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About 110 people are gathered outside the Franklin Street post office today for Occupy Chapel Hill, billed by organizers as a day of resistance: and occupation. Bill Sward of Hillsborough held a simple pole with an index-card size sign that said “99 percent.” Sward lost his cabinet maker job two years ago at age 66 when the company’s work slowed. “The people who want there to be a point don’t get the point,” he said of the broadly anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street message. “This is about living, the quality of people’s lives. The government should be helping us live. Businesses...

VIDEO at LINK: This young University of Colorado student and "Occupy Denver" protester may appear too young to have much life experience, but yessir — he’s mad as hell and he isn’t going to take it anymore. “There’s a lot of stuff that needs to change,” our boy says, “and if it doesn’t, violent revolution will come.” How to change things for the better? Apparently it just takes a box of bullets and some rope. “If you get the thirteen families that own the world, including George Bush and his administration," he says to our video blogger, "get them in...

There is entirely too much to say about the phenomena of Wall Street protesters springing up across the land claiming to speak for 99% of the population. Noman imagines that his first reply should be, please don't. Though belonging to the 99%, he has nothing else in common with Occupy Wall Street. He pays taxes; they don't. He works in the private sector; they don't. He thinks America is just great; they don't. He bathes... Unlike the various students demanding subsidized education, and others insisting on free whatever-they-think-they-are-entitled-to, Noman doesn't believe that anyone owes him anything more than common courtesy,...

The Left and its cheerleaders, the Main Stream Media, are dearly hoping the scruffy, pimply cesspool of humanity camping out on Wall Street will be the answer to the Tea Parties that spontaineously erupted around the country in response to the Democrat-lead, unprecedented growth of government and the bankrupting of our country. The “Occupy Wall Street” crowd looks like the spoiled kids of the 1% pretending to be the 99% indulging their 60′s-era post-Hippy professors in recreating Woodstock. In this case, instead of naked young hippies smoking pot and tripping on acid in a field of mud, we get young...

Face-off looms as NY protesters fear evictionBy Brigitte Dusseau | AFP – 8 minutes ago **SNIP** In a statement on their website, the Occupy Wall Street movement urged supporters to join them at 6:00 am (1000 GMT) on Friday at Zuccotti Park for "non-violent eviction defense." "Bloomberg says that the park will be open for public usage following the cleaning, but with a notable caveat: Occupy Wall Street participants must follow the rules. These rules include, 'no tarps or sleeping bags' and 'no lying down,'" the statement said. "So, seems likely that this is their attempt to shut down #OWS...

Kanye West visited Occupy Wall Street in a $355 Givenchy shirt topped with wearing gold grills and chains. Alec Baldwin claims he supports Occupy Wall Street, but makes big bucks starring in commercials for Capital One Bank. Numerous other celebrities who annually pull in multiples of the average American salary also say they sympathize with the plight of the so-called 99 percent. So are the stars who say they support the Occupy Wall Street movement some of the cause’s heroes, or are they hypocrites? Producer and hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, who brought West to the protests at Liberty Square/Zuccotti...

As the early ’70s repeat themselves with the chaotic Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in lower Manhattan, we need to grasp what a peril this movement is to President Obama and the entire Democratic Party. It is like the Obama campaign run wild without Obama in it. It is as if the bandwagon has taken off and left the president behind. And he and his party are racing to catch up. “There go my followers,” they seem to be saying, “and I must go with them because I am their leader.” Just as the civil rights movement of the late ’50s...

The Tea Party’s splendid successes, which have altered the nation’s political vocabulary and agenda, have inspired a countermovement — Occupy Wall Street. Conservatives should rejoice and wish for it long life, abundant publicity and sufficient organization to endorse congressional candidates deemed worthy. All Democrats eager for OWS’ imprimatur, step forward. In scale, OWS’ demonstrations-cum-encampments are to Tea Party events as Pittsburg, Kan., is to Pittsburgh, Pa. So far, probably fewer people have participated in all of them combined than attended just one Tea Party rally, that of Sept. 12, 2009, on the Washington Mall. In comportment, OWS is to the...

Naked protest raises temperature outside Tymoshenko court Published: 11 October, 2011, 15:46 Naked activists from Ukraine’s feminist movement have occupied the roof of a shopping mall in Kiev despite freezing temperatures. They are calling on their compatriots to “switch on their brains” and rethink their support for Ukrainian politicians. FEMENists climbed onto a ledge of the capital’s major shopping center which is close to the court where the ex-premier’s case was being heard. Police appeared to be having difficulty reaching them. The topless women, dressed in traditional colored headbands, were chanting “Tymoshenko and Yanukovich are one,” and “Switch on your...

