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Bernie Sanders, Op-Ed: "The protest movement called Occupy Wall Street has struck a nerve. The demonstrators' goals may be vague but their grievances are very real. If our country is to break out of this horrendous recession and create the millions of jobs we desperately need, if we are going to create a financially-stable future, we must take a hard look at Wall Street and demand fundamental reforms. I hope the protesters provide the spark that ignites that process." 
NationofChange Fundraising Appeal: NationofChange in coordination with organizers on the ground is raising $6,500 this weekend to supply the protesters at Liberty Square and Freedom Plaza with some of the following essentials: hot food, water bottles, sleeping bags, blankets, tarps, plastic storage bins, polar fleece sweaters, pants, socks, gloves, medical supplies, and more... 
Special Coverage: As we enter Day 22 of the Wall Street Occupation the movement begin to pick up steam across the country. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street since this past weekend as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event. 
Special Coverage: This month of October 2011 marks the eleventh year of our country's longest war in Afghanistan and the onset of the 2012 US federal budget, which provides unlimited funds for war and corporate greed, while withholding funds for basic human needs. On October 6th, a protest assembled at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. with the goal of "nonviolently resisting the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America's resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation." 
Brad Johnson, News Report: "The State Department has admitted their environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was conducted by a contractor paid for by the pipeline company itself, a potentially illegal conflict of interest first reported by ThinkProgress Green. The Canadian tar sands company TransCanada has applied to construct a major pipeline through the United States to pump tar sands crude to Texas refineries for the international oil market, and is awaiting approval by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama." 
Sarah van Gelder, Op-Ed: "Whatever issue you care to name, from childhood obesity (linked to agribusiness subsidies) to war (linked to the power of the military-industrial complex), from a watered-down health care bill (linked big Pharma and health insurance corporations), to a failing economy (which Wall Street and corporations have depleted in favor of global speculation), the power of the one percent is at the root of the problem. And the power of the 99 percent is key to the solution." 
Ari Berman, News Report: An assistant editor with a right-wing magazine admitted in a column Saturday evening to posing as part of the 99 Percent Movement in D.C. "in order to mock and undermine" it. Patrick Howley, an assistant editor for the American Spectator, was committed enough to his deception to be at the vanguard of a demonstration that saw police firing pepper spray and closing a downtown Washington museum. 
Mercedes Diane Griffin Forbes, Op-Ed: All too often, when there is criticism of U.S. military actions it is the service members who receive the force of the backlash. They are called criminals, they are accused of being brainwashed, and it is they that are punished when something goes wrong. However, many sometimes feel that when they do speak out against U.S. military action, they do so without support and with the threat of being accused of being traitors hanging over their heads. 
Lee Fang, News Report: "Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, blasted the media for providing fair coverage to the Occupy Wall Street protests. 'They have no sense of purpose other than a basically anti-American tone,' he said. King also explained that he is 'old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy.' He added, 'We can't allow that to happen.'" 
John Grant, Op-Ed: I spent a day in Freedom Plaza, a triangle of concrete adjacent to several high-end hotels with shiny black Mercedes limos out front three blocks from the White House. It's Washington DC's entry in the Occupy America phenomenon. I came wearing two hats. One, I'm a Vietnam veteran member of Veterans For Peace who has actively worked for over a decade against our bankrupting wars. And, two, I'm an experienced journalist with a master's degree who works in both images and words. I won't take a back seat to anyone in what is known as the Main Stream Media. 
News Report: "It's been a wild week. On Sunday, progressives from around the United States poured into Washington, DC for the Take Back the American Dream Conference, the first summit of the American Dream Movement. And by 9:00 Monday morning, the conference was in full swing. There were a lot of key moments in the conference. Thirty leaders, diverse in age, gender, sexual orientation, religious faith, and cause, all standing on the stage shoulder to shoulder to tell the audience how their own struggle fits in with the American Dream Movement." 
David Swanson, Video Compilation: "We intended to hold signs and sing inside the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, protesting its promotion of unmanned drones, missiles, and bombs, including its sponsorship by and promotion of weapons corporations. We don't have any museums promoting health coverage or education or retirement security. We had marched from the Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square occupations, taking over the streets of DC. The museum knew we were coming." 
News Report: "Today in the New York Times there was a story that made it completely clear why we have to be here. They uncovered the fact that the company building that tar sands pipeline was allowed to choose another company to conduct the environmental impact statement, and the company that they chose was a company was a company that did lots and lots of work for them. So, in other words, the whole thing was rigged top to bottom and that's why the environmental impact statement said that this pipeline would cause no trouble." 
Jim Morrill and Steve Harrison, News Report: "Democrats are blasting Republican mayoral candidate Scott Stone over a charity he founded for military families that records show has spent more money on fundraising than on helping veterans. Stone acknowledges the disparity, but he - and some nonprofit experts - said that's not unusual for relatively new charities. Stone, who's running against incumbent Democrat Anthony Foxx, founded the North Carolina Heroes Fund in 2007 to make grants to veterans in financial straits. The fund raised $129,697 from 2007 to 2009, according to its three most recent IRS tax filings." 
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Aut viam inveniam aut faciamaut viam inveniam aut faciam.
-Hannibal
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Pepper-Sprayed for Peace
Please donate a little if you can. People in the streets are our only hope to bring liberty back to America.
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