Spotlight Marginalia | The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

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futuresushi:

Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.

To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Our system of government prohibits the creation of a federalised police force, and forbids federal or militarised involvement in municipal peacekeeping.

I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy

Here’s some more from later in the article

The mainstream media was declaring continually “OWS has no message”. Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online “What is it you want?” answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.
The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.

No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

sigh

This is fucking awesome. This means we’re winning. And without the aid of common media. No wonder they’re trying to pass a SOPA bill asap that allows corporations to take sites offline without trial or charge, they know how we’re doing it.

Keep fighting the good fight.

For all the people who insist that Occupy Wall Street has no message.

Important read. Important that the rest of the world is spreading this around, even if can’t be here. Maybe this starts an age of people getting their news from outside msnbc/cnn/fox?