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22 November 2011
Occupy Bristol supporters attend Capita strike picket
World Socialist Web Site Today at 16:03
Workers employed at Capita, the UK’s leading outsourcing company operating the BBC TV licensing contract, held their third one day strike on November 18.

Letter on Occupy Toronto
World Socialist Web Site Today at 16:03
A report from a reader on the Toronto protest and impending police crackdown.

Exposed: US Press “Freedom”
Dissident VoiceToday at 16:00
Last week, independent journalist Sam Husseini went to a news conference by Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia at Washington’s National Press Club — where Husseini is a member.

Occupy the Durban climate summit
Climate and Capitalism Today at 13:42
The Occupy movement considers the UNFCCC to be ‘United Nations Fools, Clowns and Carbon Criminals’ and it’s hard to argue against that based on 16 past performances. by Patrick Bond The Mercury, 22 November 2011 Patrick Bond is Senior Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His [...]

New Eden, Old Devils
In These Times Today at 10:00
Late this October, Time’s tech blog reported a startling fact: Only 30 percent of all people tweeting about Occupy Wall Street were women. This, despite studies showing Twitter users are 64 percent female.

Paul Le Blanc addresses #Occupy Boston: History, power, demands and the Occupy movement
Links – International journal of socialist renewal Today at 11:52
Paul Le Blanc at Occupy Boston, November 21, 2011, and the resulting discussion. Le Blanc was one of the many speakers as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series at Occupy Boston. Le Blanc is a long-time political activist who also teaches at the La Roche College and the author of many books including, Lenin and the Revolutionary Party. To learn more about Paul Le Blanc see http://paulleblanc.laroche.edu/. To learn more about the lecture series see http://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/ and http://www.occupyboston.org/.

Occupy Revolution
GlobalResearch.ca Today at 06:04
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

First Politician of the Occupy Era?
New Left Project Today at 06:00
by John Feffer, Alex Doherty
John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies he spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty on the recent mayoral election in Seoul.
In a recent article you said that Park Won Soon, the newly elected mayor of Seoul, is ‘perhaps the first politician to win with an Occupy Wall Street platform’. Can you tell us about about the platform Park Won Soon ran on – what are his key policies and what is his relationship to the occupy movement?

Using a tragedy to attack Occupy
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
The suicide of Josh Pfenning is a loss to our community–and it has been used as an excuse to attack Occupy Burlington.

To protect and crack heads
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
Police violence against the Occupy movement has exposed the true character of ‘Officer Friendly’ for all to see.

Reports from Occupy: 11/22
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
Look here for regularly updated news of the Occupy movement. In this round-up: Portland, Ore.; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Occupy’s next struggle
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
The coordinated crackdown on Occupy protests won’t silence a movement that is finally giving voice to the discontent of the working-class majority.

Labor Must Choose Between Occupy and the Democrats
GlobalResearch.ca Today at 03:24
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

Time for Obama to Act to End Police-State Violence against the Occupiers
The Greanville Post Today at 01:46
By Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening
Through his silence alone, Obama is condoning the police abuse of demonstrators of the Occupy Movement
The scenes of riot-gear-clad police assaulting peaceful demonstrators with everything from tear gas and mace to truncheons, point-blank shots with beanbags and rubber bullets, and of course the ubiquitous fist and club, have made a bad joke out of claims that America is either the land of the free or the home of the brave.

First Steps in Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System by Michael Hudson
Dandelion SaladToday at 01:30
by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Nov. 21, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement has many similarities with what used to be called the Great Awakening periods in America. Such periods always begin by realizing how serious the problem is. So diagnosis is the most important tactic. Diagnosing the problem mobilizes power for [...]

As Deficit Super Committee Fails, “Occupy” Activists in Washington, DC Provide Inspiring Plan for US Economy + The 99%’s Deficit Proposal
Dandelion Salad Today at 01:05
by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.andyworthington.co.uk 21 November 2011 As was revealed in summer, when Tea Party Republicans were prepared to see America’s credit rating downgraded from AAA for the first time in its history rather than reaching a budget agreement with the administration (an act that ought to have counted as economic [...]

21 November 2011
The Stimulator: Occupy the Machine
Dandelion Salad Yesterday at 23:43
Dandelion Salad http://submedia.tv stimulator on Nov 21, 2011 This week: 1. Occupy movement under attack 2. Waking up to the role of the police 3. Bloomberg’s real message 4. Anonymous strikes at the 1% 5. McGill students fight back 6. George Wright still free 7. Mc Sole 8. Occupy the Machine The Stimulator: Occupy the [...]

Police lockdown and brutality on journalists at OWS
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 22:00
An estimated 26 journalists have been arrested at Occupy Wall Street protests. Brutally handcuffed, thrown onto the ground, pepper sprayed, and threatened to have press credentials taken away – is this the future for…

Pepper spraying cop meme: Internet pokes fun at Lt. Pike
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 19:25
Having started by pepper-spraying Occupy UC Davis protesters, Lt. John Pike, the campus cop, is now taking aim at famous works of art, with a little help from photoshop and an internet meme sending-up the notorious…

What’s New: Occupy Toronto Eviction Statement
Socialist Project Yesterday at 19:00
We have been occupying St. James Park for over a month. We have established a community of mutual respect, acceptance, and love. We have created a place where people can come in and discuss opinions, hardships and most importantly work together towards solutions. A place where people don’t have to be afraid to speak their mind, where their voice is heard and respected.

