That’s exactly the point, I’m afraid. By keeping these things out of the mainstream media the PTB can make it impossible for people to prove what’s happened – as if it isn’t real till it’s in the NYT.
The best source for the events of Saturday and Sunday (arrest of livestream media team, and the boy with concussion etc) is probably the Dissenter - try here, here, and here. The middle one is specifically devoted to the crackdown by the NYPD. If you follow the comments many of them link to twitter or to pictures and videos being posted directly from the scene. As and when online press picks up events there are links to those too.
The girl handcuffed to a chair was earlier in the week, but the pages above will give you links back to previous reports. I also posted two in the other thread.
There’s also a Twitter list there if you want to follow people directly, eg here.
There is also the official OccupyWallStreet site, but I think this is less reliable. There’s a tendency to report things when they’re still rumour – eg the report last week that Yahoo was blocking e-mails proved to be unfounded, as did the first reports of tear gas. By contrast the Dissenter site is good at correcting anything that hasn’t been confirmed.
But I expect a lot of what’s happening may never be ‘officially confirmed’, and that’s what’s most alarming. It’s also why it’s necessary for as many people as possible to watch these things live so they can be actual witnesses to what’s going on. On Saturday night a lot of what went on was being texted from phone to phone, and in some cases by good old fashioned landline. It may not show on the net but it gets things done!
