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The measure of a genuine uprising, as distinct from a political campaign or mobilization, is the degree of its "newness", in the phrase of the New England Transcendentalists like Emerson and Thoreau. By that standard, the broad Occupy movement is a genuinely new force in the world, one which has unhinged "the predictable".
Last night’s LAPD raid is a tough story to convey. Polar opposite views of the same reality.
#OWS Compared with the brutal police crackdowns against the Occupy movement in New York City, Oakland and even the pacific Davis campus of the University of California, the Los Angeles eviction last night was almost entirely peaceful. The question is, why and whether it can last.
#OWS In a Sunday evening phone conversation, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa elaborated on his gamble on the Los Angeles police being able to evict hundreds of protesters from Occupy LA with little violence or damage to the City’s reputation.
#OWS Many are all aflutter about “Where to go from Zuccotti Park?” and “Jolted, Wall St. Protesters Face Challenge for Future." No one so far is asking the question, where does Wall Street reform stand after eight weeks of massive occupations and coverage? When will our politicians act? Or do they see their job as cleansing protesters from public spaces?
#OWS Commentary on Occupy Wall Street by Terra Lawson-Remer.
#OWS Transcript from Keith Olbermann's interview with Tom Hayden on Countdown, which aired live on November 10, 2011.
#OWS According to PJRC analysis, the New York Times has published no less than 150 articles on the Occupy Wall Street movement since October 1, all of them apparently intended to be somewhere between objective and positive, at least according to the standards of the newspaper of record.
#OWS Commentary on Occupy Wall Street by Robby Cohen.
#OWS Commentary on Occupy Wall Street by Robert Garcia.
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