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Stéphane Hessel, the former French resistance fighter, diplomat and political activist, often regarded as the inspiration for the Indignados movement, the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, died in Paris on Tuesday at the age of 95.

Movements of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) have banded together to create "Strike Debt." Through Strike Debt, an initiative called "Rolling Jubilee" has been created with a simple goal: buy up debt and forgive it.

Fayetteville - Putting past conflicts aside, Occupy Atlanta members and police stood side by side on Monday in a show of support for retired Atlanta Police Detective Jaqueline Barber.

Sydney - Surveillance technology is big news, but its capabilities are usually underrated. The current technology is perfectly capable of creating a police state. If this technology had been available to Stalin, the Gulags would have been ten times bigger.

London - "There's nothing that terrifies the U.S. government more than the threat of democracy breaking out in America." Julian Assange interviews representatives from OWS and Occupy London.

On 1 May 2012, Occupy movements in several cities used the workers' holiday to relaunch their campaigns. A CBC radio documentary which aired several weeks ago emphasized the "Occupy Vision" to replace capitalism with economic democracy.

It's Ron Paul, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson and Rocky Anderson vs. the Lesser of Two Evils in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections.

Oakland - The Occupy movement is showing new signs of life after police in many U.S. cities raided their camps during the last month, acts which have helped the movement become engaged in new targets, including Monday’s west coast ports in North America.

Claremont - In what is possibly the smallest occupy movement to have formed so far, members of Occupy Claremont set up camp outside City Hall last Sunday. It has been reported that there are only 3 participants in the group.

The Occupy Movement came out to protest retailers on Black Friday as eager shoppers flooded the stores to try and buy specially priced items.