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12/19/2011

From Fox News Latino:

"The Occupy Wall Street movement turned its attention to immigration on Sunday in honor of International Migrants Day.

In rallies in New York and Los Angeles, hundreds turned out to draw attention to immigrant working rights and immigration policies.
In New York, hundreds of demonstrators, under the banner / , braved the bitter cold and marched from Foley Square in Lower Manhattan to Zuccotti Park, the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

People sang, danced and did street theater during the march, which was more festive than confrontational.

"It was a good first step to be visual and have a lot of people come out and support us," said Mariano Muñoz, one of the organizers of the march. "If some of the people in the Occupy movement in the past hadn't talked about immigration, or focused on immigration, they definitely are now."

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/12/19/occupy-movement-tackles-immigration-on-international-migrants-day/

In marches in New York and Los Angeles, Occupy Wall Street turns its attention to immigration.

12/19/2011

John Kneffel writes about his arrest while simply taking pictures in a public building:

“You got press credentials?”

I barely had time to say no to the mustachioed White Shirt before he grabbed my forearm and threw me to the ground. As he brought me down I transferred my smartphone – which I had been using to document the NYPD’s aggressive arrests following the impromptu celebration in the Winter Garden on Dec. 12 – to my left hand and then my pocket."

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/14/my_37_hours_with_the_nypd/

Why it is important for occupiers to see the inside of the prison-industrial complex

12/16/2011

From the Huffington Post:

"What you are seeing is the culmination of social media, citizen journalism and what I call 'small technology,' a cell phone and a hotspot," says Henry Ferry, who together with Tim Pool launched a primary source of independent media www.theother99.tv on day one of Occupy Wall Street -- and hasn't looked back.

"I don't think that mass media know what to do with this and I am surprised that they haven't found a way to take [these productions] and at least package them as their own," he says. It is not as if this stuff is so new, notes Ferry. But it is far from mainstream. "You'll know it's jumped the shark when a big company does it."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-warren/what-television-can-learn_b_1152083.html

What can the mass media 1 percent learn from the digital 99 percent? Today, it seems that the media splits unevenly into the "haves" and the "have apps."

12/15/2011

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102134_2102358,00.html

TIME's Nate Rawlings on the protests in the U.S., from the sit-in at the Wisconsin statehouse to the 'Occupiers' in cities throughout the nation

12/15/2011

From ABC News: “I’ve never said anything to that child,” [Jamie] Hein said. “If I have to stick up for my white rights, I have to stick up for my white rights. It goes both ways.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/exclusive-white-only-pool-sign-owner-explains/

A female landlord, Jamie Hein, had a sign that read, "Public Swimming Pool, White Only" hanging on a gate at her house and her private pool. (Photo credit: Ohio Civil Rights Commission) An Ohio landlord accused of discriminating against an African-American girl with a “white only” sign at her swimmi...

12/14/2011

Time magazine's Person of the Year is "The Protester". Watch this report on Tim Pool and The Other 99 as cameras followed during the Day of Action.

Thanks to all of you who were with us from the very beginning..

http://ti.me/um1zW3

How an activist/journalist's live video stream from New York City's Zuccotti Park garnered mainstream attention and helped galvanize a movement

12/06/2011

From Bloomberg: "Citigroup Inc. (C) Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said the bank will cut about 4,500 jobs in coming quarters as he seeks to trim costs amid slumping revenue.

Citigroup will take a charge of about $400 million in the fourth quarter tied to the reductions, including severance, Pandit, 54, said today during an investor conference in New York. Citigroup, the third-biggest U.S. lender by assets, employed about 267,000 people at the end of the third quarter, according to a quarterly filing.

The bank said in September it would limit hiring only to “critical” jobs to control costs and boost revenue as regulations on minimum capital levels take effect. Financial firms worldwide have cut more than 200,000 jobs this year, up from about 58,000 last year and 174,000 in 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/citigroup-to-cut-4-500-jobs-on-slumping-revenue-take-400-million-charge.html

Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said the bank will cut about 4,500 jobs in coming quarters as he seeks to trim costs amid slumping revenue.

12/06/2011

THE AP reports: "LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A mother who had been denied welfare benefits killed herself and shot her two children after a seven-hour standoff at a government social services office, police said.

The children, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were in critical condition Tuesday, Laredo police investigator Joe Baeza said.

The standoff began around 5 p.m. Monday afternoon. Baeza said the woman was speaking with two employees when she pulled out a gun and said she wanted to speak to a supervisor. When the supervisor arrived, he convinced her to let the employees go in exchange for keeping him."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/06/us/AP-US-Texas-Welfare-Shootings.html?_r=1&hp

Police in Laredo, Texas, say a mother who was turned down for welfare benefits killed herself and shot her two children after a seven-hour standoff at a government social services office.

12/05/2011

From Salon.com: "They wrote on my hand with a permanent marker and then after I felt something pointy and metallic scraping across my skin,” wrote protester Nina Haigh on Facebook, continuing:

I immediately asked “What are you doing” and they simply said we wrote on you with a pen and showed me a bunch of various pens in her hand.

I didn’t argue about it and I was unable to look at my hands as they were tied behind my back with zipties. As soon as I was released I looked at my hands and there was no ink on them from a pen. …

This morning we tested my hands under a black light and sure enough there was a number 2! The freaky thing is this is IN my skin, washing my hands and scrubbing with abrasives will not get this off…. perhaps in several months of my skin cells renewing themselves if will eventually fade.

What ever ink that is in there is irritating my skin slightly and its a very terrible feeling that they put a substance in my body with out my consent and then later lied about it."

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/30/occupy_protesters_branded_with_uv_ink/singleton/

Montreal police borrow tactic from club bouncers to stop protesters from returning to public square

12/02/2011

From the NY Times: "The American unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to its lowest level in two and a half years in November, despite the many global crises batting against the economy.

The jobless rate fell to 8.6 percent, after having been stuck around 9 percent for most of 2011, the Labor Department said Friday. A separate survey of employers, which economists pay more attention to than the rate, also brought modestly good news: Companies added 120,000 jobs last month, after adding 100,000 jobs in October."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/business/economy/us-adds-120000-jobs-unemployment-drops-to-8-6.html?hp

The jobless rate fell to its lowest level since March 2009, partly on a shrinking labor pool, the Labor Department said Friday.