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23 November 2011
Eviction hearing for Occupy London camp
Morning Star Today at 16:47
Anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul’s cathedral will be subject to a four-day eviction hearing from December 19, the High Court ruled today.

OWS Shatters the Political Frame
Consortiumnews.com Today at 16:21
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and right-wing talk-show hosts are whipping up their supporters against Occupy Wall Street, while some Democrats support  the OWS goals but fear the backlash. However, poet Phil Rockstroh says this movement transcends traditional politics. By Phil Rockstroh I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to ‘distract’ the citizenry from the wicked machinations of…

The Degree to Which You Resist Is the Degree to Which You Are Free
Dissident Voice Today at 16:00
I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to ‘distract’ the citizenry from the wicked machinations of Republicans of the legislative class.

Barack “Money Bags” Obama Can’t Run on the 99 Percent Ticket
Black Agenda Radio Commentaries Today at 14:49
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
Remember 2004, when the cash-poor Democratic candidates were evicted from the campaign like vagabonds by ABC News? One measure of the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that candidates will be compelled to explain to voters why they are so popular with Wall Street. This poses a special quandary for President Obama, who got the lion’s share of finance industry dollars in 2008 and is determined to raise $1 billion for next year’s campaign. ‘How can Obama claim to be ready to stand up to the 1 percent, when he’s weighted down with a billion dollars of their money?’

What’s New: Occupy Toronto Masks
Socialist Project Today at 14:30

Lieutenant Pike, Li Gang, and China’s Internet dilemma
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
A video involving a University of California police officer, ‘Occupy’ protesters and liberal use of a pepper-spray presented a relishing opportunity for the Chinese Communist Party to point the finger at the hypocrisy of American hectoring on democracy. The Internet judged the cop mercilessly, just as netizens poured the people’s opprobrium on an errant princeling, the son of party official Li Gang, on a campus in that cyber-gulag behind the Great Firewall. – Peter Lee (Nov 23, ’11)

What’s New: Evictions and the (Re) Occupy Movement
Socialist Project Today at 09:00
Police are forcibly evicting protestors from numerous Occupy Movement protest encampments throughout North America. On November 15th, here in Toronto, police delivered an eviction notice to protestors encamped in a downtown park that will become effective at midnight.

Egypt protest rejects army offer
BBC News Today at 07:39
Protesters continue to occupy Cairo’s Tahrir Square despite Egypt’s military rulers promising to speed up the transfer to democratic rule.

Time to Occupy the Capitol
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:03
Washington state activists are gearing up for the next stage in our struggle–a November 28 mass protest against budget cuts.

Reports from Occupy: 11/23
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
Look here for regularly updated news of the Occupy movement. In this round-up: Greensboro, N.C.; Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.

United States: Occupy the Democratic Party? No way!
Links – International journal of socialist renewal Today at 04:17
During the 1960s, Michael Harrington, leader of the group that became the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), argued that if socialists and people from the civil rights and anti-war movements entered the Democratic Party they could change its direction. Yet during a half century the DSA has utterly failed to move the Democrats to the left.

Mosireen, Comrades from Cairo, and Defend the Revolution, “Urgent from Tahrir:Join Our Struggle for the Survival of the Revolution”
MRZine.org Today at 03:30
The violence will escalate — for WE WILL NOT MOVE. The junta does not want to give up its power. We want the junta gone. . . . We ask you to take action: *Occupy/shut down Egyptian embassies worldwide. Now they represent the junta; reclaim them for the Egyptian people. *Shut down the arms dealers. Do not let them make them or ship them. *Shut down the part of your government dealing with the Egyptian junta.

Mark Nowak, “#OWS and the Young Trade Unionists”
MRZine.org Today at 02:31
If you head down to the IBEW Local 24 Union Hall Auditorium on W. Patapsco Avenue in Baltimore on the first Tuesday of any month, you’ll encounter a meeting of an energetic group of young union members from the Metro Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area.

22 November 2011
Occupy Hell by Rocket Kirchner
Dandelion Salad Yesterday at 21:48
by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Nov. 22, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement is something I have waited for most of my life. However, the operative question is this: Will it get to the root of the problem that oppresses this country and the world? And, [...]

Occupy Wall Street: The Roots of a Social Movement
The Greanville Post Yesterday at 21:47
By Rowan Wolf, Editor in Chief, Cyrano’s Journal Today
Mic Check! There is a seemingly constant mantra from the corporate media propaganda machine, and now from some avowed ‘progressives’ (such as Maddow, Harris-Perry, and Rhodes), that the Occupy Movement needs to focus its demands; make clear political policy statements; and form a ‘recognizable’ organizational structure. Rachel Maddow had a conversation with Melissa Harris-Perry on November 17th regarding the Occupy Movement. It is summarized thusly on Maddow’s site:

While Obama Campaigns for Extending Cuts to Safety Net Funding, Stein Calls for Liberal Policies
The Wild Wild Left – Front Page Yesterday at 18:42
As Barry Obama stumps for extending the payroll tax cut designed to cripple Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in New Hampshire, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is promoting what she calls a Green New Deal to help put Americans back to work fixing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure and finding cleaner, renewable ways to fuel things.

Protesters establish new Occupy camp at UC Davis
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 17:43
Students and other demonstrators at the University of California at Davis have returned to campus to continue their occupation, despite Friday’s pepper-spray assault that led to several injuries and arrests.

Occupy Wall Street’s first fatality? (VIDEO)
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 17:16
A protester in Seattle, Washington aligned with Occupy Wall Street says that an assault from a cop last week has caused a miscarriage, which if true marks the first loss of life from police brutality since the…

US police ‘censorship’ sparks media rage
Morning Star Yesterday at 15:26
New York officials were deluged with complaints from media groups demanding talks on ‘censorship’ concerns on Monday over the police handling of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Uni police chief suspended for spray incident
Morning Star Yesterday at 15:25
The University of California, Davis, announced on Monday that it has placed its police chief on administrative leave amid outrage over widely circulated videos of officers firing pepper spray into the faces of student Occupy protesters at close range.

Exposed: US Press “Freedom”
Dissident Voice Yesterday 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.

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