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Small Businesses Join Forces with Occupy Wall Street

Main Street business owners: “We are the 99%, too”.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - As the momentum of the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, with hundreds of demonstrations across the U.S. over the weekend, a new voice is entering the debate in support of the 99% movement: Main Street small business owners.

The Main Street Alliance released the following statements today from small business owners from coast to coast explaining their support for Occupy Wall Street.

Marine Takes on 30 New York Cops at Occupy Wall Street and Backs them Down

Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran who served 2 tours in Iraq. Fiery, loud and determined, he currently plays amateur football and is in college.

(NEW YORK CITY) - "How tough are you? There's no honor in hurting unarmed civilians," the Marine screamed at New York Police who are accused of injuring protesters in increasing, needless acts of violence.

United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, N.Y. said, "I saw them beating people, people who had nothing to do with anything, just grabbing people out of the crowds, there's no honor in that."

Why Wall Street Hates Obama

Bankster Election Cash Flows to Perry and Cain.

(CINCINNATI) - For millions of Americans and others around the world, President Obama has been an enigma. One person was elected and another took office, or so it seems. How do you know? The news tells you, news we all know is controlled by Wall Street Corporations or worse, the Murdoch empire.

Worse still are the “think tanks” and phony groups funded by the Koch Brothers, the oil billionaires to bought the Tea Party and are now running “Mr. Bunkum,” Herman Cain for president, a man who makes Michelle Bachmann seem stable.

Occupy Wall Street Movement Breaks Borders

Amid many fluttering American flags, a Che Guevara banner was draped across a bank fence while a nearby sign quoted the late comedian George Carlin on the American Dream.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - An unprecedented wave of protest against the international financial elite and prevailing economic policies swept the globe on October 15.

And New Mexico, Mexico and the greater US-borderlands were no exceptions. Protests were chalked up in San Diego, Tijuana, Las Cruces, Ciudad Juarez and Mexico City, among many other places. In El Paso, an encampment was announced beginning Monday, October 17, in the city’s downtown San Jacinto Plaza.

Looking Into My Crystal Globe, or Down the Rabbit Hole...

Ultimately, shots will be fired. You will never know who fired the first shots but it will be obvious who fires the last shots and who gets killed.

(MELBOURNE) - Earlaiman, yesterday, gazed into his crystal globe and opined…
It is a matter of time he said….

Eventually, in one of the larger Cities, the mayor will announce that the demonstration has become a riot and the police will show up in riot gear and mean.

`Occupy America`

“……government of the people, by the people…..”

(NEW YORK CITY) - It seems fair to say that millions of Americans are wondering exactly what the Occupy Wall Street movement seeks to achieve for the future of the United States.

There is a general consensus that Wall Street is the main culprit in the general downfall of the country's financial structure and many are unemployed, poor, struggling to make ends meet, losing homes...

Civil and Political Rights Leaders Hold NY Forum to Fight Police Surveillance and Repression

Groups seek end to police Investigations based on political activism or ‘religious profiling’.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Leaders from Latino and Muslim communities from New York, Los Angeles, will join with anti-war leaders from the Midwest to hold a public forum in Manhattan’s Judson Memorial Church addressing the growing threat to civil liberties.

AFL-CIO Calls on Members to Defend Occupy Wall Street

Major Union Calls on NY Area Members to Spend Night in Solidarity with OWS Encampment Against Bloomberg’s Planned Attack.

(NEW YORK CITY) - In a statement emailed at approximately 8pm EST, the AFL-CIO called on its NY area members to travel to the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Square and stand on guard all night against a planned eviction.

Police in New York plan to attack the popular movement to be carried out on the orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

New York City Police Plan to Shut Down Occupy Wall Street

Urgent -- tomorrow at 7 am, the New York City police plan to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

(NEW YORK CITY) - The officials in charge of the public sector in the U.S. are siding with the 1% and Wall Street as actions against the Occupy Wall Street movement shift into high gear.

The officials in cities all over the nation are assuming they can create and enforce petty laws in this broken country and protesters say the authorities are missing their chance to work with, rather than against, this movement that represents the vast majority of Americans.

Why Occupy Wall Street?

The eighteenth century philosopher John Locke, famously coined the concept of people’s fundamental rights as being to life, liberty and property and qualified this by asserting that people should appropriate only what they could use, leaving “enough and as good” for others.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - There is no consensus definition of capitalism, but there is general agreement that it is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned, or primarily so.

Under the umbrella of competitive markets, goods and services are created with the goal of generating profits with wages and prices being the basic elements of the system.