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SUPPORT GROWS FOR OCCUPY MOVEMENT'S COORDINATED WEST COAST SHUT DOWN ON DECEMBER 12TH

As of November 27, 2011, the Occupy movement in every major West Coast port city: Occupy LA, Occupy San Diego, Occupy Portland, Occupy Tacoma, Occupy Seattle have joined Occupy Read More >>

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In yet another clash with Riot Police in Oakland, California, another peaceful Iraq War Veteran gets a beating from the Oakland Police.

Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California.

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Rogue Valley Housing Crisis & Foreclosure Data as of November 2011

1702 Number of Defaults (People Not Paying On Their Mortgages) Recorded So Far This Year (2011) 740 Number of Foreclosures (Now Bank Owned) So Far This Year (2011) 153 Number of Short Sales Currently on the Market 116 Number of Foreclosures Currently on the [...]

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Protesters at a public park in Fresno were harassed and arrested by police for a third consecutive evening Monday as officers told them that local penal code allowed them to ignore First Amendment rights and break [...]

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The video of an Occupy Oakland protester shot by police has been made available, showing perhaps the most outrageous act of overzealous law enforcement action in the weeks since the movement began.

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Huge, enthusiastic, crowds swarmed through downtown Oakland with half a dozen major marches on banks and corporations that shut down Wells Fargo, Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and many others.  Police stayed clear of the strikers who ranged freely, from Broadway to Grand Avenue and around the Lake.  By late afternoon the crowds had swelled [...]

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Illustrating the fact that the Democratic Party establishment has hijacked and is now steering (*some of) the ‘Occupy’ movement(s), an aide to Deputy Mayor Esther Sanchez was caught organizing and leading the ‘Occupy Oceanside’ event which took place this past Friday in San Diego County, California.

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As general strike looms, shady group promises to “go beyond” peaceful protest.

A crudely worded flyer handed out among Occupy Oakland Protesters has raised concerns that provocateurs are attempting to instigate violence in an attempt to de-rail plans for a general strike this week.

The flyer, pictured below, presents a rambling argument suggesting that anyone [...]

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Posted on Activist Post by Madison Ruppert on October 31st, 2011

As I covered on October 28th, the crackdown on Occupations across America have begun in full force. Some of these incidents, like the attack on protesters in

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While more U.S. cities are resorting to force to break up the Wall Street protests, many others – Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., among them – are content to let [...]

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Occupy movement returns to streets demanding answers after teargas canister hit Iraq serviceman Scott Olsen in the head.

Related Story : Oakland Police Under Scrutiny – Live Updates

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This footage is proof that Scott Olsen was shot in the face by police without provocation during the Occupy Oakland march on Tuesday October 25.

The moment leading up to the shooting, Olsen was standing completely still. He was then hit in the head with a tear gas canister, which is potentially fatal.

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Last night around a thousand protesters turned up in New York to show solidarity with Occupy Oakland. At one point NYPD officers began arresting and violently beating the demonstrators, even after they were forced to the ground. Among those who stood up for the protesters was Sgt. Shamar Thomas and his fellow US Marines.

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The Iraq War veteran injured during a clash between police and anti-Wall Street protesters wasn’t taking part in the demonstrations out of economic want.

Scott Olsen, 24, makes a good living at a software company and rents a hillside apartment with views of San Francisco Bay. And yet, his friends say, he felt so strongly [...]

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Some encouraging news out of Oakland today: First, Scott Olsen’s condition has been upgraded  to “fair”:

An Iraq War veteran that was severely injured Tuesday in Oakland, California amid a clash between anti-Wall Street demonstrators and officers, was upgraded this morning to fair condition, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

Scott Olsen, 24, a Marine [...]

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In the wake of violent unrest at an Occupy Oakland demonstration Tuesday night, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is calling on protesters at City Hall to move.

He told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday, “the protesters must respect city laws and regulations, and while they have been allowed to camp on City Hall lawns, [...]

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