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It is time to spread the occupation from Wall Street

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OCCUPY WALL STREET RESOLUTION

http://www.teamster.org/content/occupy-wall-street-resolution

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, representing 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, acting through its General Executive Board hereby adopts the following Resolution this 15th day of November 2011:

WHEREAS, "Occupy Wall Street” is the foundation of the nationwide protest against economic inequality, unfair tax structure, bank bailouts and corporate greed that has affected every worker in the United States, including every member of the Teamsters Union, and brought the country to its current economic crisis;

WHEREAS, just as "Occupy Wall Street" demands that the nation respond to the unrelenting pressure on the middle class, on workers and on the unemployed, the Teamsters have exposed the "War on Workers” being waged by billionaires and CEOs who seek to blame working people for the state of the economy and to "fix" the economy by giving to the rich and taking from the middle class;

WHEREAS, the Teamsters share the outrage of “Occupy Wall Street” over the foreclosure crisis, over out-of-control health care costs, over attacks on pensions, over the fact that corporations are sitting on more cash than anytime in history while millions of able-bodied workers cannot find a job, and that Teamster children may not achieve the standard of living their parents achieved and may never own a home or a pension;

WHEREAS, Union members must fight to keep the gains they have achieved through collective bargaining as corporate-backed politicians attack public sector workers with the same ruthlessness they exhibited in the past 11 months, and private sector employers are following their example;

WHEREAS, just as workers’ rights to organize, picket and strike are abrogated based on unjustified allegations of a threat to public safety and health, “Occupy Wall Street's” Constitutionally protected right to a peaceful protest and assembly must be protected and cannot be curtailed or contained based on unsupported claims of public safety;

WHEREAS, the lockout of 43 Teamsters art handlers by the profitable auction house Sotheby’s has become for “Occupy Wall Street” a symbol of the unrelenting greed of the 1 percent, and “Occupy Wall Street” has for weeks acted in solidarity with the locked-out Teamsters from Local 814;

WHEREAS, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered Liberty Park cleared of all “Occupy Wall Street” protesters and the New York Police Department entered the park with police in riot gear backed up by numerous police vehicles, including a bulldozer, evicting occupiers, destroying property and arresting dozens of occupiers and protesters, including New York City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez and District Leader Paul Newell, in the early morning hours of November 15, 2011, and
WHEREAS, attorneys working as the Liberty Park Legal Working Group obtained a temporary restraining order directing that occupiers be allowed back on the premises with their belongings.

NOW, THEREFORE, it is resolved as follows:

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the working men and women it represents wholly supports and endorses Occupy Wall Street and opposes any effort to unreasonably restrict, contain or stop this lawful protest; and

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters commends and extends its appreciation to New York Supreme Court Judge Lucy Billings for issuing a restraining order that restores the Constitutional rights of “Occupy Wall Street” to peacefully protest.

Saturate terminals with anti-union propaganda

Once FedEx Ground gets word of workers’ organizing efforts, it saturates the terminal with anti-union propaganda:

· Dennis Lynch, a former driver at the Barrington, MA, terminal, recalls that once he and his fellow drivers petitioned to hold a union election, anti-union posters appeared everywhere, even in bathroom stalls.

· Rudy Trbovich attended an initial union meeting on a Friday, and by Monday, managers had plastered the Fairfield, NJ, terminal with posters.

· FedEx Ground also distributes anti-union videos to drivers, and according to a complaint filed by the NLRB, it even “coercively solicited employees to appear in an anti-union video.”

Send in managers to intimidate drivers

According to drivers, high-level management from all over the country descend upon the terminals where union organizing is rumored or underway to pressure drivers against the union:

· Donna Eickhorst, a union supporter in Northboro, MA, estimates that managers rode in her truck with her six times over the course of three weeks, although “service rides” typically occur only once a year.

· Dennis Lynch similarly recalled seeing managers “all over the terminal” once the union effort began.

· According to Rudy Trbovich, shortly after a union meeting, high-level management showed up and held a series of meetings with food for drivers at the end of the day.

