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Showing Original Post only (View all)Grassroots revolt against Hillary: Occupy activists launch “Battle of New York” to fight Clinton [View all]
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/08/grassroots_revolt_against_hillary_occupy_activists_launch_battle_of_new_york_to_fight_clinton_machine_anti_sanders_bias_in_belly_of_beast/The corporate media and establishment keep counting us out, but we keep winning by large margins, the Bernie Sanders campaign tweeted triumphantly, after the Vermont senator won the Wisconsin primary by a large margin this week.
Journalists and activists in New York the site of what may be the most important primary in the election have noticed. And they are organizing in response.
Enter Operation Battle of New York.
It is the name of a new campaign launched by the editorial groups of The Indypendent and The Occupied Wall Street Journal, left-wing citizen journalist publications that have served as important voices for American social movements for more than a decade.
We can expect corporate media to do everything it can to prop up Clinton and ignore or mischaracterize Sanders and the increasingly broad and diverse movement that supports him, Operation Battle of New York writes in the description accompanying its Indiegogo campaign.
But we dont have to leave it there. Independent media can tell another story.
The idea the activists have is to subvert, even supplant, mainstream media outlets in the days before the April 19 primary. They plan on creating, editing and printing 500,000 copies of a special edition, bilingual, broadsheet newspaper with the kind of compelling coverage mainstream media outlets rarely touch. And they are going to flood New York with the publication in the week before the primary.
An editorial team has already been formed, and has been working on the publication for weeks. Production began on April 7, and is only going to accelerate in the coming week.
In the first five days of their Indiegogo campaign, the group has raised approximately $6,000, with more than 100 backers. And they say this is just the beginning.
The publishers of The Battle of New York have a lot of experience in this territory. Their guerilla media campaign is based on the ones they helped lead during the Occupy movement, along with those in the 2003 protests against the Iraq War, the 2004 protests against the Republican National Convention, the 2014 Peoples Climate March and todays Black Lives Matter movement.
Journalists and activists in New York the site of what may be the most important primary in the election have noticed. And they are organizing in response.
Enter Operation Battle of New York.
It is the name of a new campaign launched by the editorial groups of The Indypendent and The Occupied Wall Street Journal, left-wing citizen journalist publications that have served as important voices for American social movements for more than a decade.
We can expect corporate media to do everything it can to prop up Clinton and ignore or mischaracterize Sanders and the increasingly broad and diverse movement that supports him, Operation Battle of New York writes in the description accompanying its Indiegogo campaign.
But we dont have to leave it there. Independent media can tell another story.
The idea the activists have is to subvert, even supplant, mainstream media outlets in the days before the April 19 primary. They plan on creating, editing and printing 500,000 copies of a special edition, bilingual, broadsheet newspaper with the kind of compelling coverage mainstream media outlets rarely touch. And they are going to flood New York with the publication in the week before the primary.
An editorial team has already been formed, and has been working on the publication for weeks. Production began on April 7, and is only going to accelerate in the coming week.
In the first five days of their Indiegogo campaign, the group has raised approximately $6,000, with more than 100 backers. And they say this is just the beginning.
The publishers of The Battle of New York have a lot of experience in this territory. Their guerilla media campaign is based on the ones they helped lead during the Occupy movement, along with those in the 2003 protests against the Iraq War, the 2004 protests against the Republican National Convention, the 2014 Peoples Climate March and todays Black Lives Matter movement.
Link to their indiegogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/operation-battle-of-new-york#/
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Grassroots revolt against Hillary: Occupy activists launch “Battle of New York” to fight Clinton [View all]
GeorgiaPeanuts
Apr 2016
OP
This isn't a battle between Clinton and Sanders it's a battle between the Wealthy
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#2
Why don't you do your research before throwing unfounded smears at the campaign?
Kentonio
Apr 2016
#23
I am sure you are aware that our "electorical" system is the worst of the top 47 modern
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#6
...and if the OCCUPY movement had gotten involved in electoral politics some years ago...
brooklynite
Apr 2016
#13
Is this the new meme... Slandering Sanders' supporters as tea party of the left?
GeorgiaPeanuts
Apr 2016
#14