Wednesday, October 19, 2011



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Occupy Wall St. pepper-spray cop Anthony Bologna loses 10 vacation days for ...
New York Daily News
Month two of Occupy Wall Street began Tuesday with forays uptown: a labor march on Sotheby's to protest the lockout of union art handlers in a contract dispute, and an evening gathering at Lincoln Center. Protesters from Zuccotti Park joined Teamsters ...

Occupy Wall St. is consensus-building
CNN International
By Steve Kastenbaum, CNN Radio National Correspondent Occupy Wall Street supporters take part in the Park Avenue millionaires protest in New York on October 11. New York (CNN) -- In Manhattan's protest hub, the big decisions are made by consensus. ...
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Occupy Wall Street is no tea party
Politico
Continue Reading Text Size - + reset POLITICO 44 So despite the risk of sounding cliché here, I say to the small band of misfits and anarchists now occupying Wall Street: I was one of tens of thousands of patriotic Americans who were there at the ...
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Some Tips For The Simpletons of 'Occupy Wall Street'
Forbes
My philosophies may be diametrically opposed to those of the simpletons in the Occupy Wall Street movement, but when it comes to the banks and the government, my anger makes me kindred with them. I realized this on a recent cool, crisp October morning ...
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Jesse Jackson visits Occupy Wall Street
AFP
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson joined the protesters of Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday as the anti-corporate movement moved into its second month. Duration: 00:48.
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Vegas debate: Ron Paul rips Herman Cain over Occupy Wall Street
Los Angeles Times
By James Oliphant Even Ron Paul is jumping on Herman Cain at the CNN debate in Las Vegas — this time over Cain's comments about the Occupy Wall Streetmovement. After Cain, who has been under siege for most of the night, doubled down on his previous ...
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CPM sings praises of 'Occupy Wall Street'
Times of India
NEW DELHI: CPM, a known US-baiter, is full of praise for the ongoing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the America and has said there is a need to "step up and broaden the struggles against the neo-liberal policies in India". The two-day meeting of the ...
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Who's occupying Wall Street and what do they want? A primer
Montreal Gazette
By Jason Fekete, Postmedia News October 18, 2011 8:05 PM OTTAWA — One month after theOccupy Wall Street movement was spawned, the protests have spread to more than 80 countries around the world and across Canada. Yet the movement remains somewhat ...
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Wall Street pay enters bear market as profits drop
Reuters
Alan Johnson, a Wall Street compensation consultant, said bonus declines could fall by 30 to 50 percent from last year. "Ordinarily that would engender some level of sympathy," he said. "But with Occupy Wall Street going on, some people will think it...
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Occupy Wall Street: Pope Benedict XVI Voices Support Of Movement?
The New Civil Rights Movement
by David Badash on October 18, 2011 Did Pope Benedict XVI just voice his support to liberals and to the Occupy Wall Street protestors and their movement? On Sunday, the Pope released a statement calling for support of those who are hungry, ...
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Naomi Wolf arrested at Occupy Wall Street protest in New York
The Guardian
Author Naomi Klein is arrested in New York at an Occupy Wall Street protest. Photograph: @MikeShanePhoto Feminist author Naomi Wolf has been taken into custody by police at an anti-corporate greed protest outside an awards ceremony held to honour New ...
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Kaldor's Facts Fall, Occupy Wall Street Rises: Peter Orszag
Bloomberg
And this partly explains the kind of anger and frustration that is fueling the Occupy Wall Streetmovement worldwide. The numbers involved are substantial: In 1990, about 63 percent of business income in the US took the form of wages and other types of ...
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Lynne Varner / Times editorial columnist The true connection between Occupy ...
The Seattle Times
Dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington, DC, provided opportunity to stretch metaphors like taffy to link King with Occupy Wall Streetprotesters. There are a couple of problems with that. By Lynne K. Varner The "protests" are ...
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Is this video “Occupy Wall Street Gone Wild”?
Salon
To the strains of “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,” Greenstreet interviews women atOccupy Wall Street about the issues and their activism. The women are uniformly articulate and bright — but the camera loves to linger on their hair, on their lips, ...
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occupy wall street - USMC Sgt Shamar Thomas on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann
YouTube
"Taking It To The Streets" Oct 17th - Sgt. Shamar Thomas interviewed on Countdown with Keith Olbermann re his rant Saturday night against the NYPD brutality at this past weekend's Occupy Wall Street protest, in Times Square. Credit: Keith Olbermann ...
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Occupy Wall Street Can Put Creative Accounting on List of Grievances
TheStreet.com
is the battle cry of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, usually heard when New York's Finest decide that the maintenance of law and order requires arrests (or socking some guy in the jaw). But there's something even more outrageous, ...
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Anti-Wall Street discontent and the Democrats
CBS News
Many pundits are asking whether the Democratic Party and the White House should "embrace" theOccupy Wall Street movement. The question is poorly posed. The real issue is the nature of the problems that now confront us and the most effective response ...
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Occupy Wall Street: Why the rage?
OUPblog (blog)
As thousands continue their march on Wall Street for a fifth straight week, an ancient story has much to tell us about the demands of justice. The occupation of Wall Street is about a colossal failure of justice. When justice fails, anger grows into ...
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Meet The Lawyers Keeping an Eye on Occupy Wall Street
The American Lawyer
Akbar is one of about 200 National Lawyers Guild members volunteering as legal observers on the scene at Occupy Wall Street. A national nonprofit composed of lawyers, legal workers, and law students, the guild is encouraging its members to monitor ...
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Occupy Wall Street Assault: Attorney Rony Kuby Wants Justice
Gather.com
A New York attorney is demanding justice against the police officer who is responsible for more than one Occupy Wall Street assault against protestors. Ron Kuby, a criminal defense attorney, specializes in police brutality and is appalled at the ...
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Occupy Wall Street? For what?
Brooklyn Daily
Instead, we have some vague ideas that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are annoyed that the uber rich are rich; they don't like the fact that the banks received bail outs'; they're not happy that there aren't enough jobs; and apparently they want to ...
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Occupy Wall Street and the Return of the McGovernites Fred Siegel
New Republic
Intensely self-conscious, there are information and media committees as well as anOccupy Wall Street Journal, an OWS TV, group and even an OWS archive. Like their putative enemies on Wall Street, the OWS lawyers gamed the rules to achieve their ...
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New Republic

