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4 November 2011
NY Post to Mayor: Reclaim New York’s ‘Dignity’
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Today at 15:47
Yesterday the New York Post–Rupert Murdoch’s down-market tabloid, for those who are blessed to live beyond its circulation area–ran this front-page editorial demanding that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg shut down the Occupy Wall Street encampment to reclaim the city’s ‘dignity’:

Occupation movement ‘will stay non-violent’
Morning Star Today at 15:12
Occupy Wall Street activists reaffirmed their commitment to non-violent protest today after Wednesday’s successful Oakland occupation and strike was derailed by clashes with police.

Green Republicans?
Dissident Voice Today at 15:01
Last week one of my conservative friends made a joke. He said ‘I’m tired of hearing that conservatives don’t care about the environment. Aren’t we the ones that championed the use of the electric chair to execute murderers?

Why I’d Love to Stop Worrying and Love Occupy Wall Street
Dissident Voice Today at 15:01
I love occupations. I really, really do. Not only can they be really fun (its like a sleepover! Where people talk about Žižek and Marx!), but I honestly think they can be an effective tactic for change – they are the right mix of political theatre and direct action, and given the right conditions and demands, can be quite useful.

Occupiers Past and Present
Dissident Voice Today at 15:00
Occupy has gone viral. First we had flash trading, then flash mobs, and now a flash movement. But this is no flash in the pan.

The End of Silver Manipulation
Dissident VoiceToday at 15:00 Justin O’Connell The story of the Hunt Brother’s — Nelson and William Herbert — attempt to corner the silver market in the 1980’s is one of the best known examples in the commodity markets of financial heavyweights purchasing enough stock so as to be able to manipulate it as they please. The Hunt brothers did not keep the greatest market share for long, but they certainly did help to make completely lopsided, in favor of finance capital, the silver market since that time.

New York City: Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters going to trial for arrests
World Socialist Web Site Today at 12:54
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators arrested on September 24 appeared in court Thursday, with most of them rejecting a plea bargain and electing to fight the charges.

Margin Call: A look at the parasitical one percent
World Socialist Web Site Today at 12:54
The movie is a sharp-eyed drama set inside an anonymous Wall Street firm that helps trigger the 2008 financial collapse.

Arrests follow Occupy Oakland demonstrations
World Socialist Web Site Today at 12:54
A one-day protest in Oakland, California on Wednesday was followed by early morning arrests and tear gas, while the trade unions moved quickly to reopen ports that were closed for the evening.

‘Occupy’s simple message is key to its success’
Russiatoday.ru Today at 04:22
Occupy protesters demonstrate resilience to crackdowns and cynicism in the media but it is still unclear what lies ahead for the movement.Abby Martin, founder of Mediaroots.org, says that Occupy can become a real…

‘The EU Crisis Pocket Guide’ for the 99%
Links – International journal of socialist renewal Today at 12:35
October 2011 — The Transnational Institute has produced a useful pocket guide — The EU Crisis Pocket Guide — on how a crisis made in Wall Street was made worse by EU policies, how it has enriched the 1% to the detriment of the 99%, and outlining some possible solutions that prioritise people and the environment above corporate profits.

NY Post to Mayor: Reclaim New York’s ‘Dignity’
Fairness & Accuracy In ReportingT oday at 15:47
Yesterday the New York Post–Rupert Murdoch’s down-market tabloid, for those who are blessed to live beyond its circulation area–ran this front-page editorial demanding that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg shut down the Occupy Wall Street encampment to reclaim the city’s ‘dignity’:

Occupation movement ‘will stay non-violent’
Morning Star Today at 15:12
Occupy Wall Street activists reaffirmed their commitment to non-violent protest today after Wednesday’s successful Oakland occupation and strike was derailed by clashes with police.

Green Republicans?
Dissident Voice Today at 15:01
Last week one of my conservative friends made a joke. He said ‘I’m tired of hearing that conservatives don’t care about the environment. Aren’t we the ones that championed the use of the electric chair to execute murderers?

Why I’d Love to Stop Worrying and Love Occupy Wall Street
Dissident Voice Today at 15:01
I love occupations. I really, really do. Not only can they be really fun (its like a sleepover! Where people talk about Žižek and Marx!), but I honestly think they can be an effective tactic for change – they are the right mix of political theatre and direct action, and given the right conditions and demands, can be quite useful.

