Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Zuccotti Park's Burgeoning Micro-Neighborhoods May Indicate Deeper Divisions NEW YORK -- Protesters at Occupy Wall Street insist that they are a completely leaderless movement with a purely horizontal structure. But where some see simple diversity -- a self-proclaimed goal of OWS -- others see the creep of an insidious hierarchy, most clearly seen in the emerging micro-neighborhoods in Zuccotti Park. County To Seek Biggest Municipal Bankruptcy In U.S. History Majority Of Americans Support Raising The Minimum Wage Stock Markets Sink Amid European Crisis EUROPEAN DISUNION: France, Germany Exploring Radical Overhaul Of European Union Robots Staffing Warehouses Of Major U.S. Retailers [WATCH] BLOG POSTS Dylan Ratigan: Greece and Corzine: Fixing What Hasn't Been Fixed It's time for our leaders to be honest about actually addressing the problem of gross overleveraging in finance, because the Eurozone mess isn't going away. Bruce Judson: Restoring Capitalism: How to Prevent a Housing Recovery -- Accept a 46-State Robo-Mortgage Fraud Settlement The reported outlines of the proposed settlement of the robo-mortgage scandal by 46 state attorneys general working together shows how far we have diverged from the basic principles of egalitarian capitalism. Marcus Baram: Not Just Wall Street: Protesters Should Target Colleges Over Student Debt, Tuition Increases In other countries, such as England and France, students have taken to the streets by the thousands to protest much smaller tuition increases. Where is that spirit here in America? Eric Schoenberg: The Hypocritical Oath? I feel no need to apologize for only paying what I owe in taxes -- I'm a human, not a saint. Why should I let rich conservatives free ride on my contributions? Are they willing to forgo the benefits of public goods like national defense? Lawrence J. Hanley: Asleep at the Wheel Intercity bus companies typically pay their drivers abysmally low wages and force them to work more than 100 hours a week. Why do bus operators get away with that?

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