Want to Peek Inside Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Sorta-Secret’ Media Center?
- Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:34pm by
Liz Klimas
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It‘s no secret that Occupy Wall Street’s flagship operation in Zuccotti Park has a media team of sorts. Originally, they and their hodgepodge array of equipment were kept in a tent, but the team moved in October to a $400 per month room in Manhattan and Wired.com got a look inside and interviewed the unofficial media headquarters for the nationwide OWS movement.
Occupy happenings are live streamed by their media team through Global Revolution, which claimed it has been live streaming footage since Sept. 17. Wired reports that the activists monitor hundreds of live stream feeds, publishing the best:
“It’s really important that it’s decentralized so people can tell their own stories,” said [the 26-year-old, bandana-bedecked man named] Spike. “We get to report these stories before any mainstream media do. We break the news, and they pick it up.”
In terms of actual location, Wired reports that the team is “skiddish” about disclosing location:
“We don’t need right-wing wingnuts firebombing us,” said Spike.
That may be an extreme case, but security is a legitimate concern. That day, Nov. 9, a portion of the Occupy St. Louis website suffered a type of attack called a SQL database injection, said a media team member who goes by Jay. He’s an active participant in Anonymous who works in IT security by day.
And part of the reason they moved was to protect their equipment. NPR reported back in October a representative as saying in addition to shooting and editing footage, they have to keep people from stealing. Wired has more on theft and police seizure of equipment:
Global revolution sent a laptop, 4G hotspot and webcam to Occupy New Orleans. But in late October, the volunteer who had set up most of the tech ran off with the laptop, plus the money from the online donation system he himself had installed. Other thieves infiltrate occupations and gain the trust of media groups — before sneaking away with equipment and moving to the next target.
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The night before Wired.com’s visit, Nov. 8, authorities seized equipment from three livestream operations. While it’s not clear that’s legal, the seizures do slow down the operation and raise legal problems that Occupy is still trying to solve.

This device, a Teradek, allows the user to stream video from a personal camera, instead of a webcam. (Photo: Bryan Derballa/Wired)
Right now, the OWS media team works on Dell laptops purchased from EBay for $400 total, although Wired reports they have larger aspirations:
Lorenzo Serna fantasizes about a multimedia outfit, consisting of a wearable camera and a heads-up display, so he can see his own video feed, watch the chat stream coming from viewers around the world, and respond in real time.
“Dude, you’ll be like a livestream cyborg,” said Jay. “That will be awesome!”
In addition to monitoring live streams for the “semi-official Occupy online video hub”, the Occupy media team monitors Twitter and chat lines. Using a program, which Wired reports is unclear if it were purchased or pirated for use, the team is able to grab video or images for us on their site.
Visit Wired’s original article for more photos inside the OWS media headquarters.





















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cntrlfrk
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:18pm‘
The real OWS was started by a bunch of Obama Sympathizers/ Anti-Capitalists/ Propagandists, of the same origin as the “Arab Spring”.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-international-origins
This has been a huge propaganda fest since day one.
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Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:25pmWhat a bunch of Dofus slobs
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:29pmThese morons fail to understand that when their usefulness is done, they will be disposed of.
Report Post »someonewhocares
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:38pmLooks crappy to me.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:21pmYou can almost smell them just looking at the photos of that pig sty…
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:31pmAnd what a fetid stench it must be….. Nasty…..
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:40pmI wonder if these guys are behind a lot of their rhetoric. Now they are calling for the government to take away people housing and socialize the housing market: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/nov/ows_govt_houses.html
I never though people could be so ignorant.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:15pmI “almost” feel sorry for them if that’s the best they can come up with.
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:13pmstop what you are doing NOW. it is time to worship our corporate overlords. they are more important than GOD!!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:28pm““We don’t need right-wing wingnuts firebombing us,” said Spike.”
