According to the Guardian, "Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who was seriously injured by a police projectile during a protest in Oakland, has regained consciousness but 'cannot talk'.

Olsen, 24, is communicating with friends and family at his bedside by writing notes, but his injury is believed to have damaged the speech centre of his brain, according to Keith Shannon, who served…

Posted Oct. 27, 2011, 12:13 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Call for Vigils for Scott at Occupations Everywhere

This morning Occupy Oakland and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) put out a call for occupations across America and around the world to hold solidarity vigils for Scott Olsen, a former Marine and two time Iraq War veteran.…

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A U.S. Marine veteran is in a critical condition in hospital tonight after being injured by a police gas canister during last night's Occupy Oakland protests, which saw running battles break out between authorities and protesters as a crowd tried to reclaim an encampment.

Scott Olsen, 24, of Daly City, California, an Iraq veteran…

We have been evicted "immediately."

I will be getting the full ruling in the mail, it was all I could do to get the court clerk to tell me that much.

"A new survey shows that Americans overwhelmingly support the self-styled Occupy Wall Street protests that not only have disrupted life in Lower Manhattan but also in Washington and cities and towns across the U.S. and in other nations. Some 59 percent of adults either completely agree or mostly agree with the protesters, while 31 percent mostly disagree or completely disagree; 10 percent of those surveyed didn't know or refused to answer."

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Hello my name is cheryl. My husbands name is Hector and he is being detained by ice now almost 6 months in Irvin county Ga. He was pulled over for a speeding ticket in cobb county. and spend thirty days there first then they took him to alabama and now Irwin…

"And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters' moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access to one of the group's internal mailing lists, and then handed over…

Below is a memorandum leaked to the Freedom Plaza occupation of Washignton, DC that comes from a corporate consultant and shows the fear they are developing of the occupy movement.  The memorandum from Fay Feeney a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors describes how corporations should prepare to combat the…

February, 2010, my husband and I began an amazing little journey. We demanded to see the original contract for our mortgage. That request was ignored, and our contract was sold to a different entity. So, we sent a request to them. They ignored it and sold our contract. We sent another request, they ignored it and sold our contract. That entity foreclosed and scheduled an auction. That auction was halted by one last demand, and so they faxed us some documents. Not the ones we asked for, and…

"Resistance, real resistance, to the corporate state was displayed when a couple of thousand protesters, clutching mops and brooms, early Friday morning forced the owners of Zuccotti Park and the New York City police to back down from a proposed attempt to expel them in order to “clean” the premises. These protesters in that one glorious moment did what the traditional “liberal” establishment has steadily refused to do—fight back. And it was deeply moving to watch the corporate rats scamper…