Occupied Wall Street Journal, PDF

The “Occupied Wall Street Journal”

The Occupy Wall Street protest group recently published the first edition of its newspaper, a four-page broadsheet called The Occupied Wall Street Journal. Didn’t manage to snag your own copy? No problem. Here’s a PDF file where you can take a look at it.

Update, 10/25/11: There’s now an official website where you can read The Occupied Wall Street Journal: occupiedmedia.org.

Update, 10/21/11: The Occupied Wall Street Journal issue 3 is now out.

Update, 10/9/11: The Occupied Wall Street Journal issue 2 is now out. You can still read issue 1 here on this page.

Update, 10/7/11: Previously I had posted a low-quality PDF made from photographing the paper. There’s now a cleaner, easier-to-read version available, so I updated this post to feature that document instead. You can see it below or download it from Scribd.

Another update: Just to be clear, I didn’t create this newspaper or have any involvement in the project.

Caveat: This is not a production-quality file. I made it by photographing a copy of the paper I picked up myself on October 1 (the day the paper came out). I wanted to share it with people, and was disappointed I couldn’t find it online. I realize some of the seams don’t line up, but everything in the paper should be legible enough to read.

My interest in this protest is simple. I live and work in Lower Manhattan, and I feel like it’s important to follow community events in my own neighborhood. Every day, I walk past the protest encampment at Zuccotti Park (a private park which locals and protestors generally call by its old name, Liberty Plaza). The demonstrators first appeared Saturday, September 17, and are still there as of this writing. Sometimes I take photos or videos of what I see and share them online. I am not part of the protest, but I think this is a legitimate group that deserves to be heard. I also keep wondering how it will end.

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The Occupied Wall Street Journal newspaper was funded by donations collected through Kickstarter. Since this is a writing blog, we have to ask if this paper is any good. My answer is yes. It looks professional enough to pass for a real community newspaper, which of course it is. I gave it a quick read and didn’t see any serious typos.

The quality of the content isn’t uniformly excellent, but some of the articles are well argued and enjoyable to read. The best written piece is under the front-page headline: “The Revolution Begins at Home.” It’s signed by Arun Gupta. There’s also an excellent introduction to the protest by Nathan Schneider called “Occupation for Dummies,” a version of which was originally published by The Nation. If you wonder what the protest is all about, these two stories will explain it to you in clear, persuasive language.

The passages in the newspaper that make the least sense to me are several comparisons to the Arab Spring protests. Some of those protests ended with the overthrow of governments. (If you need a primer on Arab Spring, the best source I’ve seen is this interactive timeline from The Guardian.) I don’t get a sense that Occupy Wall Street is about overthrowing the American government at all. And if it is, the General Assembly leadership needs to say so, so everybody’s clear what they’re signing up for when they unroll their sleeping bags.

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Also: The New York Times says the two main organizers of the Occupied Wall Street Journal newspaper are Arun Gupta and Jed Brandt, who also work on The Indypendent.

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Another update: Here’s a photo I shot of someone handing out copies of this newspaper on October 5 in Zuccotti Park/Liberty Plaza.

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— By Daryl Lang. Filed under News & Journalism, Politics

84 comments

October 19, 2011 at 10:28 am

News Troops says:

Recently on internet radio show Center Stage the topic was the #Occupy Wall Street, It’s a Movement. This was a very interesting debate over whether this is about the 99% asking the gov’t to change the way it does business or about a group trying to create anarchy with a REVOLUTION for other reasons. The debate became heated when the guest said this movement was started by communist, socialist, unions and marxist. Take a listen, to this must hear podcast.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/centerstage/2011/10/15/occupy-wall-street-it-is-a-movement
October 19, 2011 at 10:36 am

xyz says:

Will the Bluecoats come again, against redcoats?
Yes, when the taxes changed to be tolls and losses,
when they use their taxes to kill the innocents in abroad,

“Long live Bluecoats”

Red coats and Bourbons are in front of you.

Marchant, marchant,….

