The OccupyUSA Blog for Friday (April 13), With Frequent Updates

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/167382/occupyusa-blog-friday-april-13-frequent-updates


10:40 Allison Kilkenny just posted on continuing rise of "sleepful protest." It's true that it's easy, and often legal, for cops to clear a major camp but hard as hell to do it with countless sidewalks (and often legal rights) to observe.

10:30 Tom Hayden on Democracy Now! on protest then and OWS now.... Appeal pending, but OccupyLouisville willing to re-locate...Bradley Manning Support group posts excerpt from my new book (with Kevin Gosztola)...

10:20 The Guardian with new video on 7 month history of Occupy.

9:15 Naked Capitalism: Forget "pink slime" -- see how "green slime" helps wreck the economy, via Bill Black. "Green slime drove the current crisis, just as it did the Enron era frauds and the second phase of the S&L debacle. Studies of 'liar’s' loans have shown their fraud incidence to be 90% — they are virtually all fraudulent. The Orwellian term that BPI used to disguise the nature of pink slime was Lean Finely Textured Beef. The Orwellian term the industry favored to disguise the nature of green slime was Alt-A.”


8:55 ACLU calls for Denver police ban on pepper ball guns...

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