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COVER/Jason Cherkis & Sara Kenigsberg p. 1
‘Occupy Y’all Street’ brings it home
EDITORIAL p. 2
Bank regs and park rules
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What Bank of America thinks of you; ‘We the People,’ not We the Corporations; Congress’ 9%; Paulson’s plaintive plea; Bifurcated America
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Cops’ job is to beat down the 99 percent
DISPATCHES p. 5
Taxes could do ‘super’ job; Another survey finds Fox News misinforms; Fed bank rescue cost $7.7T; Looming GOP tax hike; Stimulus worked (no matter what you heard); Defense bill codifies detentions ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Dirty jobs don’t have to be lousy jobs
STEPHANIE PAIGE OGBURN p. 6
Thanks to USDA, cattlemen lose out
SARAH GILMAN p. 6
A tale of two beginning farmers
GENE LYONS p. 7
Rural America really is different
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Anger sowing new consumer movement
SARAH ANDERSON p. 7
Occupy the budget
ROBERT REICH p. 8
Hijacking the First Amendment
TIM BUTTERWORTH p. 8
Lost causes can win
ANDREW LEONARD p. 9
Supercommittee failure stagnates economy
NATASHA LENNARD p. 9
Police rely on ‘Miami Model’ for Occupiers
DON ROLLINS p. 9
Privatization takes over North Carolina
MARC HOGAN p. 10
Need for record stores changes in iTunes age
BOB BURNETT p. 11
Republican candidates go too far in 2012
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Brutal responses to Occupy show disconnect
VAN JONES p. 12
Supercommittee fails but people win
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Supercommittee of 1% goes down
ROGER BYBEE p. 12
Occupy movement needs audacity, strategy
MICHAEL WINSHIP p. 13
Newt swindles across the Beltway
NINA BURLEIGH p. 13
Would-be bomber busted but P.O. still at risk
EILEEN APPELBAUM p. 14
No happy ending for Friendly’s
MARK ENGLER p. 14
Life in prison nation
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Canary in the mine
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Occupy Wall St. propels Cal labor action
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Disabled people get institutionalized
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Pro-obesity lobby wins USDA food fight
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Folly of market wisdom
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Austerity hits home
PEG BOWDEN p. 17
Of marigolds and a day with the dead
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
White R’s vote down personhood in Miss.
BOOK/J. Quinn Brisben p. 18
Second City renaissance
TINA DUPUY p. 18
GOP candidates agree with each other
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Occupiers’ challenge: return stronger
TED RALL p. 19
Activists debate reformers in Occupy
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Repression expands resistance
MARY P. LOWRY p. 20
Texas journalist throws ebook at Perry
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 20
Poetry survives trashing of people’s library
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
HBO: where the action is
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Bootsy Collins profiles Jimi Hendrix
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
NBA players, welcome to the 99 percent
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Pulling accounts from the unaccountable
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Class war codified
DONALD KAUL p. 22
In greed we trust
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Frightened little men
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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