Occupy Wall Street's Livestream Operators Arrested

[cory777]

The Atlantic
Jan. 3, 2012
By Adam Martin

Occupy Wall Street is in the middle of one of its day-long marches in New York Tuesday, protesting the National Defense Authorization Act, but for those following along on the Global Revolution livestream, the real action is happening in the broadcast studio itself. That's because police have apparently just raided the Brooklyn studio of Globalrevolution.tv and taken some of the project's key volunteers into custody.

The raid Tuesday follows a notice to vacate that police delivered to the Bushwick studio on Monday night. Victoria Sobel, a Global Revolution volunteer, said Vlad Teichberg and a guy named Spike, both of whom maintain the live feed aggregator, had been taken into custody by police, along with four or five others.

In Manhattan, about 100 Occupy protesters (according to Animal New York's Twitter) marched to the offices of New York senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, where they told stories and made impassioned cases for the wrongness of the NDAA. They plan a final rally at Grand Central station at 5 p.m., which should make for some fun interactions with hurried commuters. Lots of people were watching the proceedings on live feeds operated by Globalrevolution.tv, but now that site has stopped broadcasting the New York protest and is showing footage of Occupy Maui.

If you were following along earlier today, you may have been startled at about 1:45 p.m. to see the live feed cut away from the street-level action and to the face of Vlad Teichberg, one of the main organizers of Global Revolution. The new shot showed a large, graffittied space where Teichberg and a couple of colleagues were confronting a man they identified as the landlord, who had apparently broken in their door. They put the camera on him, he threatened to call the police, they said he had no right to come into the space by force, and he eventually left.

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[SixthSense]

1. Naomi Wolf warned us this was coming

[BenYehuda]

2. NY IF UR LISTENING!!! GET 20 FEEDS UP BY SUNRISE!!!

The REVOLUTION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.

[freshwest]

3. So, it was the landlord with the police to assist him. OWS doesn't own, anymore than most people,

The earth until their feet that they stand upon. While this could be seen as a technical law violation, that's what part of the movement is about.

Driven out of Zuccotti, unable to afford an office instead of an apartment, they have no base of operations. It would be good if they could affliate with a union or some progressive organization to prevent this.

Other facts, more ominous, are at play here as well.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. And it escalates and I am not shocked or surprised

[sakabatou]

5. The revolution shall not be televised

Sigh...

[LiberalEsto]

6. This is becoming more and more reminiscent

of the Nazis.

[hack89]

7. Pissed off Brooklyn landlord! LOL nt

[snot]

8. K&R'd.

[snot]

9. Any bkgr available on the purported basis for the eviction? --

I've seen indication that there was a long-standing order for eviction, perhaps of the entire building, but no explanation as to why.

This may indeed be selective enforcement, but it would be helpful to understand the background.

[annabanana]

10. This is BLATENTLY illegal.

(The equipment confiscation)

I hope they're getting all the legal help they need.