Rumors surfaced on Twitter last night that Homeland Security was behind the seemingly coordinated evictions of Occupy encampments across the country. Details released during an interview with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan indicate the rumor may have some basis in fact.
Embattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she was on a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities shortly before a wave of raids broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country. “I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation. . . .”
Meanwhile, Occupy Boston is working to avert an eviction by local police with help from the ACLU and the National Lawyers Guild
The ACLU of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild, together with cooperating attorney Howard Cooper from the law firm Todd & Weld, have filed suit to preemptively prevent the kind of surprise police raid that we’ve witnessed in Portland, OR, Oakland, CA, and New York City this week from happening at Occupy Boston in Dewey Square.