Woo the drivers

FedEx Ground’s anti-union campaign also attempts to address the drivers’ grievances to dissuade them from voting for the union:

· Cathy Curran, of the Wilmington, MA terminal, witnessed the company finally repay drivers for payments long overdue, remove an aggressive manager that drivers complained about, and reconfigure routes to help drivers with excessive workloads. Curran’s reaction to the company’s effort: “This is the best year I’ve ever worked for this company.”

· Dave McMahon recalled similar efforts at the Barrington terminal, as managers helped drivers load their trucks and took people out for steak dinners to sway them against the union. An NLRB complaint charged FedEx Ground with unlawfully soliciting drivers’ grievances and bribing drivers with the promise of benefits to discourage them from supporting this union effort.

Isolate, intimidate, and even terminate union supporters

Another element of FedEx’s anti-union campaign is to isolate, harass, and even fire union supporters.

· Rudy Trbovich, a union supporter at the Fairfield terminal, believes “they let me go first because I was the big mouth of the terminal…and I think they thought I organized [the union effort].”

· Dennis Lynch was fired in March 2005 from the Barrington terminal. An NLRB complaint charged that FedEx Ground fired him in retaliation for his testimony at an NLRB hearing. He volunteered to stick his neck out and testify because he “knew there would be bloodshed,” and unlike the other drivers, he didn’t have a family to support. Dave McMahon, a fellow union supporter with three young children, had already been terminated shortly after a brief attempt to form a union at the Camden terminal.

· NLRB complaints charged that FedEx Ground illegally separated known union supporters from other drivers in loading areas to discourage union activity at the Northboro and Barrington terminals.

· Bob Williams, another union supporter at the Northboro terminal, worked as a senior manager for FedEx in the late 1970s, and enjoyed working for the company. After retirement didn’t suit him, he went back to work as a driver. He quickly became frustrated, so he contacted the union. After he testified at an NLRB hearing to determine the drivers’ status as employees, he was fired.

Challenge election results and stymie negotiations

FedEx Ground also uses legal obstacles to stall union efforts:

· At the Wilmington terminal, despite the company’s anti-union campaign, drivers voted to form a union in October 2006. The company filed an objection to the election, asserting that the immigrant workers could not comprehend English and were misled by a sample ballot distributed by the union before the election. An Administrative Law Judge overruled the objection.

· Consistent with its strategy of delay, FedEx Ground appealed the judge’s ruling to the NLRB, which in June 2007 overruled the company’s objections and certified the union. Throwing the case back into the legal system, the company refused to bargain, forcing the union to file charges with the NLRB. According to driver Bill Gardner, FedEx Ground told drivers that they intend to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Sources:
Joseph B. White, “Federal Express's Plans for Handling Tiger International Merger Anger Pilots,” The Wall Street Journal,4 Aug.1989.

Cathy Curran, Donna Eickhorst, Bill Gardner, Dennis Lynch, Dave McMahon, Rudy Trbovich, and Bob Williams, personal interviews, by Erin Johansson, March 2007.

FedEx Home Delivery,1-CA-42984 et al,NLRB Region 1 Order Consolidating Cases,Consolidated Complaint and Notice of Hearing,30 Mar.2007 (Northboro,MA); FedEx Ground Package Systems,4-CA-3635 et al,NLRB Region 4 Order Consolidating Cases, Consolidated Complaint and Notice of Hearing,30 June 2006 (Barrington,NJ); FedEx Ground,22-CA-26894,NLRB Region 22 Complaint and Notice of Hearing,23 June 2006 (Fairfield,NJ).

OWS — Dawn of a New Progressive Movement?

Police can break up the various “Occupy” encampments across the country but can they halt the movement? Probably not. As disorganized, disparate and disheveled as some would like to believe Occupy Wall Street and its regional allies are, the barn door is open and the horse is romping freely in the field.

Or in this case, the park.

We are seeing the early stages of a new progressive movement, according to Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The Occupy gatherings “are most likely the start of a new era in America,” he wrote Sunday in a New York Times article.

“Historians have noted that American politics moves in long swings,” he continued. “We are at the end of the 30-year Reagan era, a period that has culminated in soaring income for the top 1 percent and crushing unemployment or income stagnation for much of the rest. The overarching challenge of the coming years is to restore prosperity and power for the 99 percent.”

The roots of today’s crises of vast income inequality and wealth transfer, corporate dominance and feckless, inept elected leaders lie with the direction that Reagan took the nation – always making government the problem, slashing taxes for the rich along with outlays on public services and infrastructure investment, and sweeping deregulation.

