The Brooklyn Ink

The Anarchivists: Who Owns the Occupy Wall Street Narrative?

On Nov 15, NYPD officers raided Zuccotti Park, and the Occupy Wall Street movement lost its space. Now groups and institutions—including the Smithsonian’s Natural Museum of American History, NYU’s Tamiment Library and the New York Historical Society-- are working to enshrine the movement in the form of an archive. But who, in the end, will get to tell the definitive story?

Occupy Wall Street Repairs Foreclosed Brooklyn Home for Needy Family

After moving into a foreclosed East New York home a day earlier, Occupy Wall Street protestors began tackling the difficult task of repairing the house Wednesday, the New York Times reported. The Brooklyn home is in [...]

Activists and OWS Demand Funding for Disease Care On World AIDS Day

A World AIDS Day march tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement ended with police detaining and taking away at least eight protesters for blocking traffic in downtown Manhattan Thursday. The protesters, five of whom [...]

Hundreds Rally Against CUNY Tuition Hike

As the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Board of Trustees voted Monday to raise tuition, students and professors took to the streets in protest.  For nearly four hours, protesters rallied outside Baruch College, marched [...]

For Occupy Wall Street, the Honeymoon is Over

It's been one week since Occupy Wall Street was booted from Zuccotti Park in a pre-dawn raid. But there were already signs that the movement was growing unstable and fragmented.

A Rally for Muslim Rights Echoes Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring

Dozens of people gathered at Foley Square Friday to protest against the NYPD, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for allegedly systematically spying on New York Muslims after the September 11 attacks.

Slideshow: Arrests at OWS “Day of Action”

Slideshow: OWS Day of Action

New York City Politicians Back Bloomberg’s Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street

WNYC reports that in a show of support to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Republican Congressmen have issued statements in support of Bloomberg’s stand on the Occupy Wall Street protestors. In a strongly-worded [...]

Occupy “Day of Action” Ends with March into Brooklyn

The Occupy Wall Street movement poured into New York’s most populous borough as thousands of demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday evening.