Media Headquarters for Occupy Wall Street

High stepping my way through the sewers of the Occupy Forum, I stumbled on two very interesting articles. Both of them discuss how the Occupy movement is being run from small rooms in NoHo New York. The reporters here were blind-folded before being taken this small apartment overlooking the streets. Without further ado...

(The Atlantic Wire)
For reasons not immediately apparent to us, Occupy Wall Street protesters apparently blindfold journalists before taking them to their secret media operations room in NoHo and require them to keep its exact location a secret. Andrew Katz, writing for the Brooklyn Ink, profiles some of the major players in Occupy Wall Street's media operations, and in his piece, he notes the oddly Batcave-like means the protesters employ:

So few people, both in and outside the movement, appear to know about the off-site media operations center that when journalists are granted access, they are blindfolded with a maroon scarf and told the precise location is off the record.
Ten minutes later, the cab stops outside a rundown building in NoHo. Up the stairs and down a hallway, three men and a woman, all in their late twenties and thirties, are fixated on the monitors in front of them. They’re using, at turns, a third-party Twitter application or running a live feed from Oakland, Calif., that’s streaming a late-night clash between police and protestors.

 Read the rest here.

2nd Article


(New Yorker)
On the screen, a protester from Occupy Orlando was requesting in-kind donations. “We have plenty of deodorant,” he said, “but we could use soap.” A second protester, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, entered the frame to announce breaking news: “We’re global! Seventeen hundred viewers right now!” The crowd outside the Orlando chamber of commerce cheered. Read the rest here.