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Members of Occupy DC targeted corporate lobbyists on K Street this past Wednesday, in an action that resulted in more than 60 arrests. Hundreds of activists flooded the street calling attention to the unprecedented influence of corporate money on politics, blocking traffic for hours. Later than night, 12 activists were arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court. Occupy DC protesters have been busy at a time when many occupations around the nation are regrouping after their camps were raided. Here is how the Washington Post described their actions just this week: “they marched and chanted in front of a high-profile lobbying firm co-founded by a former chief of staff in the Clinton administration. Other protesters swarmed Capitol Hill this week to demand jobs and economic equity, staged sit-ins at congressional offices, protested fundraisers and chanted in front of Charlie Palmer Steak, a favorite restaurant of the D.C. elite where a steak-and-lobster combo is $64.” Earlier in the week, hundreds of people from Occupy movements around the country converged on DC in an event called “Take Back the Capitol.” And on Sunday, more than 30 people were arrested after police dismantled a wooden structure they were building in McPherson square. DC’s occupation has been set up at McPherson Square since early October and on Monday, a district judge ruled that the DC police have to give Occupy DC notice of any impending plans to evict them. Meanwhile, in other news from DC, former Senator John Corzine testified at a Congressional committee about his role as Chief Executive of the company, MF Global. Corzine, also a former Chief at Goldman Sachs, was questioned about billions of missing dollars from MF Global once it declared bankruptcy. Stunning members of Congress, Corzine claimed “I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date.” And, in one of the only products of Congressional action to date that has been created in the wake of the recession in the interests of 99% of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saw its appointed head, Richard Cordray’s nomination, blocked this week by the Republican Party. The CFPB was the brainchild of Harvard Law School’s Elizabeth Warren, who was slated to be its head, but snubbed by the Obama administration responding to massive GOP pressure.

GUEST: Kevin Zeese, one of the organizers of Occupy Washington DC, and Co-Director of It’s Our Economy

Visit www.occupydc.org and www.itsoureconomy.us for more information.