“Reagan’s was a fateful misdiagnosis,” Sachs says. “He completely overlooked the real issue — the rise of global competition in the information age — and fought a bogeyman, the government. Decades on, America pays the price of that misdiagnosis, with a nation singularly unprepared to face the global economic, energy and environmental challenges of our time.”

And yet Washington “still channels Reaganomics… Both parties have joined in crippling the government in response to the demands of their wealthy campaign contributors, who above all else insist on keeping low tax rates on capital gains, top incomes, estates and corporate profits. Corporate taxes as a share of national income are at the lowest levels in recent history. Rich households take home the greatest share of income since the Great Depression.”

The American people are waking up and the OWS movement wants to challenge and change the channel of inequality.

“Following our recent financial calamity, a third progressive era is likely to be in the making,” Sachs writes. “This one should aim for three things. The first is a revival of crucial public services, especially education, training, public investment and environmental protection. The second is the end of a climate of impunity that encouraged nearly every Wall Street firm to commit financial fraud. The third is to re-establish the supremacy of people votes over dollar votes in Washington.”

Sachs says the people in Zuccotti Park and more than 1,000 cities have put the nation on a path to renewal.

While it’s hard to think in absolute terms about something so new, something without central leadership or a written platform, the need to reverse obvious flaws has touched a chord.

Perhaps, as Sachs says, a new generation of leaders who are not on the corporate take is just getting started. Perhaps it is history in the making and the dawn of a new progressive era. Perhaps it needs to be the crowd-sourcing movement it is and not a party or corporation or organization that’s easily corrupted and dominated by the wealthiest few. Perhaps the pendulum—as pendulums do—is swinging back.

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It is time to spread the occupation from Wall Street

OCCUPY WALL STREET RESOLUTION

http://www.teamster.org/content/occupy-wall-street-resolution

NOW, THEREFORE, it is resolved as follows:

Saturate terminals with anti-union propaganda

Once FedEx Ground gets word of workers’ organizing efforts, it saturates the terminal with anti-union propaganda:

· Rudy Trbovich attended an initial union meeting on a Friday, and by Monday, managers had plastered the Fairfield, NJ, terminal with posters.

· FedEx Ground also distributes anti-union videos to drivers, and according to a complaint filed by the NLRB, it even “coercively solicited employees to appear in an anti-union video.”

Send in managers to intimidate drivers

According to drivers, high-level management from all over the country descend upon the terminals where union organizing is rumored or underway to pressure drivers against the union:

· Dennis Lynch similarly recalled seeing managers “all over the terminal” once the union effort began.

· According to Rudy Trbovich, shortly after a union meeting, high-level management showed up and held a series of meetings with food for drivers at the end of the day.

Woo the drivers

FedEx Ground’s anti-union campaign also attempts to address the drivers’ grievances to dissuade them from voting for the union:

Isolate, intimidate, and even terminate union supporters

Another element of FedEx’s anti-union campaign is to isolate, harass, and even fire union supporters.

· NLRB complaints charged that FedEx Ground illegally separated known union supporters from other drivers in loading areas to discourage union activity at the Northboro and Barrington terminals.

Challenge election results and stymie negotiations

FedEx Ground also uses legal obstacles to stall union efforts:

OWS — Dawn of a New Progressive Movement?

Or in this case, the park.

The American people are waking up and the OWS movement wants to challenge and change the channel of inequality.

Sachs says the people in Zuccotti Park and more than 1,000 cities have put the nation on a path to renewal.

While it’s hard to think in absolute terms about something so new, something without central leadership or a written platform, the need to reverse obvious flaws has touched a chord.

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It is time to spread the occupation from Wall Street

OCCUPY WALL STREET RESOLUTION

http://www.teamster.org/content/occupy-wall-street-resolution

NOW, THEREFORE, it is resolved as follows:

Saturate terminals with anti-union propaganda

Once FedEx Ground gets word of workers’ organizing efforts, it saturates the terminal with anti-union propaganda:

· Rudy Trbovich attended an initial union meeting on a Friday, and by Monday, managers had plastered the Fairfield, NJ, terminal with posters.