Amidst Occupy Wall Street Protests, Costume Store Releases “Wall Street Zombie...
PR Web (press release)
One may be prepared for an 'occupy wall street' protest coming to a nearby town, but what about the ensuing zombie apocalypse? http://www.CostumeCircus.com brings a new topical and humorous take on a Halloween-horror film classic monster. ...
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PR Web (press release)

Occupy Wall Street protests are a payday for security firms
Economic Times
For the high-end security firms that provide the moneyed elite with specialty services like around-the-clock bodyguards and elaborate home security systems, Occupy Wall Street has been a stimulus package all its own. "We expect to more than double our ...
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Town speaks with Occupy Wall Street camper
Brattleboro Reformer
By CHRIS GAROFOLO / Reformer Staff BRATTLEBORO -- Town officials are investigating the actions of the lone activist continuing to take part in the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in downtown Brattleboro. Thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Gilbert, ...
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Occupy Wall Street Heads To Lincoln Center Tonight
Gothamist
Last week, Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to the Upper East Side and visited the homes of millionaires and billionaires, like media titan Rupert Murdoch and industrialist (and Tea Party backer) David Koch. Tonight, a "sizable contingent" will ...
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Gothamist

Will Occupy Wall Street protesters take over the World Series? Police worried ...
Daily Mail
Fears are growing that Occupy Wall Street demonstrations could affect the World Series, which starts in St Louis, Missouri, on Wednesday, as protesters make the most of the media spotlight. Michelle Obama and Jill Biden are both expected to attend...
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Daily Mail

Why Liberals Need Occupy Wall Street, and Vice-Versa
New Republic
I don't think that Occupy Wall Street represents the coming revolution any more than did Columbia '68—which, of course, ended disastrously, with university president Grayson Kirk calling in the cops to bust heads. But having visited Zuccotti Park, ...
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New Republic

Before Occupy Wall Street, I Too Was a Revolutionary
Forbes
I say this only to affirm that, by all rights, I have my Occupy Wall Street countercultural anti-corporate bona fides. But this will get me nowhere with your average OWS protester. This is because there is invariably a pissing contest among the radical ...
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Letters: Occupy protests extreme, but wealth gap real
USA Today
By Mario Tama, Getty Images By Mario Tama, Getty Images As I watch the news and hear the points that "Occupy Wall Street" protesters are trying to make, I am reminded of the saying that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it...
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Batman May Occupy Wall Street In New York City

