“And who is teaching these rogue cops how to bruise and break poets ribs, how to block and arrest journalists in their running shoes, how to pepper spray sitting students,  and how to destroy thousands of books from the Occupy Wall Street free library?” Even a Poet Laureate Doesn’t Deserve to Get Beaten by the Police by Eliot Katz As someone who doesn’t care much about government... 

“It’s official: wealth inequality accelerated over the past quarter century. The American dream was never a more hollow promise.” by Richard Wolff from The Guardian    The just-released Congressional Budget Office report, Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007, supports a basic claim of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement sweeping the country: that...