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		<title>No Surrender: Occupy DC Protesters Return to McPherson Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl T. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities cleared out what had been a sea of tents and blue tarps located just a few blocks from the White House. A muddy vacant lot was about all that remained in most sections of the square as protesters mingled on the sidewalks with gawkers and news reporters.

Occupiers spent part of the day scouting for emergency shelter to accommodate those evicted from the public park. McPherson Square had served as a gathering spot for protesters from around the country, many of whom already had been chased away from protest camps in their hometowns.]]></description>
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		<title>Park Police Raid OccupyDC, Dismantle Tents of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl T. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section by section, park police spent the day removing camping gear and shelters that showed evidence of overnight sleeping.  A large blue tarp that had been draped over the pedestal of the General James McPherson statue at the center of the park was removed as police in riot gear formed a protective circle.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy DC: A Warm Place for Protest in the Heart of Wintertime Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl T. Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except for a single taser incident, protesters interviewed Friday by Fog City Journal couldn't recall any clashes with the authorities. One Dallas protester brought some Texas twang to the scene, located in McPherson Square, a park a few blocks from the White House. Volunteers run a small library. On Friday there was a free dinner of donated stew and raspberry cheesecake. A couple of denizens smoked dope in a pipe fashioned from a whole red apple.]]></description>
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		<title>Collection Agency Picked On the Wrong Lou Correa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collection agencies and their attorneys file hundreds of thousands of lawsuits every year in California, many of which are filed against debt-free individuals such as Senator Correa with no connection to the original creditor. Incredibly, these lawsuits rarely include the information needed to prove the claim is legitimate, because current law doesn’t require it. Consequently, innocent Californians wind up with a judgment on their record or have their wages garnished because they were sued for someone else’s debt.]]></description>
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		<title>Violent Clashes with Police Mar Occupy Oakland Move-In Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Louie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before it was over early Sunday, demonstrators had broken into City Hall, pelted police with rocks, and were thrice turned back from establishing a new headquarters. Police responded with tear gas, flash grenades, bean bag bullets and,  at times,  excessive force.  By days end, more than 300 people were arrested.  Several injuries were reported, involving both police and protesters.]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Legitimizes Urban Farming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ordinance allows properly permitted and code-abiding gardeners and farmers to sell any produce they grow directly to the public on site. Growers were previously required to haul their bounty to a third party commercial zone, like a farmers market, or sell through a distributor. The permit does not, however, allow for value-added products, such as pickles or jam, or animal products, such as honey and eggs, to be sold at garden sites in residential areas. These products can, however, be sold on production sites within commercial zones. Growers can apply for a permit through the Planning Department for approximately $350.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy West Protesters Decry Bank Foreclosures, Corporate Personhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Louie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day was organized by Occupy SF and numerous other groups. It started before sunrise, with sometimes overlapping demonstrations focusing on corporate greed, foreclosures, war and immigration crackdowns. Demonstrators noted their connections, such as profits from building incarceration facilities. There were a few breaks, but for the most part the rain was constant.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street West Ends Hibernation in Quest to Right America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters also decried the role that the Supreme Court case Citizens United, now two years old, has played in pulling representative democracy out of the grasp of ordinary citizens. As many as 2,000 protesters took part in all of the activities. Thirteen people were arrested in actions at Wells Fargo and Bank of America.

