Truth Of The Week

Occupy Wall Street is the best thing that has happened recently from the point of view of resisting the onslaught of America's harsh plutocracy.

It represents a challenge to unmitigated power.

Curiously, it was an act of police brutality that has brought more attention to a movement that up till that point was not recognized by the media.

Truthdig: Occupy Wall Street - Truthdigger of the week

But the “occupation” didn’t draw much attention from the media until Sept. 24 when high-ranking police were recorded using excessive force and even Mace on a group of peaceful protesters.


...many who dropped by to encourage the demonstrators, including Michael Moore, Chris Hedges, Cornel West and Noam Chomsky.