March 2012
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“Your questions seem to be aimed at an artist, but I consider myself, in all the...”
– My answer to an SF Chronicle reporter asking about my Occupy Oakland watercolors for a story about the SomArts show coming up next week. Expect to see none of this in the article.
February 2012
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My new Occupy Oakland field piece for Citizen...
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“A coalition of human rights and civil liberties experts announced today that...”
– via Sarah Knuckey, adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU
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“Hi Just an update on “Occupy Oakland”. They had an...”
– Full anonymous email from the Montclair Yahoo discussion group forwarded by the group’s Marleen Sacks to city of Oakland officials and local journalists on October 13, the 4th day of Occupy Oakland. Sourced from pages 129-131 of the Bay Area News Group’s massive PRA email dump.
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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.