'Indignant' activists, angered by a biting economic crisis they blame on politicians and bankers, vow to take to the streets worldwide on Saturday in a protest spanning 71 nations.
http://www.france24.com/en/20111013-indignant-protests-sweep-across-world-0
UK unemployment, poverty at all time high
It s the latest blow to the British economy - unemployment is at a seventeen year high.There are now over two and a half million unemployed people in the country, an increase of a hundred and fourteen thousand in three months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJgPR91duyo
Scotland s Poor Face 'World War Two Like Food Rationing' After Rising Prices, Says Oxfam Scotland
Pensioners and those on the lowest incomes are struggling to feed themselves in the face of rising food prices, Oxfam Scotland said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/10/13/scotlands-poor-face-world_n_1008372.html
Hundreds 'Occupy Dublin' As Wall Street Tactic Spreads
'The State has sold itself completely to the financial cartels,' a 42 year-old unemployed construction worker tells me. 'They are transferring more wealth out of Ireland than British landlords ever did, and these are Irish people doing it!'
http://www.truth-out.org/protests-grow-europes-next-greece/1318364786
Border guards put on alert for weekend protests
A Canadian border alert has been issued to prevent hard-core U.S. protesters from crossing the border to take part in marches and an occupation of the country s financial centres on Saturday.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/10/12/18816541.html
Protesters suspicious of plan to clean up NYC park
The owner of the private park where Wall Street protesters are camped out says it will begin enforcing park regulations, which prohibit everything from lying down on benches to storing personal property on the ground.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016487402_apuswallstreetprotest.html
I Am Not Moving - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street
This video is meant to be a warning to our leaders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYPFLw9S280&feature=player_embedded
Home foreclosure proceedings on the rise again
California and other Western states see the largest increase in banks' beginning the foreclosure process on homes.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-foreclosures-20111013,0,6869773.story
From Information Clearing House
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NY protesters clean park, some may resist removal
Naples Daily News
10/13/11
Officials on Thursday moved to put an end to Wall Street protesters' month-long occupation of a park that spawned similar gatherings across the nation, setting up a potential confrontation with police and an uncertain future for a movement that claims to speak for the disillusioned middle class. Demonstrators at the half-acre park in lower Manhattan have said they won t go anywhere at the Friday morning deadline when the park s owners, their patience worn thin, want them to clear out and stop pitching tents or using sleeping bags.'
http://tinyurl.com/3myspgo
Corporatism and power to the people
Foundation for Economic Education
by Steven Horwitz
10/13/11
Much has been said about the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York and have spread to various places around the country. It is easy to poke fun at the protesters, especially when they seem to be struggling for a coherent set of complaints and reforms, or when they live out every parody of radical democracy ever conceived without the self-awareness to recognize it. What are they trying to say other than that they are unhappy with the status quo and think some sort of radical change is needed?
http://tinyurl.com/433hatl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Occupy London Stock Exchange
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6554#newspost
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=economic+crisis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreclosure
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=unemploy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steven+Horwitz
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