Spike old fellow, those of us who oppose you engage in more refined methods. Firebombing is so impersonal, so indiscriminate towards those who are guilty or are not guilty, it is in fact a heartless way to deal with a problem. Now precision firing of a fine highly accurized .308 Springfield M1A1 with a .75 MOA, that does that trick in a much more civilized manner. No muss, no fuss, no innocent bystanders harmed, perfect precision and exacting accuracy to extol precise vengeance.
We do know you, ahem, people prefer firebombs of course. As I said, they’re messy, smelly, random and they harm innocent people, which is right up your alley old chap.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:21pmthought it was a carnival worker convention
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:33pmUndoubtedly, and the rule of law does not apply to them. And someone has given hands-off orders to mayors and police. They even get personal maid service from the police and fire and sanitation departments. Move out, we’ll clean up for you, then you can move back in to continue breaking the law, terrorizing neighborhoods and towns all over the world. Amazing, how it just kind of happened simultaneously! The many have been taken over by the few. May God forgive these dupes because they know not what they do.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:50pm@Ghost — personal preference of mine is a Abrams with HEAT load, or an RPG-16, a little more dramatic and messy, yet the sight of one rolling down the street has a sweet psychological effect on progressives…especially with a big smily face painted on the front.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:02am“In terms of actual location, Wired reports that the team is “skiddish” about disclosing location:”
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These people CANNOT consider themselves media. Don’t you have to know how to spell in media?
It is NOT “skiddish”… it is “skittish”.
I’m usually not a spelling nazi but media folks should at least have some education.
Democrat Voter cheating getting in gear for 2012…
Report Post »http://americac2c.com/profiles/blogs/the-obama-cheating-machine-called-the-dept-of-justice
The-Monk
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:03amPeople stealing their stuff? Time to Occupy Pawn Shops… and get it back by force I guess. Plus all the other free stuff they can steal once they Occupy pawn shops. Why pay for it when you can steal it? It’s the Social Justice way! just like their stuff was taken by social redistribution.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 8:49amI received this letter in an email yesterday from a man who sums up the situation with the people who prefer to “occupy space” then to do anything construction like the Tea Party has done…. a great insight to “Obamas America”
here’s the link to the Knoxville News:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/oct/17/letter-occupy-example-obamas-america/
Report Post »IndianaJan
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:03amThank you for the link to Mother Jones’ article by Andy Kroll. I read it. It is a great insight into just what the insanity all comes from. Everyone should know this, along with Glenn Beck’s expose on the origins of this “controlled” chaos.
Two word reply: Animal Farm.
Report Post »Read it (again) and weep.
NextNyc21148
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:14pmYeah I don‘t know if you’ve noticed,but the general media,in both sides, is full of exaggeration right now, probably because Congress is about as popular as herpes,literally.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on November 23, 2011 at 1:39pmOWS will become a pawn of the m.Brotherhood. In the tradition of Egypt and Libya. andBHO
Report Post »VISITORNUMBER3
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:15pmOWS: Obama-fy Wall Street
Report Post »Obomb_is_Toast
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:14pmOccu pestilence … are criminals and should be in prison
Report Post »benzo13
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:54pmWow, you sound just like one of them! Promoting censorship. Locking anyone up for their views is just becoming what we oppose. Not a good thought.
Report Post »sodacrackers2
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:48pmBen, not locking anyone up for their views, how about locking them up for criminal behavior? Freedom of speech does not include disrupting the speech of others, rape, disorderly conduct, setting fires, breaking windows, spreading disease, closing down businesses, trashing private property, or murder. You would have to be dumb as a stump to think that obamaville is what democracy looks like. It is what chaos looks like and it is not good or pretty.
Report Post »Leehweht
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:15amBen..the first amendment is designed to allow people to assemble to protest the government, not private people, and businesses. IF… IF they have a problem with businesses, banks, etc, then they need to bring a class-action lawsuit and go to court to get what was done wrong, righted. And then get the hell off the sidewalk, out of the parks, etc blocking and preventing me from living my life and conducting my business. Their rights end where mine begin..
