AP reports: “The cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.” For more, including video streams from various cities, see. MICHAEL RATNER, mratner at michaelratner.com…

Contacts: Leah Bolger, Vice President of Veterans for Peace, leahbolger at comcast.net Medea Benjamin, Code Pink, medea.benjamin at gmail.com Protesters are currently demonstrating at a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee, standing up one by one and denouncing the continuing wars. Live video stream. They released the following statement this morning: “In 2120 Rayburn…

MUHAMMAD SAHIMI, moe at usc.edu Sahimi is a professor at the University of Southern California and lead political columnist for the website PBS/Frontline/Tehran Bureau. He has published extensively on Iran’s political development and its nuclear program. He just wrote “Questions over Alleged Islamic Republic Assassination Plot in U.S.” BEAU GROSSCUP, bgrosscup at csuchico.edu Grosscup is…

According to organizers, there were at least three arrests this morning as protesters entered Congressional office buildings and chanted “We are the 99 percent,” “End the wars, tax the rich” and “Senators for sale go to jail.” For further information and forthcoming video clips, see. Meanwhile, Congress is reportedly close to holding a vote on…

As Occupy Wall Street — OccupyWallSt.org — begins its fourth week, OccupyTogether.org reports there are “occupy” meetups in over 1,100 cities. Roving live video at: livestream.com/globalrevolution KENT LEBSOCK, oweakuinternational at me.com Lebsock is coordinator of the Owe Aku International Justice Project. He will be speaking at Occupy Wall Street at 5 p.m. ET today. He said today: “Corporate greed…

Today marks ten years since the U.S. began its invasion of Afghanistan; protests against war and corporate power are underway in D.C. in coordination with protests around the U.S. The New York Times reports: “The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded on Friday to three campaigning women from Africa and the Arab world in…

DAVID ROVICS, drovics at gmail.com Friday, October 7 is the tenth anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan. “Occupation” protests begin today at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. opposing wars and corporate power:  livestream rotating from different cities. Singer-songwriter Rovics will be preforming at the launch of the Freedom Plaza protests today. At a…

Reports indicate that today is seeing the largest Wall Street protest to date, see. For more information and for livestreaming see and see. ARUN GUPTA,  ebrowniess at yahoo.com A founding editor of the New York City based Indypendent, Gupta also helped found the Occupied Wall Street Journal. COSTAS PANAYOTAKIS, cpanayotakis at google.com Panayotakis is associate professor of…

The largest march yet is expected today on Wall Street, see. For more information and for livestreaming, see or see. ROSEANN DeMORO, DEBORAH BURGER, via Carl Ginsburg, cginsburg at nationalnursesunited.org, Charles Idelson, cidelson at calnurses.org National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of nurses in the U.S. — with 170,000 members — will…

KEVIN ZEESE, kbzeese at gmail.com MARGARET FLOWERS, M.D.  mdpnhp at gmail.com Zeese is a core organizer of October2011.org and co-director of ItsOurEconomy.US. He said today: “The Occupy Movement goes to the next level on Thursday with the occupation of Freedom Plaza. This Washington, D.C. occupation, which has been growing for the last six months, before…