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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -Police arrested about 30 anti-Wall Street protesters in Portland early Sunday, dragging and carrying them to waiting vans, after they refused to leave a park in an affluent district. The arrests came after protesters from the Occupy

From the San Francisco Chronicle: The owner of Sankofa African Arts and Jewelry said that on the two mornings since protesters returned, her front doorway has reeked of urine. She said her business has declined by 80 percent since Occupy

Today, in 1929, the stock market had its final crash, ushering in the Great Depression. (And, yes, it was government policy which ushered in the crash.)

Scott Olsen is the ex-Marine and Iraq War veteran who was injured in the riot instigated by Occupy Oakland on Oct. 25. The Occupy Wall Street movement and its institutional patrons are using the incident to rally support, declaring: “We

From The Daily Mail (UK): Drivers in Miami today were likely doing double takes on Wednesday as they passed what looked like a banker hanging by a noose from a telephone wire alongside a Florida highway. To accompany his Occupy

From the Department of Justice: Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the following statements on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approval of the historic Pigford II settlement: “This settlement allows the Department

From Politico: Occupy Wall Street protesters will march to five banks in Manhattan on Friday and deliver thousands of letters to the companies — in the form of a “mass paper airplane throwing.” According to the movement’s website, at 1

From The Oregonian: Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared. They also say the group’s finance committee has hijacked the demonstration’s Internet domain name and filed

We don’t know the full details, but China will play a major role bailing out the EU. Say that three times and think about it.

WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal judge has given final approval to a $1.2 billion government settlement with black farmers who claim they were unfairly denied loans and other assistance from the Agriculture Department over many years. Federal judge Paul Friedman

Today, in 1964, Ronald Reagan delivered his “A Time for Choosing” speech in support of GOP candidate Barry Goldwater.

UPDATE 2 (10:34 pm): Live streaming from the main group of activists. Streaming video by Ustream Police are moving to clear Occupy San Francisco. The remaining activists are organizing for resistance (below, recorded earlier). Leaders are encouraging non-violence, and asking

UPDATE: Rahm offers talks, Occupy leaves… President Barack Obama’s friends in Occupy are clashing with Obama’s former White House chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in an ongoing protest at Chicago’s City Hall. Activists are staging a sit-in outside

From Fox News: The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under

There was a time when being American helped to instill a sense of self-reliance. If that time isn’t gone, Obama is doing everything he can to make it go away. At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned

ATLANTA (AP) – Police guarded newly-cleared plazas early Wednesday in Atlanta and Oakland, Calif., after clearing Occupy Wall Street protest camps in both cities. Dozens of demonstrators were arrested in swift crack-downs by riot squads after local authorities lost patience

Protestors at #OccupyAtlanta have been ordered by police to leave Woodruff Park. The first arrests have apparently been made. Mayor Kasim Reed, having once apparently coddled the Occupy activists, recently revoked the executive order allowing them to stay, warning that

UPDATE 4 – Smashing a police car (hat tip: San Francisco Chronicle reporter Matthai Kuruvila): UPDATE 3 – Tear gas, apparently: [youtube bytMNoKNeRA] UPDATE 2 – Video of paint bombs (first bomb at 0:21): UPDATE: Paint bombs. Actually… no. There

#OccupyWallSt proudly features this statement, from ‘comrades’ in Cairo on their home page: But the ideologies of property and propriety will manifest themselves again. Whether through the overt opposition of property owners or municipalities to your encampments or the more

NEW YORK (AP) – Dressed as protesters, complete with toy megaphone, Mitch Robinson and his wife unrolled a sleeping bag and “occupied” their friends’ Halloween party. Unlike the real-life Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, they had a detailed, numbered list of

From Gallup: Small-business owners in the United States are most likely to say complying with government regulations (22%) is the most important problem facing them today, followed by consumer confidence in the economy (15%) and lack of consumer demand (12%).

From OccupyWallSt: (Seriously) The occupation of Liberty Square is a symbol of the growing international movement fighting against neoliberal economic practices, the crimes of Wall Street and the resulting income inequality, unemployment, and oppression of people at the front lines

UPDATE: A source reports that 30-40 arrests have been made, which suggests that 100-300 activists left when police arrived. From the San Francisco Chronicle: (10-25) 05:58 PDT OAKLAND — Oakland police arrested dozens of people at a plaza outside City

Everything is relative:

UPDATED. From Politico:

From Politico: John Podesta will step down as president of the Center for American Progress, an official at the organization said today. Podesta, who served as Bill Clinton’s last chief of staff from 1998 to 2001, founded the center in

From Entrepreneur: The Occupy Wall Street movement has very different objectives from most small-business owners. Doug Schoen, a political pollster and Fox News analyst, recently surveyed 200 protesters and concluded that the majority of the movement’s members want higher taxes

From ProPublica: A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do. Under current FOIA practice, the government

From The Hill: More than two-thirds of voters say the United States is declining, and a clear majority think the next generation will be worse off than this one, according to the results of a new poll commissioned by The

From The Chicago Tribune: Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.

Today, in 1929, was ‘Black Tuesday’, the first in a series of trading days known collectively as ‘The Great Crash of 1929.’ Although not technically correct, the Crash is popularly known as the start of the Great Depression. Seems more

The radicals at “Occupy Dayton” were not too happy when one of their activists was caught on video shouting: “F*ck the military, f*ck your flag, f*ck the police!” The video aired at Breitbart.tv and was subsequently picked up across the

From the Associated Press: Obama won 67 percent of Hispanic voters in 2008 but many of those voters have become disillusioned during the past three years. Unemployment among Hispanics tops 11 percent and many Latinos are losing their homes. Others

From The New York Post: Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good. Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in — but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protestErs

CHICAGO (AP) – Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said. Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua