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6 November 2011
Fear and Loathing in the Cannes Debt Festival
Dissident Voice Today at 15:00
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Words, once pronounced, are like mountains. – Manchu proverb
Cannes is world-famous for its annual film festival that pulls all stops between glam and trash. That’s qualification enough for this Club Med resort as the perfect setting for a monster financial horror movie — a sort of drowning-by-numbers version of the Odyssey on crack. Some have called it the G-20 meeting. Others have called it The Slow and the Furious.

Chicago 1968, Seattle l999, and now Occupy 2011
Dissident Voice Today at 15:00
… once in a lifetime/ the longed for tidal wave/ of justice can rise up…
So hope for a great sea-change…
Believe in miracles…
– Irish Nobel Prize laureate Seamus Heaney, from the poem ‘The Cure’
The miraculous and magical rise of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) tidal wave has suspended us in a threshold between a no-longer and a not-yet. The call for justice initiated by American youth echoes around the globe. Ours is a time of transition; exploring similar transitional moments in history could be instructive.

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November….
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Today at 15:17
I just had a great discussion with Lorraine Berry about Occupy using the imagery of Guy Fawkes. You see, to one born in England, that would be the equivalent, she stated, of using Timothy McVeigh masks and celebrating April 19th. The British see him as a terrorist. She hates Occupy using the imagery”

It Can’t Happen Here Revisited
Dissident Voice Today at 15:00
Last week, while Occupy movement encampments across the US stared down eviction or were smashed up by police attacks, a number of theater companies around the US held readings of Sinclair Lewis’ 1936 adaptation for the stage of his bestselling novel It Can’t Happen Here. The play, which was commissioned by the Roosevelt administration’s Federal Theater Project, a part of its massive Depression era public works program, is the story of the rise to power of a good ol’ boy country lawyer who wins the presidency through a combination of charm, demagoguery and threats, and then cements his power with terror and violence, ultimately creating a police state.

Time to put Qantas back in public hands
Socialist Alliance RSS feed Today at 09:22
Saturday, November 5, 2011
By Sam Wainwright
If you speak out against the widening gap between wages and CEOs’ salaries, the corporate media will accuse you of stoking the “politics of envy”. Workers who dare take industrial action to get a few more crumbs from the bosses’ table are cast as class war dinosaurs.

Intermission: The Kids Are Alright!
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Today at 07:19
Occupy Oakland Children’s Brigade, marching from the public library to Oscar Grant Plaza.
Because the general strike statment had various times for gatherings (9/noon/5) it got teachers union buy-in. So the library (city unions) had teach ins, teachers were able to take kids to see democracy in action.

Occupy DC: Ralph Nader: “Freedom is Participation in Power”
Dandelion Salad Today at 06:28
Dandelion Salad EricSheptock on Nov 4, 2011 Consumer-advocate-turned-presidential-candidate Ralph Nader speaks to ‘occupiers’ at Washington, DC’s Freedom Plaza about the ‘Occupy movement’. Ralph Nader @ Freedom Plaza Speaking on ‘Occupy Movement’ Take Action: Call one or both of your Senators and receive a free ‘I am the 99%’ bumper sticker. Ask them to support the [...]

Michael Hudson on Fixing the Economy: Reverse the Inequality
Dandelion Salad Today at 01:09
by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Nov. 4, 2011 KPFK Alan Minsk 17 minutes see Ellen Brown: How the silent liquidity squeeze keeps jobs from being created Simon Patten on Public Infrastructure and Economic Rent Capture by Michael Hudson Michael Hudson: Banks are crime-gangs! + Obama’s Good Cop/Bad Cop deal with the Republicans Occupy [...]

London protesters march on Westminster
Russiatoday.ru Today at 00:23
In London dozens of protesters inspired by the US Occupy demonstrations have been arrested as they marched through the city. The Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters promise the rallies will continue as the movement…

5 November 2011
Occupy Sydney marches, re-occupies
Green Left Weekly issue #782 Yesterday at 22:42
Sat, 05/11/2011
By Kerry Smith, Sydney
About 1500 people joined an Occupy Sydney rally at Town Hall on November 5, making it the largest of the three Occupy Sydney marches so far.

Money movers and Occupy Wall Street shakers rattle US banking world
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 20:22
In a national effort to make the so-called one per cent listen, hundreds of thousands of people have withdrawn money from leading banks in the United States. National Bank Transfer Day may be a grassroots movement –but…

What’s New: Building a multiracial Occupy movement
Socialist Project Yesterday at 20:00
The Occupy struggle needs to represent and involve all of the 99 percent–and that means putting issues affecting people of color at the center of our movement.

Fawke ‘em Occupy Wall Street S- 11.05.11
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Yesterday at 18:08
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Occupy protest outside Parliament
BBC News Yesterday at 18:05
About 200 protesters linked to the camp against ‘corporate greed’ outside St Paul’s Cathedral are ‘illegally’ demonstrating in Parliament Square.

The Big Sellout
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 18:36
By Charles P. Pierce , Esquire’s political blogs 
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.