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Police Retreat From Foreclosed Home In Minneapolis After Standoff With Occupy Protestors

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Cruzy Family Raid, Minnesota, Cruz Family, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Foreclosure Evictions, Occupy Our Homes, Eviction Protests, Occupy Protests, Occupy Movement, Occupy Homes, Cruz Family Minnesota, Ows, Foreclosure, Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Minneapolis, Foreclosure Protests, Business News

On Friday morning, police from the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office abandoned an attempt to evict protestors from a foreclosed home in south Minneapo...

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WATCH: Tom Morello's Occupy 'Guitarmy'

Bill Moyers | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Tom Morello, Tom Morello Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Politics News

An army of guitarists took to the streets of New York City earlier this month as part of Occupy Wall Street's May Day resurgence. Led by former Rage A...

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The Occupy Movement Descends On Chicago For NATO Summit

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Occupy Nato, Occupy Chicago, Rahm Emanual, Video, Nato Summit 2012, Nato, Occupy Chicago May 2012, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, 99% Solidarity, 99solidarity.Net, Occupy, Suicide Girls, Nicole Powers, Nato Summit, Occupy Movement, Chicago News

Busloads of Occupy activists have been arriving in Chicago to protest the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "We're trying to bring ...

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Progressives Do NOT Hate Wealth -- a #PPSA

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Humor, Money, Mark Zuckerberg, Economy, Jobs, Facebook IPO, Big Banks, Wall St, Income, Ows, Shareholder Protests, Politics, Video, Wealth, Eduardo Saverin, Tarp, Occupy Wall St, Inequality, Economic Justice, Politics News

In the first in a series of POLITICAL Public Service Announcements (#PPSA), I take on the conservative myth that liberals hate wealth and success. Not...

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Homeless Camping Ban Passed By City Council

Posted 05.15.2012

A controversial ordinance to ban "unauthorized" camping in the city of Denver--a measure that specifically targets homeless people sleeping on the str...

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The Bank vs. America Showdown

Mark Engler | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Bank of America, #Bankvsamerica, 99% Spring, Occupy, #Ows, 99% Power, Charlotte, Occupy Wall Street, Cooptation, Bank vs America, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News

It doesn't appear that 99% Spring, despite trying to ready tens of thousands of people for escalating civil disobedience, resulted in very disruptive actions in Charlotte. On the plus side, there's more than a month of spring opportunities left.

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Police Chief: Very Last Thing That We Would Do Is Make An Arrest For Camping

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: #Occupytogether, Urban Camping, ACLU of Colorado, Chief Robert White, May Day, Denver Police Chief, Denver News, Michael Hancock, Occupy Denver, Denver Camping Ban, Denver Mayor, #Ows, Mayor Hancock, Video, Denver News

Denver Police Chief Robert White says that if the city passes its proposed "unauthorized" camping ban next week, his department will use arrest as a l...

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Occupy Wanes, Ignoring 'Regime Change'

Arthur Bruzzone | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Obama, Presidential Politics, Occupy Wall Street, Egypt Protests, Tea Party Movement, Ows Protests, Ows, President Obama, Politics News

Occupy protesters have held Obama blameless. That's not the case for Occupy's distant cousin, the Tea Party movement. They actively opposed Republican candidates across the nation -- which gave way to campaign politics. They found an end game.

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OWS and the Class Struggle Revised

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Ows, Paul Krugman, New York City, Occupy Wall Street, May Day, Neoliberalism, Marxism, May Day Protests, Business News

OWS takes the traditional Marxist notion of class, simplifies it and inflates it into two cartoons -- the 99 percent and the 1 percent. In the process, it manages to ignore about 150 years of Marxist discussion and debate.

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The Many Faces Of Occupy New York

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Video, Activism, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Matthew Connors, Occupy Wall Street Art, Zuccotti Park, Occupy, Slideexpand, Arts News

You have seen them in marches, crowds and tents, on television, in the news and in your city. The activists of Occupy, aka "the 99%," are often seen a...

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Why Occupy Can't -- and Shouldn't -- Become the Progressive Tea Party

Max Berger | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Democratic Primaries, Politics, Progressives, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Elections 2012, Tea Party, Occupy Movement, Politics News

If Occupy tried to start a left Tea Party, we would be following in the footsteps of several progressive movement efforts that came up short.

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Wheelchair Sports Camp Talk New EP (LISTEN)

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Denver Music, Denver Hip-Hop, Denver News, Denver Indie Music Scene, Female Emcees, Queer Emcees, Mydenver, We Are the 99 Percent, Kalyn Heffernan, Best of Denver, Indie Hip-Hop, My Denver, Hip-Hop, Denver Hip Hop, Denver Culture, Colorado, Video, #Occupydenver, Occupy Denver, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Colorado, Wheelchair Sports Camp, #Occupywallstreet, Where We All Live, #Ows, Denver News

If you don't know who Wheelchair Sports Camp are yet, you will soon. Led by MC/Producer Kalyn Heffernan and joined by vocalist/saxophonist Abi McGaha ...

