From The Union-Leader: MANCHESTER – A city woman is accused of pimping out a 16-year-old girl she met in Victory Park during the Occupy NH demonstrations. Police said the teen’s mother called them Thursday about noon to say her daughter
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:
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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.
