The OccupyUSA Blog for Thursday (April 12), With Frequent Updates

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167360/occupyusa-blog-thursday-april-12-frequent-updates


7:55 Matt Stoller at Naked Capitalism: Income inequality worse under Obama than under Bush.

7:40 Cool story out of Okla City: "The recent financial rescue of the Panoply curiosity and vintage clothing shop helped give shape to Occupy Oklahoma's still-evolving purpose, organizer Brittney Guest said. Instead of merely occupying park space to stand against economic injustice in general, the local Occupy movement's protest took the form of a community gathering to raise several thousand dollars and turn away the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Store owner Lisa Ghariani said she doesn't know what she would have done without Occupy's assistance."

7:25 "Spring Awakening" day planned in NYC in Central Park this Saturday to attract new faces and families.

7:05 Know your rights! Gizmodo with "7 Tips for Recording the Police."



Task Force finally releases report on UC Davis pepper-spray incident, says it could have and should have been prevented. Read full report via link here. L.A. Times: "The study strongly refutes campus police assertions the band of Occupy demonstrators posed a violent threat and it also says administrators wrongly assumed that many off-campus troublemakers were part of the tent-city protest that officials wanted evicted. It details a chain of miscommunication and poorly timed efforts to remove the protesters, leading to the incident that gripped the nation via an online video showing campus Police Lt. John Pike spraying a line of seated students at close range. 'On balance, there is little factual basis supporting Lt. Pike’s belief that he was trapped by the protesters or that his officers were prevented from leaving the quad. Further, there is little evidence that any protesters attempted to use violence against the police,' the report stated."