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‘General strike’ to hit the US on May First

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  (AFP Photo / Getty Images) In more than 100 cities from Washington State to the District of Columbia, protesters are orchestrating a massive country-wide demonstration on Tuesday, May 1, and their plans call for what could be the biggest … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street Files 2 Lawsuits Against NYPD Full Of Incriminating Evidence

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Posted by Alexander Higgins – April 30, 2012 at 5:13 pm – Source via Alexander Higgins Blog Two separate lawsuits have been filed against the NYPD for repeated violations of the constitutional rights of both protestors and media outlets trying to report on … Continue reading

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NYC Council Demands Federal Oversight Of NYPD Following Brutal Occupy Crackdown

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Posted by Alexander Higgins – April 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm Source via Alexander Higgins Blog Soon after news hit of 2 lawsuits documenting police brutality and rampant Freedom of Press violations, city council members are calling for federal oversight of the NYPD. … Continue reading

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How Occupy Wall Street Plans to Take Down Bank of America

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By Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet April 8, 2012 Bank of America: the very name is meant to conjure up comforting, red-white-and-blue fantasies of a bank of the people, by the people, and for the people. But as Matt Taibbi pointed out … Continue reading

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The Richest 1 Percent Captured 93 Percent of Income Gains in 2010

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News of the income/wealth inequality between the 1% and the 99% keeps coming. –Dennis Published Wednesday 7 March 2012 by: Pat Garofalo , ThinkProgress| Report Though the economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, large swaths of the American … Continue reading

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Bank of America In Trouble?

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REUTERS /CHRIS KEANE /LANDOV It looks like Bank of America might have started circling the drain before the Occupy movement even had a chance to launch its campaign against the company. For weeks now there have been ominous signs of … Continue reading

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How Anonymous channels ‘the will of the people’ (Q&A)

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by Elinor Mills February 28, 2012 8:21 AM PST A member of Anonymous tells CNET why the activist effort targets government and corporate Web sites, even in the face of arrest, and why it has your best interests at heart. … Continue reading

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MUST READ Op-Ed from SaS in response to: Journalist Natasha Loder Detained At Mitt Romney Event

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I saw this on the always excellent blog site 2012: What’s the ‘real’ truth? and couldn’t resist re-posting it. This is more info on the arrest of a journalist attending the Mitt Romney primary in Michigan. Whoever the author of this … Continue reading

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City of London wins bid to evict protesters

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The City of London has won its legal bid to move protesters camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral The High Court has backed the City of London Corporation’s bid to evict anti-capitalist protesters from outside St Paul’s Cathedral. Granting orders for … Continue reading

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Occupy DC Camps Persist As Rally Planned Next Week

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by The Associated Press WASHINGTON January 11, 2012, 08:36 pm ET WASHINGTON (AP) — They were let back into Zuccotti Park, but kicked out of a vacant house in Seattle. In other places, Occupy protesters are in courtrooms fighting evictions. … Continue reading

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