#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [SLIDESHOW] ‘Occupy Taksim Park’ enters third day as police's dawn raid triggers outcry http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/occupy-taksim-park-enters-third-day-as-polices-dawn-raid-triggers-outcry.aspx?pageID=238&nID=47870&NewsCatID=341 Police staged an early morning raid on protesters bidding to protect trees from being cut down in a central park. However, the move seems to have backfired, with the protesters unmoved and support growing Demonstrations to prevent the demolition of a park on Istanbul's Taksim Square, which is due to be replaced with a shopping mall, entered their third day with police using tear gas at the break of dawn. However, the attack seems to have backfired, triggering more participation in the demonstrations during the day, which continued peacefully and festively. A group of young dem…http://www.twitpic.com/cuctvq
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The Floating Forest – The hand of Chinese dominance reaches into our recycling bins. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/us-wastepaper-travels-roundtrip-to-china/Content?oid=7470141&showFullText=true Chinese dominance of American waste paper recycling negatively impacts American paper mills. In 1990, a year when the American appetite for industrial resources was fixed in the direction of the Persian Gulf, a woman named Cheung Yan moved from Hong Kong to Los Angeles. Cheung was born in 1957 in northern China. She came to Hong Kong by way of the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the country's first “special economic zone”—an early laboratory in the Chinese capitalist experiment. Cheung worked there as an accountant; after she'd saved some money, she formed a business in Hong Kong..http://www.twitpic.com/cu5zf2