· FedEx Ground also distributes anti-union videos to drivers, and according to a complaint filed by the NLRB, it even “coercively solicited employees to appear in an anti-union video.”

Send in managers to intimidate drivers

According to drivers, high-level management from all over the country descend upon the terminals where union organizing is rumored or underway to pressure drivers against the union:

· Dennis Lynch similarly recalled seeing managers “all over the terminal” once the union effort began.

· According to Rudy Trbovich, shortly after a union meeting, high-level management showed up and held a series of meetings with food for drivers at the end of the day.

Woo the drivers

FedEx Ground’s anti-union campaign also attempts to address the drivers’ grievances to dissuade them from voting for the union:

Isolate, intimidate, and even terminate union supporters

Another element of FedEx’s anti-union campaign is to isolate, harass, and even fire union supporters.

· NLRB complaints charged that FedEx Ground illegally separated known union supporters from other drivers in loading areas to discourage union activity at the Northboro and Barrington terminals.

Challenge election results and stymie negotiations

FedEx Ground also uses legal obstacles to stall union efforts:

OWS — Dawn of a New Progressive Movement?

Or in this case, the park.

The American people are waking up and the OWS movement wants to challenge and change the channel of inequality.

Sachs says the people in Zuccotti Park and more than 1,000 cities have put the nation on a path to renewal.

While it’s hard to think in absolute terms about something so new, something without central leadership or a written platform, the need to reverse obvious flaws has touched a chord.

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OWS MOVEMENT

While so many have been hoping that the “Occupy Movement” could move forward without violence; history and my life experience indicate that such a hope is naive at best. The street actions imperil the powers that be who sincerely don’t give a damn where the chips fall in any recovery from our “Managed Depression”. They have already figured out how reap huge obscene profits from the disaster that they have created and are actively pursuing a political agenda that will return to them the unfettered, unregulated, economic anarchy of the 1920s and 30s. The Middle Class must be broken, brought to its knees begging for any scrap of employment. Labor Unions must be rendered totally impotent and any return of upward mobility of the middle class must be purchased from the 1%.

I don’t know how Americans can continue to go to work, if they have a job, when a study requested by Bacchus and Grassley has been revealed, revealing that the 99% have had an income increase of 275% over the last 30 years while growth for the middle class has been 40% and the poorest Americans have seen only an 18% income growth rate. The latter two are now witnessing that meager growth being eaten away by the “”Economic Collapse”. This is intolerable!

In a corporate dominated America none of us matters as the self-anointed chosen few can manipulate on a worldwide playing field to reap their harvest of profit while literally raping any lower class of folks, or any nation they choose to bleed dry before moving on. Capitalism is not inherently evil but we have permitted the “Captains of Capitalism” to co-opt, corrupt and corrode our government to the point where their greed blackmails and pays off our officials as if they were well kept “Corporate Whores” obliged to bend over on demand and lie at every point to every every question put to them. It’s always someone else’s fault.

Anonymous Threatens Fox News Over Occupy Wall Street
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MAKE THIS GO VIRAL - Oakland Police Throw Grenade Into Crowd That Is Trying To Help Injured Protester

http://dailybail.com/home/make-this-go-viral-oakland-police-throw-grenade-into-crowd-t.html

http://youtu.be/OZLyUK0t0vQ

Video - Occupy Oakland Protest - Oct. 25, 2011

Find this cop and prosecute his ass from here to San Quentin.

UPDATE - The injured man is Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq and member of Veterans for Peace. He is in the hospital now in stable but serious condition with a fractured skull, struck by a police projectile (believed to be a tear gas cannister) fired into the crowd.

After protesters run to the aid of the injured Marine, Oakland Police deliberately throw a flash grenade into the crowd. Whatever you think of the Occupy movement, police behavior of this kind is criminal and should be prosecuted.

Address for the hospital where Scott Olsen is recovering, if you wish to send a card.

