New York Times, By Roxanna Asgarian, November 9, 2011. Activists, community members and Occupy Wall Streeters will be protesting at Chase Bank in Downtown Brooklyn tomorrow at 2 p.m., calling on the bank to bring more jobs to the city or give back the city subsidies they were given to move into the area. The Alliance for a Greater New York, who is organizing the protest, believes city subsidies should be saved for companies who bring jobs and other benefits to the communities they’re a part of.
WBAI Radio, WBAI, November 5, 2011. WBAI’s weekly public affairs program interviews Matt Ryan of ALIGN about poverty in New York City and our most recent report. Interview begins at 1:25 (one minute, twenty-five seconds).
Crain's, By Daniel Massey, October 23, 2011, Unions and community groups collaborate with Occupy Wall Street protesters to share tactics, bring flexibility and creativity to overlooked campaigns.
CNN Money, By James O'Toole, October 28, 2011. After railing against Wall Street greed for weeks from their encampment at Zuccotti Park in New York, a group went on the move Friday, dropping off thousands of letters addressed to Wall Street executives.
AlterNet, By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, October 28, 2011. Unions, students, foreclosure victims and a special Egyptian envoy protest bank CEOs in letter form. Shannon Bell, Citigroup’s head of corporate communications, may not have counted on her day being so packed with visitors. But when an enthusiastic, cheerful group of about 400 Occupy Wall Street protesters showed up at her front door, she was obliged to emerge from her company’s corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan to hear them out.