Occupiers Past and Present
Dissident Voice Today at 15:00
Occupy has gone viral. First we had flash trading, then flash mobs, and now a flash movement. But this is no flash in the pan.

The End of Silver Manipulation
Dissident VoiceToday at 15:00 Justin O’Connell
The story of the Hunt Brother’s — Nelson and William Herbert — attempt to corner the silver market in the 1980’s is one of the best known examples in the commodity markets of financial heavyweights purchasing enough stock so as to be able to manipulate it as they please. The Hunt brothers did not keep the greatest market share for long, but they certainly did help to make completely lopsided, in favor of finance capital, the silver market since that time.

New York City: Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters going to trial for arrests
World Socialist Web Site Today at 12:54
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators arrested on September 24 appeared in court Thursday, with most of them rejecting a plea bargain and electing to fight the charges.

Margin Call: A look at the parasitical one percent
World Socialist Web Site Today at 12:54
The movie is a sharp-eyed drama set inside an anonymous Wall Street firm that helps trigger the 2008 financial collapse.

Arrests follow Occupy Oakland demonstrations
World Socialist Web Site Today at 12:54
A one-day protest in Oakland, California on Wednesday was followed by early morning arrests and tear gas, while the trade unions moved quickly to reopen ports that were closed for the evening.

‘Occupy’s simple message is key to its success’
Russiatoday.ru Today at 04:22
Occupy protesters demonstrate resilience to crackdowns and cynicism in the media but it is still unclear what lies ahead for the movement.Abby Martin, founder of Mediaroots.org, says that Occupy can become a real…

OWS: Chris Hedges, Rev. Billy and other protesters arrested at Goldman Sachs + Hedges’ statement: A return to the rule of law
Dandelion Salad Today at 01:09
with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 3, 2011 Occupy Wall Street: Goldman Sachs Protest Ends in 16 Arrests By Jessica Firger Metropolis – blogs.wsj.com November 3, 2011 [...] The rally was held after a mock trial at the nearby Occupy Wall Street encampment, in which Goldman’s alleged misdeeds were weighed in a ‘people’s [...]

3 November 2011
FAIR dispatch: NewsHour Responds on Inequality
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 22:01
‘Who would disagree’ with a fake Lincoln quote?
Media Turd Paul Solman: Defending inequality.
After FAIR’s recent action alert (10/27/11) concerning the PBS NewsHour‘s reports minimizing–and even celebrating–economic inequality, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman posted a long response on the PBS website (10/31/11) that attempted to answer the criticism.

Tower Heist (12A)
Morning Star Yesterday at 17:34
Tower Heist is a slick and action-packed comedy in which a group of employees at a luxury apartment block decide to rob its owner – a Wall Street titan – when they discover he has embezzled their pensions.

NYT Invents a Steve Jobs Backlash

Organized Labour and the Occupations Movement
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 15:09
Samir Sonti The   B u l l e t
Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 564
Chicago police arrest members of National Nurses United, and tear down their first aid tent at Occupy Chicago. [Photo:National United Nurses.]
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) phenomenon has achieved a stature and longevity unrivaled by recent demonstrations in the United States, and has understandably struck a chord with a wide range of people dismayed by the barbaric level of inequality that is the defining feature of contemporary American society.

Public Pressure Is Slowly Ending Afghanistan War
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 15:00
Feints and baby steps in the direction of eventually ending a massive crime are not enough. Hoping to meet a distant deadline for ending a war that cannot be justified for a single day is not enough. A new misunderstanding should not be piled on top of other fictional accomplishments (the closing of Guantanamo, the complete withdrawal from Iraq, universal health coverage, etc.).

The Power of the People, Organized
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 14:59
On Monday, October 31, speaking about a possible permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, President Obama’s press secretary Jay Carney told the press that ‘this is a decision that will be made by the State Department.’

BRITAIN: SEP speaker opposes “no politics” at Occupy London Stock Exchange
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 13:13
By Aidan Claire, member of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP)
Since October 15, when the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp was established outside St Paul’s Cathedral, a number of its organisers—made up of Labour Party supporters and members of various pseudo-left organisations—have insisted that ‘no politics’ should be its guiding principle.