Forbes
Pictures With the last film in director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy set to film in New York for two weeks beginning Saturday, October 29th, there are reports that The Dark Knight Rises will be filming around the Occupy Wall Street protest ...
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Charges Of Occupy Wall Street Anti-Semitism Find Audience On The Right
TPMMuckraker
Is Occupy Wall Street anti-Semitic? Some groups on the political right really want you to think so. If you've been watching cable news over the past couple of days, you've probably seen the ad that shows Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama ...
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Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Produce Digital Tools and New Activists
Mashable
Groups of programmers gathered in three cities this weekend to build digital tools for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Several of those tools have already launched, and in many cases they're being maintained by activists who've never held a sign in a ...
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Cain: Occupy Wall Street protests should be held at White House
DigitalJournal.com
At the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, former restaurant executive and GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain further explained his position on the Occupy Wall Street protesters. As the Occupy Wall Streetprotest entered ...
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End Homelessness: Occupy Wall Street by Vacating Main Street
Huffington Post
They were part of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that is sweeping this country and throughout cities around the world. This grassroots effort that started in New York City and has now spread to 82 countries, is protesting the inequities of wealth ...
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Dark Knight Rises: Batman to Occupy Wall Street
The Guardian
to OWS … the denouement to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy will reportedly be set partly against the backdrop of the Occupy Wall Street protests Production on the film is set to shift to New York for 14 days from 29 October. ...
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Coming Attractions: Occupy Wall St., the Documentary
New York Times (blog)
By PATRICK WALL Rumur / Camera: Michael Galinksy“A Conversation About Democracy,” one of hundreds of clips the makers of a collaborative documentary about Occupy Wall Street have received. Occupy Wall Street, the protest movement that began in Lower ...
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John Stossel Visits Occupy Wall Street, Things Get Ugly
Mediaite
by Nando Di Fino | 9:04 am, October 19th, 2011 FOX News' John Stossel paid a visit to the Occupy Wall Street crowd on Tuesday and received whatever the opposite of a warm embrace was from the protesters. The short clip of him being confronted by some ...
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'I'm Getting Arrested' App Inspired By Occupy Wall Street Protests (PICTURE)
Huffington Post
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests, the 'I'm Getting Arrested' app for Android allows you to tell family, friends and even your legal team where you are, reports CNET. This isn't the first company to be inspired from the Occupy Wall Street ...
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Poll: Most Americans Support 'Occupy Wall Street,' Taxing Millionaires
The Atlantic
A new survey shows that Americans overwhelmingly support the self-styled Occupy Wall Streetprotests that not only have disrupted life in Lower Manhattan but also in Washington and cities and towns across the US and in other nations. ...
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Alaska woman takes stand with 'Occupy the Tundra'
Atlanta Journal Constitution
McEachern wanted to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests so she gathered her dogs, bundled up and went out to the tundra with a homemade sign that read "Occupy the Tundra." The photo was posted on the Occupy Wall Street Facebook page and has ...
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Rain could dampen first Occupy Wall Street rally in Saginaw County
The Saginaw News - MLive.com
The first of two Occupy Wall Street-inspired rallies could be spoiled by Mother Nature today. A protest planned for 10 am to 6 pm at the Bank of America branch office at 5225 Bay in Kochville Township is spared with one hour of dry weather according to ...
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Calls for Wiping Out Student Loan Debt Leave Americans Split on New 'Bailout'
Fox News
Oct. 17, 2011: An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator stands in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York. As Occupy Wall Street protesters and their anti-bank message pick up momentum, among the unofficial list of grievances is a demand to have ...
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Irish in New York rally support for 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters
Irish Central
Irish Americans in New York joined forces this past Saturday to take part in the day of global protests in Manhattan which were inspired by the ongoing movement, Occupy Wall Street. Organizers gathered on the outskirts of the now infamous Zucotti Park ...
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Occupy Wall Street Day 32: US marine takes on NYPD, Mark Ruffalo shares his ...
Straight.com
It's actually fairly quiet on the Occupy Wall Street front today. No arrests, no brutality to speak of. The encampment is still looking for donations. Hunger hasn't been an issue—the protesters are quite well fed—but trench foot has become a bit of a ...
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David Banner Questions Motives of Artists Moving In On Occupy Wall Street
MTV.com
By Steven Roberts NEW YORK — David Banner wasn't the first artist to visit Occupy Wall Street, and he certainly won't be the last. But Banner questioned the true intentions of many of the artists taking part in the demonstrations. ...
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