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30 November 2011
The Wizard of #OWS / Jake Whitney interviews Kalle Lasn
Guernica Magazine 02/12/2011 at 04:34
The editor in chief of Adbusters on sparking the Occupy Wall Street movement and its next phase, why the president is a ‘f#$%ing wimp,’ and his beef with David Brooks.

VIDEO: Occupy protesters target building
BBC News Today at 17:23
Anti-capitalist protesters have attempted to occupy a building near Piccadilly Circus in central London.

200 arrested as cops raid Occupy LA camp
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 17:18

Protesters storm London building
BBC News Today at 16:26
Protesters thought to be part of Occupy London attempt to enter a building near Piccadilly Circus in central London.

Police arrest hundreds in midnight raid
Morning Star Today at 16:11
Nearly 1,500 police officers stormed the Occupy Los Angeles camp in the early hours of this morning, driving peaceful protesters from a park around City Hall and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to leave.

Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence
Dissident Voice Today at 15:59
There is a growing convergence of thinking about where the US Occupy movement should go as a next step to turning its values, concerns and commitments into changing what most Americans see as broken government under control of corporate interests.  When it comes to political and social movements, history shows us that they usually fail not because they disappear, but rather because they become marginalized, unimportant despite a core group of committed people and groups.
VIDEO: Police flood Occupy camp in LA
BBC News Today at 12:59
Hundreds of police officers have moved in to clear Occupy protesters camped outside Los Angeles’ City Hall, after campaigners ignored an eviction deadline.

US police raid two Occupy camps
BBC News Today at 12:36
US police raid Occupy Wall Street camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting protesters and tearing up their tent cities.

Occupy Wall Street Camps in Los Angeles, Philadelphia Dismantled in Massive Police Raids
Democracy Now!Today at 13:29
Some 1,000 police officers raided the Occupy Los Angeles encampment in a park outside City Hall over night, arresting scores of people and evicting what has been the largest Occupy camp in the country.

United States: A tide of protest at UC Davis
Green Left Weekly issue #782 Today at 12:37
Sun, 27/11/2011
The shocking image of a campus cop at the University of California (UC) Davis coldly circling in front of a line of seated protesters, taking aim and pepper-spraying them at point-blank range has now been seen around the world.

Occupy LA, Occupy Philly: New cop scalps in OWS eviction (PHOTOS)
Russiatoday.ru Today at 08:54
Police give protesters 10 minute warning to leave as over a thousand officers move to dismantle Occupy LA City Hall Camp, after having cleared a similar encampment in Philadelphia early hours on Wednesday.

British Trade Unionism: A Primer
New Left Project Today at 07:30
by Gregor Gall
Gregor Gall is professor of industrial relations at the University of Hertfordshire and is one of the leading commentators on trade unionism in the UK. He is on the editorial board of Scottish Left Review and is the author, most recently, of Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero?: A Political Biography, which will be published shortly.

Reports from Occupy: 11/30
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
Look here for regularly updated news of the Occupy movement. In this round-up: Sacramento, Calif.

Co-opt-upy Wall Street?
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Today at 06:00
The Occupy Wall Street movement in New York met police repression’s subtler cousin during the November 17 day of action.

Chris Hedges addresses Occupy Harvard: In the 17th Century, speculators were hung
Dandelion Salad Today at 00:04
by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 29, 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges takes questions from the students of Occupy Harvard outside the gated Harvard Yard encampment in Cambridge, MA. 5:15 pm. Monday November 28, 2011. Chris Hedges addresses Occupy Harvard November 28 2011 (part 1) *** *** Chris Hedges spent two decades as a [...]

29 November 2011
Occupy Wall Street (OWS): Too Big to Fail
Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 22:01
An idea whose time has come resonates globally. (See social.mathaba.net search #occupy or #ows). The masses in the western bankrupt states that bombed Libya for 8 months to destroy People’s Power (Jamahiriya) there, are now calling for the same as what the Libyans had: power and wealth in their hands

In a world of crisis: Occupy and the new hope for change
Green Left Weekly issue #782 Yesterday at 11:50
Occupy Sydney forum featuring video link with Jesus Castillo, activist in Spain’s ‘Indignados’ movement. Join the Occupy Sydney Outreach team, guest speakers, supporters and activists for a debate and discussion on the hope and potential of the Occupy movement – and how we can build a world for human need, not corporate greed.”

