February 2012
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A preview of my new and rather long Occupy Oakland...
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Steven Angell on the media coverage of Occupy...
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This is what it sounds like when activists in...
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Oakland Citizen’s Police Review Board head...
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“Occupy the SEC insists there’s no contradiction between its in-the-weeds policy...”
– Occupy the Volcker Rule!, Washington Post.
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FAQ #1: I get emails from journalists
Hi Susie. I noticed you know a lot about Occupy Oakland. Would you tell me what happened on XX day, and would you put me in touch with XX people?
Hi paid journalist who I’ve never had any contact with before. I’m a journalist too! And your inquiry is less flattering than it is deeply disturbing. Yes, it’s true — though I don’t have a full-time employer, this has been...
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“Women represented 21.7% of guests on Sunday morning news talk shows airing on...”
– Shit you already know: key findings from the 2011 Women’s Media Center report on the status of women in US media.
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“At last, Tiny, not Chris Hedges, has revealed what ails Occupy, the difficulty...”
– Doctor Hedges Misdiagnoses the Decline of Occupy, in which the true privilege of smashy-smashy, confrontation, and arguable violence are discussed pretty awesomely. HT @zunguzungu.
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“The issue has been posed most starkly in Oakland, where a militant faction is...”
– The entirety of the “Oakland reporting” contributed by an actual New York Times reporter based in the Bay Area to this article on Occupy’s “next steps.” I don’t have the energy to be actually annoyed by this sort of crap anymore, now I’m just cataloging the...
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“This was not an insidious conspiracy perpetrated by evil people. Many...”
– Will Occupy Choose Super-PAC Funding Over Radical Action?
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Oakland Council Member Desley Brooks versus Occupy...
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“Why the hell aren’t they standing in...
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“Maybe [the Bay Area News Group] isn’t reading their own paper about Occupy...”
– The Occupied media landscape, for the Atlantic, by me.
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“I know it’s considered beyond laughable to suggest that someone like Cagle -...”
– Maybe if I quit Twitter people would realize that I’m covering Occupy for things besides Twitter? Or maybe they’d just get angry that I wasn’t live-tweeting Fuck the Police anymore.
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“The Oakland Police Department advises of an assembly planned to take place on...”
– Oakland Police Department media advisory sent three and a half hours before the beginning of this week’s Fuck the Police march, where, according to social media sites, protesters plan to bring brooms and other cleaning products and have vowed to use non-violent tactics. Should be interesting.
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“Some people might be inclined to give credence to the first version, which comes...”
– Thank you Peter Frase.
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“I no longer have any sympathy for Susie Cagle’s experiences at the OWS...”
– I get comments.
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“There are rare exceptions, of course, but they are rare for clear reasons; Susie...”
– Thank you Aaron Bady.
January 2012
54 posts
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“We are the water, watch us boil, kettle...
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Some of the choice audio from my latest arrest at...
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“Hi Johnna, Please give me a call when you can — I have several questions...”
– My correspondence with Oakland Police Department Public Information Officer Johnna Watson today after arrests/detentions of six journalists at January 28 Occupy Oakland “Move-In Day” kettling actions. Watson did not file an IA investigation into my arrest until several weeks after it had...
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WatchA foreclosure auction shut-down today in Kings County, New York City.
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“The Oakland Police Department belongs to the community,” Chief Jordan said. “The...”
– Oakland Police Department Chief Howard Jordan on the new restrictions placed on OPD by federal oversight, from a city press release. They don’t call him “Interim Chief” anymore I’ve noticed.
“The arc of human progress has been shaped by individuals with the freedom to...”
– President Obama at the UN, September 23, 2009 - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/us/politics/24prexy.text.html (via jcstearns)
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My full Occupy Wall Street West piece from...
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Pirate Baban on differences between Occupy San...
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From last week’s Occupy Oakland “Fuck...
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“This is not going away any time soon. And we don’t mind that. We...”
– OPD public information officer Johnna Watson to me today on Occupy Oakland. Full piece on the latest arrests and OPD’s new “smarter policing” at AlterNet coming as soon as the great Joshua Holland edits it.
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The FBI and Federal Prosecutors Say My Journalism... →
will-potter:
The FBI and federal prosecutors say that writing critically about terrorism investigations is “extremist,” and use my work to retaliate against a defendant. Please like and share — this pattern of government conduct is a threat to all journalists.
WTF
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