Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Today's Teamster News 11.15.11

Police Clear Zuccotti Park of Protesters  New York Times   ...Hundreds of New York City police officers cleared Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street protesters early Tuesday, arresting dozens of people there after warning them that the nearly two-month-old camp would be “cleared and restored” before the morning...
Occupy Cleveland Attempting to Stop Foreclosure of Local Family by Setting Up Camp On Foreclosed Property  Cleveland Leader   ...On Tuesday, November 15th, Elizabeth Sommerer and her two children, ages 5 and 7, are being evicted from their home at W. 94th and Denison. Late Sunday night, members of #OccupyCleveland started setting up tents and occupying her property, with the intent of stopping the eviction...
The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 Trillion  Nation of Change   ...The super committee could actually ... raise over $1 trillion in new money for investing in America ... simply by subjecting all U.S. individual net worth over $30 million to a modest wealth tax...
Walker recall effort kicks off  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   ... organizers planned a midnight kickoff to efforts to gather more than a half million recall petitions against GOP Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch...
Pattern of Illegality Is Cited at Paper  New York Times   ...police evidence showed that hacking was not limited to The News of the World, which was summarily closed by its owner, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, in July...
Future Recession Risks: An Update  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco   ...Gathering storms across the Atlantic threaten a U.S. economy not yet recovered from the last recession...