Oakland's air headed Mayor Jean Quan has had enough of Occupy Oakland and she's going to take action. She is going to call the national leadership of Occupy and ask them to denounce her local lodge because they are not nonviolent. Yeah that ought to fix it. Maybe she could call their mothers too.
Quite understandably the mayor has come under scathing criticism for her inept handling of the Occupy movement. First Mayor Quan gave city employees a day off to participate in the protest. A few weeks later she ordered her police to clear the Occupy dregs from their encampment and then apologized to the protestors and blamed her own police force for the violence and one serious injury that occurred when a protestor was struck in the head with a gas grenade. The mayor has put he finger on the reason for the criticism;
"I think it is a different time, I think it is how the media plays it. There is also probably a little misogyny and a little racism, when I looked at what happened in terms of how the national media portrayed it, and how Occupy's internal media portrayed it."
That's the trouble. She's getting bad press because she's an oriental woman.
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