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The OccupyUSA Blog for Friday (May 4), With Frequent Updates
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167712/occupyusa-blog-friday-may-4-frequent-updates9:10 New numbersLUnemployment drops to 8.1%, 115,000 jobs added. Despite 15k lost in public sector to austerity.
9:00 Sabrina Tavernise, writing on front page of NYT today, actually claims that Obama's race since becoming President has been a very small factor. She refers, for example, to those who find Obama's race a factor as "small part" and "small minority of voters." So I guess the fifty percent of GOPers and Tea Partiers in polls awhile back who said Obama was not born in U.S. weren't motivated at all by race.
8:15 Editorial at long-runnng AmericaBlog challenges Occupy on violence, on "fetish" of leaderlessness, on need for more teach-ins, and more....
From late Thursday
Jamie Dimon admitted today that Occupy has "some legitimate complaints" but the JP Morgan Chase chief quickly added "however, that it’s unfair to paint all institutions with one brush: 'It was everyone guilty. That’s another form of discrimination.'” He also added: "When things go wrong, finance gets blamed." Poor guy. Well, not exactly poor....
John Knefel at AlterNet: When mainstream media coverage of Occupy fell off--so did their focus on income inequality and such issues... Truthout: Homeland Security posts more Occupy-related docs revealing surveillance.