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Will Harrisburg Incinerate Itself Financially?

By Donal on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:16pm | Politics

In, Harrisburg, Pa: a city at war with itself, Reuters offers the latest on the PA capital's money woes:

For three days last summer, Mayor Linda Thompson joined religious leaders to pray for a "cooperative spirit" among city leaders, the business community and residents here in Pennsylvania's state capital.

The prayers have gone unanswered.
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Occupy Baltimore: Disperse Ye Rebels!?

By Donal on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 9:18pm | Social Justice

Occupy Baltimore Livestream picked up by 1100 Global Revolution viewers as OB general assembly discusses the group's responses to Parks and Recreation's deferment of issuing a permit.

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Pushback Against Occupy Sites

By Donal on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 2:21pm | Social Justice


The Portland Press Herald reports on the bombing of Occupy Maine:

"We are more motivated to keep doing what we're doing," said Stephanie Wilburn, of Portland, who was sitting near where the chemical mixture in a Gatorade bottle was tossed at 4 a.m. Sunday. "They have heard us and we're making a difference."
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Bank Transfer Month

By Donal on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 1:37pm | Social Justice

I do plan on moving my account, but instead of all standing in line, why don't we just make November: Bank Transfer Month?

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Occupy Baltimore Day 18

By Donal on Sat, 10/22/2011 - 11:54pm | Social Justice

Friday night I went to Occupy Baltimore (OB). OB's website had a Gender and Race Equality Rally scheduled for 6:30 PM and the usual General Assembly at 8:00 PM. I hadn't been there in the evening before, and thought it was about time to actually see a General Assembly.
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Breitbart Smears Occupy Baltimore

By Donal on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 11:02am | Politics

A lot of strangers are thrust together at the Occupy camps, and I had read that a woman complained about being hit on by three different men on her first visit to the Occupy Baltimore (OB) site. So it isn't a surprise that OB would take steps to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. But yesterday's Baltimore Sun carries this article, 'Occupy' memo could discourage victims from reporting assaults:

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Too Big to Ballad

By Donal on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 7:39pm | Humor & Satire

Paul Solman interviewed former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson on the PBS News Hour this evening. I often read Johnson and James Kwak at their blog, Baseline Scenario. Towards the end Solman and his cohost urged viewers to watch this video, The Ballad of Diamond Jim on Youtube.

The video is annotated by Solman and Johnson below. 

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Andy Murray's on a roll

By Donal on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:41am | Humor & Satire


Andy Murray hasn't lost a match since the US Open. He led Great Britain over Hungary in Davis Cup, beat Donald Young to win Bangkok, beat Rafa Nadal to win Tokyo, and just defeated David Ferrer 7-5, 6-4 to win the Shanghai Open - worth 1000 points - and now replaces Roger Federer as World #3.

But it may be part of a plot:

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Will Occupy Remain Non-Violent?

By Donal on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 12:37pm | Social Justice

Update: Bloomberg 'cleanup' will stop OWS from camping in Zuccotti Park.

The City Paper put 'Occupy Baltimore makes up a movement as it goes along' on their cover and like everyone in the media, described the movement as inchoate:

The Occupy movement got rolling in New York on Sept. 17 with an inchoate and broad coalition of people attempting to “Occupy Wall Street” in order to push back against the rampant capitalism that many feel is overwhelming/undermining American politics and American society itself.

As many have noted, Occupy Wall Street didn't get noticed by the press until there was violence against protestors by the police. During an attempted expansion into a neighboring park, Occupy Boston linked arms to try to hold off an overwhelming force of police. There have been scattered other incidents around the US, but Andrew, who I chatted with on Day Three, and was on the Security Committee of Occupy Baltimore (OB), said that the Baltimore police had been cool.

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