Jay-Z’s clothing company Rocawear have launched a T-shirt which reads “Occupy All Streets” blazoned on the front. A press statement on the shirt from the company goes:
The ‘Occupy All Streets’ T shirt was created in support of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. Rocawear strongly encourages all forms of constructive expression, whether it be artistic, political or social.
One leading occupier in the states, a chap called Grim, responded:
Jay-Z, as talented as he is, has the political sensibility of a hood rat and is a scrotum.
The thinking, perhaps, is that someone out there is attempting to squeeze a surplus on a real movement, with real aims, which aren’t to further a publicity campaign. Continue reading
The occupy movements across the world have already succeeded in focussing the debate on the huge disparities between the very wealthy and the “bottom 99%”.
Occupy Wall Street, London and 900 other cities across the world challenges the Labour Party to demonstrate that it’s not just a clique holed up in the corridors of Westminster, but a mass campaigning organisation that reaches out to the people and responds to their demands. The second Occupation site now established in London’s Finsbury Square, perhaps to be followed by others in addition, and the resolution to stay on site till Christmas or beyond, marks this out as no passing sit-in or protest march, but rather a determined campaign to bring about radical change in the grotesque excesses of power and wealth where the current parliamentary process is seen as irrelevant or ineffectual. The question is, where is the Labour Party in all this? 
Although “the standard rightwing putdown of the Occupy Wall Street movement” to which