—————–
By the way, to preserve the movement we need More works in Art and Theory. Show your roots, remind people how British calls you in that time and how some govemential people call you now.
A possible idea: Call yourselves blue coats,
or preparing some uniforms,…
—————————————————————
From 1980: from 1980 we are going to a wrong way, we fall down step by step.
By some dark knights, remained from cold war.
A greedy system, which produce war.
A greedy system plus a backward type of thinking about religion and Armageddon who hide themselves behind specially republicans and continuing their way by all system.
Watch the economical system, watch the Iraq,
and watch some in France who tries to copy the same way in Libya. A thesis which like a virus spreads everywhere.
We should get rid of these type of thinking, before much more crisis
happen by their hands. But how? Make every where “altahrir”.

Bests
October 25, 2011 at 8:45 am

Thorbjörn Belenos says:

It’s time to build a new political system. A system who’s build on democratic principles!
October 25, 2011 at 9:30 pm

johnny schenone says:

If you really want to develop some momentum, everyone and I mean everyone, should get some white shoe polish and write into the rear window of their automobiles “99%” . Imagine if you will driving down the roadway being surrounded by all sorts of cars with the same sign. This is a sign of unity and numbers. This also provides folk who are sympathetic to the cause who may not be able to actively participate to demonstrate their support ;e.g., family & jobs commitments, health, etc. The shoe polish comes off easily ; think wedding, “just married”.
Get it ?
October 26, 2011 at 8:50 am

Bruno De Marco says:

The movement needs a steering committee. I propose Cornell West, Elizabeth Warren and Eliot Spitzer. Ballots should be printed up and handed out at allowing the protesters to vote. Furthermore, OWS adherents should remove their names from Democratic and Republican Party Lists. They should also vow not to vote as long as elections are held in the usual, money first, manner. OWS should evolve into a political movement with headquarters in every city and town in the USA and should organize itself to refresh the power of the referendum. Like, don’t we need a referendum to remove the Department of Justice, and the FBI, away from the political control? whoever
October 28, 2011 at 4:22 pm

WJAH says:

This “Occupied Wall Street Journal” represents, freedom of vision. Here’s a few words from my personal journal. 31/01/2011. Titled as “THINKERS”
The Right are Capitalism Conspirators. Who exploit the naive, the poor, the uneducated, and the down trodden. Or anyone whom they believe powerless.
The Left, are the Misleading Illiberal Liberals. Laterl Thinkers. Who lavish themselves abundantly.
The Center, are the Silent Majority. Singular in their distrust of the Left or Right.
The Independent, are Free Thinkers. Consistent with their constituency. Who consort to be in harmony. With other Free Thinkers.

One more for today,it’s called INDEED

Greed, a dessert of no need.
A flavor they savor.
To take more from you,
Than they need.
It’s the seed of greed.
INDEED.

Again Editorially Yours, WJAH
October 29, 2011 at 9:50 am

Ron McCune says:

America is in the mist of an economic revolution. However this revolution is deteriorating into nothing. A revolution without results is a wasted revolution. Yet revolution is the only solution or else submission. Make this revolution a success. On my web page http://www.mybetteramericaplan.com in the Current Events section I’ll show the ONLY way to make this revolution a success. On my web page there are legal plans that show how we HAVE TO close down Wall Street, Congress, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Republican Convention in Tampa this summer in order to get those that economically abuse us to pass laws and policies that will insure that we the people aren’t economically abused anymore! Help make this revolution a success by concentrating all of our people and resources on closing down one organization at a time. Don’t spread ourselves out around the country. More ideas on my web page like how we can EASILY stop global warming by not flying turbo jet engine airplanes anymore!
October 29, 2011 at 10:03 pm

Joe Falkenstein says:

Keeping warm. With winter weather here,and sleeping in tents,a good source for heat are Coleman lanterns,they can be purchased at sporting goods stores.Buy the propane model.Coleman also sells a white gas version,but the fire laws of NY/City may prevent ou from using the white gas model.Coleman also sells a cooking stove operated on propane.
Hope this helps.
October 29, 2011 at 10:16 pm

Joe Falkenstein says:

Floor mates for tents.
Use a large heavy duty trash bag.Cut cardboard to fit inside of trashbag use several layers of cardboard. Ducttape the open end of trashbag.you now have a insulated tent floor.
November 2, 2011 at 2:46 am

Michèle Pedinielli says:

Hello,
here are some pictures from the anti G20 demonstration yesterday in Nice.
Members of the national nurses united from US were there !

Have a loook :http://vudegaribaldi.wordpress.com/
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