New Orleans Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has this exactly right when she says the beating of bystanders, protestors, and women in Cairo’s Tafhir Square are “shocking.” Furthermore she added in a speech at Georgetown, “This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of …
Category: Protests
Bringing Down Occupy NOLA
New Orleans Front page headlines in the Times-Picayune had trumpeted the curious court battle around the removal of Occupy NOLA from Duncan Plaza across from City Hall to parts unknown. Mayor Mitch Landrieu had summarily pulled up the encampment only to have his hands slapped by a federal court judge ruling it was illegal and …
Encampments Down, but Occupy Up: Occupy Marines
New Orleans The news is full of Occupy confusion. They are homesick for the encampments. Many of the big ones are going down. Los Angeles was evacuated with 1400 police from the LAPD and 300 arrests last night. Philly is down. There are a surprising number still up in places like New Orleans, Little Rock, …