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America: Home of the Bewildered Serf and Land of the Feudal Lords.

Dave Pederson | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Adam Davidson, Debt, JP Morgan, Ed Conard, Neo-Feudalism, Class Warfare, Ronald Reagan, Bain Capital, Ows, Mitt Romney, Trickle-Down Economics, Arthur Laffer, Economic Inequality, Reaganomics, Occupy Movement, Nypd, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy, Politics News

Two news items popped this week that highlight the ever-growing Neo-Feudalism that has become our new economy. First, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) filed ...

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May Day Media Mayhem

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: New York Times, May Day, Occupy Movement, Austerity, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Media Coverage, May Day General Strike, General Strike, Ows, Occupy Wall Street Coverage, Media News

Media hypocrisy about the Occupy Wall Street movement is old news. But the New York Times hit the "refresh" button once again with its coverage of the May Day demonstrations in New York and around the country on May 2.

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PHOTOS: Thousands Turn Out For May Day Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 05.02.2012

UPDATE: The May Day protests escalated in Oakland throughout the night, leading to 23 arrests including one for suspicion of felony assault on a peace...

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Bank of America Protest Draws Preemptive Crackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.02.2012

The city of Charlotte, N.C., has announced broad restrictions on protests planned for a May 9 Bank of America shareholders meeting, citing safety conc...

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May Day Coverage - Oakland

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Ows, Jobs, May Day, Occupy, Impact, Protest, Occupy Oakland, Video, Impact News

Youth Radio reporters are live Tweeting May Day demonstrations in Oakland, California @YouthRadio, and we're archiving the stream on this p...

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MAY DAY STRIKES BACK! Occupy Denver Rallies All Day (PHOTOS, LIVEBLOG)

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.01.2012

Occupy Denver has announced that they will be holding a sleep-in tonight at 9:30 p.m. at the Pavilion on 16th Street Mall in protest of the preliminar...

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Homeowner Activists Will Be Crushed Under Their Own Weight

Richard Zombeck | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Homeowners, Foreclosure Crisis, Activist, Activism, Bloggers, Blogging, Ows, Business News

The divisiveness, infighting, and turf wars have made it easy for the ones who created this mess to run roughshod over the American people and the laws that were meant to protect them.

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Preliminary Homeless 'Camping' Ban Approved By Denver City Council

Posted 05.01.2012

A proposal to ban "unauthorized" camping in the city of Denver--a measure that specifically targets homeless people sleeping on the streets--has gotte...

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Want To Join Tom Morello's Occupy Wall Street 'Guitarmy'?

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.30.2012

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Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello is calling out for 10,000 guitar players to join him at Occupy Wall Street's May Day protest on May 1. ...

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Major Occupy Court Victory -- 31 Occupy Philly Protesters Acquitted on All Charges

Rob Kall | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Occupy Philadelphia, Protester Arrests, Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Philly Arrests, Occupy Wall Street Arrests, Ows, Politics News

I interviewed Paul Hetznecker, one of the lead attorneys among a team of 14 lawyers who defended 31 Occupy Philly protesters who were arrested on November 30, 2011, shortly after Occupy Philly was shut down.

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OWS May Day 'General Strike' Planned

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Ows General Strike, Das Racist, Tom Morello Ows, Immigrant Rights, May Day, Tom Morello, Occupy Oakland, Das Racist Ows, May Day Protests, Occupy Movement, Video, General Strike, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Ows May Day, Occupy the Golden Gate Bridge, Business News

Occupy Wall Street activists are planning for a nationwide series of demonstrations billed as a "general strike" on Tuesday in what could be the bigge...

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Occupy Denver Preps For May 1st 'General Strike,' Posts Event Schedule

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: May Day, Denver News, Occupy Wall Street May Day, Occupy May 1, May 1 Denver, Colorado, Video, May Day General Strike, Labor Strike, General Strike, May Day Denver, Occupy Denver, #Occupydenver, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Colorado, #Occupywallstreet, #Ows, Denver News

Occupy Wall Street activists are preparing for a nationwide series of demonstrations and are calling for a "general strike" on Tuesday, May 1st--also ...

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Occupying With Noam Chomsky

Greg Ruggiero | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Global Occupy, Occupy, Noam Chomsky Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Class Warfare, May Day, Income Inequality, Books News

"Occupy," says Noam Chomsky in his new book, "is the first major public response to thirty years of class war." One of the movement's greatest successes has been simply to put the inequalities of everyday life on the national agenda, influencing reporting, public perception and language itself.

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