Joining the Occupy Wall Street protests has its dangers. You could get pepper-sprayed or end up in handcuffs. Or, as Brooklyn-based journalist Caitlin Curran explains, your boss could see a photo of you holding up a sign at a protest and fire you the next day.

A day after radio host Lisa Simeone was fired from her documentary show Soundprint for being a "leader" of Occupy DC, NPR announced it would stop distributing her other show, World of Opera. Which means that Republicans will definitely stop kicking NPR around, now.

Want to know how to get the world to care about the firing of the host of an Opera show? Fire her because of her participation in a popular social movement! Lisa Simeone, the host of NPR's World of Opera was fired for helping out Occupy Wall Street.