All Day, All Night - N.Y.C. Occupy Wall Street Actions at Sotheby's Auction Lockout, Harlem Protest Against Stop and Fisk Verizon Workers Contract Protest
It's been a busy week for NYC's Occupy Wall Street protesters. Building Bridges brings you coverage of three of the multitude of actions they joined with community and labor activists last week. First we went to NYC's posh Upper East Side where Teamster Local 814 art handlers have been locked out for months in a contract dispute over cutbacks and outsourcing demands by Sotheby's Auction house which caters to the 1%. Then uptown to Harlem where hundreds demonstrated in front of the Harlem 28th Precinct where 33 activists led by noted author, activist and Princeton Prof. Cornel West and veteran revolutionary fighter Carl Dix were arrested protesting the NY Police Department's racist, illegal, illegitimate stop and frisk policy which is on track to impact over 700,000 people, mostly Black and Latino youth, in 2011. Then downtown to Wall Street to protest for a fair contract for 45,000 Verizon workers whose negotiations are not going well. Like Sotheby, Verizon is an extremely profitable company whose demands include cutbacks and outsourcing.
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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