The OccupyUSA Blog for Wednesday (April 4), With Frequent Updates

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167201/occupyusa-blog-wednesday-april-4-frequent-updates

11:25 Good roundup (links, photos, testimony more) on Santa Monica pepper spray incident at BoingBoing,and see below.

10:35 Santa Monica students pepper-sprayed yesterday after disrupting board of trustees meeting. L.A. Times now confirms: Two taken to hospital, no arrests (they also have a TV video). Reportedly no warning. Board chair offers to pay medical bills of students injured. First video below shows immediate aftermath of the pepper-spraying, below that what led up to it and full chaos. Update from MSNBC: "Priscillia Omon, 21, claimed a police officer fired the spray into the mouths and eyes of people standing arm's length away, NBC Los Angeles reported. She said a family, including a 4 year old, were in the crowd when the officer used the pepper spray."

11:25 Good roundup (links, photos, testimony more) on Santa Monica pepper spray incident at BoingBoing,and see below.

10:35 Santa Monica students pepper-sprayed yesterday after disrupting board of trustees meeting. L.A. Times now confirms: Two taken to hospital, no arrests (they also have a TV video). Reportedly no warning. Board chair offers to pay medical bills of students injured. First video below shows immediate aftermath of the pepper-spraying, below that what led up to it and full chaos. Update from MSNBC: "Priscillia Omon, 21, claimed a police officer fired the spray into the mouths and eyes of people standing arm's length away, NBC Los Angeles reported. She said a family, including a 4 year old, were in the crowd when the officer used the pepper spray."

11:25 Good roundup (links, photos, testimony more) on Santa Monica pepper spray incident at BoingBoing,and see below.

10:35 Santa Monica students pepper-sprayed yesterday after disrupting board of trustees meeting. L.A. Times now confirms: Two taken to hospital, no arrests (they also have a TV video). Reportedly no warning. Board chair offers to pay medical bills of students injured. First video below shows immediate aftermath of the pepper-spraying, below that what led up to it and full chaos. Update from MSNBC: "Priscillia Omon, 21, claimed a police officer fired the spray into the mouths and eyes of people standing arm's length away, NBC Los Angeles reported. She said a family, including a 4 year old, were in the crowd when the officer used the pepper spray."





10:20 From the august Chronicle of Higher Education: the "archiving" challenges posed by OWS. "Even Occupy protesters who become convinced of the value of such archiving have rejected traditional relationships with the archivists, however. NYU’s library is working to collect and store materials from the protests, but groups such as Occupy Wall Street have refused to sign “donor agreements” that are common and grant the library permission to use the materials. That felt too much like a trapping of the traditional hierarchical organizations the group is protesting, says Mr. Besser." (h/t Barbara Bedway)

9:10 Catholic officials in San Fran assess damage to building taken over by OWS this week, call it "great," say money needed for nearby school where many poor students go now must be used for repairs. Truthout article on the takeover. Banner read "Empty Buildings Are a Crime" but Church says this one was far from abandoned.