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Big Education Ape: 10-15-11 PM Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia EDition #OWS

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia

huffingtonpost.com - ROME — Protesters in Rome smashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity...

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livestream.com - This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, Septe...

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coopmike48 "The First Thing We Do, . . ." Let's Occupy the Super Committee | MyFDL - http://t.co/xYrTp6PP #owsabout 1 minute ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 'Occupy' protesters take to streets in San Diego and Encinitas -http://t.co/r6oZgtii - http://t.co/G8StUhn0#owsabout 1 minute ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 Occupy Wall Street Protesters Reportedly Arrested For Closing Their Accounts- Call The CEO | Addicting Info -http://t.co/25Ts71DY #ows20 seconds ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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Reason #15 to be wary of #TeachForAmerica

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - I wrote about this topic a few months ago, but on Twitter I recently saw this:This got a lot of ‘amens’ and retweets, of course. What I’m about to say needs to be prefaced VERY carefully so as to n...

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White Hat Case Far From Over

stateimpact.npr.org - Ida Lieszkovszky / StateImpact: OhioWhite Hat management is named for the white hat’s its founder, David Brennan, is known for wearing. Despite a decision out this week clarifying the definition of...

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Who will be hit by Emanuel’s 517 layoffs?

suntimes.com - BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com October 15, 2011 12:10AM Mayor Rahm Emanuel presided over the City Council meeting and dealt with reducing the city head tax charged to em...

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Those Third-Term Blues

nytimes.com - “It gets more complex and harder to get your message out and advertising rates keep going up.” — Mayor Bloomberg, under oath in court on Oct. 3 at the trial of John F. Haggerty Jr., hi...

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'We are the 99%,' L.A. marchers chant at protest

latimesblogs.latimes.com - As protesters around the world marked a "global day of action," hundreds took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles about noon Saturday to vent frustration over dismal job prospects and the failur...

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Turning Off the Lights at the Federal Department of Education

truthinamericaneducation.com - From The Des Moines Register: “I want to close down the fed Department of Education, turn off lights, lock the doors and instead keep all that money in Iowa,” Bachmann said, to cheers. Bachmann sai...

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Rioters hijack Rome protests, police fire tear gas

boston.com - ROME—Italian riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday in Rome as violent protesters hijacked a peaceful demonstration against corporate greed, smashing bank windows, torching cars and ...

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Wall Street protesters march again in NYC

boston.com - NEW YORK—Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street encampment marched again in New York City on Saturday, tromping through the streets of the financial district to protest the role that big banks p...

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Investor group to vote against Murdochs at NewsCorp AGM

reuters.com - LONDON | Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:17am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's campaign to keep control of News Corporation suffered a fresh blow on Friday after another key shareholder group called for ...

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Protest greets conservative education summit in SF

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Protest greets conservative education summit in SF:Protest greets conservative education summit in SFJill Tucker,Vivian Ho, Chronicle Staff WritersFriday, October 14, 2011PrintE-mailShareComments (...

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Cuomo promotes new kindergarten evaluation

newsday.com - Content Preview Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here Originally published: October 14, 2011 8:05 PM Updated: Octobe...

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'We are the 99%,' L.A. marchers chant at protest

latimesblogs.latimes.com - As protesters around the world marked a "global day of action," hundreds took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles about noon Saturday to vent frustration over dismal job prospects and the failur...

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Napoleon, Prussia & the U.S. Education System | Lefty Parent

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Napoleon, Prussia & the U.S. Education System | Lefty Parent:Napoleon, Prussia & the U.S. Education Systemby Cooper ZaleI love the narratives of human history, especially when compelling threads ca...

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