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Fire Walk With Me's JournalSalt Lake: Charges dropped for most #Occupy protesters charged last year
Jeff Rae ?@jeffrae
Charges dropped for most #Occupy protesters charged last year
http://ow.ly/dCaAz #OWS
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A judge has dismissed charges for more than half of the 19 people arrested last November as Salt Lake City police evicted members of the Occupy movement who refused to abandon a tent village that had sprung up in Pioneer Park.
In all, Salt Lake City Justice Court Judge L.G. Cutler dismissed about 20 infractions Monday for 10 people accused of disturbing the peace and violating park curfew. One 22-year-old man was convicted of disturbing the peace and ordered to pay a $100 fine for allegedly resisting officers as they arrested him.
(More at the link.)
Iceland Shows Other Europeans How to Survive Bankruptcy
Hermes Trismegistus ?@conarelli
Iceland Shows Other Europeans How to Survive Bankruptcy
http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/07/iceland-provides-a-blueprint-for-survivi
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Taxpayers in Europe (and the United States) who have been terrorized since 2008 by government officials warning about economic armageddon, catastrophe, and pestilence should look to tiny Iceland for a taste of how little there is to fear when the experts can't save the people.
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, recently branded Iceland’s economic performance "impressive." In the last few years the small island in the north Atlantic has managed to shrink its deficit, reduce unemployment, and allow its economy to grow.
Meanwhile, on mainland Europe, there is hardly any economic growth to be seen, and countries that pledged to make necessary austerity reforms have almost certainly failed to do so.
(More at the link.)
Zucotti Park is getting a makeover, barricade style
OWS Outreach ?@OWSOutreach
Zucotti Park is getting a makeover, barricade style http://pic.twitter.com/T3ofnOWf
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BREAKING: Labor unrest is spreading across South Africa.
OccupyMARINES
?[020] BREAKING: Labor unrest is spreading across South Africa. From 10,000 to 15,000 South African miners are striking today.
In the last two weeks, the street marches have grown from a few hundred to thousands. This is the most active labor protests since the end of apartheid. Apartheid ended, but brutal capitalism didn't.
Photo: Mine workers take part in a march at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa's North West Province September 10, 2012.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR37S0Y&slide=1#a=2
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South African Labor Unrest Spreads; 41,200 Miners Strike (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/south-africa-miners_n_1869755.html
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People on the march for their rights IS an Occupation, world-wide!
Livestreams and update thread on Chicago teachers strike.
NLG are in support.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tangello
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/samwiseoccupies
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rebelutionary-z
Sometimes live, helicopter feed:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/livenow?id=7096082
Photographer unknown:
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m_x ?@soit_goes
CPD has the horses out, they are way outnumbered right now. Whose streets? The teachers streets! #CTUstrike http://instagr.am/p/PaLGzgsPZu/
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Rachel Allshiny ?@allshiny
We're circling City Hall. Downtown is a sea of red shirts and awesomeness. #CTUstrike #FairContractNow
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Occupy Chicago ?@OccupyChicago
Teachers are surrounding city hall. Two marches are merging. This is epic. The energy in Chicago is on one million. http://lockerz.com/s/243221590
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Joe Macare ?@exileinflyville
MT @micahuetricht In front of Board of Ed. Absolutely nuts. A sea of red in all directions. Can't see end. #ctustrike http://yfrog.com/nywpyhpj
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Mike Elk ?@MikeElk
there are 15,580 homeless students attending Chicago Public Schools
http://bit.ly/xbmtdB #ctustrike
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Chicago teachers to go on strike after failing to reach contract deal
http://www.suntimes.com/15041317-761/teacher-contract-talks-appear-done-for-night-as-strike-looms.html“Our instructions are to show up at our school to either teach or picket. I’ll be there at 6:30 a.m.”
Members are “together 150,000 percent,” said Sue Garza, a delegate at Jane Addams Elementary School.
Hopes were raised Saturday when Chicago Public Schools officials said they had placed a “dramatically” better offer in front of union leaders, but CTU President Karen Lewis said she still had problems with the offer.