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:14pmSo wait, while the masses are getting lice and raped in the park, these kings sit in their pad and live it up……
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:19pmWork’n for “the man” … Obama.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:47pmI bet, they have videos on all the girls getting rape and set a watch it plus share with their friends.
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:49pmYou mean just like how the leaders of the SBC or LDS do in regards to their missionaries?
Report Post »Badger Patriot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:10amThese are thee PIGS from the book “Animal Farm”
Report Post »Once 0bummer and Soros have finished with these “Useful Idiots” they will be among the first to go.
THX-1138
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:14pm“We don’t need right-wing wingnuts firebombing us,”
Yes, actually, you do…
Report Post »shirelover
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:35pmwow a fellow George Lucas fan, I’ve seen you post a few things, not often though. The people I know who actually could firebomb these idiots restrain themselves…
Report Post »Ponyshoes
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:12pmThe most attention that should be given to this bowel movement known as OWS, should be check it routinely for parasites and blood, then flush. We expect it to break forth with full bloody diarrhea soon. They(OWS organizers) dream of making “Sherman’s march to the Sea, look like trespassing”. Misery loves company and OWS is about causing misery. Let’s just hope the consequences of their actions, catch up with them before somebody really gets hurt.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:09pm.
Report Post »If Lorenzo, Spike & Jay are the brain trust, it kinda makes one wonder if their Mothers had any other children that lived……..
burnteye86
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:07pmLook, that dude knows as well as anyone that the Right Wing is not going to firebomb anybody. He’s just trying to be provocative. That’s what all immature people do. He knows that if anybody is going to firebomb them, it will be their own kind.
Report Post »Samsquantch
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:41pmI think you just nailed it.
Report Post »tugdiver
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:06pmGrass Roots like Pelosi lol
Man we never had that kind of clandestine technology at our restoring honor rally. What we had was a crowd camera and Glenn told us all about how it worked. The truth lives!!
Report Post »BatonRogue
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:04pmReal life is just another video game to these hygenically-challenged manchildren. Raised by self-absorbed parents who grew up in the ‘60 & ‘70’s, these TV babies desperately crave attention – good or bad, whatever they can get. Nothing short of the draft and a good ground war will solve this problem … thin their ranks and toughen up into the survivors!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:12pm.
Report Post »GEAUX Tigers………..
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:18pmGood description, should be in Wikipedia.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:27pmYou picked that up too? “Dude..like a livestream cyborg”. No wonder these idiots are jobless. These are the children of the generation that was raised to believe they’re “special”. It’s not a great leap at that point to understand why this societal debris believes others should be paying for their “stuff”. These are the same cretins that liberals believe should have got “deferred success” instead of “F’s“ on their school grades because an ”F” would have traumatized them. These are the products of the distaster that is the liberal arts in our colleges. Because everyone knows…a masters in philosophy will get you an instantly high-paying, and exciting career..perhaps even with Solyndra? Still waiting for that “deferred success” fall into their crusty, urine spotted laps apparently. Dude..just like a cyborg.
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:16pmwhere do you get this? oh i forgot, right wing propaganda. forgot where i was for a sec.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:05pm@Riverdog
I hardly consider Wired magazine “right wing propaganda”.
Snark fail! :)
Report Post »OldSchool38
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 10:25pmYes Yes Yes a good ground war to let these people learn and earn their first amendment rights then they can go back and protest if they want they will have earned it unlike now none of them have ever earned anything and that is part of their problem
Report Post »Wolfram
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:03pmHttp://october2011.org also is streaming 24/7 from OWS … This site is also developed and maintained by AFL-CIO
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:02pmGee, wow. Corporate Dell laptops purchased through another big corporation, eBay, using the nasty tools of capitalism to obtain goods that help further their pathetic agenda. And they can’t even go high tech with their gear! Just wait until those oh-so-technologically-advanced Windows laptops crash at a most inopportune moment, leaving them with nothing more than a BSOD. I guess Mom and Dad failed to wire them more money. Bless their scruffy, scabies-infested little hearts……
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:17pmUh ha ha ha ha uh uh ha ha ha that was so funny
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:51pmAwww, poor little Charlie in Detroit….. Am I typing too fast for you, too?
