The new divide in America is between a smaller mobile class and one that can’t quite pack up and go.

robertreich:

After refusing for weeks to release his taxes, Mitt Romney now says he’ll do so — by tax day, April 15. But the real news is what Romney has now admitted about his taxes.

It’s not how much Romney earns. Everyone knows he’s comfortably in the top one-tenth of one percent.

It’s how much he pays of…

The rich are getting richer, U.S. study says

The top 1% of households earned 275% more in 2007 than they did in 1979, while the poor saw just an 18% increase, according to a study by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Outside organizations are a growing presence in the Republican Party, recruiting top strategists and donors from the traditional party structure.

occupywallstreet:

On January 29, 2011, Hillary Clinton told Hosni Mubarak: “We urge the Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests.” 

On October 25, 2011, Oakland Police told peaceful protesters: “I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly. If you refuse to go now, chemical agents will be used.”

weneedthetruth:

Reoccupied! @OccupyOakland 10/26

sowideasea:

Sitting on Twitter & so far:

-no news on Occupy Bmore as of yet (30 minutes to go to midnight…)
-Occupy SF “OccupySF has received word that a police raid will happen tonight”; “expect raid at 10pm. Mass rally at 9:30. If u willing to join nonviolent civil disobedience gather at 9pm.”
-at OWS:…

(Source: ronstormer)

changedotorg:

Occupy Denver is being attacked and needs help from the 99% to tell Governor Hickenlooper to stop arresting peaceful protestors. 

“The #occupyeverywhere protests have attracted thousands of supporters in Denver, Colorado but Governor Hickenlooper has indefinitely closed the park where the action takes place. People have been arrested for participating in the strategy of occupation and the modest infrastructure built on community donations was destroyed by the police. We do not support the arrests and we will not support John Hickenlooper or Denver Mayor Michael Hancock if the arrests continue. If the people’s strategy is occupation, their First Amendment rights should be honored, they should have a safe space to demonstrate, and an injunction against the no camping law should be installed.”

 video of Oakland Police using excessive force, intentionally harming peaceful protesters.  UNACCEPTABLE!!