Jon Corzine’s MF Global Firm Collapses in Biggest Wall Street Failure Since Lehman Brothers
Democracy Now! Yesterday at 12:39
In a major banking scandal, the commodities and derivatives brokerage house MF Global filed one of the largest bankruptcies in American corporate history — with almost $40 billion in liabilities. It was the largest failure on Wall Street since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The chairman and chief executive officer of MF Global is Jon Corzine, a former New Jersey governor and U.S. senator. Corzine is also the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. The firm is the biggest U.S. casualty so far of the European debt crisis. ‘We’ve just continued to have one financial crisis after another. It’s because of the incentive system on Wall Street that badly needs to change, and has not changed one iota,’ says William Cohan, author of ‘Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World.’ ‘As we just saw with this bankruptcy of MF Global, there’s nothing in the Dodd-Frank law, nothing in the regulations that are being written, that is going to change the incentives.’

Wall Street v. Greece: G20 Opens as Greek PM Pushes For Referendum on Bailout and Austerity Measures
Democracy Now! Yesterday at 12:27
World leaders are gathering in Cannes for the opening of the Group of 20 summit today. On the top of the agenda is the Greece bailout and the European debt crisis.

#OWS You Don’t Need a Weatherman
Socialist Resistance Yesterday at 08:14
Abra Quinn reports from Oakland.
One of the signs at Occupy Oakland’s General Strike today read ‘There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen – V. I. Lenin’ The Occupy Wall Street Movement, also known as #OWS in tweet-speak, seems to be one of those moments in history when change, after moving at a glacial pace for years, suddenly hurtles forward.

The Bullet: Organized Labour and the Occupations Movement
Socialist Project Yesterday at 08:00
The Occupy Wall Street phenomenon has achieved a stature and longevity unrivaled by recent demonstrations in the United States, and has understandably struck a chord with a wide range of people dismayed by the barbaric level of inequality that is the defining feature of contemporary American society.

John Hamilton, “Clarence Thomas Speaks at Occupy Oakland General Strike” (Video)
MRZine.org Yesterday at 06:34
Clarence Thomas: ‘One of the reasons why they are doing it is because they are trying to defend ILWU workers in Longview, Washington, who are facing a behemoth of agribusiness, EGT.

Amy Goodman: United States war veterans join Occupy movement
Links – International journal of socialist renewal Yesterday at 04:52
Democracy Now! November 2, 2011, report on the planned Oakland general strike. In New York City, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War are planning to march on November 2 in their military fatigues from Vietnam Veterans Plaza to Zuccotti Park, the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

‘A revival of collectivist solidarity’ — Hugo Blanco, veteran Indigenous revolutionary, on Occupy Wall Street

The Time Has Passed For Isolated Grassroots Movements, This Is the ‘Big One’ That Links Us All
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 01:59
By Kathleen Moore, YES! Magazine
The Occupy Wall Street movements and climate action movements stand on the same moral ground and affirm the same moral principles: It’s wrong to wreck the world.

All Power to the People – A letter to the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 01:01
All Power to the People – A letter to the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Without even realizing, people from all over the world have started to call for a Jamahiriya government as taught to us by Muammar Qaddafi.

2 November 2011
Occupy the Future
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 22:01
By Noam Chomsky
Delivering a Howard Zinn lecture is a bittersweet experience for me. I regret that he’s not here to take part in and invigorate a movement that would have been the dream of his life. Indeed, he laid a lot of the groundwork for it.  If the bonds and associations being established in these remarkable events can be sustained through a long, hard period ahead – victories don’t come quickly – the Occupy protests could mark a significant moment in American history.

The Disuniting of America
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 20:28
By Jim Hightower
The massive redistribution of America’s wealth from the many to the few is happening because the rich and their political puppets have rigged the system.

Call of Duty: Veterans Join the 99 Percent
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 20:01
By Amy Goodman
11-11-11 is not a variant of Herman Cain’s much-touted 9-9-9 tax plan, but rather the date of this year’s Veterans Day. This is especially relevant, as the U.S. has now entered its second decade of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in the nation’s history. U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are appearing more and more on the front lines—the front lines of the Occupy Wall Street protests, that is.

Bloomberg defends banksters yet again
Russiatoday.ru02/11/2011 at 17:41
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the press this week that he is listening to the complaints coming from the protesters involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement — he just happens to think that they’re dumb.

Hey OWS, What’s Your Agenda?
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 17:35
By Danny Schechter
One of the most frequently repeated, recycled and dismissive questions about Occupy Wall Street is its supposed lack of an ‘agenda.’  The ‘what do you people want’ question has featured in media interviews almost to the exclusion of all others.  It’s as if the movement won’t be taken seriously by some, unless and until, it enunciates a list of ‘demands’ and defines itself in a way that can allow others, especially a cynical media, to label and pigeonhole it.

