Meet the new boss in Egypt -- same as the old boss. Sigh.

Speaking of renewed protests because of betrayed revolutions, isn't it about time for Occupy to come back in force? A recent column in The Atlantic raises new concerns that the big banks may be poised to wreck the economy again if we don't start putting some of these people in jail.

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Vaclav Havel, a former president of Czechoslovakia and one of the most prominent eastern European dissidents of the Communist era, has passed away. Although content to be a playwright and a philosopher and only reluctantly entering politics, he became one of the world's foremost crusaders for justice and human rights and was nominated several ( Read more... )

The 12 most absurd laws used to stifle the Occupy Wall Street movement [Truthout.org] (thanks to moominmuppet for pointing out the link ( Read more... )

...when you see them used as the basis of the opening skit on Saturday Night Live,. "Mayor Bloomberg" gave an address about the protests in which he denied that Friday's power washing of the park was a pretext to get rid of protesters, because, as every New Yorker knows, large parts of New York are routinely power washed on a regular basis. He ( Read more... )

The right wing pundits would tell you that the top 1% are the people who worked really hard, were the smartest, were the ones who created major innovations, and so on and so on. Well...not exactly. As it turns out, the vast majority of the top 1% work in finance or high level management. In other words, they don't actually do anything besides ( Read more... )

There is a great new parody blog entitled Actually, You're the 47% that was set up in response to all of the really sad people who feel empowered by eating dog food, working two or three shitty minimum wage jobs just to get by, and living without health insurance.

Some brief background: CNN windbag Erick Erickson created a "We are the 53%" ( Read more... )

I have started a new blog called Voices from the Occupation that I will be using to post more detailed thoughts and observations about Occupy Portland and the other Occupy protests around the country and the world.

Occupy Denver was cleared out today, although Mayor Bloomberg reversed course on his threat to shut down Occupy Wall Street in Liberty Park. I am confused about Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper's official statement on the clearing of Lincoln Park this morning. He actually gives a public thank you to Xcel Energy? Considering what the Occupy ( Read more... )

USA Today is reporting that New York's deputy mayor is saying that a planned cleanup of the Occupy Wall Street area will be postponed. One wonders if they fear that the situation will escalate, since people are streaming into the site and activists from all over the country and even in Europe are mobilizing. Personally, I find it irksome that ( Read more... )

News outlets are reporting that supporters are streaming into the New York protest site for Occupy Wall Street in support of protesters who have pledged a day of civil disobedience to resist being evicted from the public park where they've been set up for the past month. The police have threatened to come into the park at 7 AM to "clean" the park ( Read more... )