Sunday, November 20, 2011

Today's Teamster News 11.20.11

Egypt protesters resume occupation of Tahrir Square  BBC   ...Several hundred protesters spent the night in the square, having fought off police attempts to remove them...
SF police arrest 6 Occupy protesters in early raid  Associated Press   ...San Francisco arrested six anti-Wall Street protesters early Sunday and dismantled a tent encampment...
Lobbying Memo Seeks Methods to Discredit Occupy Movement  firedoglake   ...MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ... obtained a memo from a DC lobbying firm spelling out a strategy to undermine Occupy Wall Street...
Thousands rally against Wisconsin Republican governor  Reuters   ...The Wisconsin Department of Administration estimated that between 25,000 and 30,000 people gathered at an afternoon rally at the Capitol building to boost the state-wide petition drive for a Walker recall election that began on November 15...
Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census  New York Times   ...100 million people — one in three Americans — (are) either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it...
Why Not Break-Up Citigroup?  Baseline Scenario   ...Earlier this week, Richard Fisher – President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank – captured the growing political mood with regard to very large banks: “I believe that too-big-to-fail banks are too-dangerous-to-permit...”