Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

C(ee)N(o)N(ews) up to its old tricks

Occupy strike shuts Oakland merchants

Or at least this is what the link in the menu. When you actually link through, which most wont do, you find the article entitled:

Demonstrators carry out Oakland strike as protests continue

And it's full of all the tired tropes we've been hearing since Wall Street's media condescended to acknowledge that the occupation existed: they don't know what they want etc. I especially loved this part:

The General Assembly of Occupy Oakland, a loosely defined governing body of the protesters -- voted 1,484 to 46 last week to call the general strike, though it was unclear what the group's demands were.


Loosely defined? Governing body?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/02/us/occupy-demonstrators/index.html?hpt=hp_t2