Highland Hospital
1411 E. 31st Street
Oakland, CA 94602

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Celebrities speak about Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street in New York has also been considering a proposal for a general strike. And there are also rumors of a global general strike next year. Note: We'll update this post as soon as we learn whether or not the New York resolution ...
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Occupy Wall Street Erects A Tent City In Zuccotti Park, With Little ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK -- A little more than a month ago, when the occupation of Zuccotti Park was in its early days, the New York City Police Department was not in the business of letting protesters pitch tents. One demonstrator, Justin Wedes, recalled ...
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Occupy Wall Street Out! | FrontPage Magazine
By Jacob Laksin
After weeks of raucous protests and fawning media coverage, the Occupy Wall Street movement finally has worn out its welcome. Since it kicked off in New York last month, OWS has styled itself as a populist campaign. In its own mythology, ...
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Occupy Wall Street Is No Tea Party
By Julia Shaw
The past few years have witnessed the rise and fall of several left-leaning political fads, each touted as a response to the rise of the Tea Party Movement: the.
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NYPD Blames Occupy Wall Street for a Jump in Gun Crimes
By Alex
Four high-ranking cops point the finger at Occupy Wall Street protesters, saying their rallies pull special crime-fighting units away from the hot zones where they're needed. Since Occupy Wall Streettook over Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, the ...
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Fun: Peter Schiff confronts Occupy Wall Street protesters « Hot Air
By Allahpundit
Via MRC TV, enjoy as a card-carrying one-percenter braves the Tupperware containers filled with urine at Zuccotti Park to pose the timeless question, “I'm employing 150 people. How many people do you employ?” Actually, according to Fox ...
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Iranians Protest “Oppression of Occupy Wall Street ... - Weasel Zippers
By ZIP
TEHRAN (ISNA) – Iranian workers staged a rally before Swiss embassy in Tehran Wednesday, representing the US interests, to support Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in the US. Protesters carried banners condemning the suppression ...
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Capitol Confidential » Occupy Wall Street Plans March And “Aerial ...
By New York Observer
Occupy Wall Street Plans March And “Aerial Demonstration” For Oakland.
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Newt Gingrich On Occupy Wall Street Protests: 'There Is A ...
By The Huffington Post
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich appeared on CBS' "The Early Show" Wednesday morning, sympathizing with the anger behind Occupy Wall Street but worrying about alleged anti-Semitism in the protests. "If you say 'do you ...
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Wall Street protesters find cities' patience wearing thin
USA Today
By Larry Copeland, Judy Keen, and Martha T. Moore ATLANTA – The Occupy Wall Street protests that started last month in New York City and spread across the USA appear to have worn thin the nerves of downtown denizens, neighbors and businesses as police ...
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60 Wall Street: The Real Headquarters Of OWS
BusinessWeek
Full disclosure: I haven't been to 60 Wall Street yet. Even a quick look at the list of events at the Occupy Wall Street site, though, gives a sense of the work getting done there: the “vision and goals” meeting, the facilitation training sessions, ...
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What Is "Occupy Wall Street" Really About?
Huffington Post
"Occupy Wall Street" is not just about Americans who can't find work. It's about the fact that even when they can find work, the rules have gotten so difficult; the deck has been so stacked against them that there just aren't enough rewards in the game ...
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Unions Behind 'Occupy Wall Street'? Not So Simple
Fox News
And then a mere few months later, Occupy Wall Street launches, and Lerner's dream becomes a reality. Aha! Caught red handed! Lerner must be the mastermind of the Occupy Wall Streetmovement, and since Lerner works for SEIU, that means unions were ...
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Join Rally Against For-Profit Health Care
NY1
More than 200 protesters, including many from Occupy Wall Street, are shifting their focus today to what they say is a broken health care system. Marchers are headed to St. Vincent's Hospital, which went bankrupt and closed last year. ...
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Is ACORN secretly running Occupy Wall Street? Reports disbanded activist group ...
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter A famously liberal community organisation is largely behind the self-proclaimed 'leaderless' Occupy Wall Street movement, according to a new report. A re-branded spin-off of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform ...
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On the ground with Occupy Wall Street in Times Square
The Independent Weekly
by Carol Whittemore Carol Whittemore lives in Raleigh; she was in New York City when the Occupy Wall Street protests converged on Times Square. This is what she saw. In the late afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 15, I stepped out of my New York City hotel...
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Occupy Wall Street Protests Intensify
