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Up to 200,000 Quebec students stage massive protest over tuition hikes. Quebec students are marching in the streets as part of a massive protest against tuition-fee hikes in the province. As many as 200,000 college and university students voted in favour of boycotting classes and have garnered support from social activist organizations and unions. Some students blocked access at Montreal institutions early Thursday, with reports that others who wanted to go to class were prevented from entering. Thousands are expected for an afternoon march on Premier Jean Charest's downtown offices. Student groups have said the hikes amount to a declaration of war from the provincial government. Student groups say raising tuition fees will impact access to higher education. “This mobilization sends a clear message to the government that students will not accept higher tuition fees and will do everything in their power to overturn this decision,” march organizers said in a statement.

Mr. Debate on the issue raged at the Quebec legislature Thursday. Ms. “Occupy Our Home”: #OWS requisitioning foreclosed. New York City Police Clear Occupy Wall Street Protesters From Zuccotti Park. Photo of park now, totally cleared. Bank fee falls to social network pressure, outrage. Some cities act against anti-Wall St protests. Occupy Wall Street: What Businesses Need to Know - Hari Bapuji and Suhaib Riaz. By Hari Bapuji and Suhaib Riaz | 8:27 AM October 14, 2011 With the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations spreading from New York to other U.S. cities this week, business leaders beyond the stock exchanges are wondering what exactly is going on: Is this truly the American version of the Arab spring? What do the demonstrators want? What outcome can be expected?

Should businesses respond to the Wall Street protests, and if so, how? While some of the organizers see their movement as being connected to the uprisings in the Middle East, Occupy Wall Street is less an explosion of rage against an authoritarian and oppressive government than an expression of frustration that a democratic economic system isn’t living up to its potential. In that respect, Occupy Wall Street has a lot more in common with India’s anti-corruption movement than with the Arab spring. So if Occupy Wall Street is leaderless and unfocused, why isn’t it going away? The Weakest Link in The U.S. Economy - Ndubuisi Ekekwe.

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe | 12:08 PM November 9, 2011 Apple used 49,400 employees to generate revenues of $65 billion in 2010. Its outsourcing partner, Chinese Foxconn, employed nearly a million people for $59 billion in the same year. In the U.S., Apple focuses on creating high-paying jobs while it outsources the low-paying ones to Asia. For companies from Dell to HP to Intel, outsourcing provides competitiveness. It makes the shareholders happy and helps produce good earnings. Every global company has the right to pursue opportunities to remain competitive. But the state of events happening in the U.S. economy right now calls for solutions which these very companies could provide. The U.S. economic crisis could be traced to the structural economic changes which globalization facilitated. As the nation goes through this generational transformation, we must understand that the solution to the problem isn’t far-fetched. Breaking the Cycle With a New Model.

Why the "Occupy" Movement is Happening. Breaking: Police respond to apparent shooting in City Hall Park. Bank Transfer Day Attracts 81,900 RSVPs on Facebook. It started as a Facebook event page on Tuesday, and now it's grown into a national movement. Today (Nov. 5) is Bank Transfer Day (BTD), a deadline activists set for transferring funds from for-profit banking institutions into not-for-profit credit unions closer to home. Organized by Kristin Christian, her Bank Transfer Day Facebook page has attracted more than 81,900 RSVPs for the event since Tuesday (Nov. 1). Why? Kristen Christian wrote on the Bank Transfer Day Facebook page's FAQ: "I started this because I felt like many of you do. I was tired — tired of the fee increases, tired of not being able to access my money when I need to, tired of them using what little money I have to oppress my brothers & sisters.

The protest, not affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, had already gathered momentum with a similar push to "Move Your Money" started in July by Arianna Huffington. What's the result of these social media-fueled protests? What do you think of this movement? Bank Transfer Day: Marches Planned on Banks Nationwide. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Today is Bank Transfer Day -- a deadline of sorts to a movement calling for people to shift their funds from for-profit banking institutions to not-for-profit credit unions before Nov. 5. More than 82,000 people have RSVPed to the movement's Facebook event, which is supposed to "ensure that these banking institutions will always remember the 5th of November," by sending a message "that conscious consumers won't support companies with unethical business practices.

" "The principle behind monthly debit card fees weren't something I could support as a conscious consumer," said Kristen Christian, Bank Transfer Day's sole organizer. "Investigating my options, credit unions were clearly the most logical choice. I decided ... that I had to take further action to educate the American people in how credit unions serve local communities. " Green candidate for mayor based in Occupy Tucson tent.

