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Deer Tick, a Providence, Rhode Island-based band saw images of Occupy activists being maced in the face for what they saw as unnecessary and unjust. At a show recently frontman for Deer Tick Paul McCauley told the crowd, "Not taking sides here. Just don't think cops should beat the shit out of anyone."

Before the show McCauley told Rolling Stone that members of the band were so frustrated with what happened that they decided to make people aware the only way they knew how – by playing music. "[Police] are there to serve and protect, and in theory, that's a great thing. But people should know that you can be self-empowered and you can call cops out when they act out of line. Cops aren't above the law. We're just trying to make both sides understand where the other is coming from."

OCT 28, 2011 - Bette Midler was on the Joy Behar show and said about the Occupy activists that "It's a good thing." When the subject of the Zuccotti Park residents and their complaints of sanitation in the area she said they should, "Chip in and buy some toilets, they're cheap. Porta-potties are cheap." Then she (joked?) that she would pay for the porta-potties.

They both talked about how they grew up in the 60s protests and Bette said, "We did it all the time. It was something you did because you were a citizen and you had something to say and you wanted to support your point of view."

As far as people on the right who are attacking the activists and calling them "dirty hippies" she says, "It's like they have taken a page out of 1969. So old school. Folks, 50 years have passed, get a new line." Watch the video below.

OCT 27, 2011 - New York hip-hop artist MK-Ultra Emcee emailed JTMP with his activist protest music video called "Who's The Man", and after watching it we thought we should post it and have everyone check it out. He said he wants to show the many faces of the Occupy movement, and rapper Jasiri X whom JTMP posted about the other day makes an appearance in the video. MK-Ultra says on his Facebook page, "MK-ULTRA is a politically conscious and controversial emcee from New York City introducing a new strain of revolutionary Hip-Hop." Check out the music video below.