Schools Matter: Naomi Wolfe on How the Feds and Oligarchs Teamed to Crush #OWS

Schools Matter: Naomi Wolfe on How the Feds and Oligarchs Teamed to Crush OWS:

Naomi Wolfe on How the Feds and Oligarchs Teamed to Crush OWS

by Jim Horn

Wolfe, writing for the Guardian. Read it and wonder why, not, why the NYTimes or WaPo did not want this story:

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.

But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. The National Union of