Police go too far with clashes at Berkele

Demonstrators at the University of California Berkeley were assaulted by police on Wednesday night for failing to leave a peaceful encampment they attempted to establish in solidarity with the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement.

Local Occupy Events in the Inland Empire.

RALLY AND MARCH PLANNED IN RESPONSE TO AGGRESSION

Friday, November 11, 2011, 12:00 PM

Selected By: Humberto Rivera

Historic Downtown Riverside Main Street Mall

Join Inland Empire Occupy Event set for this SATURDAY November 12

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 9:00 AM

Selected By: Humberto Rivera

San Bernardino City Hall

300 North D Street, San Bernardino, CA (map)

Visibility Action / General Assembly for Fontana and Rialto

Time	Sunday, November 13 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Location	Fontana City Hall, NE corner of Sierra Ave & Seville Ave, Fontana
Created By	Occupy Fontana
More Info	Map: http://g.co/maps/tx8sq Visibility Action at Noon -- bring your signs! General Assembly at 2pm -- bring your voices and ideas

OCCUPY THE BRIDGE - National Day of Action

Denise Ng invited you · Share · Public Event

 

Time	Thursday, November 17 · 7:00am - 9:00am
Location	4th Street Bridge Meet at 3rd and Hope Los Angeles, CA
Created By	Denise Ng
More Info	Join labor leaders, elected officials, and community members for OCCUPY THE BRIDGE - National Day of Action! Occupy the 4th Street bridge to send a strong message to Congress and Wall Street: Tax Corporations, Create Good Jobs & Build LA Corporate greed is killing good jobs! LA’s bridges, roads, parks and schools are outdated and crumbling. We’re losing our communities’ firefighters, police and teachers to budget cuts.

 

Kasich Responds To Issue 2 Loss: Clearly, Ohioans ‘Didn’t Like The Tools We Offered’

Last night, Ohioans delivered an unprecedented blow to the already unpopular Gov. John Kasich (R) with the defeat of his anti-labor law, Senate Bill 5. As Plunderbund notes, the defeat marks the first time a governor has seen signature legislation rejected within his or her first year in office. Last night, Kasich congratulated Ohio’s workers for their victory, acknowledging that “when the people speak in a campaign like this, a referendum, you have to listen if you’re a public servant.” Kasich said he’ll continue to work with local governments but warned them that “there is no bailout coming” because, though he continues to push corporate tax cuts, “we have to be very careful with our money.” He determined that the rejection of Issue 2 merely reflected that “people didn’t like the tools we offered here.”

Ohio Voters Repeal SB 5



Ohio voters have repealed Senate Bill 5, a controversial measure signed by freshman Republican Gov. John Kasich earlier this year that curbs collective bargaining for public employees. With 19 percent of the precincts reporting, the Associated Press has declared Issue 2 -- the ballot referendum to decide the future of SB 5 -- rejected with 63 percent voting no and just 37 percent voting yes. The outcome is major a victory for organized labor and Democratic activists.

From National Journal:

CONNECTIONS POLL: Public Doubts Congress Will Aid Economy
Kasich signed the measure, which also prevented public workers from striking, at the end of March, but a backlash from liberal activists and labor prompted a push to get the measure on the ballot, and by June, a record number of signatures were collected, subsequently prompting a referendum.

What followed was an expensive campaign by coalitions on both sides of the issue. But the outcome is not a surprise; in the weeks leading up to Election Day, public polling indicated that a repeal was the likely outcome.

It's a much needed win for labor, which spent millions over the summer in Wisconsin, on a state Senate recall campaign that was also prompted by a backlash against a measure to limit collective bargaining for public employees that was backed by Republicans. Democrats picked up two state Senate seats in the Badger State, but failed to pick up a third, which would have handed them control of the upper chamber.

"Today's defeat of Issue 2 is a major victory for working families in Ohio and across the country," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in a statement. "Ohio's working people successfully fought back against lies pushed by shadowy multi-national corporations and their anonymous front groups that attempted to scapegoat public service employees and everyone they serve by assaulting collective bargaining rights."

The repeal is also a blow to Kasich, whose approval numbers have already been lousy this year. Republicans in the state who supported the measure will also have to carry the baggage of vouching for something that was overturned. And looking ahead to 2012, that's something that could potentially affect races at the federal level, as Democrats will surely blast Republicans who supported SB 5 and cast its repeal as a rejection of the GOP agenda.

Likely Republican Senate nominee and state Treasurer Josh Mandel supported SB 5, and on a recent trip to Ohio, Mitt Romney seemed to provide different answers to the question of where he stood on the measure -- saying he supported it a day after appearing to distance himself.

Occupy videographer shot with police projectile

Scott Campbell was walking a police line at the Occupy Oakland general strike last week when he was shot with a nonlethal beanbag or rubber bullet by police.

Campbell, 30 of Oakland, caught the entire thing on camera.

“I thought it would be a good idea, since I had a camera, to film the police,” he said. “I just stood there.”

“I was standing well back,” Campbell wrote in his YouTube post. “There was no violence or confrontations of any kind under way.”

