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The OccupyUSA Blog for Monday (April 16), With Frequent Updates
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167399/occupyusa-blog-monday-april-16-frequent-updates10:00 Part II of John Hanrahan's piece at Nieman Watchdog (and see below) on the media and lax coverage of Occupy. He helpfully provides "a good sampling of potentially significant anti-corporate and anti-militarism events that should draw the attention of major news organizations this spring."
9;30 Nicholas Lemann at The New Yorker on Occupy and the stubborn "politics of inequality."
9:15 Three arrested in Youngstown, OH as OWSers apparently join in protest at school where residents sign hundreds of gas/fracking leases with good old BP. ...
9:10 Another concert marks Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, this one in LA starring Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, John Doe, Joe Henry, Graham Nash, Kris Kristofferson, Van Dyke Parks. Here's dedication earlier in day of Woody Guthrie Square in L.A.