues’ and rallied with thousands of other protesters. Like many, Molly was arrested and held for 10 hours in a prison cell. ‘Getting arrested for a social protest is like being put through aversion therapy’, she noted. She has since produced illustrations describing the experience, including her arrest, and promoting the ethos of the movement that has won her over. ‘I would protest again’, she says.

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Jello Biafra’s video talks about DeWeaver’s ‘artistic anti-corporate stance’ can be seen on YouTube. ’I believe that one of the reasons is that these civilizations are socially addicted to ideologies, and at this moment in our history we have found ourselves in the embrace of a very powerful and dominant ideology, that being Corporatism James DeWeaver. Here is the full article on DeWeaver’s take on the Occupy Movement.

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This is a website that allows you to check out live HD streams from videocameras posted up all over the world. You can even check out some of these locations in 3D. Most of the locations are large metropolitan areas with a lot of action. Tune into the Austin, TX, stream to check out the madness going on at SXSW, laugh at tourists tooling the corners of Time Square, or catch up with the occupy movement on Wall Street. The majority of these cams are solar powered. Cool beans, man.

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I have some serious issues with the Occupy brand and culture these days, but I met some cool artist types through the movement, and we’re trying to do awesome stuff in Baltimore with a projector. Help us out.

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Man, hip-hop is turning out to be one of the defining genres of the Occupy Movement, as well it should be. This song by Ground Zero and the Global Block Collective is razor sharp.

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This track by Lupe Fiasco is one of the better songs to come out of the Occupy Movement so far. It’s amazing that it’s cool to be political again and artists of all stripes are voicing their opinions.

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Sucklord who was just booted from the most recent season of Work of Art has come out with a pretty sweet series of eight-inch action figures called Occupy Cybertron, which combines iconography and rhetoric of the Occupy Movement with the Transformers universe. You can check them out at End of the Century on the Lower East Side.

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Miley Cyrus released a video in support of the Occupy movement, Zach de la Rocha wrote a poem, and Third Eye Blind also released a pro-OWS song, but for me, I like my revolutionary music with a bit more of an edge, like this song from 80s New York hardcore band Warzone.

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It’s been really hard for me to put into words all the things the #OWS movement means to me, but this blog post aptly expresses many of the core aspects I see in the movement. This quote in particular resonates with me: ‘Other models of spatial production, and indeed, even of reality creation – based in collaboration, smaller in scale, briefer in time, and unfolding from a ground of love, not fear – have the potential to defuse the political control over the built environment. Inhabitation is speech, and it can create new realities. The method is less faith, and more magic, and watching this method deployed, it’s hard to argue against the message that another world is possible’.

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‘We’re an empire now’, said an unnamed Bush administration aide back in 2004. Empires tend to create ragtag bands of determined rebels fighting for galactic freedom and self-determination, and that’s just what we’re seeing now with the Occupy movement.

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I’ve been making some posters in support of the Occupy movement. Here’s one I’m particularly proud of. I hope it’ll win over the Juggalo crowd, they’re part of the 99% also.

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I gotta say, the Occupy movement has much better art and design skills than the Tea Party. Check out these posters by Occuprint. Print them out, and distribute widely.

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The mysterious and elusive Banksy has struck again: this time lending his wit and talents to the Occupy London Movement with this clever representation of a Monopoly board with Uncle Pennybags begging for a dollar. It’s on display at St. Paul’s Cathedral if you want to take a gander.

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If you’ve been paying attention at all to the Occupy Wall Street movement, you’ve probably seen some of the photos Rachel Citron took at Zuccotti Park. Check out her Flickr set to see all her #OWS images, they’re really great.

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I was ready to hate on this video accompaniment to the Tumblr Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street for being sexist, and a lot of people have, but I actually find it a bit inspiring. I think it’s done tastefully, and the beauty of these women lies more in their words, actions, and sense of hope than in their physical attributes.

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One of the most compelling features of the Occupy movements around the world is the use of consensus decision making, aka direct democracy. The above video explains it pretty well, and I’ve written an essay regarding its place in the world on the Occupy Baltimore website.

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I visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters yesterday at Liberty Plaza Park and drew every placard I could find on display. Here are the results: high resolution A2 posters for free use. Just download and print in black and white variants.

I’ve been fascinated with the Occupy Wall Street protests as they started upon my arrival in New York. So I was able to witness the graffiti advertising and the movement around the subway carriages and its progress over the weeks up until the marches with the Unions.

However, as a visitor, I’ve felt quite distanced from it. So I went down today to talk to some of the protesters and see for myself what was going on. It’s a strange part of town to be giving talks as people rush back and forth on the street and I wondered how much of what they were trying to communicate reached people. These placards are their own headlines and often they’re just as ambiguous, funny and deliberately provocative. Hopefully this collage gives some sense of the atmosphere and the intentions on Wall Street at a single moment in time.

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