But then an officer appears to pull out a weapon that shoots a bean bag or a rubber bullets and, well, shoots Campbell.

“Ow, ow, ow, ow,” Campbell yells in the video.

Ohio GOP Candidate Josh Mandel Insists Ohio Anti-Labor Law ‘Is About Respecting Police And Firefighters’

On Tuesday, Ohioans will vote on Issue 2, a referendum on Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s (R) anti-workers’ rights law Senate Bill 5 (SB5). The bill strips teachers, police, and firefighters of their rights to collective bargain for better wages and working conditions. The bill is deeply unpopular.

This, however, has not stopped right-wing groups from flushing the pro-SB5 campaign with money or conservatives from insisting that the law helps local governments by preventing layoffs.

But while most Republicans at least acknowledge that the law disadvantages public employees, one Republican thinks the opposite. This summer, Ohio Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel said he supported Senate Bill 5 because the law, in his mind, actually “respect[s] police, and firefighters, and teachers” by giving “fiscal conservatives” the tools to ignore collective bargaining rights, which somehow “insur[es]that there is a state and there are local governments” down the road

Will The GOP Filibuster Tax Credits For Hiring Veterans?

Senate Republicans have so far gone three for three when it comes to filibustering President Obama’s American Jobs Act, having successfully blocked the bill from moving in its entirety, and then prevented two of its components from advancing individually. The GOP’s obstruction comes as the economy continues to improve at a glacial pace, with just 80,000 jobs created last month.

Next week, Senate Democrats will try again, this time with the portion of Obama’s bill providing tax credits to businesses that hire veterans:

Senate Democrats plan to roll out the next piece of President Obama’s jobs creation legislation – this part on veterans – next week.

The bill is aimed at incentivizing companies to hire war veterans. It includes a tax credit to encourage companies to hire veterans as well as additional tax credits for hiring veterans with “service-connected disabilities.”

At the moment, unemployment for veterans stands at 7.7 percent, but is at a substantially worse 12.1 percent for post-9/11 vets (up from 10.6 percent a year ago). If nothing else, surely the GOP can see the wisdom in letting this particular bit of Obama’s jobs bill though. “It’s expected to pass. It should pass,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

Of course, while they would be an undeniable help, tax credits for veterans are not enough to create all the jobs necessary to bring the unemployment rate down. As Center for American Progress chief economist Heather Boushey said today, “at this point in the recovery we should be seeing upwards of 300,000 jobs created per month, but the economy only added a paltry 80,000 jobs in October and the three-month pace of job creation is only 114,000…Washington has yet to pass the American Jobs Act, which economists across the board agree will generate new jobs.”

Voices and Images from Occupy Oakland General March to Port of Oakland

Occupy Oakland protesters march from downtown Oakland to the Port of Oakland and successfully shut down operations at the port

Wall Street Banker Praises Occupy Wall Street: "This is a Real Democracy"

 Over the past 24 days, New Yorkers of all walks of life have taken part in the Occupy Wall Street protest near the Manhattan's Financial District. On Monday, Democracy Now! caught up with an investment banker walking through the protest encampment. "I like the fact that everybody is organizing from a grassroots level and, you know. I think that the people that have had all the power need to even it out a bit and let these people speak their voice," said Joe Mancini. "This is a real democracy, this is what it means to be an American in the true sense of being in a democratic place.

BIG BANKS ARE PROFITING FROM PUBLIC PROGRAMS LIKE FOOD STAMPS AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

Over at New Deal 2.0, Bryce Covert outlines how the biggest banks are profiting by administering public programs like food stamps and unemployment insurance, to the detriment of taxpayers and those who need such programs to get by. For instance, “U.S. Bancorp, which provides unemployment benefit debit cards, made $357 million in revenue in the division that handles the cards. That amount is more than one-fourth of its total revenue.” JP Morgan, meanwhile, “made $5.47 billion in net revenue for most of last year in the division that handles food stamp cards, and it was up two percent is the last three months of the year.” As Covert summed up, “big banks are making a tidy profit by acting as middlemen for what should be publicly provided services.”

Occupy protesters shut down Port of Oakland

OAKLAND, Calif. - Several thousand Occupy Wall Street demonstrators forced a halt to operations at the United States' fifth busiest port Wednesday evening, escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to rallies and tent camps since it began in September.



Police estimated that a crowd of about 3,000 had gathered at the Port of Oakland by early evening. Some had marched from the California city's downtown, while others had been bused to the port.



Port spokesman Isaac Kos-Read said maritime operations had effectively been shut down. Interim Oakland police chief Howard Jordan warned that protesters who went inside the port's gates would be committing a federal offense.

Hannity Calls #OWS Protesters Un-American, Two Marines Set Him Straight

Recently, Sean Hannity called the #OccupyWallStreet protesters un-American by saying they "hated liberty."
In response, WeAreTheOther99.com interviewed a few Marine vets at Zuccotti Park.

The Marines stated why they had come to protest and in direct response to Hannity's statement: One said "F**k Off" and the other replied: "That's the biggest load of shit I've ever heard"

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