“I’m just simply baffled by the idea that people can be without shelter in a country, and then be treated as criminals for being without shelter.”

"The U.S. Embassy in Haiti worked closely with factory owners contracted by Levi’s, Hanes, and Fruit of the Loom to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables."

See also The Nation's reporting on the same, "WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day: The US Embassy aided Levi’s, Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in Haiti’s minimum wage." (http://www.thenation.com/article/161057/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day)

The link to the Wikileak cables in question is broken in both articles. A working link is: http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/06/09PORTAUPRINCE553.html

I'm number 4!

I think Wikipedia editors have done a fine job of summarizing these movements. There's also a separate "Timeline of the Arab Spring" article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Arab_Spring

"A protest group called “Occupy Denver” that used to protest in downtown Denver and in public areas has now reverted to a different tactic — descending on a quiet Denver neighborhood every Sunday afternoon and protesting outside the private home of a Denver business leader whose organization supported Denver’s urban camping ban"

"The barbarity of US immigration and deportation policy has led to the reemergence of mass border crossings."

"This shift toward more radical actions points to the ticking time bomb that is our deportation machine. Around six hundred people get deported to Tijuana every day, a great number of them ending up on the streets, with nowhere to go, often without a peso in their pockets and with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Under such a barbaric immigration and deportation regime, it should be little wonder that mass migrant actions are making a comeback."

An insider reflects on the Waco standoff. "And the lesson of Clive Doyle’s memoir—and the battle of Mount Carmel—is that Americans aren't very good at respecting the freedom of others to be so obnoxiously different. Many Mormons, incidentally, would say the same thing."

“What’s Left?” features Lefty's more or less monthly columns written for the punk zine Maximumrocknroll.

I just discovered this weblog. I've read several of the essays. They are written by an ex-anarchist (slash ex-left-communist) who seems to write a lot about how they wish anarchism was better so they could still be an anarchist. It's good stuff!

This was a day after I was arrested. There was a big demonstration in Denver with DPD shooting kids out of trees with pepper balls and everything.

The Westword's coverage of Denver's October 15:
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/10/occupy_denver_denver_largest_gathering_police.php

Apparently The Denver Post Editorial Board thinks it is okay to harass and arrest the propertyless for sleeping, but rent-seeking CEOs should be left alone. Good thing The Denver Post is keeping an eye on the situation, otherwise who would lookout for the interests of the rich and powerful?

This is a long video, but I thought it gave a good idea of how Trotskyists (well, at least this one) relate to anarchism.

"The bullies had to prove that they could control World Vision, because controlling World Vision helps them pretend that they can control the Bible."

World Vision (US) took another look at their copy of "the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God" and discovered that they ARE supposed to police the personal/family lives of their employees after all. Oops.

In 2012 Boulder's city council made sleeping in public a non-jailable offense in an attempt to exclude the accused from jury trials. But now that a judge has ruled the homeless are still entitled to a jury, the city council has voted to increase the penalty to include jail time again.

As someone only peripherally involved but who followed along with the news, I thought Kelsey Whipple did a great job reporting on Occupy Denver.

See also the impressive "List of Occupy movement protest locations": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Occupy_movement_protest_locations

(I read revision 590841297: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reactions_to_Occupy_Wall_Street&oldid=590841297)

"The ban makes it illegal to camp on public and private property in Denver. The City Council voted 9-4 to pass the ban in 2012."

"A controversial ordinance banning urban camping may increase vulnerability to trafficking in the state of Colorado. The ban was passed by the Denver City Council in May 2012 and essentially criminalizes homeless individuals sleeping on the streets."