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Initial reports of Occupy Oakland’s General Strike March last week had the number of protesters at 3,000-10,000, max. But where did the number come from? Oakland’s Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan (7,000) and some mainstream media agencies that weren’t even there. The actual number of protesters is now said to be much higher.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has helped to mobilize many other local activists fighting for important issues in their own neighborhoods. Demonstrators in Seattle are not the only people angry and protesting against JP Morgan Chase Bank. A group of community organizers in San Francisco has been helping to lead a boycott of the corporate chain, which evicted two independent businesses on the 400 block of Divisadero Street under somewhat dubious circumstances.
Winter is swiftly approaching, and with the cold weather comes cold and flu season. Fighting off a cold or flu virus can be quite a hassle once you have been infected with it, and can take forever to fully recover from. In this article we will look at ways to naturally boost your immune system, as a means of warding off the cold or flu (or both) this Winter.
