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“Resist austerity, Reclaim the economy, Recreate our democracy.” Nope, no clue what the Occupy Wall Street protesters want. Events are happening nationally.

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Lambert Strether has a guest post up at Naked Capitalism that looks at the violent raid on Occupy Wall Street and how the movement has responded to coordinated attacks on it from around the country. Lambert is an old hand in the lefty blogosphere and has always brought an incredibly rich moral perspective to his [...]

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In the middle of the night last night, Mayor Bloomberg had the NYPD violently evict Occupy Wall Street from Liberty Square. The police used physical force, including sonic weapons and pepper spray, to force protesters out. They destroy the 5,000 book library. They destroyed tents and tarps that people have been living in. They arrested [...]

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Last week, New York City’s billionaire mayor Mike Bloomberg made the remarkable assertion that Wall Street banks bore no blame for inflating the housing bubble, leveraging themselves out their ears, and causing the financial collapse when their house of cards fell apart. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning that if there is anyone to blame [...]

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I have to say, I really love this idea.

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Following last week’s violent police crackdown, the Occupy Oakland General Assembly passed a resolution calling for a general strike on November 2nd. You can watch a video of the Oakland General Assembly voting to pass the general strike here. While general strikes are rare and hard to enact, this one is gaining steam. The International [...]

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It’s hard to read or watch Bill Black talk about the scope of criminality in our current financial crisis and not get really, really mad. Black says that Obama should ask for Ben Bernanke to resign from his role as chair of the Federal Reserve. He also says that Obama should fire Tim Geithner and [...]

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Two pieces by Matt Stoller that I think are worth reading, but I don’t have time to do analysis of. At Alternet,  Stoller writes about Occupy Wall Street as an unofficial primary challenge to President Obama. Stoller also has a piece on Dylan Ratigan’s website, The Federal Reserve of Oil, which looks at one of [...]

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Dahlia Lithwick: I confess to being driven insane this past month by the spectacle of television pundits professing to be baffled by the meaning of Occupy Wall Street. Good grief. Isn’t the ability to read still a job requirement for a career in journalism? And as last week’s inane “What Do They Want?” meme morphs [...]

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