Articles on Occupy Wall Street Mon. Jan. 30, 2912

1. Tensions mount with arrest of Occupy D.C. protester and approach of deadline... 
Read @:  Washington Post

2. NYPD Doubts That NYPD Commissioner’s Son Is a Rapist...  Read @:  Gawker

3. Over 400 arrested at ‘Occupy Oakland’ in violent night... 
Read @:  The Raw Story

4. Catalan police as protesters inside demo in Barcelona!... 
Read @:  Take The Square

5. Don’t Stop Recording: Cameraman Threatened with Arrest...  Read @:  Free Keene

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Sun. Jan. 29, 2012

1. Twitter May Censor Tweets...  Read @:  Crooks and Liars

2. A Citizen's Report From the U.S. Conference of Mayors... 
Read @:  Huffington Post

3. The Occupy Movement Braves Winter...  Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

4. Occupy Protesters and Police Clash in Oakland... 
Read @:  Truth Out

5. Occupying Hawaii: Paradise Lost and Found... 
Read @:  Truth Out

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Tue. Jan. 17, 2012

1. #J17 Occupy Congress...  The Power of the People Is Stronger than the People in Power...  Read @:  Occupy DC

2. America Occupies The Capitol... 
Read @:  Occupy Wall Street

3. OWS Occupies Foreclosed Home, Won’t Help Struggling Owner Unless He’s Homeless...  Read @:  NY Mag

4. Protect IP/SOPA Act Breaks the Internet (Congress Voting on Jan 18, 2012)... 
Read  and sign @:  Occupy Oakland

5. Just to be clear, Evangelicals are demanding that every child should be born so that they can be subjected to this... 
Read @:  The Immoral Minority

Calls to Action: Nationwide NDAA 2012 Congressional Protest

1. CHARGE THEM WITH SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY
Americans must not be distracted by Corporate Fascist Puppet President Barack Obama saying “my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens” in his signing statement for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA:S.1867/H.R.1540)... 
Read @:  Occupy Oakland

Articles on Occupy Wall Street Thur. Jan 5, 2012

1. Will ACLU Take the NDAA Bull by The Horns, or Just Milk the Cow?...  Read @:  Occupy Oakland

2. California High Speed Rail Threatened by Peer Review Report...  Read @:  Fire Dog Lake

3. The Granddaddy of Dumb Ideas...  Read @:  Slate

4. NYPD Arrests Operators of Occupy Wall Street Livestream...  Read @:  Addicting Info

5. A New Year's Wish List for Better Justice... 
Read @:  Huffrington Post

Occupy London Puts the 1% on Trial

As the Occupy London Stock Exchange (OccupyLSX) occupation prepares to present its case at the High Court today, members of Occupy London alongside a group of military veterans – Occupy Veterans – have liberated a disused court house in London’s East End... 
Read more:  Occupy Oakland

UNIONS NEED HELP NOW!

As the port blockade seems to be getting off to a good start I want to share a piece I wrote to counter the propaganda about the problems with the blockade hurting workers... Read more:   Occupy Oakland

Time for the Hood to Occupy

Happening in Phoenix AZ:

Bulletin: Police in small numbers continue to destroy or “confiscate” (Steal) private property at OccupyPhoenix and elsewhere.

This is clearly the example of a police culture that intimidates and harasses the public trust...  Read more:   Occupy Oakland

Did you see Ed Schultz's interview with Occupy Oakland's injured Marine Scott Olsen?

I know that many of you were worried so I am glad to see this young man making a slow, but steady, recovery.

Hearing him struggle to speak is somewhat heartrending, especially since what happened to him was completely unnecessary and an indication that some places in this country are little better than a third world dictatorship...  Read and watch video:   The Immoral MInority

Occupy Oakland calls for Dec. 12 All-West-Coast-Ports Shutdown!

Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth, just as coordinated nationwide police attacks have turned our cities into battlegrounds in an effort to disrupt our Occupy movement...  Read more:   Occupy Oakland

Mayor Jean Quan's Legal Adviser Quits Over Clearing Of Occupy Oakland Camp

As a platoon of Oakland Police Department officers began clearing out Occupy Oakland's encampment for a second time at Frank Ogawa Plaza downtown, one of Mayor Jean Quan's advisers resigned in protest. Quan's legal adviser Dan Siegel announced his decision via Twitter early this morning.

Siegel tweeted:

No longer Mayor Quan's legal advisor. Resigned at 2 am. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators...  Read more:  Huffington Post

Live Video of Police Evicting Occupy Oakland

Riot-clad law enforcement officers cleared out a weeks-old anti-Wall Street encampment in Oakland just before dawn Monday, arresting dozens of Occupy demonstrators and clearing out tents from a downtown plaza after issuing several warnings over the weekend...  Read and watch video:   The Blaze

Susie Cagle Gives Personal Account of Occupy Oakland Arrest And It’s Not Pretty

Cartoonist/journalist Susie Cagle drew the illustration above at Occupy Oakland, one of the California branches of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It depicts the Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant camp 12 hours or so before it was raided. Cagle’s objective as a journalist is to cover Occupy Oakland in an illustrated history but this is the only piece she’s been able to post on her website since she was tear gassed one night and arrested on another. She’s now posted an article giving her personal account of her handling by the Oakland Police and let’s just say, it won’t win them any service awards...
Read more:   The Mary Sue

#Occupy Oakland's General Strike Has Historical Precedence

The history of general strikes has a long and powerful history, as my fellow East Bay home girl, Rachel Maddow, points out:

[LABOR HISTORIAN] GIFFORD HARTMAN: The end of November 1946... women at department stores in Oakland, two department stores, Khan's and Hastings, had been on strike for a month. The city elite decided to break the strike. They brought in 400 police who escorted a professional strike-breaking company on December 1, 1946, and they ran through the city. The cops cleared the streets, beat people off the streets, bullied them and broke the strike, but in breaking the strike...  Read and watch:   Crooks and Liars

Occupy Oakland shuts down port

OAKLAND, Calif. - Several thousand Occupy Wall Street demonstrators gathering in Oakland forced a halt to operations at the nation's fifth busiest port Wednesday evening, escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marches, rallies and tent encampments since it began in September...  Read more:   CBS News

Occupy Oakland Witness: Mercedes Driver “Got Frustrated And Hit The Gas”

Two Occupy Oakland protestors are expected to live after being hit by a Mercedes-​Benz automobile driven by an as-​yet unnamed driver. Witnesses reported that the car was attempting to get through the crowd of protestors when it first hit a young man...
Read more:   The New Civil Rights Movement

Stop The Police Repression Of Occupy Oakland

Sign petition and donate:  MoveOn