A heartwarming interview with Maddow. It's really good because it relates historical events to the events of today that not many people know about: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908...show/#45531691

If you're feeling extra ambitious, HBO has an awesome documentary up on just how much BS the 1% really is pulling on the rest of this country:
http://theonepercentdocumentary.com/

Also: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1125860.html

From the article:

WASHINGTON -- The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded -- sometimes violently -- by local authorities.

Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. "special rapporteur" for the protection of free expression, told HuffPost in an interview that the crackdowns against Occupy protesters appear to be violating their human and constitutional rights.

"I believe in city ordinances and I believe in maintaining urban order," he said Thursday. "But on the other hand I also believe that the state -- in this case the federal state -- has an obligation to protect and promote human rights."

Hey DW

Some more interesting OWS News!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...133707949.html
The republicans are getting very scared of OWS
Also, it's hilarious how out of touch with reality they are, and just how blatantly they're trying to lie to us via that article.

An interesting thing which has been born out of the OWS protests has been the Human Microphone. Because several cities have outlawed the use of loudspeakers for communication in public (some only just as recently as the OWS protests started...shocking), people have taken to using the human mic, which involves two shourts of 'mic check' followed by everyone repeating what the speaker says, so that the whole group can hear them. The best thing has been OWS using the human mic at various speaking events to voice their opinion:

Michele Bachmann:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXySDnDgJM

The Department of Education:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcH47A033XA

Scott Walker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHRd...eature=related

Police violence:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...akland-soldier

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...?newsfeed=true

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1096895.html

http://www.observer.com/2011/09/turn...t-a-huge-dick/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WmJmmnMkuEM

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/the_...elf/singleton/

http://deadlinelive.info/2011/11/17/...by-protesters/ (really funny)

Some more:
Tea Partiers and OWS find common ground:
http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-memphis...084306417.html

On a humorous note, Egypt was recently criticized for how they're treating their protesters (pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets). Their response? "We are within our rights. Look at how you treat your Occupy protesters."

A stream of other links (there's a character limit to wall posts)
http://thesocietypages.org/graphicso...-demographics/

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmo...e-tax-edition/

http://i.imgur.com/NL0Rl.jpg

Hey DW, here are some useful OWS-related links:

SA thread that does livestreaming of events as well as general news coverage:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...0&pagenumber=1

Websites specifically for occupation information and news:
http://thedailyoccupation.org/

Here's a video of the most recent pepper-spraying incident in UC davis. The officers reason for pepper-spraying a bunch of kids sitting on the floor? They felt "threatened"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4

Article from UC president.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.ed.../article/26702

Really though there's tons of news out there, but the first two links are great at summarizing it all.

Keep fighting the good fight!

EQL

Happy Birthday.