New Orleans There are few organizations anywhere that are better at pure and simple communications than MoveOn.org and the Service Employees International Union, but they just about met their match in trying to turn up the heat with a demonstration culminating SEIU’s Fight for a Fair Economy campaign in DC. To the media this was …
Tag: Occupy Movement
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, …
“They’re Children:” Police Building Occupy Movement Again
New Orleans Certainly it is presumptuous to compare the Civil Rights Movement with the Occupy Movement, but it takes a while to think of another movement in the USA which has gotten more of a boost from police oppression. Occupy seems to find Bull Conners-wannabes everywhere, whether in New York City or now on …