It’s True: Cops Beat Protesters Even Before OWS
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Yesterday at 18:24
New York Times media reporter David Carr has written some interest pieces on Occupy Wall Street. His piece today tries to work out where things go from here, but one comment in the piece about how Occupy Wall Street compares with protests of the past caught my attention:

Unite union offers sanctuary to ‘harassed’ Occupy Cardiff
Morning Star Yesterday at 16:27
Occupy movement activists looking to set up camp in Cardiff have been given sanctuary by the Unite union after a series of attempts in the city centre were sabotaged by police.

More pain for Spain
Morning Star Yesterday at 16:22
The Popular Party’s seizure of power holds lessons for the global occupy movement, says Tom Gill

Social Opposition in the Age of Internet
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 16:00
(Invited paper to be read at the ‘Symposium on Re-Publicness’, sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers, Ankara, Turkey — December 9–10, 2011)
The relation of information technology (IT), and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central issue facing contemporary social movements.  Like many previous scientific advances the IT innovations have a dual purpose:  on the one hand, it has accelerated the global flow of capital, especially financial capital and facilitated imperialist ‘globalization’.  On the other hand, the internet has served to provide alternative critical sources of analysis as well as easy communication to mobilize popular movements.

Bloomberg Ties Terror Plot to Lex Luther
Dissident Voice Yesterday at 16:00
In a hastily thrown together press conference Sunday afternoon, several months in the planning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his efforts to spread freedom beyond New York City had included the deployment of 1,000 NYPD officers to Schenectady, where they have just apprehended a young man inspired by Al Qaeda and Occupy Wall Street propaganda provided to him by the NYPD on a regular basis since September.

Intermission: I Want To Take You Higher!
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Yesterday at 15:36
#OccupyCal protesters circumvent order not to post tents by floating them above Sproul Hall

The police attack at UC Davis: The working class and the defense of democratic rights
World Socialist Web Site Yesterday at 14:02
Friday’s assault by University of California Davis police on a peaceful protest is part of a nationwide wave of police repression against the Occupy movement.

Crackdown on Occupy Canada encampments
World Socialist Web Site Yesterday at 14:02
Anti-Wall Street protesters in Toronto marched on Saturday against efforts by the administration of right-wing mayor Rob Ford to evict several hundred people from St. James Park.

New York governor moves to forcibly remove Occupy Albany protesters
World Socialist Web Site Yesterday at 14:02The confrontation between Occupy Albany protesters and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo escalated Saturday night with the arrest of nearly 50 occupiers by state police.

UC-Davis Student Describes Pepper Spray Attack on Occupy Campus Protesters
Democracy Now! Yesterday at 13:47
A video that spread rapidly online shows University of California, Davis campus police officers pepper-spraying student protesters at close range on Friday at point blank range as they sat together to protest the dismantling of the ‘Occupy UC-Davis’ encampment.

Assault and pepper: Cops trained to spray
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 11:28
Two police officers involved in Friday’s pepper-spray incident during the crackdown on Occupy UC Davis protesters have been put on leave. But some commentators say the police using violence against unresisting…

Police officers also joining the OWS movement; OccupyPolice (OcPo) makes its debut
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 06:21
Veterans Day 2011 – Former St. Louis Officer Patti March Speaks for OcPo at Occupy St. Louis
This is a copy of the speech OcPo supporter and former St. Louis County Officer Patti March delivered to the crowd at Occupy St. Louis just minutes before the 3pm raid was called off on Veterans Day- We will update on this story when our new website is up tomorrow – officer March was shot in the face in 2003 by another officer within the department, she is a victim of Police brutality, and we have teamed up to put an end to violent tactics – More to come on this -

On the streets across the U.S.
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Yesterday at 06:05
November 17 was a big day of action for the Occupy movement, not only in its heart in New York City, but across the country.

America’s Media War on OWS: the Effort Continues to Marginalize the New Movement
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 05:36
By Stephen Lendman, Senior Contributing Editor
Early reporting was scant, dismissive, and offensive. Much still belittles, denigrates and marginalizes a significant movement.

Why We Occupy by Greg Palast
Dandelion SaladYesterday at 05:06
by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.gregpalast.com crossposted at OpedNews.com Nov. 16, 2011 So big deal. They evicted us.  That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year. Our photographer, Zach [...]

Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System
Michael Hudson Yesterday at 04:03
On November 3, 2011, Alan Minsky interviewed me on KPFK’s program, ‘Building a Powerful Movement in the United States’ in preparation for an Occupy L.A. teach-in. Listen to the interview.

Occupy Sebastopol By Shepherd Bliss
Dandelion Salad Yesterday at 01:16
By Shepherd Bliss Guest Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.vowvop.org Nov. 19, 2011 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 [...]

How To Grow A Revolution Pt. 2: UC Davis Peaceful Protestors Pepper Sprayed – Full Close Up Video
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Yesterday at 00:57
On Friday a partial 8 minute video went viral of the Occupy UC Davis event 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.

The Trashing of the People’s Library
Consortiumnews.com 20/11/2011 at 23:16
Facts and the written word have long been enemies of injustice, as they are now with critiques that the economic game is rigged to concentrate money and power at the top. So, it was no surprise when the New York police raid on Occupy Wall Street trashed the ‘People’s Library,’ Danny Schechter reports. By Danny Schechter One of the clearest indicators of a fascist mentality is its contempt for oppositional ideas. The Nazis staged mass book burnings, and some U.S. religious zealots followed in…