NBC Los Angeles
By Frava Burgess and Conan Nolan After demonstrators in the Occupy Oakland movement were sprayed with tear gas Tuesday when they refused to leave the plaza outside of Oakland City Hall, concern over a similar situation in Los Angeles has some city ...
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Opinion: Unthink, Occupy Wall Street and the coming age of the anti-Facebook
Digitaltrends.com
Occupy Wall Street and its sibling movement are a long time in the making. In the period between 1979 and 2007 – before the financial collapse that sunk the world economy into its current pitiful hole – the incomes of the richest 1 percent of Americans ...
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What's The Link Between Social Business, Occupy Wall St, And The Creative Class?
Forbes
In tough times, with growing sympathy for the “Occupy” movement (great debate on Piers Morgan Tonight yesterday, by the way), the growth of social business and the parallel growth of creative business, are we witnessing a consensus emerging around new ...
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Occupy Wall Street now has its own Android app: 'I'm Getting Arrested'
Digitaltrends.com
Android developer Jason Van Anden, a self-described “artist/technoloist,” has created a new app inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, after a friend was nearly arrested during one of the protests. Aptly titled “I'm Getting Arrested,” Van Anden's ...
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Occupy Wall Street Joins Residents Against Proposed Spectra Pipeline
eNews Park Forest
Over 300 people were in attendance as Occupy Wall Street joined concerned citizens to raise their voices in opposition. Dozens of police surrounded the entrance to PS 41 on West 11th Street, as 160 citizens registered to give public testimony to FERC. ...
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Time to occupy Wall Street
Nanaimo News Bulletin
By Greg Sakaki - Nanaimo News Bulletin This coming weekend, the Occupy Wall Street movement won't be about protests or politics. It will be about a community coming together to watch a great game of football. The Vancouver Island Raiders and the ...
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Vito Lopez Leads Occupy Wall Street Protest; 'Write About How This Was A ...
New York Observer
By David Freedlander and Adrianne Jeffries 11:36am Vito Lopez supporters march from Borough Hall to Occupy Wall Street in the Financial District. Brooklyn Bridge, Tuesday Oct. 25 Longtime Assemblyman and Kings County Democratic leader Vito Lopez ...
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Smithsonian looks for exhibits in Occupy Wall Street protests
Los Angeles Times
The National Museum of American History has dispatched representatives to collect materials, such as protest signs, from the demonstrations. It is in pursuit of the museum's mission to "document the spirit of American democracy and the American ...
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Jonathan Demme and Jem Cohen Occupy Wall Street with New Doc Shorts
Indie Wire (blog)
Last week, I wrote about a burgeoning doc director inspired by Occupy Wall Street. Now veteran filmmakers Jonathan Demme (“The Silence of the Lambs”) and Jem Cohen (“Benjamin Smoke”) are getting into the act. Both Demme and Cohen have traveled to ...
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1 Arrested, 2 Sought For Threatening Occupy Wall St. Protester
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
It happened Monday night in Zucotti Park where Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have been camped out for six weeks. The men approached the woman and one made the threat to kill her because she filed a complaint against a friend who was arrested. ...
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CBO: Incomes of top earners grow at a pace far faster than everyone else's
Washington Post
As Occupy Wall Street and related protests inject themselves into the 2012 presidential campaigns, a new government report shows that over the past three decades the incomes of the nation's top earners have grown far more rapidly than those of everyone ...
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Don King Supports Occupy Wall Street, Saying He Was Once Poor, Too
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By Danielle Wright A man for who 80 years has claimed that he's “for the people” is showing his support of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. As a native of poverty-stricken Cleveland, Ohio, Don King says he's glad that the American people are...
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Occupy Wall Street Raises Questions About Privately-Owned Public Spaces
Retail Traffic
In light of the Occupy Wall Street movement taking round-the-clock possession of the Brookfield Properties-owned Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) is trying to change the rules governing the operation of ...
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Occupy Wall Street Demands Life Without Hardship
FrontPage Magazine
“Don't touch me!” the man in the wheelchair shouted to stop me from placing my hand on what used to be his left arm. “I know what you were doing,” he said calmly. “You were showing me you care. I get it. But you have no idea how much pain I'm in. ...
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Transaction Tax On Financial Speculation Gets Boost From Occupy Wall Street
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Boosted by the Occupy Wall Street movement, two Democrats in the House and Senate are renewing a push for a transaction tax on speculative trades. The tax would be set at a nominal rate designed to have little impact on pension funds that ...
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