December 13, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis More than 1,000 Occupy protesters block western shipping ports in California, Oregon and Washington –’Shutdown Wall Street on the Waterfront’ protesters hoped to cut into profits of corporations that run docks 13 Dec 2011 More than 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters blocked cargo trucks at busy West Coast ports [...]
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December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011
Protesters halt operations at some western ports
December 13, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Protesters halt operations at some western ports 13 Dec 2011 After their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests. Thousands of demonstrators forced shipping [...]
December 11, 2011
Police Evict Protesters From Occupy Boston Site
December 11, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Police Evict Protesters From Occupy Boston Site –Boston police: 46 arrested 11 Dec 2011 The police swept into Occupy Boston’s campsite early Saturday morning, bringing one of the country’s largest continuous demonstrations inspired by New York City’s Occupy Wall Street protest to an end. Police officers arrived shortly before [...]
December 10, 2011
Pro-Democracy Protests Put Putin, Russia at Turning Point
Is the Arab Spring moving North to become the Russian Winter? With democracy demonstrations to take place across Russia on Saturday, the world’s largest nation may be at a crossroads. From his prison cell near the Arctic Circle, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian tycoon, captured the core of Russia’s political impasse when he predicted a [...]
December 9, 2011
AP: Inside Romania’s secret CIA prison
December 8, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis AP: Inside Romania’s secret CIA prison 08 Dec 2011 One of the CIA’s most important secrets in the war on of terrorism was hiding in plain sight, on a leafy residential street along a busy set of train tracks in Romania’s capital. There, tucked in the basement of a [...]
December 8, 2011
Occupy Our Homes: bid to move families into foreclosed homes
East New York has the highest foreclosure rate in the entire city Link to this video On Tuesday afternoon, Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York – along with a coalition of activist groups and members of a Brooklyn community – opened a foreclosed home to a struggling family of four. For Doyle Coleman, the [...]
December 2, 2011
Election ennui already | Ana Marie Cox
Maybe we were spoiled by such an exciting and tumultuous early race, and maybe it’s just me (it is often “just me”), but I’m having trouble finding a new way to talk about the current state of the GOP contest. Newt is arrogant and corrupt; Cain in is flustered and philandering; Perry continues to set [...]
November 30, 2011
US police raid two Occupy camps
30 November 2011 Last updated at 15:01 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Police arrested a number of people as they moved in to clear the site US police have raided Occupy Wall Street camps in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, arresting over 200 people and tearing up tent cities. In Los [...]
November 28, 2011
Occupy LA protesters braced for eviction
Hundreds of Occupy protesters who have camped outside Los Angeles city hall for weeks are braced for eviction as supporters rally to the scene in a show of solidarity. The city’s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, has said that Occupy LA protesters will be given until just after midnight to dismantle their tents, pack up their belongings [...]
November 28, 2011
Occupy protesters take message about corporate greed to Black Friday shoppers in Calif.
November 26, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Occupy protesters take message about corporate greed to Black Friday shoppers in Calif. 26 Nov 2011 Anti-Wall Street protesters took their message about corporate greed to Black Friday shoppers, staging demonstrations in commercial areas in California on one of the busiest days of the year for retailers and bargain-hunters. [...]
November 26, 2011
LA mayor issues Occupy deadline
26 November 2011 Last updated at 04:02 GMT Mayor Villaraigosa has expressed sympathy with the Occupy protesters The mayor of Los Angeles has given Occupy Wall Street protesters in the city a deadline of midday on Monday to pack up their protest camp. But he hopes to avoid confrontations between police and protesters that have [...]
November 25, 2011
NYPD raid on Occupy’s Zuccotti Park camp destroyed thousands of books
November 25, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis NYPD raid on Occupy’s Zuccotti Park camp destroyed thousands of books [Since most NYPD morons don't read, it was likely no big deal to them.] 23 Nov 2011 What started in September as a few piles of books on a tarp in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, the de facto headquarters [...]
November 25, 2011
Black Friday sales start with pepper spray stampede
Shoppers in the US kicked off their annual “Black Friday” orgy of consumerism amid scenes of pushing, pulling, running and – in one case – pepper-spraying their way through the doors of the nation’s shops and malls. The annual tradition, when many stores open early with cut-price sales on the day after Thanksgiving, has become [...]