BTW, are things with Miss Kinnian not going so well? Is that why you’re so grumpy? You poor dear….
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:53pmHmmm! Well let’s see:
Top pic, I count 7 computer monitors, 4 of which appear to be dual monitor displays, so counting the 3 laptops, that makes about 8 computers in the room, one (best guess) Verizon droid phone between the laptops, one iPhone on the right, directly below the blue monitor. Then there is the (white) box of disks and a can of Coke on the corporately produced shelves.
Second pic: Assured-brand band-aids, a blue cup that bears the most evil of all words, “company,” a couple of coffee cups that are clearly not done by hand, two razors, ointment, a green box that appears to be fluid for the contact lenses in the foreground.
Third pic: a Teradek
Final tally:
7 monitors
8 computers
2 cell phones from massive companies
a box of disks
a can of Coke
2 razors
some assorted pharmaceutical supplies
and a device that allows for streaming video onto the internet
…all made my evil companies.
Just sayin’.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:13pm@leftfighter, and every single item in that room would have to be scrubbed down prior to removal from said room in the interests of preventing a level 4 hot zone from developing outside of the immediate area.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:11am@biohazard23
lmao
There’s some WMD-level cooties up the there, that’s for sure.
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:02pmBREAKING NEWS:
According to new Public Policy Polling survey, Paul leads Obama among independent voters by a 48 to 39 percent margin – the ONLY Republican to enjoy a lead among independents.
Since Ron Paul GOP supporters wont vote for a neo-con, a RINO or a former chairman of the banking cartel, it means – nominate Ron Paul or Obama will win.
Simple like that. No, we do not scare or blackmail anyone, we know that many neo-cons and RINOs who read this have already voted for Obama in 2008…
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:22pmBreaking Wind
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:35pm@13th Imam – It is funny to see how muslims control your mind to the point of effecting your nickname. Reminds me how Jews effect brain of anti-Semites – the latter are checking under the bed before falling asleep.
Report Post »tcvegas
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:21pmBreaking News…Paulbot hijacks thread……yawn…….
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 9:55pmThe main reason I won’t support Paul is because his base are a bunch of jerks. In many ways they’re exactly like these OWS losers.
Report Post »Caunotaucarius
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:01pm“Skittish” not “Skiddish”. Does nobody edit around there. I appreciate what you do Blaze but it doesn’t help your image any to have all sorts of spelling errors, in fact my comment spell checker is picking up on the spelling error you committed so it must not be that hard.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:05pmwhy do they all look like carnie workers?
Report Post »TheCommonCold
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:32pmThe sentence that has your panties in a bunch reads:
In terms of actual location, Wired reports that the team is “skiddish” about disclosing location.”
The use of quotes implies that TheBlaze is using the word from the Wired article. Give yourself a big pat on the back for noticing the incorrect word, but it appears TheBlaze beat you to it, hero.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:38pmMaybe they also have skit marks in their shorts…
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 6:23pmSkittish is how it’s pronounced. Skiddish is how the Queen’s english spells it. “Does nobody edit around there.” I guess nobody went to supper.
Report Post »randy
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:59pmWANT TO PEEK INSIDE OCCUPY WALL STREET‘S ’SORTA-SECRET’ MEDIA CENTER?
Ummmmmm NO
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:07pmnot really……
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:56pmAre we going to have Live Rapes, Live Computer Thefts, maybe a Live Murder. A new show, Occupy Wall Street Survivor, premiers this spring on PMSNBC, hosted by John Corzine, with his lovely assistant Mika
Report Post »hippocritic-us
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:52pmWe don’t need to be firebombed by right-wing wingnuts, what we need is left-wing wingnuts to firebomb Macy’s!
