Live: Downtown LA protests
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It's a "Brave New World" at OLA/Good Jobs LA action (Eric Richardson/Blogdowntown). The LAPD promises 72 hours notice before using brute force on activists.
Well, that didn't take long. Just as an innovative deal between the City of LA and Occupy LA protesters -- a deal that would have gotten the protesters off City Hall's lawn and into 10,000 square feet of office space -- was floated, it was criticized.
South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Alison Renee Lee granted the grass roots group [Occupy Columbia] an injunction that prevents protesters from being arrested on the State House grounds and allows them to use the public areas 24 hours a day and bring sleeping bags and tents.
Joined by labor unions, protesters march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park, NY (Reuters/AlJazeera).
"You will respect my authoritay!" is the police mantra chanted around the country. Teachers, unions, professionals can all join students, activists, and elderly demonstrators. The mantra is the same. As now, so in the 1960s. Then it was illegal wars, racism, and a lack of civil rights for all. Today the issues are far more pressing -- a matter of survival. Having enough to eat as bankers give a new spin to the ancient "Let them eat cake" utterance that preceded the French Revolution commemorated by Bastille Day. Wall Street onlookers from on high giggle "Let them sip champagne."
"People over Profits" as transport unions join Occupy Wall Street demonstration.
A diverse group of powerful unions has joined demonstrations in New York's financial district, lending some focus, credibility and potentially hundreds of participants to a movement that began with a few university students. The "Occupy Wall Street" protest movement, which began three weeks ago in New York's financial hub, was joined on Wednesday by a dozen US labor unions.
Among those who joined the clamor were members of the Chinatown Tenants Union and the Transit Workers Union, the liberal group MoveOn.org, [CodePink,] and community organizations such as the Working Families Party and United NY. More
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