99% versus 1%: It Aint Even Close

99% Vs 1%: The Latest Developments on the Occupy Wall St. Movement

It's Day 20 of Occupy Wall St. (#OWS), a movement that has inspired Americans all over the country to fight Wall St.'s assault on their political and economic rights. Yesterday, in the biggest action yet, over 20,000 people marched in Lower Manhattan. Occupations have sprung in over 200 cities all over the country. Occupy Wall Street is only getting bigger. 
AlterNet has the latest updates -- check back for continuing coverage.
- 10:12 NOLA.com reports: "A sea of dissatisfaction swept through downtown New Orleans shortly after noon Thursday."

Hundreds of people, young and old, black and white, marched with signs held high and slogans spewing. It was a disjointed group: upbeat,  angry, courteous, displeased, but united in unhappiness with the current economic and political climate. If there was a singular message shared among the masses, it centered on a simple idea: The status quo has got to go...
People gathered about noon outside the Orleans Parish criminal-justice complex at Tulane Avenue and Broad Street. The swell started slowly, from dozens of activists to more than 100 people. There were the usual gadflies and familiar faces from City Council meetings and other public arenas. They shouted for the New Orleans police chief's ouster, decried the parish prison, deplored police brutality.

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- 10:01 PM AlterNet Executive Editor Don Hazen sends in this awesome photo from today's DC protests:
- 8:35 PM AlterNet's Joshua Holland reports on last night's action at #OccupySF, and notes that you can't always take what you're hearing on Twitter at face value.

You should keep in mind that messages relayed via social media like Twitter (follow me!) are a bit like that old game of telephone -- each retweet alters the sense of the original. Also: people engaged in emotionally charged situations -- like confronting a line of riot cops while occupying a city street -- can be a bit excitable.
At about 10:30 last night, the word started going around: in the dead of night, the SFPD was preparing to move in and crush #OccupySF -- one of hundreds of occupations around the country. They needed witnesses -- as many warm bodies as they could rouse!

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