Occupy Wall Street
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People’s Library Reoccupation
After this morning’s eviction of Zuccotti Park, the 5,000 books that encompassed the People’s Library have depressingly ended up in a dumpster. However, writers are planning to restock the People’s Library this evening in Liberty Plaza. “Authors will bring their…
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An Occupy Roundup
Yesterday was Veterans Day and the American Occupation of America was focused on its members who have served in the armed forces. In the hot front city of Oakland, Scott Olsen, the first veteran seriously injured when police fired ordinance…
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Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won: A Poet’s Report from the Trenches
The demands on Occupy Wall Street far outnumber the demands by Occupy Wall Street — because occupiers don’t demand, they exist and they triumph by using their existence to overwrite the host. But unlike an invading army, we don’t have…
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Kevin Thomas #OWS
Our own Kevin Thomas has posted an insightful #OWS comic over at OccupyWriters.com. You can check it out here. Enjoy!
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…
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It’s Time: The Oakland General Strike Is Here
Well this is going to be something. Oakland’s general strike is today. Organizers are expecting tens of thousands of people. Almost every labor union has endorsed, and students will be walking out all over the Bay Area (solidarity statements here). Businesses…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
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…