New ‘Occupy’ tent camps are popping up as quickly as US authorities can dismantle them. But some encampments have been around for much longer, and the people there have felt abandoned for years. Tent cities of outrage are popping up all across the US over the last months, less visible to the public eye and [...]
Tag: tent city
December 14, 2011
December 9, 2011
Homeless Occupy the woods – RT revisits Tent City
While Occupy Wall Street tents have been popping up all across the US, homeless people have been forced to Occupy a camp in the woods over the last five years. RT reports from New Jersey’s Tent City – and finds out why the homeless haven’t been joining the protests. Tent cities of outrage have been [...]
November 16, 2011
Occupy Wall Street – A look back at the last two months
You could say Occupy Wall Street started with a whisper – a call by Canadian activist group Adbusters that spread on Facebook to gather on September 17, 2011. But before long that whisper turned into a roar, a collective anger at Wall Street corruption, at growing income inequality in America, and at a system in [...]