Washington protesters hit by car, no visible injuries: police. Police: 3 Struck by Car at Occupy DC Protest. Footage of Scott Olsen being shot by Police at Occupy Oakland. 'Vendetta' mask becomes symbol of Occupy protests. NEW YORK – Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you'll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed-mouth smile and mysterious eyes. The mask is a stylized version of Guy Fawkes, an Englishman who tried to bomb the British Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605. "They're very meaningful masks," said Alexandra Ricciardelli, who was rolling cigarettes on a table outside her tent in New York's Zuccotti Park two days before the anniversary of Fawkes' failed bombing attempt. "It's not about bombing anything; it's about being anonymous — and peaceful. " To the 20-year-old from Keyport, N.J., the Fawkes mask "is about being against The Man — the power that keeps you down.

" But history books didn't lead to the mask's popularity: A nearly 30-year-old graphic novel and a five-year-old movie did. While Fawkes' image has been romanticized over the past 400 years, he was a criminal who tried to blow up a government building. Occupy protests mapped around the world | News. Occupy Reichstag: Thousands march in Germany. How Occupy Wall Street Was Able To Occupy American Media Attention. NEW YORK -- If only it were true. Reading the American press, one gets the impression that the revolution is closing in and the planet will soon succumb to a wave of “peace and love” worthy of the 1960s.

The Occupy Wall Street movement “is expanding,” we are told. “It’s gaining momentum.” Last week, OWS, as it has been dubbed, celebrated its one-month anniversary with some $300,000 in donations deposited, not at JP Morgan Chase, but at the Amalgamated bank, which is 100% union-owned. The press is having a field day. Occupy Wall Street is everywhere. Writers have made the pilgrimage down to Zuccotti Park to see for themselves what the movement is about, gleefully reporting that the demonstrators, prohibited from using microphones and loudspeakers, have invented a method “generated by the people” to amplify sound. Oddly, the press does not appear concerned about the number of protesters. The numbers matter little. Bankers, predictably, are somewhat less enthusiastic. From Headline News to Banned Search Topic—China’s Take on Occupy Wall Street.

China’s state-controlled media seem to enjoy giving a good lecture—particularly when the target is a meddlesome Western government that gives its own sermons on China’s human rights record. So when the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests laid bare American disaffection with the country’s imbalanced financial system, China’s official press blasted U.S. reporters for failing to cover the movement adequately. On Oct. 14, the Xinhua News Agency, Beijing’s mouthpiece, published an English-language opinion piece: What strikes us as odd is that the muckraking-crazy US media seem to have lost their sensitive news nose amid the spreading protests descending on their own soil.

Mainstream American media of [sic] either turn a completely blind eye or try to play down the mass unrest storming their own streets.This is just in a violent contrast with their eagerness to hype up the mass events of such kind, of course, if they all occurred in other countries. Why It’s So Hard To Tell Where Mayor Bloomberg Stands On Occupy Wall Street. Last weekend’s Saturday Night Live opened with a gray-haired Fred Armisen as Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Donning a jacket with lapel pins and a blue tie, Armisen spoke in a dry cadence that amplified the mayor’s at once lenient but strident response to the Occupy Wall Street protests pitched at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. “Occupy Wall Street, I’m on your side,” said Armisen’s Bloomberg. “Come to New York and let your voice be heard. You’ll be treated with dignity and respect by the city and the police. With one caveat: The second and I mean the second I see a demonstrator lighting up a cigarette, we’re moving in. The batons will come out and the badge numbers will come off. It’s easy to mock the mayor’s wary approach to the protests, but there’s more to it than one pol’s bipolar shifts or a billionaire’s shady motives. Compared to that of his colleagues, Bloomberg’s response has been the most puzzling, if not paradoxical. Jill Priluck is a writer who lives in New York. Mayor's office denies Occupy Atlanta ordered to leave Woodruff Park  

Occupy London could be protected by Christian ring of prayer | UK news | The Observer. The Occupy London Stock Exchange protest encampment outside St Paul's Cathedral. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Christian groups have drawn up plans to protect protesters by forming a ring of prayer around the camp outside St Paul's Cathedral, should an attempt be made to forcibly remove them. As the storm of controversy over the handling of the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration deepened on Saturday, Christian activists said it was their duty to stand up for peaceful protest in the absence of support from St Paul's. One Christian protester, Tanya Paton, said: "We represent peace, unity and love.

With senior officials at St Paul's apparently intent on seeking an injunction to break up the protest, the director of the influential religious thinktank Ekklesia, Jonathan Bartley, said the cathedral's handling of the protest had been a "car crash" and predicted more high-profile resignations from the Church of England. Hundreds march in Oakland anti-Wall Street protest - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News. Man with knife attacks Occupy N.M. protesters. Protesters with Occupy Albuquerque demonstrating outside the University of new Mexico were attacked by a man with a knife Friday evening, Oct. 21, 2011. KRQE Last Updated 10:39 p.m. ET Albuquerque police subdued a 48-year-old man who lunged with a knife at a group of protesters gathered Friday evening near the University of New Mexico in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. About 100 people were in the area when Miguel Aguirre - described by police as a homeless man who also was drunk - pulled out a knife and attempted to stab several protesters.

