by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo

So big deal. They evicted us. That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year. Our photographer, Zach Roberts, had his camera cracked and his head whacked. [See the photo of the nightstick just before it breaks the lens.] Go ahead, kick us and evict us. That won't stop us. Because it's not about the real estate. Wall Street's just an address.

Time to remind The One Percent why we occupy.

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Occupy Wall Street, now almost three weeks old, isn’t like the anti-globalization demonstrations that disrupted summits in the 1990s or even the street actions at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, though some of the same characters are probably in attendance. With unemployed young protesters planning to camp out all winter in Zuccotti Park (with bathrooms available only at a nearby McDonald’s), it’s more like a cross between a Hooverville and Woodstock -- the middle-class jobless of the 1930s and the hippie protesters of the 1960s.

With the help of unions and social networking, the movement has at least some chance of re-energizing Democrats in 2012 and pushing back against the phenomenal progress Republicans have made in suppressing voter turnout in several states.

Why? Because --- Read full story in Business Week

 Edenton- Chowan's house meeting on Saturday, July 16, was one of 1600 meetings held across our nation in every Congressional district. Our meeting, held at the home of Alonzo Slade and facilitated by Marilyn Lange, was called to identify 12 major actions which we believe will, if enacted by government, reverse the downward spiral of policies which benefit the abundantly wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.

We began our meeting by sharing our perceptions, experiences, and frustrations which brought us to the meeting – family members struggling to survive, increasing environmental destruction, unfair taxation, deceptive financial practices by banks and other corporations, escalating military costs in lives and dollars, increasing restrictions of personal liberties.

We then set to work.

A Rebuild the Dream house meeting in Edenton will be held on Saturday afternoon, July 16 ,at 2. It will bring together local people who are deeply concerned about the impacts of our current economic and political policies at all levels of government. It will be held at 125 W. Carteret, near the intersection of N. Granville and W. Carteret.

Concerns grow over salary disparities

By Ritchie E. Starnes

Chowan Herald

A candidate for the Chowan County Board of Commissioners used a forum last week to attack the sheriff’s annual salary, adding that his high pay remains the byproduct of a past good ol’ boy network.

Republican challenger Robert Hutchins singled out Sheriff Dwayne Goodwin’s annual salary as a residue of a county regime that contributed to the Chowan’s near financial collapse three years ago. Although Hutchins’ figures were incorrect, his remarks represent a growing bone of contention that some Chowan department heads are over paid, compared to surrounding counties.

"If we wiped out the entire Congress and sent common people who have no political experience, we would get far better results than we have today."- U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, MD

Courtesy of the Kick Them All Out Project.