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After the Eviction: What’s Next for Occupy Wall Street? by Nathan Schneider — YES! Magazine
It happens that just hours before [Liberty/Zuccotti Park was cleared], Adbusters magazine—which originally called for the occupation—promulgated “Tactical Briefing #18: Occupy the High Ground.” It suggested that perhaps the time has passed for the movement to be so focused on encampments, and that it might move on to bigger and better things instead. This is a notion that has come up repeatedly in my recent conversations with early organizers; after almost three months, they feel, the movement is starting to outgrow the occupation. Mostly in a good way—the working groups, websites, and other infrastructure are already at such a point that most of the occupation’s business has been happening outside the crowded plaza for weeks. Organized resistance actions are taking place around the country without being specifically tied to occupation sites.
…an encampment alone poses little real threat to the pillars upholding the power of the banks and the corporate elite that the Occupy movement hopes to undermine. Even the encampment in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, for instance, likely couldn’t have brought down Hosni Mubarak without the support of a coordinated general strike that threatened to bring down the Egyptian economy.
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Chrome: Albeit a little late, Evernote has jumped on the improved web site readability bandwagon and introduced a new feature called Clearly. Much like most browser extensions and bookmarklets, it takes a given web site and converts the layout into a more readable format. …
One of Evernote’s main features is clipping web content to your notebooks. Clearly is just a natural extension, and should be very welcome if you rely on Evernote to save content from the web.
Currently Evernote Clearly is available as a browser extension for Chrome only, but wider support is underway.
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Things We Saw Today: Boba Fett Riding My Little Pony | The Mary Sue • Jill Pantozzi
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Daily News cheers Occupy Wall Street raid, until Daily News reporter is arrested – Salon.com
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CHART OF THE DAY: CBO Says Dem Plans Create More Jobs | TPMDC
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s testimony before the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday was full of bad news for the unemployed, and thus for President Obama. This is the stuff Republicans blasted out to reporters: Unemployment will likely be sky high through next year, GDP growth has been and will continue to be anemic.
But his prepared remarks confirm this is in part a product of the GOP’s unwillingness to pass the big-ticket items in Obama’s jobs bill. …
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…as you see the plans conservatives favor don’t really do much to reduce unemployment and grow the economy. Cutting income taxes across the board is less effective than anything that puts money in the hands of people who need it to pay for necessities (extending unemployment insurance and the payroll tax holiday are both top Obama goals). Letting corporations repatriate foreign-earned profits tax free (as Republicans want) does almost nothing, while creating incentives for firms to hire has a fairly substantial effect.
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After a busy summer in Wisconsin that saw a recall campaign nearly flip control of the state Senate, Democrats are at it again, this time going after Republican Gov. Scott Walker himself.
Recalling Walker will be a more difficult undertaking than knocking off a few state lawmakers who backed the governor’s plan to curtail bargaining rights of public employees, and there are serious questions about whether labor, liberal activists and groups, and other Democrats will be willing to devote the resources necessary to complete such a monumental task. But neither side is taking anything for granted in advance of what promises to be another divisive stretch in Badger State politics.
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Stephen Colbert really loves J.R.R. Tolkien, and he will pretend to be interested in Happy Feet 2 for as long as he can manage until he starts talking to last night’s guest Elijah Wood about both Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. He tried, you guys.
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