Updates 7/14/12

Hello everyone.

I had to attend that Symposium yesterday, and all seemed well until I got home and realized I had gotten sick again. I slept for twelve hours straight, and now I'm still a painful, shivery mess. Oh, well. We'll see how I feel later today.

-- (From Charles) Who has a hand in destroying the economy? This article gives you some of the people who are "helping" destroy the global economy.

http://www.businessinsider.com/people-destroying-the-global-economy-2012-7#

-- The Art Walk in LA turned bad after police decided to arrest protesters who were drawing chalk art on the sidewalks.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-13/news/sns-rt-us-usa-occupy-artbre86c0x2-20120713_1_police-officer-chalk-officers

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2012/07/13/occupy-violence-erupts-los-angeles-kill-cops-nbc-ignores

-- Occupy Santa Cruz is back, and the police are right on their heels. 

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/13/18717453.php

-- Police raided the apartment of an Occupy organizer in Seattle as part of an investigation. He describes what happened here.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/ows_raid_red_scare_history_burst_through_my_door_20120713/

-- Another officer with the NYPD is facing charges after the department caught multiple officers stealing guns and equipment and selling them on the street.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/nicholas-mina-nypd-stole-guns-ninth-precinct-east-village_n_1670770.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york

-- How does OWS feel about the mistaken DNA link to a murder? Disappointed? Of course. Pissed? You bet.

http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jul/13/ows-angered-over-mistaken-dna-link-2004-murder/

***Solidarity***

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