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  http://griid.org/2011/10/29/occupy-wall-street-v-the-tea-party Jeff Smith distinguishes between populism and “false populism” in a thought provoking piece that analyzes a now popular dialogue comparing the Occupy movement with the Tea Party movement. “Beyond easily noticeable similarities, however, deep and fundamental differences significantly undermine the Tea Party-OWS parallel posited by Scherer and other mainstream commentators.”  “The Tea Party was and is not a social movement at all […]

  Members of #Occupy Movement were forcefully confronted and arrested by riot police this morning in Oakland, CA as they triend to re-enter a space they had been removed from.    – NYTimes full story with photographs and video here.    – More detail from the Huffington Post here.   *Images and video from this morning are quite intense.

See this link for the recent NYT/CBS News poll about perceptions of Obama, the US Government and OWS.

– If you believe you can help with the below efforts, or would like to get involved generally, please email: Environmentalist Solidarity: owseswg@gmail.com If you can physically participate with the Environmental Solidarity Working Group – meetings are held daily at 4pm in the atrium at 60 Wall St. – A new Working Group has been formed in at #Occupy in […]

– Sorry for the late notice, but there will be a formal panel discussion on #Occupy at 7pm tonight here on the Yale campus – non-students also welcome. More information to come following the event… Details from the facebook event page below: — “Occupy Wall Street: A Panel and Discussion on What it Means and What to Do” Tuesday, October […]