The Voices of Occupy’s March Against the Millionaires– [Audio Slide show] 10/28/11
A Street Closing in Queens Hurts Business but Unites a Community
The Occupy Wall Street marchers took their cause yesterday to the homes of the richest tycoons in New York City, marching up Park and Fifth Avenues, respectively. They stopped at the homes of NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch, Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and hedge fund pioneer John Paulson where they chanted catchy slogans and held up homemade signs stating their fierce opposition to a new $5 billion tax cut for the wealthiest New Yorkers that Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to sign into law on Dec. 31.
A heavy police presence followed the demonstrators but their were no incidents, nor arrests. At their last stop on the steps of Mr. Paulson’s palatial townhouse on 86th and Fifth, they left a mock $5 billion check that read the “99%” as the payees to the massive cuts.
No one answered the door so they vowed to return and march placing more pressure on the Democratic governor who has come under sharp criticism from within his own party for fiscal concessions to big business in the state budget talks this past summer.
Photos and Audio: Daniel Medina
CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan and NYU Professor Dr. Alon Ben-Meir on stage at the NYU Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Sept. 19, 2011. (Photo: E.D. Cauchi/NY City Lens)
Her voice crackled and trailed off. A one-second pause turned into two, then three, as she stared at the floor in front of her as if searching for an answer in the finely polished wood of the stage. But when she finally answered, her words were strong…
CBS Reporter Lara Logan Makes First Public Appearance Post-Tahrir.
On a recent Saturday afternoon, I was given a behind-the-scenes look at the meticulous process of making a dumpling beginning with a trip to the market and concluding as a dish at the table.
This is a photo essay assembled with photographs I shot that day.
The Powerhouse Arena bookstore in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood recently hosted it’s first ever “Hipster Puppy Pageant”, in homage to author Christopher R. Weingarten’s recent book, “Hipster Puppies.”
Alongside fellow Columbia J-school classmate, Scott Eidler, we bring you an audio slideshow from the event.
I photographed and edited the piece while Scott recorded audio.
Daniel Allen Medina 