Speakers' Corner

https://youtu.be/5-pe0LvVqFg We've heard plenty about what may have happened when Occupy Las Vegas moved Downtown yesterday. I wanted to share with you what I thought...

  I actually got up early and took the train to Downtown L.A. for the 7:00am march. I was undecided until 6:00am when I plannned...

Married to someone with a childhood so terrible, he blocked it out for years.

I started this post as a comment and realized it was morphing into something too long for that, so, to Speaker's Corner for me! From...

This morning, the #OccupyOakland encampment is being shut down. Oakland police have arrested about 25 protesters at the sprawling Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall...

The long-term implications of shattered young lives, lost jobs, and lost opportunities for so many people cannot be measured. As we find out more details of the story, the circle of victims grows wider.

It also helps that The White House has finally been succeeding in honing in on a strong economic message. Obama has had to figure out how to get past the obstructionist Congress to deliver his message directly to the American people. He's had to deliver his own message while also allowing Americans to realize who his Republican opponents really are.

There is such a sad feeling in this country now that our government seems to have completely failed us. The Occupy Movement is the 99 Percenters Response to that failure.

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, November 4, 2011