STOCK MARKET WATCH - Thursday, 5 January 2012

[Demeter]

4. INTER-OCCUPY ON ICE: SELECTIONS COMPILED

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/interoccupy_on_ice_20111227/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Truthdig%2FEarToTheGround+Truthdig+%7C+Ear+to+the+Ground

Occupations in winter

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/26/occupations_in_winter/?source=newsletter

Local occupations around the country are linking up through frequent, massive conference calls, tightening what is now an extremely loose national network that operates under the Occupy banner into a more focused force.

Anonymous to Wall Street: Happy hacked Christmas

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/anonymous-to-wall-street-happy-hacked-christmas

Anonymous hackers claimed Sunday afternoon to be in the beginning stage of hacking into the Wall Street 1%, having already stolen emails and credit card data from U.S.-based security think-tank Stratfor.

The great ebook price swindle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/23/ebook-price-swindle-publishing/print

Publishers are facing an uncertain time in the digital world—but increasing the prices of their ebooks is a retrograde step.

The 99% Versus Wall Street

http://www.alternet.org/story/153541/the_99_versus_wall_street%3A_stephen_lerner_on_how_we_can_mobilize_to_be_the_greedy_1%27s_worst_nightmare

Earlier this year, long before Occupy Wall Street turned Zuccotti Park into Liberty Plaza, Stephen Lerner, a longtime labor organizer with the SEIU and mastermind of the Justice for Janitors campaign, wrote in New Labor Forum of “large-scale sit-ins, occupations, and other forms of nonviolent civil disobedience that must inevitably overcome court injunctions and political pressures.”

A tale of 30 corporations

http://anticap.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/a-tale-of-30-corporations/

When we look back on this period, someone will have to write a novel that begins with the following sentence: It was the best of times (for corporations), it was the worst of times (for the 99 percent).