By WPS.News Staff Writer
Dateline: Derry, Maine — August 3, 2025

Before Occupy Wall Street ever set up its first tent, Cliff Potts was already sharpening the edges of protest media.

A Chicago-born technologist and trade-school wunderkind with roots in machine shops, punch-card programming, and network engineering, Potts brought more than just technical chops to the activist world—he brought a voice. That voice would eventually become WPS News and W-T-FM, two halves of a protest frequency broadcasting not just signal, but meaning.

Activism Before the Hashtag

Long before “Occupy” trended, Potts fought corporate overreach, deregulated deception, and American political amnesia from the trenches of web forums, early blogs, and grassroots publications. He built platforms—not for profit, but for people. His early work amplified unions, worker-owned cooperatives, and local whistleblowers. Cliff wasn’t chasing followers. He was chasing justice.

When the Occupy movement rose in 2011, he brought a full toolkit—media, messaging, and moral clarity.

WPS News: Truth With a Byline

WPS.News didn’t evolve by accident. It was a necessity. A stand-alone digital paper with datelines, bylines, and a reporter’s grit, it grew into a daylight arm of Potts’ vision. If Occupy 2.5 was the protest, WPS News was the record of it. No sensationalism. Just facts, fury, and footnotes.

In the noise of modern media, WPS News cuts a clean path: corruption exposed, billionaires confronted, and the con of American greed laid bare.

WTFM: Broadcast from the Bunker

While WPS News holds the morning line, WTFM—broadcast nightly from fictional Derry, Maine—wields satire, classic rock, and haunted static. It’s Coast to Coast AM meets punk ‘zine, fed through a bluesy dystopian filter. This is where the ghosts of protest live. Where truth echoes and the signal always bleeds through.

Together, they form Occupy 2.5, not a movement reboot—but a continuity. An insurgent archive. The second wind of dissent.

A Protest Built to Last

Occupy 2.5 isn’t nostalgia. It’s evolution. It blends resistance with reason, protest with production, memory with motion. Potts didn’t just preserve the movement—he repowered it.

And he deserves the credit.

Because while others camped, Cliff connected. While the movement fractured, he archived. And while the headlines faded, he broadcast louder.

Occupy 2.5 isn’t just alive—it’s documented.

Stay tuned. More truth is coming.

To view supporting documents, media, and archives referenced in this article, visit our YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@wpsnewstoday?si=vxCCNWnHHYkbb3lC

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