Fox News host claims UC Davis students were sprayed with derivative food product.
Youth
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Ivy League Brain Drain
At Yale, OWS-inspired protesters target recruiters for the country’s major finance firms.
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Newt Gingrich Stumps for Good Ol’ Child Labor
Gingrich suggested that poor students work as janitors to learn responsibility.
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The Establishment Strikes Back
Occupy Weekly: The Establishment Strikes Back. This was the week that Occupy Wall Street faced its greatest pushback and pulled off its largest action yet. Sunday’s surprise police raid on Occupy Portland turned out to be one of several around the country, as mayors sent cops to clear occupations in cities including Chapel Hill, Salt […]
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Occupy Wall Street: Seattle Redux?
Could yesterday’s day of action build a broad progressive coalition?
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Occupy Wall Street Day of Action Livestream
Follow the protest from the vantage point of a movement insider.
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Why We Need Occupy Wall Street
The protest has at last brought on a national discussion about income inequality.
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Generation Y Bother
Young adults entering the workforce today think they’ll be worse off than their parents—they’re not wrong.
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A Reading Assortment for 11/11/11
Occupy Harvard’s signs say “We want a university for the 99 percent!” Umm, where I come from, we call those “state schools.” #justsaying The U.S. Census reports that half of working women have no paid maternity leave. And guess whose jobs are least likely to offer paid leave? The 50 percent who need it most. […]
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Penn State, Sexual Assault, and the Abuse of Power
Why the outrage over the cover-up for this predator and not others?