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Chicago’s Teachers Just Went On Strike — Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Why
http://boldprogressives.org/chicagos-teachers-just-went-on-strike-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-why/
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There will be a solidarity rally in NYC:
#occupybrussels ?@occupybrussels
RT GlobalRevLive RT @StopMotionsolo: So I'll be streaming the teacher's rally from #unionsq tomorrow. Btw @BatmanWI ... http://bit.ly/QzNgIH
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It is worth noting that Mayor Rahm Emmanuel once worked for Goldman Sachs.
Perez Family Foreclosure fight, Anaheim California
via Orange Crew and Occupy Fights Foreclosures
Wells Fargo Mistakenly Cleans Out Retired Couple's Home Twice
http://news.yahoo.com/wells-fargo-mistakenly-cleans-retired-couples-home-twice-192508841--abc-news-topstories.htmlAlvin and Pat Tjosaas, a retired couple in Woodland Hills, Calif., had the bad luck of having their home mistaken for a neighboring foreclosed home and being cleared by contractors hired by Wells Fargo -- not once but twice.
(Plenty at the link. Plenty.)
Via Occupy Fights Foreclosures.
OWS Week: New episode!
Yes, it's from IRANIAN television. Who actually tell the truth about US issues of which the US be aware.
Four articles on foreclosure via Occupy Fights Foreclosures
4 banks pushed to OK foreclosure dealhttp://www.sfgate.com/business/article/4-banks-pushed-to-OK-foreclosure-deal-3848965.php
MORTGAGES
Smaller banks pushed to OK foreclosure deal
U.S. state attorneys general are pressing four banks to accept a legal settlement over botched foreclosures similar to a deal reached with larger competitors this year, according to three people briefed on the matter.
U.S. Bancorp, PNC Financial Services Group, SunTrust Banks and HSBC Holdings have held talks with state and federal officials who investigated claims that loan servicers mishandled foreclosure documents, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
State attorneys general began an investigation of mortgage servicers in October 2010 after reports that practices including "robosigning" had led to improper foreclosures. The probe led to a settlement in February among the five biggest servicers - JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Ally Financial - and 49 states and the federal government.
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Kamala Harris Has Usefully Poor Memory of How Mortgage Settlement Was Spent
http://reason.com/blog/2012/09/06/kamala-harris-has-usefully-poor-memory-o
When it comes to sensible housing policies, don’t we all, as a nation, turn toward the direction of California and nod at all the wisdom the Golden State has to share about home ownership?
No? Well tough. The Democratic National Convention for some reason selected California Attorney General Kamala Harris to speak Wednesday night about “leadership” in the midst of our housing crisis:
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Foreclosure moratorium needed as Bank of America gets ongoing federal bailout
http://www.workers.org/2012/08/29/foreclosure-moratorium-needed-as-bank-of-america-gets-ongoing-federal-bailout/
The nationalization of the U.S. mortgage industry by the federal government — a takeover implemented by the Democrats and Republicans to bail out Bank of America and other banks at the expense of homeowners and their communities — opens the door for activists to demand a reversal of these anti-people policies.
The first step in stopping the massive, ongoing foreclosure crisis is to demand that President Barack Obama immediately declare a moratorium to stop all foreclosures and foreclosure-related evictions, and then move to implement a plan to reduce the amount owed on the 11.1 million homes currently underwater to reflect their real value.
(More at the link.)
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Homeowners, advocates want bank reps jailed for foreclosure fraud
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/19465592/homeowners-advocates-want-bank-reps-jailed-for-foreclosure-fraud
ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Homeowners and anti-foreclosure advocates are calling for bank officials and foreclosure attorneys to be criminally investigated and jailed for using fraudulent documents to force families from their homes.
Despite settling claims of foreclosure fraud with the U.S. Justice Department and 49 states, no bank official has been held criminally responsible for the submitted false documents in untold thousands of foreclosure proceedings.
"It makes mafia's organized crime look like fifth-grade math," said Patrick Powell of Cumming.
(Video and more text at the link.)
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