Although the occupation of Zuccotti Park lasted for a mere eight weeks, and the subsequent occupations in almost 100 other U.S. cities lasting for not that much longer, the national movement itself has been credited as changing the national conversation to economic and social injustice. 

An eviction notice has been served effective September 2 for the house on the corner of North Ralston Street and Romneya in Anaheim that the Gutierrez-Perez family has called home since 1989. The property could be turned over at any minute, but on this day, belongings aren't being packed up. The family, instead, is digging in deep to defend their home.

Eluteria Gutierrez, whose ten children have all grown up in the house she now stands to lose, had just returned from church hurriedly readying paperwork before leaving for a meeting with a lawyer in Huntington Beach.

"So much hard work, so much effort has gone into this house," says her daughter Rufina Perez, a U.S. Army veteran, one of three in the family to have served in the military. "After all these years of paying the bills right on time, being faithful to the bank, all of sudden the bank pulls the rug from underneath us."

George Olivo from Occupy Orange County witnessed the scene firsthand. After riot police arrived, he said, about 500 attendees of the Art Walk gathered at the intersection of 5th and Spring. According to the Los Angeles Times, nine out of 19 arrests that night were for vandalism. At least three individuals were reportedly shot with rubber bullets.

A rare, mostly harmonious gathering commenced on Saturday afternoon as Orange County liberals and conservatives voluntarily came together for a hot dog roastin', frisbee-throwin' picnic at Mason Park in Irvine. 

The unlikely gathering, dubbed Sounds of Truth, was hosted by OC-based political advocacy group Rebellious Truths. The grassroots new media effort led by Michael Maxsenti and Christopher Ponzi aspires to encourage the masses to strip away ideological differences, recognize underlying common values, and start coming up with civil solutions to ending political and corporate corruption.  

Orange County Sheriff Department deputies stood downstairs of the two-story house as about a half-dozen volunteers, including three members of Occupy Orange County, helped Royal pack up her belongings on June 20, which also happened to be her birthday. 

Mitt Romney is scheduled to appear at a fundraiser at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach on Friday night, less than three months since his last Orange County fundraiser. According to the Daily Pilot, the Republican presidential candidate is charging $1,000 for an individual ticket.

But wait--before you start withdrawing from your account at a tax haven in the Cayman Islands, higher-level donors get more! For $10,000 you can get a photo for two people with the former Massachusetts governor; and for a whopping $25,000 you win two tickets to a VIP reception and four tickets to the cocktail reception, not to mention a photo with the same man who believes an Etch-a-Sketch can erase time and reality!