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Occupy 18 Cities Coordinate Assault on Occupy Protesters, but Not Seattle
Posted by Goldy on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM
If it strikes you as a little suspicious that so many cities seemed to crackdown on their Occupy encampments at around the same time, well, that's because it is. Earlier today Oakland Mayor Jean Quan admitted to the BBC:
“I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation where what had started as a political movement and a political encampment ended up being an encampment that was no longer in control of the people who started them...”
Not exactly evidence of a conspiracy per se, but certainly suggests that cities may have been sharing information about tactics and timing.
As for Seattle, mayor's office spokesperson Julie Moore confirms that Seattle did not participate in this call, which was apparently coordinated through the US Conference of Mayors.
UPDATE: Moore clarifies:
Seattle was invited to an in-person meeting by the US Conference of Mayors, which we declined. The conference call was pre-planning for the in-person meeting, and since we were not attending that meeting we were not invited to participate in the conference call.
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But I am surprised McGinn didn't participate. Maybe he doesn't think it would help Seattle to learn what other mayors are doing and thinking.
3
So the point is....why would he need to be in on that phone call? And who really cares that much about SCCC anyway? There isn't a Barneys of New York or Tiffany's nearby.
6
Welcome to America!
The Syria of the First World!
7
Yeah, you go with that. The US is just like Syria. Because the NYPD is murdering hundreds of protesters. Hey, OWS, here's your spokesman, Will in Seattle.
When you can't handle it, party's over.
12
I just laugh at how gullible and naive you are, while the World Watches America become a Third World Banana Republic.
13
@12, you're a fucking sitcom. You remind me of a stupider version of the armchair anarchist in "The Young Ones". Nice job capitalizing even the verb in your slogan there. Twat.
14
Pretty disgusting right?
18 supposedly independent political entities, united by nothing except for the word "city" decide to create a unified power bloc and attack their own citizens simultaneously.
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