We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 17:17
By Naomi Wolf, Al Jazeera English
America’s politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement – sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence.

Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 16:24
John Bellamy Foster
MRZine
This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on ‘The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment’ organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011.  It was based on a talk delivered the night before at the Brecht Forum.  Fred Magdoff also spoke on both occasions.

Fawke ‘em Occupy Wall Street W- 11.02.11
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page 02/11/2011 at 16:19
For more Info, DAILY editions in this series can be found HERE

“Occupy” Wall Street? Better burn it down!
Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) 02/11/2011 at 16:01
‘Occupy’ Wall Street? Better burn it down!
Commentary on the Occupy Wall Street movement by Brkic Sulejman

Lessons From Oaxaca to the Occupy Movement

Anti-Wall Street protesters in New York denounce “Governor 1 percent”

Occupy These…! Slavery and Abuse by Metaphor
Black Agenda Radio Commentaries 02/11/2011 at 12:49
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by editor and columnist Jared Ball
Young white demonstrators should be advised not to complain of being ‘enslaved’ to student loans and such, any more than they would speak of a ‘Holocaust’ of unemployment. Such metaphors of slavery are more than merely inaccurate – they may reveal dark facts about the speaker. But privilege does not brook criticism from the ‘quarters.’ ‘Former Black Liberation Army soldier Asanti Alston recalled his friend’s experience at an occupation of being shouted down as ‘divisive’ for trying to focus attention on Black poverty and mass incarceration.’ Privilege wants the conversation all to itself, like Empire.

Obama’s Legacy of Shame
The Greanville Post 02/11/2011 at 12:41
By Stephen Lendman, Senior Contributing Editor
The biggest fraud in recent history.
Promising change after eight Bush/Republican years, Obama delivered betrayal.  With congressional Democrats, he exceeded Bush’s harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal.

Occupy Oakland Prepares for General Strike as War Veterans Organize Day of Action at Occupy Camps
Democracy Now! 02/11/2011 at 12:14
Protesters in Oakland, California, are launching a citywide general strike today that will include an attempt to shut down the nation’s fifth-busiest shipping port.

US stares down occupying forces
Asia Times Online 02/11/2011 at 11:00
Reports that an Iraq War veteran was gravely injured in the police crackdown on Occupy Wall Street in Oakland, California will heighten tensions between protestors and riot police pushing back hard nationwide with tear gas and rubber bullets. Though most major occupation sites are seeing violence, Oakland resembles a war zone. – Ritt Goldstein (Nov 2, ’11)

INTERVIEW : US political consensus is a Himalayan task
Asia Times Online 02/11/2011 at 11:00
American Laurence Brahm is a global activist, international mediator, political columnist and author who pioneered the Himalayan Consensus paradigm of sustainable development, which has taken him from Tibet to the Occupy Wall Street protests. He tells Victor Fic it’s time to fire the managers of ‘America Inc’ and for corporate greed to be replaced with ‘compassionate capitalism’. (Nov 2, ’11)

Police order end to occupation in Perth, Western Australia
World Socialist Web Site 02/11/2011 at 08:54
Occupy Perth, formed in response to the anti-Wall Street protests in the US against social inequality and corporate power, merged with the CHOGM demonstration, intending to begin an occupation following it.

Occupy Wall Street organizing underway in La Crosse, Wisconsin
World Socialist Web Site 02/11/2011 at 08:53
Supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement are working to build up Occupy LaCrosse. They’ve been barred from camping out in Cameron Park in the downtown area, and a group has initiated a petition campaign to secure their right to establish an encampment. Meanwhile, they are holding rallies, bannering a

US automakers to cash in from new UAW contracts
World Socialist Web Site 02/11/2011 at 08:53
Wall Street analysts and the news media say Detroit’s Big Three automakers—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—will see a boost in profits from the four-year labor agreements just signed by the United Auto Workers union.

1 November 2011
Is Capitalism Losing the Debate?
The Greanville Post 01/11/2011 at 23:03
A Steady Diet of Distortions by CARL FINAMORE
Obama: Detour to the abyss.
A remarkable shift in mass public opinion is occurring right before our eyes. It does not happen often. Normally, only when there is a severe breakdown in public confidence about the future.

