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The OccupyUSA Blog for Thursday (March 29), With Frequent Updates
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167104/occupyusa-blog-thursday-march-29-frequent-updates9:05 Anti-Flag out with "The General Strike," of which Wired today says: "Few bands could compose a convincing soundtrack for our apocalyptic election year and the slow-blooming Occupy spring. But Anti-Flag’s The General Strike suits these chaotic times, delivering a bracing sonic snapshot of a superpower off its rocker." Video:
8:30 Occupy Idaho Falls votes to back that national conference of Occupyers in July and other OWS "reform" moves.... Claim: Obama following Occupy economic policies. Following...at a distance?... Another update on yesterday's free-the-subways chaining in NYC yesterday (and see below)... TV interview with Francis Fox Piven on Occupy and the future of social movements.
7:55 My new book on the Bradley Manning case, with my former Nation intern Kevin Gosztola, just out today in print as well as e-book. Titled "Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning," it covers the saga right up to the court martial proceeding in recent months, right up to last week.