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Strike to suspend services on Thursday. Scott Olsen: "I Swore to Defend the Constitution and I'm Continuing to Do That" Occupy South Carolina Wins Round One in Free Speech Battle With Governor : Occupy Student Debt: Students Urged to Refuse to Pay Off Loans As Schools Hike Tuition. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We continue to talk about protests in another way. Well, Monday was a day of action for university students on both coasts of the United States angered by the rising cost of tuition and the crackdowns on their recent protests. In California, students temporarily shut down a meeting of the UC Board of Regents to protest a series of tuition hikes and the violent response to protests at UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

Wary of a massive demonstration, the regents met by conference call from four different campuses but were still forced to switch venues after being confronted by chanting students at three of the four sites. Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters. This is a rush transcript.

Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The singer and actress Miley Cyrus, yes, Hannah Montana, a new remix of her song, "Liberty Walk. " Cyrus is showing her support for Occupy Wall Street and international pro-democracy movements by using protest footage from around the world. The video begins with a statement on the screen saying, "This is dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in. " The Right to Occupy, the Right to Assemble? A report on the debate over the expulsion of the Occupy Movements -

The Right to Occupy, the Right to Assemble?

Les anti-Wall Street de Los Angles décidés à rester. Occupy Wall Street: l'année 2012 ressemblera-t-elle à 1968? Le mouvement d’Occupy Wall Street est-il comparable à la vague de protestations qui a profondément ébranlé les Etats-Unis en 1968 (manifestations contre la guerre du Vietnam, mouvement des droits civiques)?

Occupy Wall Street: l'année 2012 ressemblera-t-elle à 1968?

C’est la question que pose le journaliste John Heilemann du New York Magazine qui a réalisé une enquête auprès de nombreux activistes du mouvement de contestation né à New York en septembre 2011. Selon lui, la ressemblance avec les événements de 1968 aux Etats-Unis pourrait se trouver dans la capacité des protestations actuelles à perturber l'élection présidentielle de 2012. John Heilemann rappelle en premier lieu que les manifestations pacifiques à New York ont pris une ampleur qui n’est pas si éloignée de celle du déferlement contestataire mondial de 1968. L’absence de leader affiché est aussi un point qui rapproche Occupy Wall Street des événements de 1968.

Peut-être que sur la question des revendications les deux mouvements se distinguent aussi, se demande alors John Heilemann. Durban-va-enterrer-Kyoto-vfin.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Occupy OKC protesters stay in park after deadline. About 100 protesters with Occupy OKC remained Monday night in Kerr Park in downtown Oklahoma City, even though their permit to camp overnight was not renewed.

Occupy OKC protesters stay in park after deadline

About 11 p.m., the protesters marched and chanted, “Whose park? Our park. Whose streets? Our streets.” All the while, two police cruisers waited watchfully nearby on Couch Drive. The officers said they have been there every night since the protest began about two months ago trying to keep the protesters and everyone else involved safe. The officers know the camping permit expired at 11 p.m., but they said they had no orders or plans to move in overnight. Mark Faulk, 55, of Oklahoma City, is one of the organizers. He said the group has a meeting with police about 8 a.m. What is Occupy Wall Street All About? No Excuses Left. From our good friends at occuprint.org Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history.

Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy.

Either you are a rebel or a slave. Choose. Manipulations - L'expérience Web – Accueil. War Profiteers Meet Tomorrow In NYC. They Won't Be Alone. Posted 2 years ago on Nov. 29, 2011, 12:46 p.m.

War Profiteers Meet Tomorrow In NYC. They Won't Be Alone.

EST by OccupyWallSt Tomorrow, the Aviation Week and Credit Suisse will be holding their 17th annual Aerospace & Defense Finance Conference in NYC. These war profiteers export death in the name of defense. They have obscene influence over our democracy with politicians in their pockets and hundreds of lobbyists working congress.

They sell arms to to the 1% so that war can be waged against the 99% in efficient and technologically advanced ways. WHEN: Wednesday, 11/30, two rallies/marches--6:30am meet up and rally to non-violently interrupt business as usual as delegates enter the conference, and 4:30pm to rally against militarism.WHERE: Both rallies are In Madison Sq.