Keeping Democrats on the Hook
The Greanville Post 01/11/2011 at 22:32
Beware MoveOn
by ALAN NASSER
‘I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare’ – Mitt Romney on OWS, Oct. 4, 2011

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) represents a nationwide movement-in-the-making that is independent of the two-Party duopoly. Both the movement’s staying power and its effectiveness depend crucially on this independence.

G20 protests meet Occupy Wall Street – global revolution
Russiatoday.ru 01/11/2011 at 20:32
As protests kick off in France ahead of the G20 Summit, RT goes to the biggest Occupy Wall Street camp in the US to find out what the demonstrators on both sides of the Atlantic have in common.

Russell Simmons Still Ain’t Hip-Hop and He Ain’t No Occupier Either!
The Greanville Post 01/11/2011 at 20:25G
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by editor and columnist Jared Ball
The experience of the last five weeks shows that Wall Street ‘occupiers’ fear of liberal co-optation is fully justified.’ Media mogul and debit card finance capitalist Russell Simmons escorted Kanye West and Al Sharpton into the Zuccotti Park occupation mix, in yet another attempt ‘by the soft liberal Left to co-opt anything that has any degree of revolutionary potential.’ Cooptation efforts are to be expected. However, ‘If the Simmons and Sharptons of the world are to be combated a more genuine Black leadership must emerge from the ranks of Black people.’

Intermission: You Really Piss Me Off
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page 01/11/2011 at 18:31
This is how it happened.
First, Barack Obama hires the rancid flotsam of Wall Street to command the economic team tasked with salvaging the nation from what the equally rancid jetsam of Wall Street had done to it.

Fawke ‘em Occupy Wall Street 11.01.11
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page 01/11/2011 at 16:31
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The Occupation and Its Critics
Dissident Voice 01/11/2011 at 15:01Bo Winegard
Rise like Lions after slumber/In unvanquishable number/Shake your chains to earth like dew/Which sleep had fallen on you/Ye are the many—they the few. – Percy Shelley

The Occupy Movement, now in myriad cities across the country and, indeed, the globe, is too big to ignore. Many thousands of people, frustrated with the current status quo but hopeful for another, have made their disgruntlement palpable by turning parks, streets, and capitols into a choir of complaint—complaint complimented, however, by a contrapuntal harmony of hope and aspiration.

A Warning to the Economic and Political Elites: Listen Now
Dissident Voice 01/11/2011 at 15:00
The Occupy Movement is not only resulting in the occupation of public space, but also in political space. We are already shifting the dialogue and the movement has just begun.

Why the Movement to Occupy Wall Street?
Dissident Voice 01/11/2011 at 14:5
The corporate-controlled media’s treatment of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has not provided much useful information about the movement. Instead of reporting on OWS, media pundits whined about a lack of leaders and criticized the appearance of some participants. Unfortunately, such media coverage is not a surprise; after all, OWS is challenging the status quo.

Modern-Day ‘Hooverville’ with Hope
Consortiumnews.com 01/11/2011 at 13:42
The response to Occupy Wall Street is personal for many participants and visitors alike. For historian William Loren Katz, the iconic protest in Lower Manhattan was a reminder of Depression-era ‘Hoovervilles’ — but with a youthful optimism. By William Loren Katz On Saturday, my wife and I visited Occupy Wall Street to see history in the making — and to donate two of my relevant books to the OWS library. The entrance point on Broadway of Zuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza, stops…

Move Your Money: Campaign Grows to Divest From “Too Big to Fail” Banks to Local Banks, Credit Unions
Democracy Now! 01/11/2011 at 12:52
As participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement continue protesting the record profits made by banks bailed out by taxpayer money, a group of grassroots activists are hitting America’s largest banks — including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo — where it hurts most: The wallet. Dubbing this Saturday, Nov. 5 as ‘Bank Transfer Day,’ activists are urging people to move their money out of the banks deemed ‘to big to fail’ in to local community banks and credit unions. Bank Transfer Day draws on an idea popularized by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, economist Rob Johnson and columnist Arianna Huffington, among others. In 2010, they created the short film called, ‘Move Your Money,’ which became a viral sensation. We speak with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki.

‘Build a future which reflects our dreams’ — Angela Davis addresses Occupy Wall Street
Links – International journal of socialist renewal 01/11/2011 at 12:30
Au­thor, ac­tivist and member of the Committees of Correspondence (former Communist Party USA) An­gela Davis spoke at Oc­cupy Wall Street in Wash­ing­ton Square Park, New York City, on Sun­day, Oc­to­ber 30, 2011.