What’s New: Time to Occupy Durban’s COP17 climate summit
Socialist Project Yesterday at 19:00
Patrick Bond makes the case for the occupation of Durban during the COP17 summit, due to take place in the city between 28 November and 9 December.

Military Industrial Complex: Full Fruition
Dissident Voice at Yesterday 16:01
This week Congress is expected to vote on a bill advanced by John McCain and Carl Levin, a Republican and Democrat who united to bring us the foundation needed to propel us fully into a militarized nightmare state similar to what we have been exporting these last few years. It is the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act.

Occupy Student Debt: Students Urged to Refuse to Pay Off Loans As Schools Hike Tuition
Democracy Now! Yesterday at 13:52
Monday was a day of action for university students on both coasts angered by the rising cost of tuition and the crackdowns on their recent protests.

Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Democracy Now! Yesterday at 13:38
We speak with Kamran Loghman, the expert who developed weapons-grade pepper-spray, who says he was shocked at how police have used the chemical agent on non-violent Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide — including students at University of California, Davis, female protesters in New York City, and an 84-year old activist in Seattle.

The Right to Occupy, the Right to Assemble?
The Real News Network Yesterday at 12:11
A report on the debate over the expulsion of the Occupy Movements

Miley Cyrus likes Liberty, OWS… and RT?
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 09:41
‘Don’t live a lie, this is your one life, don’t live it like you won’t get lost,’ suggests Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, whose latest video clip in support of Occupy Wall Street activists features news footage filmed…

What’s New: Saturday’s other occupy Toronto protest
Socialist Project Yesterday at 09:00
While thousands of Occupy Toronto protesters flooded the downtown core Saturday afternoon, another contingent made the trek to Scarborough in a show of solidarity with striking workers at the Ming Pao Daily News.

When the Workers Broke the Tories
New Left Project Yesterday at 07:34
by Andy Beckett
In 1972 trade union members, supported by student activists, dealt a critical blow to the Conservative government, which two years later was defeated at the polls after members of the National Union of Mine Workers again voted for strike action.  On the eve of the biggest strike in the UK for a generation, NLP publishes an edited extract from Andy Beckett’s When the Lights Went Out, in which he describes the crucial victory won by the left in February 1972 at the so-called, ‘Battle of Saltley Gate’.

Building Everett’s Occupy movement
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Yesterday at 06:00
The Occupy movement has spread across the U.S., to cities and towns, large and small–including Everett, Wash.

Arrested in the raid on Zuccotti Park
Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Yesterday at 06:00
I was one of the more than 200 people arrested when New York police evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park.

#Occupy movement kapows comics
Green Left Weekly issue #782 Yesterday at 05:3
Tue, 29/11/2011
By Peter Robson

Musicians sign up to back Occupy
Green Left Weekly issue #782 Yesterday at 05:21
Tue, 29/11/2011
By Raul Connolly
‘Lou Reed and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello are among the first signatories of Occupy Musicians’, a November 22 British Guardian article said.

28 November 2011
Transnational Movement “Encachimbados” Brings Occupy Protests to El Salvador
Council on Hemispheric Affairs 28/11/11 at 21:11
By Daniella Mackey Upside Down World SAN SALVADOR – The global Occupy Movement arrived in El Salvador on Thursday, as about 70 people, roughly half Salvadoran and half U.S. citizens, engaged in a transnational protest in front of the United States Embassy. The movement has designated itself ‘Los Encachimbados,’ which is a colloquial Salvadoran word meaning ‘indignant.’

Next Challenge for Occupy Wall Street
Consortiumnews.com 28/11/11 at 20:55
Despite a lack of policy prescriptions, Occupy Wall Street dramatized the crisis of income inequality in America. Now, Danny Schechter says the challenge for the movement is to expand on that message with outreach to the broader national population. By Danny Schechter One of the oldest patterns of media coverage can be summed up this way: First, they ignore you. Then, they ridicule you. Then, they realize you are a story and fall in love. At that point, they build you up, but then — all…

No free speech at Mr Jefferson’s library
Asia Times Online 28/11/11 at 11:00
The case of Morris Davis, fired from the Library of Congress for criticizing in the Wall Street Journal what he saw as US double standards, spotlights a growing trend of Washington punishing its employees who question its actions. Meanwhile it denigrates Beijing, Tehran and Damascus for suppressing free speech. – Peter Van Buren (Nov 29, ’11)