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The Unemployment Recovery, Ctd.
I suggested some days back that much social anguish was to be expected before the economy recovers–and that’s if it doesn’t get worse again. Today Andrew Sullivan made a couple posts that underscore...
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NYPD Media Blackout on Occupy Wall Street Pits Bloomberg Against the Citizenship
via the Guardian: As police swooped on the park in the early hours of Tuesday, the city closed airspace in lower Manhattan to prevent news helicopters taking aerial shots of the scene. Vans were used...
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Whoops!
Michelle Goldberg on the NYC Administration’s shortsightedness: Thanks to anger over the raid, an anti–Wall Street demonstration planned for Thursday is likely to draw far more people than it would...
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Went to the OWS March Tonight
It was huge, people were angry, and Bloomberg’s crackdown backfired. Some pics: Many people were in attendance. Verizon unwittingly donated their building exterior as a projection screen for the 99%...
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The Batsignal Crew Could Hear Us From the Window!
There’s a still image of the 99% batsignal in my previous post. It was far and away the most amazing part of the event. It gave us a sense that there was more going on than the mere act of marching...
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L.A. City Council Passes Resolution Against ‘Corporate Personhood’
The council resolution includes support for a constitutional amendment that would assert that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights, and that spending money is not a form of free...
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Congressman Asks DOJ to Probe Police Conduct at OWS
New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler says in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder there were “troubling reports” of possible misconduct by police. He says there were reports of “possible unlawful...
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You Don’t Get Rich by Deserving It, Say Satirists
I haven’t posted in a long time. This is because grad school is hard. Here is some Cracked.com: [The saying] “anyone can get rich” isn’t just untrue, it’s insultingly untrue. You can’t have a society...
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Paying the Pied Piper
Capital One earns the distinction of the first bank to be charged by Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The bank’s phone-sales operators told customers that services like payment protection...
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Tote Bag
I found just the one for you urban middle-classers who are in the market: Available at Intern Labor Rights.
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