OWS – What We’ve Been Waiting For
New Left Project 01/11/2011 at 11:46
by Robin Hahnel, Alex Doherty
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at Portland State University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy and he is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Here he discusses the composition of the Occupy Wall Street movement, his hopes for the movement and the question of demands.

Is democracy the enemy? A reply to Slavoj Zizek
Links – International journal of socialist renewal 01/11/2011 at 11:23
Slavoj Zizek addresses Occupy Wall Street.
By Louis Proyect
October 31, 2011 –  The Unrepentant Marxist, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author’s permission — Although the content of Slavoj Žižek’s post in the London Review of Books blog (‘Democracy is the enemy’) is not so nearly as bad as the title, it still betrays the same kind of misunderstanding of the relationship between democracy and socialism that I addressed in my critique of ‘The Idea of Communism’ conference held a couple of weeks ago in New York City [that featured Žižek:

Brand OWS: trademark battle as marketers cash in
Russiatoday.ru 01/11/2011 at 11:00
The race is on to trademark the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. With multiple parties vying to take control of the name, the grassroots movement is seeking to protect itself from those trying to cash in at the...

Thai Jones, "All Day, All Week (All Century), Occupy Wall Street"
MRZine.org 01/11/2011 at 00:05
For as long as Wall Street has stood for greed and unearned profits there have been those who have stood against it. In 1890, the leader of the Knights of Labor railed at 'the control of our financial affairs by the bulls and bears of Wall Street.'

After Occupy Wall Street, isn’t it time for Occupy Earth?
Climate and Capitalism 31/10/2011 at 19:36
The 99% pay for wealth disparity with lost jobs, foreclosed homes, weakening pensions, and slashed services, but Nature pays, too. In the world the one-percenters have created, the needs of whole ecosystems are as easy to disregard as, say, the need the young have for debt-free educations and meaningful jobs. by Chip Ward TomDispatch, October [...]

TOO MUCH—Inequality Monitor (10.31.11)

Fawke ‘em Occupy Hallowe’en 10.31.11
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page 31/10/2011 at 18:04
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David Harvey, “Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street Meets Its Nemesis”
MRZine.org 31/10/2011 at 17:00
The Party of Wall Street has had its day and failed miserably. How to construct an alternative on its ruins is both an inescapable opportunity and an obligation that none of us can or would ever want to avoid.

The Spirit of the Age
The Greanville Post 31/10/2011 at 16:56
How do the 99% compare with mass protests of the past – and can they succeed?
Following the collapse of communism in 1991, [and thanks to media's complicity Conservative icon] Edmund Burke’s notion that ‘in all societies, consisting of different classes, certain classes must necessarily be uppermost’ and that ‘the apostles of equality only change and pervert the natural order of things’, became the common-sense wisdom of the age. 

Talking With Michael Moore on OWS
The Greanville Post 31/10/2011 at 16:38
It’s Starting in Oakland—
By DAVEY D AND DENNIS BERNSTEIN
FILMMAKER MICHAEL MOORE IN OAKLAND TO PROTEST MASSIVE POLICE VIOLENCE AND SUPPORT THE OCCUPY OAKLAND MOVEMENT

Up Is Down, Down Is Up: Bill O’Reilly Explains OWS
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 31/10/2011 at 16:36
On his Friday night show, Bill O’Reilly took his viewers to a magical place–one where the right-wing Koch brothers have no connection to the Tea Party movement, while Occupy Wall Street is a secret project directed and financed by the likes of Moveon.org, SEIU and  George Soros.

Pat Buchanan’s dire prediction for Occupy Wall Street
Russiatoday.ru 31/10/2011 at 16:18
Protesters will go more violent! This is how conservative commentator Pat Buchanan sees the future of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

As expected: the Great Phony names WS lobbyist as senior campaign adviser
The Greanville Post 31/10/2011 at 16:13
How about it, Obamabots? Still in love with the plutocracy’s Trojan Horse?

How the Rich Have Fire-Walled Their Fortunes
New Left Project 31/10/2011 at 07:40
by Stewart Lansley
Now we know. We are in the midst of a prolonged economic crisis in which the output of the British economy fell by 7.2 per cent and growth has been close to stagnant for the last nine months. Yet Britain’s leading executives have been behaving as if they have personally pioneered an unprecedented economic renaissance.