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20 November 2011
OWS: Too Big to Fail
The Greanville Post Today at 18:31
By Stephen Lendman, Senior Contributing Editor
An idea whose time has come resonates globally. November 17 marked two months since beginning in New York. Earlier Middle East and European protests inspired it. Now it’s spreading everywhere across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

Occupy Bristol campaigners dig in
Morning Star Today at 17:00
The largest anti-capitalist protest outside London continued in Bristol today with campaigners refusing to budge.

Egyptian police grow desperate: fatal assault after intimidation tactics fail
Morning Star Today at 16:54
The Egyptian army launched a major assault on thousands of protesters occupying Cairo’s Tahrir square this afternoon after riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets failed to evict demonstrators.

UC Davis Chancellor Katehi Walk Of Shame
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Today at 15:41
Following the disgusting and uncalled for show of force by police at Occupy UC Davis Friday at which officers called in by Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi to disperse the protesters attacked and pepper sprayed peacefully protesting sitting students in their faces at point-blank range, continuing in the spirit of non-violence that has defined the Occupy movement UC Davis Students came to the consensus that they would give Chancellor Katehi a silent walk of shame to her car.

Sunday Morning Over (Qu)Easy
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Today at 14:50
I know Sundays are meant for a nice relaxing assortment of music.  But my Sunday started with seeing this in my FB feed – Someone I friended ‘Margarita Medoza Usajobs’ just liked this post by ‘Conservative Party USA’

New site for Occupy Cardiff camp
BBC News Today at 12:50
A group of protesters set up camp on land outside union offices in Cardiff as part of a global movement against banking and big business.

Egypt protesters reoccupy square
BBC News Today at 10:08
Egyptian protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square resist fresh attempts to remove them, following deadly clashes with the security forces on Saturday there and in other cities.

‘Occupy similar to ‘60s Civil Rights movement’
Russiatoday.ru Today at 08:27
As Obama’s presidency nears its end, assessments of his reforms are beginning to appear. But editor of The Nation Katrina Vanden Heuvel says that the most significant changes are coming not from the man on top, but from…

Occupy Toronto protesters take to streets
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 07:25

A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street
The Greanville Post Today at 02:59
By George Lakoff
A disproportionate distribution of wealth robs most citizens of access to the resources controlled by the wealthy. Immense wealth is a thief. It takes resources from the rest of the population — the best places to live, the best food, the best educations, the best health facilities, access to the best in nature and culture, the best professionals, and on and on…

How Occupy Wall Street nearly flopped
BBC News Today at 00:17
How Occupy Wall Street nearly flopped on day one

Thrown out of Their Camps, Can the Occupiers Return Stronger?
The Greanville Post Today at 00:13
By Alexander Cockburn
From Manhattan, to Nashville, to St. Louis, to Portland, Ore., to Oakland, Calif., the police this week moved in to clear out the Occupy Wall Street protesters from the various downtown plazas or squares where they’d established their peaceable camps. Mayor of Oakland, Jean Quan, had earlier acknowledged a conference call between 18 mayors across the U.S. discussing strategy, and the mode elected was clear enough. Get them out, by any means necessary.

19 November 2011
Banks, Pentagon, and Academic Pusillanimousness
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 21:39
I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. — GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain
Not everything, mind you, but anything, which would put him on par with the dumbest American living under the heaviest and mossiest rock. Hell, he’s running neck to neck with that boulder. Though Cain knows nothing, he has enough political sense to bluster, ‘If you mess with Israel you’re messing with the United States of America.’

What’s New: New issue of Canadian Dimension: Stepping up for the Planet
Socialist Project Yesterday at 21:00
The momentous rebellion, Occupy Wall Street, was in its earliest stage when this issue of Dimension was in its final planning stage. We had one article, ‘The Assault on Public Services,’ by Sam Gindin and Mike Hurley, that clearly relate to the cause of the rebellion, but as the rebellion turned into a movement, we managed to pull together an early CD take on what looks like the most promising development for radical politics in many decades.

How To Grow A Revolution: Police Attack and Mace Sitting UC Davis Students At Point-Blank Range
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Yesterday at 18:17
Crossposted from Antemedius
‘Safety’ concerns?
UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said officers used force out of concern for their own safety after they were surrounded by students. ‘If you look at the video you are going to see that there were 200 people in that quad,’ said Chief Spicuzza. ‘Hindsight is 20-20 and based on the situation we were sitting in, ultimately that was the decision that was made.’

Occupy’s 2nd Anniversary Celebrated in Small Town Sebastopol
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 16:00
We celebrated Occupy Wall Street’s (OWS) second monthly anniversary in small town Sebastopol, with its less than 8000 residents, in Northern California on November 17. We packed a City Council meeting where over two-dozen people spoke in favor of Occupy Sebastopol (OS) and the five-member Council supported it.

Lobbying Firm’s Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine/smear Occupy Wall Street
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Yesterday at 15:33
Up W/Chris had the exclusive story  this morning. The bastards are willing to spend a million dollars! Link to memo here. From his shows MSNBC site: (Video after the fold)