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The political scene in Oakland is really going to the dogs. That's right -- man's best friend is running for mayor.
May Day Labor Rights Protest Photos - Occupy Wall Street Attending
May 1, 2012
Happening now, the May Day Labor Rights protest, you can watch live here. Thanks to the person streaming the protest. Stand up for Labor Rights, and freedom.
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A year of rebellion. A year of hope.
February 09, 2012
2011 was a year without precedent for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. It was a year in which millions of people of all ages and backgrounds, especially the young and often with women to the fore, flooded on to the streets to demand change. Often, they continued to do so in the face of extreme violence meted out by the military and security forces of those who claimed to govern -- and who had continued to enjoy and to squander the fruits of power -- in their very name.
It was a year like no other, when the whole region shook as ordinary people summoned up the courage to provide a demonstration of "people's power" such as the region had never seen before and, incredibly, to sustain it even when the might of the repressive state and its security forces were deployed against them. - Amnesty International
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Will Occupy Wall Street Affect 2012 Election? Glenn Greenwald Interview
Glenn Greenwald, contributing writer at Salon.com, joins us to discuss real, hidden, and leser known reasons motivating Occupy Wall Street protests, and more.
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Occupy Forces Local News to Focus on Real Issues
December 22, 2011
From Uptake Video: The Occupy movement has successfully put the economic injustice plaguing the United States on televisions across America, says Tina Dupuy, a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist and managing editor of Crooks and Liars.
The reason that most Americans were unaware of these issues before the Occupy movement caught fire this fall is that 60 percent of us get our news exclusively from local news sources. Those 30-minute local news segments devote a full 10 minutes to commercials and two minutes to "teasers" of stories to come. That leaves very little time for real news about real issues.
Dupuy says that newscasters too often fill the gap with trivial stories such as reports about "Dancing with the Stars" or news of a cat stuck in a tree in Germany. "We don't have a real broad knowledge of issues that affect us, like the housing bubble or about what our local and national government is doing," says Dupuy. "But at least now the local news is showing protest signs of what economic injustice is.
They're being forced to cover these issues and cover the raids, arrests and encampments and have the protestors on television talking about these issues." "Now we've seen our local news talk about the homeless population, talk about people who aren't able to find jobs, talk about students who are now sharecroppers to banks because they have $200,000 in student loan debt ? debt they can't renegotiate."
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NEW YORK (AP) — "During the first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests, the movement that is demanding more out of the wealthiest Americans cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
The heaviest financial burden has fallen upon law enforcement agencies tasked with monitoring marches and evicting protesters from outdoor camps. And the steepest costs by far piled up in New York City and Oakland, Calif., where police clashed with protesters on several occasions.
The AP gathered figures from government agencies in 18 cities with active protests and focused on costs through Nov. 15, the day protesters were evicted from New York City's Zuccotti Park, where the protests began Sept. 17 before spreading nationwide. The survey did not attempt to tally the price of all protests but provides a glimpse of costs to cities large and small.
Broken down city by city, the numbers are more or less in line with the cost of policing major public events and emergencies. In Los Angeles, for example, the Michael Jackson memorial concert cost the city $1.4 million. And Atlanta spent several million dollars after a major snow and ice storm this year.
But the price of the protests is rising by the day — along with taxpayer ire in some places.
"What is their real agenda?" asked Rodger Mawhinney as he watched police remove an encampment outside his apartment complex in downtown Oakland. "I've gone up and asked them, 'What are you truly trying to accomplish?' I'm still waiting for an answer."
The Occupy movement has intentionally never clarified its policy objectives, relying instead on a broad message opposing corporate excess and income inequality. Aside from policing, cleaning and repairing property at dozens of 24-hour encampments, cities have had to monitor frequent rallies and protests."~Read More: Yahoo