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Subject: Amy Goodman | The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street
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Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 12:42 PM
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Chris Hedges | This is What Revolution Looks Like
Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: “I have seen my share of revolts, insurgencies and revolutions, from the guerrilla conflicts in the 1980s in Central America to the civil wars in Algeria, the Sudan and Yemen, to the Palestinian uprising to the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania as well as the wars in the former Yugoslavia. George Orwell wrote that all tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but that once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Allowed Back in Park - Without Tents - After Early Morning Raid
Gianna Palmer, News Report: Though protesters were allowed back into the park, they entered under a new set of rules: no tents, tarps or sleeping bags are now permitted in the park. Protesters also are not allowed to store personal property in the park, or even to lie down. Justice Michael D. Stallman of the State Supreme Court earlier had rejected a temporary restraining order sought by lawyers for the protesters.
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Jim Hightower | Bank of America: Always Thinking of You
Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: “CEO Brian Moynihan has a dandy plan to lighten his load by dumping a big chunk of it on the backs of us taxpayers. He’s trying to transfer a mess of bad investments from his Merrill Lynch subsidiary into B of A’s consumer banking unit. Why? Because that unit has about a trillion dollars in customer deposits that are insured by Uncle Sam. So, if Merrill’s sorry investments cause the banking unit to fail, the feds would be there to rescue it.”
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Drive to Recall Wisconsin Gov. Walker Begins
Bob Secter, News Report: “A long anticipated recall drive aimed at removing controversial Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got under way Tuesday with opponents of the freshman Republican fanning out across the state to gather the first of the 540,000 signatures they will need to force a vote.”
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Robert Reich | Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: “This is where the Occupiers come in. If there’s a core message to the Occupier movement it’s that the increasing concentration of income and wealth poses a grave danger to our democracy. Yet when Occupiers seek to make their voices heard — in one of the few ways average people can still be heard — they’re told their First Amendment rights are limited. The New York State Court of Appeals along with many mayors and other officials say Occupiers can picket — but they can’t encamp. Yet it’s the encampments themselves that have drawn media attention (along with the police efforts to remove them).”
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Half the Members of Congress are Millionaires
Amy Biegelsen, News Report: Half the members of Congress enjoys “1 percent” status as millionaires, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics. While the economy at home and abroad has limped along since 2008, Congress’ estimated median net worth remains robust—up about 7.6 percent from 2009 and about 13 percent from 2008.
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In Appreciation
Stephen Pitt, Illustration: Stephen Pitt is NationofChange's art director. Stephen is a southern California artist whose work focuses on matters political, social, and economic. In 2004 Stephen began drawing and painting political imagery to communicate his sincere displeasure with disturbing changes set in motion by ideologues acting in bad faith. With a background in figurative drawing and respect for color, Stephen traded the 6B pencil for a digital stylus and went to work. Published by the San Francisco Chronicle and Z Magazine, Stephen’s work has since been seen on Truthout and Firedoglake.
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Occupy Movement Slowly Growing on California Campuses
Brandon Hensley, News Report: College students have risen in solidarity across Southern California and joined the Occupy movement, albeit in small numbers. “It’s my life right now,” said USC student Alexandra Howland. Howland lives on campus, but has taken up a temporary home outside City Hall at the Occupy LA encampment. She sleeps in a tent on the lawn, wakes up every morning at 6:30 a.m. to drive to school, and comes back in the early evening to protest with fellow Occupiers.
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Occupy the Church
Laura Flanders, Video Interview: Just hours after the forced eviction of the Occupy Wall St site at Zuccotti Park in New York, local faith leaders issued a call for places of faith everywhere to open their doors to the Occupy movement. Rev. Michael Ellick of the historic Judson Memorial Church talked to Laura Flanders.
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Is Europe Over?
John Feffer, Op-Ed: “Two governments – the nominally socialist Papandreou administration in Greece and the substantively insane Berlusconi burlesque show in Italy – have already fallen. The euro is at risk of collapse, and some European politicians are waxing apocalyptic. "If the euro zone were to fall apart then it's hard to exclude the possibility of EU falling apart as well," argues Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski, who holds out the possibility of the return of authoritarian governments and even war.”
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Berkeley Activist Hit By Police Talks UC Regents Profits from Student Debt
Lee Fang, News Report: Last week, a video captured police viciously beating peaceful students as they locked arms to protect their encampment on campus.One of the students hit by the police in the now infamous YouTube video, Honest Chung, addressed a crowd of well over a thousand people around 2:30pm PST. Chung explained the movement’s grievances, and said that the UC Regents, the governing body for the university system, had ordered the crack down.
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Day 42: Live Coverage of October 2011 Protests in Freedom Plaza
Special Coverage: This month of October 2011 marks the eleventh year of our country’s longest war in Afghanistan and the onset of the 2012 US federal budget, which provides unlimited funds for war and corporate greed, while withholding funds for basic human needs. On October 6th, a protest assembled at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. with the goal of “nonviolently resisting the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America's resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation.”
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Day 59: Live Coverage of the Wall Street Occupation
Special Coverage: As we enter Day 59 of the Wall Street Occupation the movement we see how the movement has spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event.
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Amy Goodman | The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street
Amy Goodman, Op-Ed: “We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot police had already surrounded the area. As they ripped down the tents, city sanitation workers were throwing the protesters’ belongings into dump trucks. Beyond the barricades, back in the heart of the park, 200 to 300 people locked arms, refusing to cede the space they had occupied for almost two months.”
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Occupy Wall Street Activists Vow to Fight on
Ben Case, News Report: After two months of holding New York City’s Zuccotti Park despite repeated threats of eviction, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists were forcibly removed from the site by hundreds of police in riot gear early Tuesday morning. OWS media teams managed to send out alerts via text and email, but by 1:00 a.m. police moved into the park, which had been occupied by protestors since Sep. 17, to clear it out for a “cleaning”.
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Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports
Michael Grabell, News Report: “The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothing. As a ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation detailed earlier this month, X-ray body scanners use ionizing radiation, a form of energy that has been shown to damage DNA and cause cancer.”
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Political Bully Boys Trying to Intimidate Women
Richard Cohen, Op-Ed: “The furious counterattack against the women who in the past had accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment was led by Rush Limbaugh, who occupies a vast electronic locker room, making jokes that would be considered immature in junior high school. When one of Cain’s accusers, Karen Kraushaar, said she’d like to coordinate her remarks with other Cain accusers, Limbaugh wondered why: ‘Do they want to synchronize their menstrual periods? Why appear together?’”
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FROM AROUND THE WEB
U.S. Economy
A Lie to Feed Kids Results in Prison Time
A mother in Mississippi is sentenced to prison time after lying on a food stamp application.
Marijuana Crackdown
The Feds Raid Marijuana Dispensaries in Washington
On Tuesday, federal agents raided state marijuana dispensaries in multiple counties in western Washington.
Operations Abroad
President Obama Strengthens Military Ties in Australia
According to the US president,2,500 marines will be deployed to Australia
Wisconsin News
Scott Walker’s New Abstinence Only Education Plan
A new bill threatens to gut sex education in Wisconsin
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