Latest from the American Occupation of America:

The Oakland Occupation is the hot front in the struggle against Corporate Exploitation: an attack by the police that injured Iraq vet Scott Olson led to a general strike and a large and successful march that closed the Port of Oakland.

The big stories surrounding the Occupy Wall Street movement seem to center around police brutality, but in a lot of cities, occupiers and police are working together peacefully.

Much of the pushback against the Occupy movement has come in the form of claims that income inequality isn’t really a problem.

Dahlia Lithwick says one of the best things about #OWS is the way it confuses the media and pundit class.

KJ Dell’Antonia asks if Occupy Wall Street is a teachable moment?

Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who was in critical condition after being struck in the head by an OPD projectile, has been upgraded to fair condition.

Make sure you check out Seth Fischer’s excellent Occupy Oakland roundup from earlier today. One update to that story–Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran who was shot in the head with a “police projectile” is in the hospital in critical condition.

Oakland police cleared the Occupy Oakland camp early this morning, arresting 85, and firing “two or three nonlethal projectiles from a shotgun” as well as lobbing “tear gas at the encampment.” An Open Salon blogger offers this first-hand report of the arrests.

Some Tea Party activists are pushing back on the idea that they have anything in common with Occupy Wall Street. I’ll give them this much–the Tea Party is much better at coming up with sexually explicit nicknames for themselves.

Oakland’s occupation is being attacked by right-wingers, and the city has had enough–of the protest, that is.

J Smooth of Ill Doctrine breaks down the big thing Occupy Wall Street is doing–identifying the ringers in the 3-card monte game.

Seems like the efforts to demonize Occupy Wall Street are, for the moment, failing.

So is the attempt to cast tax increases on the wealthy as class warfare.

Naomi Wolf tells her story of her arrest at Occupy Wall Street.

If you work for NPR, don’t speak publicly about your politics, or you’ll lose your job. So much for the notion that NPR is some bastion of liberal thought.

The Occupy Wall Street protests enter their second month, and have started to garner a lot more media attention. One of the people responsible for that attention is NYPD Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona, who spun a protestor around and punched him in the face.

Saturdays may belong to me, but today I belong to Occupy Des Moines. We’re marching to the Wells Fargo building this morning, located at 666 Walnut St. Not making that up. Feel free to post your own occupation stories in the comments today.

As usual, the Guardian looks to have the best coverage of all the major media outlets on this story. What does it say about the state of US media when a British paper is kicking the NY Times’s butt on coverage on a story that’s in the “Paper of Record’s” home city?