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has come out in support of the "Occupy Wall Street" campaign. The company's blog says its board of directors has the "deepest admiration" for those taking part. It adds: "We support this call to action and are honoured to join you in this call to take back our nation and democracy." Demonstrators have camped out in New York's financial district, in lower Manhatten, since 17 September. The protest is promoted by the Adbusters magazine. The activist publication says the action was inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish anti-austerity rallies. The...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Poultry plants that employ thousands are planning to close or scale back operations because of a work stoppage being promoted by Hispanic residents and their supporters to protest Alabama's tough new law against illegal immigration.

The Tumblr is supposed to represent the 53 percent of Americans who pay federal income taxes, and its assumption is that the Wall Street protesters are part of the 46 percent of the country who don’t. “We are the 53 percent” was originally the brainchild of Erick Erickson, founder of RedState.org, who worked together with Josh Trevino, communications director for the right-leaning Texas Public Policy Foundation, and conservative filmmaker Mike Wilson to develop the site, according to Trevino. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/11/why-the-we-are-the-53-tumblr-matters-its-the-culture-war-stupid/?commentId=comment_blogAndPostId/blog/comment/1360-2412-2586

The "Occupy Wall Street" protest that has been going on for nearly a month and is spreading to several cities across the United States has drawn comparisons to the Tea Party. Well, the Tea Party has one emphatic word for that: "Stop!" According to a report in the New York Daily News, the Tea Party Patriots, the largest group in the movement, is not happy with the comparisons

OKLAHOMA CITY – Approximately 300 people gathered in Kerr Park late Monday afternoon as part of the national “Occupy Wall Street” movement which is spreading through the U.S. like wildfire. And many of them plan to camp and protest Wall Street, the Federal Reserve or other bastions of corporate power – indefinitely. “In the unfortunate instance that you are arrested, do not resist arrest,” warned an attorney acting as part of the Occupy OKC legal team. He went on to say that Occupy OKC is committed to non-violence. The Oklahoma City Police Department had so far been very courteous and...

A very privileged protest: Wearing $300 jeans and from some of the most exclusive schools, the children of the one per cent out for a good time at Occupy Wall Street They have branded themselves the 99 per cent, camping out in New York's financial district to protest against corporate greed and financial inequality. But on the ground at the epicentre of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, a closer look at some of the impassioned protesters is starting to suggest that while many of them have genuine grievances, all may not be completely as advertised. The flash of a designer...

We continue to watch the senseless, misguided and mostly young people in New York and other major cities waging their ignorant protests against our capitalist system—the very system that has given them their comfortable lives. I suppose these Occupy Wall Streeters are hoping to mimic the success of the Tea Party movement, but that will never happen. The Tea Party movement is a real, grass roots movement with a clear message grounded in truth, but the Occupy movement is nothing of the sort. We have also seen that—as usual with the Left—there are people who are being paid to protest....

As the Occupy Wall Street protests grow “increasingly debauched,” Tea Partiers in Tennessee remind us what a polite, impassioned and principled protest looks like:CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Hundreds of Gibson Guitar supporters rallied for the legendary guitar factory at a dual demonstration-concert in Nashville, Tenn. Saturday, following a federal raid in August over the company’s importation practices.The “We Stand With Gibson” rally drew about 500 attendees, including members of the Tea Party, according to the Tennessean. Some carried signs that read “Who’s next“ and ”When they come for you, who will be left to speak?”Gibson supporters have railed...

Costs rise as Wall Street protests continueBy Meghan Barr Associated Press / October 10, 2011 NEW YORK - As the protest on Wall Street enters its fourth week, police officers are keeping their posts around the perimeter of the park at the center of it all. And with no end in sight, the cost of constant police surveillance will continue to rise at a time when Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered citywide budget cuts. The NYPD has already spent $1.9 million, mostly in overtime pay, to patrol the area near Zuccotti Park, where hundreds of protesters have camped out for...

How exactly will Occupy Wall Street protesters succeed?By RICHARD ROEPER Updated: October 10, 2011 5:08PM Occupy America! The movement that started in New York City has spread to Chicago, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and many other cities, growing in numbers every day. (And coming Oct. 15: Occupy London.) If you’re downtown in any of these cities, you might come across an enthusiastic, passionate group of people riding bicycles, waving signs, banging on plastic drums, tooting Vuvuzelas and chanting — and I’m paraphrasing here — something along the lines of: “What do we want?” “Revolution!” “When do we want it?” “Now!”...

Sex, drugs and hiding from the law at Wall Street protestsBy LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT and BOB FREDERICKS Last Updated: 8:13 AM, October 10, 2011 The criminals are crashing the party. Lured by cheap drugs and free food, creepy thugs have infiltrated the crowd of protesters camped out in Zuccotti Park for Occupy Wall Street, The Post has learned. “I got warrants. I’m running from the law,” boasted Dave, 24, a scrawny, unshaven miscreant in filthy clothes from Stamford, Conn. “I’m not even supposed to be here, but it’s as good a spot as any to hide.” Wanted for burglary, the drug-addled...