From the Oakland Police Officers Association: We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide
From CBC News: Workers at a Wal-Mart in Gatineau, Que., are officially decertified from their union after just more than a year with their first collective agreement. Quebec’s Labour Relations Commission removed the more than 150 workers, who are employed
From Investor’s Business Daily: President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a “broad-based frustration” among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis. “You’re seeing some of the
From Fox 25 KOKH: Police say a man has been found dead inside his tent at a protest at a park in downtown Oklahoma City. Fellow protest participant Mark Faulk says the man was in his early 30s and was
Today, in 1993, the Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union. It hasn’t quite worked out the way they hoped.
From Fox 45 WBFF: Melinda Roeder reports from Occupy Baltimore where a young woman says she was raped over the weekend and nobody from the protest movement helped her.
A man and woman arrested at the Occupy Boston protest on October 21, 2011 for dealing heroin had “joined the Occupy Boston movement,” according to a police report obtained exclusively by Big Government: Occupy Boston Heroin Bust – Officers were
Via Ironic Surrealism (original emphasis): [youtube 8h1M4osgdPs#!] At the very beginning of the video, a distraught occupier complains about having been assaulted twice (“once with contaminated vomit“), and of other assaults in the camp occurring; including sexual assault. And the
From The Commercial Appeal: Thomas Burrell WASHINGTON — A federal judge has agreed to a settlement involving a class of at least 40,000 black farmers who claim they were discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and who missed
From Zombie at PJMedia: Note: All entries on this list are real and verified. Below each entry you will find a series of source links documenting the support for OWS. We have striven in almost all cases to reference either
From NYT’s Dealbook: The last-ditch rescue effort is a major blow to the reputation of Mr. Corzine, 64, who formerly co-led Goldman Sachs and was also a United States senator. With a sale of MF Global, Mr. Corzine’s role at
From The Hill: A Massachusetts company that received a $43 million Energy Department loan guarantee last year filed for bankruptcy Sunday, a step certain to fuel criticism of federal green energy financing in the wake of the solar company Solyndra’s
Here’s the Herman Cain news everyone is talking about today. Funny how quick the media is to jump on the Cain allegations, yet were remarkably restrained on covering the more serious allegations surrounding John Edwards. Wonder what would account for
From #OccupyWallStreet: We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%. We propose a city wide general strike and we propose we invite all students to
Glenn Reynolds in today’s New York Post: It’s officially a crisis. Student loan debt has hit the $1 trillion mark, exceeding Americans’ total credit card indebtedness. Unemployed graduates with huge loan balances are camping out in “Occupy” camps — the
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
Today, in 1945, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in major league baseball.
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 New York Post: Former Long Island Rail Road workers who lied about being disabled rode a “train of lies” to golden retirements in an audacious, $1 billion pension scam, the feds said yesterday. Eleven suspects were charged: six
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
