Friday, January 20, 2012

Occupy wall street

  • NEW YORK -- Protesters plan to occupy courthouses in more than 100 cities across the U.S. on Friday to protest a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that removed most limits on corporate and labor spending in federal elections.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • I find the Occupy Wall street phenomena quite bizarre and somewhat juvenile.
  • (Transworld News)
  • Law Order: SVU ripped a storyline straight from the headlines when it aired an episode last night that featured a staged re-creation of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
  • (Hollywood Reporter)
  • The problem with socialists, Margaret Thatcher so aptly quipped, "is that they always run out of other people's money." Cut, with impeccable timing to the protester-proprietors of the socialist wonderland outfit Occupy Wall Street.
  • (Forbes)
  • "This is Occupy 2.0, not Occupy on the fringe" said Rev. Jamal Bryant, outside the Federal Reserve building on Constitution Avenue, in Washington, DC. "We're coming to every kitchen table.
  • (Common Dreams)
  • NEW YORK – What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like, said Andrew Rasiej, roughly and somewhat flatly quoting the most popular chant of Occupy Wall Street.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 16, 2011 -- Newspaper columnist Ann Coulter, spreading the lies of the extreme right wing, called the Occupy Wall Street protestors, tattooed, body-pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun.
  • (American Reporter)
  • Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, blacked out his website Wednesday to protest a bill in Congress against online piracy.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • As president of the Pacific Exchange in the late-1990s, Warren Langley oversaw the West Coasts biggest financial center, a trading floor where some 17 million shares of stock changed hands daily.
  • (Mother Jones)
  • Occupy Delaware, made up of local supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, has been protesting against a number of issues, including social and economic inequality, corporate greed and government inaction.
  • (Delaware Online)

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