World-News: 13 November 2011

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet: 'Last week the Bloomberg administration announced new eligibility rules that would make it harder for homeless people to get into city shelters, a cost-cutting measure astutely timed to coincide with the approach of winter.... Under the policy, originally set to go into effect next week, the city could refuse someone a bed at a shelter unless they proved they had no other housing options, such as staying with relatives or friends.'

http://www.truth-out.org/mayor-1-bloomberg-tries-make-it-harder-homeless-get-shelters/1321201264

Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement

Russ Baker, Who What Why.com: 'Conventional journalism is increasingly irrelevant in a time of crisis. We find abundant proof in a recent column from the New York Times? so-called 'Public Editor,' who is supposed to somehow magically represent the public interest and rarefied ethical values to the rest of the paper. In this column, he says the media is having difficulty figuring out how to cover Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.'

http://www.truth-out.org/corporate-media-stumped-how-cover-occupy-movement/1321208032

The Originality of Occupy Wall Street

Richard D. Wolff, RDWollf.com: 'In the short history of OWS and its spread to date, I am struck by its impressive insistence on remaining a movement around a very general and inclusive critique of an unjust economy (99% against 1%) that has corrupted much of US politics and culture. The net result is a built-in systemic critique, sometimes explicit (remarkably often named as capitalism) and almost always implicit. The hesitation to choose among and focus on specific demands reflects the wisdom of maintaining the broad, systemic critique. The taboo against systemic critique - a legacy of post-war anti-communism - seems to be broken.'

http://www.truth-out.org/originality-occupy-wall-street/1321203807

Protesters Interrupt Bachmann s Speech in South Carolina

Amanda Peterson Beadle, ThinkProgress: 'About 40 protesters from Occupy Charleston interupted Rep. Michele Bachmann s (R-MN) foreign policy speech during a campaign stop in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. As she was beginning her speech, the protesters stood up and recited a prepared message in unison. 'We have a message for Miss Bachmann,' they yelled. Bachmann s supporters yelled at the protesters to sit down and tried to drown them out. The protesters chanted, 'We are the 99 Percent,' as police escorted them out.'

http://www.truth-out.org/protesters-interrupt-bachmanns-speech-south-carolina/1321208812

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