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Oakland police repeatedly fired tear gas and flash grenades Tuesday night as protesters attempted to retake the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall—only 12 hours after police tore apart the camp and arrested more than 90 people in a pre-dawn raid. Observers said that at times the downtown resembled a war zone last night. Some protesters are being held on $10,000 bail. We speak to Rachel Jackson of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression about how the police are handling Occupy Oakland. We also are joined by John Avalos, San Francisco city supervisor and a candidate for mayor of San Francisco. On Tuesday, Avalos introduced a resolution supporting the right of the Occupy San Francisco protest to continue its peaceful assembly in public spaces. read more

Introducing The 1% and Their Target: The Middle Class

Gerard Colby October 26, 2011 Gerard Colby

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." – Railroad baron Jay Gould, 1886, during the Great Southwest Railroad’s hiring of strikebreakers.

US-Mexico Border Dynamics and the Spread of Violence: Vermont Event

Toward Freedom October 26, 2011 Toward Freedom

Macrina Cardenas de Alarcon, a community activist based in Tijuana, Mexico with the Casa del Migrante, will be speaking at the VT Workers' Center in Burlington, VT on Tuesday, November 1st. She will be discussing the root causes of the increasing violence along the US-Mexico border.

The Magnetic Force of the Moment: Perils and Potential on the Road to Transformation

Sandy LeonVest October 25, 2011 Sandy LeonVest

For all the head-scratching and hand-wringing in the corporate media over the “message” -- or lack of one -- as it turns out, the American people understand exactly what the Occupy Wall Street movement is talking about.

Organizing Cools the Planet: A Book Review

Brian Tokar October 24, 2011 Brian Tokar

How do we develop a genuine movement for Climate Justice in the U.S.?

DR Congo: Lasting Effects of War Destroy Children’s Future

Kristin Palitza October 20, 2011 Kristin Palitza

Source: IPS News

Five years into democracy, with the elections just a few weeks away, the majority of Congolese children continue to face a bleak future.

Years of bitter and bloody war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have destroyed thousands of families, forcing them into abject poverty and giving scores of children no choice but to live on the streets – as beggars, thugs and drug addicts.

Naino Riziki sits on the only chair in her small, rickety shack built from planks and rusted, bent-open petrol cans in Kabutembu informal settlement, one of the worst addresses in Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in eastern DRC. read more