Occupy Wall Street Video: A Marine to New York Police "This is Not a War Zone"

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Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): Protests All Around the World

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Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas yells at police in New York City's Times Square, "If you want to fight, go to Iraq and Afghanistan", and in the last 75 seconds of the video, explains his actions:

And another veteran has a message for the claim of Fox News' Sean Hannity that demonstrators are "unpatriotic": "When they have these protests overseas, we call them democratic" (Warning: Strong Language at end of video):

Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): Why the Protests? Here are the Charts.... (Business Insider)

Last week Business Insider, trying to explain the motives for the Occupy protests, published a chart-essay illustrating the extreme inequality that has developed in the US economy since the 1980s.

And for those new to the topic, here is a handy seven-slide introduction:

1. Unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression, with the exception of a brief blip in the early 1980s):

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Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): Protests All Around the World (Buckley/Donadio)

Protesters sing "This Land is Your Land" and are then asked to leave --- with some arrested --- Washington Square in New York City. Near the end, Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones, filming the events, barely escapes detention.

Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): 1st-Hand Reports from Occupy London March
A Unifying Statement from Occupy Wall Street? 

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Buoyed by the longevity of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan, a wave of protests swept across Asia, the Americas and Europe on Saturday, with hundreds and in some cases thousands of people expressing discontent with the economic tides in marches, rallies and occasional clashes with the police.

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Occupy Wall Street: LiveStream of Today's Demonstration and Developments

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A Unifying Statement from Occupy Wall Street?
Occupy Wall Street: The Victory at Liberty Park on Friday Morning
Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond) Analysis: The Tea Party Is Outraged, Mocking...and Worried

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Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): 1st-Hand Reports from Occupy London March

An EA correspondent is in the Occupy London march today. His messages are reprinted here without any editing:

1450 GMT: Tents now going up here. Occupystpauls it is. For now. Can't see the cops having it.

1324 GMT: Assange [Julian Assange of WikiLeaks] just showed up. Massive massive cheers.

1319 GMT: First instance of people's microphone.  

Police shut access to 3 of 4 entrances to St Paul's churchyard. People gathering both sides of two of those police lines. Especially the side where access is blocked to the main crowd in St Paul's churchyard

Still a standoff and quiet, but crowd numbers are growing slowly. 

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A Unifying Statement from Occupy Wall Street?

Many have tried, all have failed, but is this finally the unifying statement behind which Occupy Wall Street Movement will line up?

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Occupy Wall Street: The Victory at Liberty Park This Morning

The moment when protesters in New York's Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Park by the demonstrators, learned New York City authorities were backing away from their forced evacuation of the park for cleaning

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Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond) Analysis: The Tea Party Is Outraged, Mocking...and Worried

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CNN reports:

A cleaning planned for the Manhattan park where "Occupy Wall Street" protesters have camped out for weeks has been postponed, a move that averts a showdown between demonstrators and police.

The New York mayor's office said Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, told the city late Thursday the scheduled cleaning is off for now and "for the time being" they are "withdrawing their request" made earlier in the week for police assistance during the cleaning operation.

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Occupy Wall Street Special: Canadian Caption Writer Goes Rogue and Takes Down Celebrities

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Determined champion of the underclasses Jeremy Piven wore three shades of grey to the second annual Art Mere/Art Pere Night in West Hollywood last week.

 
Cherie Walters, 58, wore one shade of unironic defiance to the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City last week.

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Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond): The Fight for Real Democracy (Hardt/Negri)

Boston police arrest protesters early this morning

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Occupy Wall Street should be understood, then, as a further development or permutation of these political demands. One obvious and clear message of the protests, of course, is that the bankers and finance industries in no way represent us: What is good for Wall Street is certainly not good for the country (or the world). A more significant failure of representation, though, must be attributed to the politicians and political parties charged with representing the people's interests but in fact more clearly represent the banks and the creditors. Such a recognition leads to a seemingly naive, basic question: Is democracy not supposed to be the rule of the people over the polis -- that is, the entirety of social and economic life? Instead, it seems that politics has become subservient to economic and financial interests.

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US Feature: Occupy Wall Street --- Why We Will Have an "American Autumn"

After reading many articles over the last year on the debt problems in the US and elsewhere, the main lesson I have learnt is that the urgency of the situation in Europe, and its possible effects in America, have been consistently underestimated and downplayed.

And when that meltdown happens, though with less impact in the US than Europe, a movement that The New York Times  reported, "Attracts Many New to This Sort of Thing", is not going to just fade away.

Which raises the inevitable question, "Where and how far can this movement go?" The frank answer is that no one, whatever they may claim, actually knows. Experts on movement theory will tell you what the Occupy protests need to do to sustain themselves long-term, but the intriguing aspect to this latest populist uprising is that is has no central hierarchy or demands to be picked apart and ridiculed by opponents. It is nothing more and nothing less than inchoate anger ---because how many people actually understand how broken it is? ---  at a financial system that has brought the economy to its knees, And how can you propose credible reforms when you don't even know how severe the next problem is yet?

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