San Francisco warns Occupiers

Yesterday the San Francisco Department of Public deemed the Wall st. occupiers a health hazard siting “Evidence of excrement, urine and vomit were observed throughout the park. Fecal material was observed on stairs and grass. A container of human waste was observed along the Embarcadero side of the park.” The city has said that if they do not stop this behavior immediately arrests will be made.

Protesters are objecting to the way the city is portraying them saying that the city is exasperating and that most of the sanitation problems come from the homeless people of the city who where there way before the occupiers got there. Since San Francisco is not the only city to complain about sanitation in the camps it is hard to tell which side is right.

With this, a statement by the SFPD promising arrests, and the Oakland police raids on occupy Wall st. camps it looks like the Bay area is becoming an unwelcoming place for the protesters.

Worldwide Rally for Change

Today, tens of thousands all over the globe joined in the Occupy protests, rallying against corruption, poverty, corporate domination, government inaction, among numerous other issues.

While most protests were quite peaceful, the one in Rome got violent. An anarchist group self-dubbed as the "Black Bloc", donning ski masks, were particularly violent. They torched nearby cars, threw objects at people, shattered windows, and clashed with the police. A total of seventy people were injured (40 of whom are policemen). Of these cases, two men lost their hands due to car explosions. United for Global Change, the main organization behind these protests, said that 951 countries in 82 different countries took part in demonstrations, impelled by the recent OWS protests.

I really hope the worldwide cry for change will motivate governments or corporations to do something about the ever-growing social and economic inequalities, corporate greed, corruption in government, and other similar issues. It's really time for some changes to be made around here.