Occupy Wall Street protests Frieze New York. They also support New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters who say the fair uses contractors who “do not pay the area standard wages to all their employees including providing or fully paying for health benefits and pension” The contractor was not named. [The Art Newspaper] A day after Cooper Union announced it would begin charging graduate students tuition in September 2012, students walked out.
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The “Occupy Wall Street” rally gained thousands of new supporters as New York City became protest city on Wednesday when the group marched to City Hall. The protests, however, were not without incident.The NYPD said that there were ... Read Post
After speaking out against the Whitney Biennial, the Occupy Wall Street movement has now set its cross hairs on another art world institution -- the Frieze Art Fair in New York. Read Post