Report Post »Atrain1966
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:50pmThey got this technology from those evil corperations. Those dang 1 %ers
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:56pmYep!
Top pic, I count 7 computer monitors, 4 of which appear to be dual monitor displays, so counting the 3 laptops, that makes about 8 computers in the room, one (best guess) Verizon droid phone between the laptops, one iPhone on the right, directly below the blue monitor. Then there is the (white) box of disks and a can of Coke on the corporately produced shelves.
Second pic: Assured-brand band-aids, a blue cup that bears the most evil of all words, “company,” a couple of coffee cups that are clearly not done by hand, two razors, ointment, a green box that appears to be fluid for the contact lenses in the foreground.
Third pic: a Teradek
Final tally:
7 monitors
8 computers
2 cell phones from massive companies
a box of disks
a can of Coke
2 razors
some assorted pharmaceutical supplies
and a device that allows for streaming video onto the internet
…all made my evil companies.
Just sayin’.
Report Post »Atrain1966
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:48pmWe don’t need right-wing wingnuts firebombing us,” said Spike……………. Really ?????
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:54pmThe only people I have heard threatening fire-bombings are the Occupy people and others on the left. Hope Macy’s is on alert.
TEA!
Report Post »Just_Bubba
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:06pmProject much you little weasles?
It was the pukes attending the protest in Oregon that had firebombs / explosives and were caught with them. And now another OWS puke is spewing that they are going to burn the department store to the ground. They are afraid of us when we haven’t even confronted any of them. We win.
Little mommy‘s boys and daddy’s girls who are still afraid of the bogey man I guess.
If I wanted to trash the place I would simply tell the protesters that they are hoarding the drugs and $ that were donated to their cause. The ensuing stampede would kill them all. So sorry.
Report Post »CalMarine
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:46pmI think that so many of these fools would be happy to tell anyone their real names. Research should be done on them and take away their un employment benis and food stamps. This will get these idiots to stop this madness. If they have the energy to use my tax dollars to protest day in and day out, then they have the time to find a job.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:45pmWe need to abandon the internet. We need to disconnect our businesses and personal lives/info from it. Use it for resources but to not become dependent on it. We are dangerously dependent on technology.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:55pm“In terms of actual location, Wired reports that the team is “skiddish” about disclosing location:”…the word is “SKITTISH” by the way. “Skiddish” is the state these losers’ underwear is in. All that technology and WIRED doesn’t have spell check…or a clue. Perhaps all these bozos should stop worrying about “right-wing wingnuts” and start thinking about the robbery committed on them by their college professors?
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:01pmHow did you post that?
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 5:18pmYou’re missing the point. If the internet and computers go down, businesses will come to a screeching halt. I’m suggesting we need to find ways to not be dependent on them. Say natural disaster or cyber war begins. We are very vulnerable in this area. VERY vulnerable.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:44pmGrass roots!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:55pmLOL .. looks like “astroturf” to me ;-) Obama and Nancy’s peeps.
TEA!
Report Post »CalMarine
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:43pmThese people are insane.
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 4:13pmMaybe so, but insane people can cause a lot of damage, even hurt you if you are not careful.
Report Post »chkiaar
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:41pmNow where do you suppose they got the $$ for all that hi-tech electronics?? Are’t they all unemployed?? OHHHHH, I see, they must pool their unemployment checks…of course.
Report Post »chkiaar
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:38pmDang, now where do you think these people got their $$ for all this high-tech gadgetry??
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:52pmGlobal Revolution!…George Soros!…..Michael Moore!…….Unions!………Stimulus grant!
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 3:57pmHey! And aren’t these gadgets made by big, evil corporations, and doesn’t buying them give money to the super-evil “1%”?
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:19pmthey worked for it, before the corperate welfare took their jobs.
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