Threaded throughout the Financial District, Occupy affinity groups engaged in various forms of non-violent activity such as chaining themselves with lock boxes to all the entrances to Wells Fargo's headquarters on California Street, staging a rally at the "bankers heart" sculpture at the foot of the Bank of America building, performing guerrilla theater as military personnel arresting "terrorists" (American citizens), and marching from Justin Herman Plaza throughout the financial district.]]></description>
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		<title>Run on the Banks: No More Foreclosures, Evictions for Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday the 14th, evicted tenants and foreclosed homeowners will tell their stories of the impact that bank's greedy actions have had on them. Banks will be put on notice: You Will Be Held Accountable! Actions will culminate in a January 20th shutdown of San Francisco's Financial District.]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone is Expendable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world community is forming, the borders that stand between nations are dissolving as the evolutionary forces of human consciousness awaken to the possibility of sustainable communities. Corporations are the usurpers who cross borders to exploit labor and the environment, buying off corrupt politicians to reap their profits, while families are being ripped apart by deportations that stop people from exercising their rights to a decent living.]]></description>
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		<title>SF Occupy Protesters Target Bank of America Over Foreclosure Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Louie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 100 demonstrators blocked access to a Bank of America branch in the Excelsior District to call attention to unfair lending practices.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Blockade Shuts Down West Coast Ports</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another trucker, of Russian descent, said he understood revolution was sometimes necessary, pointing to the 1917 revolutions in Russia that overthrew autocratic Tsarist rule and the French revolution in 1789 that overthrew the ruling absolute monarchy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street of the Waterfront</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This type of community picket action for political purposes has a long and venerable place in ILWU history. Back in 1939 longshoremen honored a picket line set up at the Port of San Francisco by the local Chinese community to stop a load of steel being sent to then-fascist Japan for its war effort, at that time focused on mainland China, but soon crossing the Pacific. Again it was used in 1977 against a South African ship in protest of that country’s apartheid policies, in 1997 against a ship loaded by scab labor in support of the dockers in Liverpool, England, in 2003 to stop a ship being loaded with war materiel bound for the just-declared war on Iraq, and most recently just a couple of years ago against an Israeli ship in protest of the Israeli military attack on the Turkish ship bringing medical and construction supplies to Gaza.]]></description>
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		<title>CCSF Joins Occupy Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valdez will be the stalwart of the OccupyCCSF for the next few weeks because, as he explained, finals are upon the students and the occupiers had to pack up and go study. Valdez said that he could afford to skip out on the rest of his classes and was committed to continuing the encampment "until the cops come." He's running a 50 foot extension cord from his tent to an outlet of Smith Hall, and so far, the campus police "have not provided resistance." Valdez expects more students to return in January. So far, all the feedback he's gotten during this occupation has been positive.]]></description>
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		<title>Police Raid OccupySF Encampment Outside Federal Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-five protesters were arrested for illegal lodging in the pre-dawn raid. Their belongings were confiscated. No injuries were reported.

“The police came out of nowhere,” said a citizen journalist who <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/19077016">documented the raid</a> live on Ustream. “I was standing here, literally just a few feet from here when they [SFPD] came running from around the corner, up the side in a mass attack.”]]></description>
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		<title>OccupySF Protesters Retake Plaza, Police Back Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police moved in and ordered the protesters to leave the space, stating the plaza was closed for renovations. Most of the protesters complied with the SFPD order but a defiant group of 30 protesters remained following an SFPD clearing operation. One protester, Chris Jones, was injured during the forcible removal action. He was treated at the scene by SFFD paramedics and taken to hospital.]]></description>
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		<title>Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3226/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wall-street-money-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed, it seems, was doing only what banks and the money market do for each other every day: making “liquidity” available at very low interest rates.  In 2008, bank liquidity dried up after Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the banks could not get the cheap, ready credit on which their lending scheme depends.  The Fed then stepped in as “lender of last resort,” doing what it had to do to keep the banking scheme going.  ]]></description>
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		<title>OccupySF: Defiant, Not Defeated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At noon today, activists held General Assembly in front of the Federal Reserve. Despite the ransacking of the encampment, spirits were high, and speakers were defiant. Activists made the point that there are several alternative locations for OccupySF already. A new focus on foreclosures is leading to the occupation of vacant bank-owned houses. Petitions were being circulated in support of "Josephine," who is being evicted by Bank of America.]]></description>
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		<title>OccupySF: The Week That Was, Or Wasn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3223/occupysf-the-week-that-was-or-wasnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is in moments like these, and probably ONLY in moments like these, that experience with police riots comes in handy. The secret is to focus on small goals and try not to get hurt. I somehow inserted myself to the center of the struggling knot of humanity at the barrier, and I positioned myself at Hacker-Camper’s ear: “You can’t get arrested until you return my phone!” Hacker-Camper releases the barricade, hands me the phone, we trade the briefest of warm smiles, and he then dives headfirst back into the fray. I look down at my phone… he had somehow installed Ustream and I was recording live!]]></description>
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		<title>SFSU Students Protest Fee Increases, Commence OccupySFSU Encampment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kat Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The OccupySFSU students proclaimed solidarity with Occupy movements everywhere. In turn, several OccupySF activists participated in the students' demonstration and helped set up the encampment at Malcolm X Plaza, which started its first night after the rally and march. Among the speakers was Sean Semans, who has been an OccupySF resident for weeks. He carries an 18-unit course load at SFSU. He explained that he cannot afford to miss any more school especially given the high cost of his education, so he is helping to set up the encampment at SFSU and will participate in the OccupySFSU General Assembly. Semans warned students there is a hidden cost associated with the fee increases: increases to the interest rate on unsubsidized student loans.]]></description>
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