Occupy the Midwest Conference to be held in St. Louis March 15th – 18th. Their website is here and they give a detailed timeline of events and working groups. This is a huge event and should really energize the occupy movement all through out the Midwest.

From the website:

We, the General Assembly of Saint Louis, in the spirit of solidarity call upon our brothers and sisters in occupied spaces across the country to join us in forming the Midwest Regional Summit. We feel that it is time for us to create new spaces to connect in; new ways to share knowledge, experience, resources, and to express our solidarity.

Zuccotti Park may be vacant, but Occupy legal battle continues...

From my favorite nobel laureate, Paul Krugman today, "America Isn’t a Corporation"

FAIR on Occupy-related abuse of journalists.

Mayor Gray wants Occupy protesters removed from McPherson Square: to “allow for elimination of the rat infestation, clean up, and restoration” of the downtown park.

Is This Land Made for You and Me - or for the Super-Rich?

Why Now? What’s Next? Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom in Conversation About Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street needs an accountant.

Occupy Washington is thankful for the local police this cold winter:

Early in the pre-dawn hours of Jan 5, Park Police went from tent to tent in the freezing night to wake up sleeping Occupy Washington protestors at Freedom Plaza, a block away from the White House. But they were not about to evict the 100 people camping there for three months hoping to "get big money out of politics" as they say.

Instead, on the coldest night of the winter to date, with temperatures down in the low teens, the police were making sure that no one died of hypothermia in the freezing night.

"We were glad they came – we couldn't have woken everyone up," said Joe Bieber, 39, one of the Occupy leaders at the site.

The police came at 1 a.m. and then returned at 4 a.m., the depths of the cold, to be sure everyone could respond to their questions and was not going into life-threatening hypothermia.

It's rare to have an opportunity to say such on a site devoted to the occupy movement, but sincerest thanks, and kudos to those wonderful officers!

Occupy Wall Street Plans New York Marches Over Weekend

Occupy Wall Street Plans Major Demonstration in San Francisco

Kid Pan Alley Helps Students Write Pro-Occupy Song, Sparking National Controversy

Here we go again, Foreclosures Expected to Rise, Pushing Home Prices Lower:

Banks are getting more aggressive with the 3.5 million U.S. homes with seriously delinquent mortgages, setting the stage for a big wave of foreclosure action this year.

The Rumors About Bill Clinton Are True:

“I think what they’re doing is great,” he said. “Occupy Wall Street has done more in the short time they’ve been out there than I’ve been able to do in more than the last eleven years trying to draw attention to some of the same problems we have to address,” he said.

Rising Share of Americans See Conflict Between Rich and Poor

Significantly more Americans see “very strong” or “strong” class conflict between the rich and poor, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. The results show that Americans think that conflicts between the rich and poor are stronger than immigrant and native born, black and white and young and old.

And let's wrap this round-up with some occupy music, shall we? From New Party Systems, "We Are."