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“The protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city aren’t productive. What they’re trying to do is take away the jobs of people working in the city, take away the tax base that we have. We’re not going to have money to pay our municipal employees or anything else.” – Mayor Michael Bloomberg, telling …

“The next step, I am sure, by the way, for the Occupy Wall Street crowd is for Anderson Cooper, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart, the trifecta of conventional wisdom’s failed liberalism, to come down to Wall Street and join the masses in demanding more of our tax money so they can all be supported as novelists and movie directors. You …

On their “rapid response” YouTube channel, the Democratic National Committee bashes the GOP for the economic disaster that has propelled Occupy Wall Street.

Today’s planned 4:30pm march from City Hall to Wall Street is expected to be the largest show of numbers in the three week old Occupy Wall Street protest. Unions, community groups, college students and the unemployed – calling themselves “the 99%” who are getting the shaft from the richest 1%, which controls 40% of America’s wealth – are joining in. …

Click over to Global Revolution for a live video stream from lower Manhattan. Meanwhile the White House has acknowledged the growing protest, which is now in its third week: “To the extent that people are frustrated with the economic situation, we understand. And that’s why we’re so urgently trying to focus Congress’s attention on the need to take action on …

Civil rights advocates and progressives will march in protest of NYPD brutality this Friday in Manhattan. In response to more than 80 arrests during a demonstration Saturday near Union Square, protesters plan to rally Friday afternoon against what they say was “brutal” behavior by cops, and will march from Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street, to the NYPD’s headquarters at 1 …

As pro-Democracy protests arise once again in Iran, yesterday members of the Iranian Parliament erupted into chants calling for the executions of the leaders of the protests.

At this writing, hundreds of British riot police are marching through Westminster with shields and horses as tens of thousands of students protest plans to triple tuition at universities. Students in Parliament Square have been tossing smoke bombs and fireworks in an attempt to break through the line of horses. Parliament is expected to raise annual tuition fees to about …

An unscripted scene from Sarah Palin’s Alaska, her unreal reality show, probably won’t make it onto the air after Palin confronted a woman wielding a “Worst Governor Ever” banner. The clip at the bottom of this post was taken with a cell phone. Kathleen Gustafson is a teacher married to a local commercial fisherman. She felt like Sarah Palin had …

This video was recorded yesterday. Choi is noticeably weaker.

Gothamist reports that about 200 protesters crowded a downtown Manhattan BP station last night to pour fake oil over themselves and denounce the company for the Gulf disaster. Lot of photos here.

According to a press release issued overnight, Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. James Pietrangelo will begin a hunger strike to protest the compromise DADT repeal proposal. FASTNG FOR EQUALITY & DIGNITY STATEMENT BY DAN CHOI Immediately following congressional mark-ups on the National Defense Authorization Act 2011, Captain James Pietrangelo and I will commence a fast in pursuit of Equality and …

Yesterday protesters jammed a Pride Toronto press conference held to address the swirling controversy over their decision to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from their events. About 80 QuAIA members and supporters turned out to protest the move, chanting “Whose Pride? Our Pride!” and “Resign! Resign! Resign!” Though Pride Toronto insists the action isn’t “directed at any one group,” the …

JMG reader Lauren sends us this clip she made of the Easter Sunday protest at NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Lauren writes: “I shot and edited this piece on Sunday – as if it were for the ‘news’. This is how the mainstream press should be telling our stories.”

Andy Humm of Gay City News reports on yesterday’s protest at NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. About eight gay male demonstrators showed up to picket St. Patrick’s over the Pope’s continued refusal to accept his responsibility for the abuse crisis and the tendency of his defenders to blame the news media and gay people for the scandal. This week, Fifth Avenue …

Via Queer Rising: In an act of civil disobedience, Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo and Robin McGehee have been arrested at the White House gates on Thursday while protesting the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. We are in solidarity with Choi, Pietrangelo, Robin McGehee and all other protesters nationwide. Join us as we protest the Army Recruitment …

A group of gay protesters crashed the holiday party of NY Sen. Hiram “Slasher” Monserrate last night on the one year anniversary of his assault on his girlfriend. Monserrate is still not allowed to see her, you may recall his recent insanely hypocritical complaint about that: “Two adults who are consenting and who are like-minded and within their mental capacities …