{"id":3223,"date":"2012-03-02T05:07:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2012-03-02T05:07:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T13:07:38","slug":"from-the-daily-beast-from-russell-simmons-to-ben-jerry-the-would-be-sponsors-of-occupy-wall-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/from-the-daily-beast-from-russell-simmons-to-ben-jerry-the-would-be-sponsors-of-occupy-wall-st\/","title":{"rendered":"(from the Daily Beast) &#8216;From Russell Simmons to Ben &#038; Jerry: the Would-be Sponsors of Occupy Wall St&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Occupy Oreo? Revolutionary Rocky Road? Moneyed patrons plan to subsidize the fight against predatory capitalism, whether OWS likes it or not.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/01\/from-russell-simmons-to-ben-and-jerry-the-would-be-sponsors-of-occupy-wall-street.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3224\" title=\"occupy-corp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/occupy-corp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/occupy-corp.jpg 503w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/occupy-corp-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><strong>To read the story, click the image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EXCERPTS:<\/p>\n<p>After months of behind-the-scenes discussion, the latest moneyed group looking to patronize Occupy Wall Street\u2014in implicit exchange for its \u201cblessing\u201d and the valuable naming rights that go with it\u2014came out publicly this week&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The group seems to think it can purchase a piece of the occupation&#8230;.\u201cEssentially this is a group of very wealthy people who have picked a handler to deal with Occupy Wall Street,&#8221; academic administrator and veteran occupier Ravi Ahmad <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203833004577249811049566178.html\" target=\"_blank\">told <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203833004577249811049566178.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. <\/em>&#8220;They&#8217;ve re-created what&#8217;s wrong with nonprofits and philanthropy structures.&#8221; (The <em>Journal <\/em>story was inaccurately titled &#8220;Occupy Groups Get Funding,&#8221; suggesting that OWS has reached an arrangement with MRG, which it has not.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/from-the-daily-beast-from-russell-simmons-to-ben-jerry-the-would-be-sponsors-of-occupy-wall-st\/alec-baldwin-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3226\" title=\"alec-baldwin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/alec-baldwin1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I remembered thinking the same thing when Alec Baldwin\u2014literally a shill for Capital One Bank\u2014showed up at the \u201cOccupied Office\u201d (50 Broadway) one afternoon. Or when Russell Simmons showed up early on and offered big money with strings attached. This is the same guy who was hawking his \u201cself-help\u201d book, <em>Super-Rich. <\/em>We\u2019re talking enormous nerve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupy Oreo? Revolutionary Rocky Road? Moneyed patrons plan to subsidize the fight against predatory capitalism, whether OWS likes it or not. To read the story, click the image EXCERPTS: After months of behind-the-scenes discussion, the latest moneyed group looking to patronize Occupy Wall Street\u2014in implicit exchange for its \u201cblessing\u201d and the valuable naming rights that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}