From Occupy Wall St. on Facebook.

Rumor has it that pictures and video of the arrest of retired Philadelphia police chief Ray Lewis at the Nov. 17 Occupy Wall Street protest are being ignored by the corporate media.
Indeed, when I did a Google search to verify the details before posting about it here, the main coverage I could find was [...]

It’s a vicious circle. The rich are using their money to secure tax provisions to let them get richer still. Rather than investing in new technology or R&D, the rich get a better return by investing in Washington.

– Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winning economist, quoted in Rolling Stone

When I – along with 86 of my Freshmen colleagues – were elected a little more than a year ago, we pledged to change the conversation in our Nation’s Capital. Despite today’s failed resolution, I believe we have changed that conversation.

Rep. Allen West (R/Tea – Fla.), expressing his disappointment that the balanced budget amendment failed in the House, and co-opting the term, “change the conversation.” Tea partiers weren’t sent to Congress to change the conversation, they were sent to take action. Changing the conversation is the aim of the Occupy movement, which has successfully changed it from the made-up deficit crisis to income inequality and socializing risk.

This incredible photo of a woman being pepper-sprayed by riot police in Portland was taken by Randy L. Rasmussen for The Oregonian. Occupy protesters were gathering to march across a bridge at the time. Witnesses said the young woman ran blindly into the crowd and vomited immediately after the police action.

But Assistance Programs — Set to Be Cut — Are Working

80,000

Number of new jobs added in October, lowering unemployment to 9%. Republicans will need to act soon if they are going to sabotage the economy again. Look for attempts to stall the Congressional “Super Committee” that convenes soon to lower the deficit.

If there’s anything Republicans enjoy, it’s deriding the Affordable Health Care Act, or as they sneer, “Obamacare.” So who do you think was first in line to scarf AHCA funds that help early retirees?
That would be Gov. Rick Perry’s own Texans, followed by employees of Huntsman International, owned by the family of Jon Huntsman. Both [...]

They aren’t hippies. “They don’t want free love, they want paid employment.”

Masterful job by Susannah Lindberg Randolph, activist and wife of Florida Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando), in refusing to be run over by the FOX News anchor or the tea party representative. If you need talking points to defend the 99% movement, here’s your model.