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In other news, Christie has endorsed Romney.

Occupy Tallahassee invaded Glenn Beck’s book signing at Barnes & Noble to deliver their now-familiar “mic check” style of protest. Patriotic Beck fans denounced the protesters with shouts to “Go home and call your mommies!”

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After the conclusion of his opera Satyagraha, last night minimalist composer Philip Glass exited Lincoln Center to address a gathered crowd of Occupy Wall Street protesters. OWS stressed that they were not there to specifically diss Glass’ opera. Instead the protest was directed “at a certain disparity between its lofty moral message and the machinery of corporate arts funding.” (I …

[Photo Credit: Julie Turkewitz] Thirteen AIDS activists were arrested in downtown Manhattan today in a joint protest organized by Housing Works, Occupy Wall Street, and others. Among their demands is the institution of an unprecedented tax on millionaires with the revenue specifically directed to fight HIV/AIDS. Via press release: In the tradition of the working-class hero of Sherwood Forest, the …

Detail on the Facebook event page.

Posted to her official YouTube channel.

From the same folks that brought you OWS.

Think Progress reports that wingnut blogs are going apeshit over the just-released estimate on police overtime and other costs related to OWS. The above chart provides some perspective.

Ever since the UC Davis incident, wiseguys have been flooding Amazon with reviews of the pepper spray on sale. At this writing, the below is the “most helpful” review. Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job …

That’s the president’s hand clutching the note that an OWS protester slipped him after his jobs speech in New Hampshire this afternoon.

Anybody with a Facebook account knows how “occupy” has become a pervasive meme applicable to just about any situation. But this may be the first such usage in a national advertising campaign. And just yesterday I was snickering at a press release touting a porn movie titled Occupy My Throat.

Those two brothers who protested against OWS? Turns out one of them is a Wall Street scam artist. Working as a broker in New York in the 1990s, Tabacco was barred from the industry, fined $50,000, and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution after a misconduct incident, according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) records. FINRA is not a government …

According to a leaked memo, a DC-based lobbying firm often hired by banks pitched its clients on how they could undermine Occupy Wall Street by planting unsavory news items about its participants, among other tactics. CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the …

Despite widespread condemnation for the pepper-spraying incident on her campus, the chancellor of UC Davis says she will not resign. Via Talking Points Memo: Two police officers involved in a pepper-spraying incident at the University of California-Davis have been placed on leave, and over the weekend, the university’s faculty association called for the chancellor’s resignation. But Chancellor Linda Katehi told …

RELATED: The school’s chancellor was the subject of an eerie silent protest by students as she walked to her car. The chancellor is already the subject of a resignation petition.

He’d clearly been saving this line all night.

(Source) UPDATE: AmericaBlog has the story and information about the already-launched campaign against the cop. UPDATE II: There’s video.