No one was injured. Police said protesters felt threatened when Aguirre held a knife with a 6- to 8-inch blade and asked, "Who wants to be first? " CBS Affiliate KRQE reports police had to resort to using a Taser gun on the man when he refused to follow their instructions. KRQE reports Aguirre (left) claimed he has a personal connection to UNM and was just trying to protect it from the protesters camping out there, according to police. Occupy Wall Street protesters punished by NYPD. NY winter to test Occupy Wall St protest momentum. Occupy Wall Street: Does anyone care about the anti-Semitism? - Right Turn. Posted at 04:00 PM ET, 10/17/2011 Oct 17, 2011 08:00 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost In the millions of pixels devoted to the radical Occupy Wall Streeters, virtually nothing has been said about its anti-Semitic elements.

The conservative Emergency Committee for Israel is out with an eye-popping ad: Those vile scenes have been noticed in Israel as well. Israel Today observes: A growing number of Israelis and foreign Jewish groups are expressing concern over the anti-Semitic flavor of some of the “Occupy Wall St.” economic protests in the US. . . . In Los Angeles, California, protester Patricia McAllister, who identified herself as an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District (we can only hope she is not an educator), had this to say: “I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government… they need to be run out of this country.” Occupy Wall St.: A New Generation of Dissenters. If the Occupy Wall Street protesters ever choose to recognize a person who gave their cause its biggest boost, they may want to pay tribute to Anthony Bologna. The Day Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. Deputy Inspector Bologna, to be more precise, was the senior New York police officer who on Sept. 24 blasted pepper spray at four female demonstrators, knocking them to the sidewalk in pain.

An oft-viewed video of that moment offers no evidence of their having posed a threat or doing anything more sinister than shouting. That pepper shot in the face was a vital shot in the arm for the nascent anti-Wall Street movement. Its takeover of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan had begun a week earlier, drawing some attention but not a lot — for a reason. Inspector Bologna’s improvidence was a game changer. On the weekend of Sept. 24, Zuccotti Park occupiers could be counted in the many dozens. It must be said about Mayor Michael R. Mr. That’s not it at all. City Councilwoman Gale A. Major Unions Join Occupy Wall Street Protest. Iran calls Wall Street protests 'American Spring' World intrigued by Occupy Wall Street movement. Occupy Washington in side Hart Senate Building.

Protesters march past millionaires' NYC homes. Anti-Wall Street protesters march through New York. Occupy Wall Street voices from Zuccotti Park: Steve Syrek, 33. Rebecca Davis/News Steve Syrek, a Literatures in English Ph.D student, is currently giving his time to the Occupy Wall Street movement as a librarian at The People's Library in Zuccotti Park. Steve Syrek, a Literatures in English Ph.D student living in New York helps out at the library at Zuccotti Park whenever he can put in the time. He truly believes in the Occupy Wall Street movement and feels this is the most he's ever been heard in his life. Name: Steve Syrek Age: 33 Where he's from: Originally from New Jersey, but lives in Washington Heights. Employment Status: "I am a graduate student in the Literatures in English program at Rutgers University.

Political affiliation: "As far as political affiliation, I am actually registered as a member of the Green Party. How long has he been coming to Zuccotti Park? Does he sleep in Zuccotti park? "I'm a little older now, and it's more comfortable for me to sleep at home. Why did he join the Occupy Wall Street protests? What are his demands? Occupy Wall Street raises $150,000 - Oct. 13. As the Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum, the money starts pouring in.

The group says it has raised more than $150,000. NEW YORK (CNN) -- After 26 days of protests in New York's financial center, the Occupy Wall Street movement has raised over $150,000 in donations, according to Pete Dutro, a member of the protest's financial arm. This massive fundraising was made through donations via mail, two websites -- occupywallst.org and nycga.cc -- and in person to members of what the movement calls its "Finance Working Group.

" Separately, four days ago, "Occupy Wall Street Media" successfully raised over $75,000 worth of donation pledges to be used toward the protest's official publication, The Occupy Wall Street Journal, according to the online funding platform Kickstarter. In addition to overseeing fundraising, members of the Finance Working Group, distinguishable by their gold dollar sign armbands, are also charged with disbursing funds to the other groups within the movement. Occupy Wall Street’s Bank Account Is Swelling. Al Gore backs Occupy Wall Street - GlobalPost. GE's Jeff Immelt empathizes with Occupy Wall Street - Oct. 17. Occupy Wall Street: Will the Democrats derail the movement? Occupy Wall Street Protesters May Seek Trial, Lawyer Says. How Occupy Wall Street can really change banks -- The Buzz - Oct. 17. America’s ‘Primal Scream’ Analysis: Is a winter of discontent on the way? Amazing Charts Show How 90% Of The Country Has Gotten Shafted Over The Past 30 Years...

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