I'd hope the Conference of Mayors would put their heads together on this. Quan most of all, stung by what her clearout wrought in Oakland and hoping other cities' protestors don't experience the same.

But I am surprised McGinn didn't participate. Maybe he doesn't think it would help Seattle to learn what other mayors are doing and thinking.

When dead bodies and raw sewage start showing up at the encampments, the party's over.

McGinn already got the OWS people out of Westlake a couple of weeks ago. And right now they are getting all the Christmas crap set up and ready for our annual celebration of buying cheap plastic shit from China!

So the point is....why would he need to be in on that phone call? And who really cares that much about SCCC anyway? There isn't a Barneys of New York or Tiffany's nearby.

Seattle was the vanguard on this... looks like Bloomberg is taking the Seattle route of barring "structures" in the park as a means of disenfranchising protesters.

So a bunch of mayors facing a similar situation get together to discuss possible solutions. Could simply be a smart use of shared expertise and ideas, or .... A CONSPIRACY!!!

WaPo is reporting ... Now ... On the 4.5 hour total media blackout of OWS.

Welcome to America!

The Syria of the First World!

@6: Oh, for fuck's sake.

Yeah, you go with that. The US is just like Syria. Because the NYPD is murdering hundreds of protesters. Hey, OWS, here's your spokesman, Will in Seattle.

8 credentialed journalists arrested

@ 6 Great job statements like that really help the OWS movement

What? Nobody did a Mic Check on the conference call?

@2: Dead bodies and raw sewage area part of normal city life.

When you can't handle it, party's over.

@7 you pick your Serf meme yourself, serf.

I just laugh at how gullible and naive you are, while the World Watches America become a Third World Banana Republic.

@11, how do you figure? I've lived in cities all my life, and I've never seen raw sewage, and the only dead body I've seen was my own father's, in a funeral home. One of the joys of living in a city is having organized services to take that stuff away. God bless our tax dollars.

@12, you're a fucking sitcom. You remind me of a stupider version of the armchair anarchist in "The Young Ones". Nice job capitalizing even the verb in your slogan there. Twat.

Pretty disgusting right?

18 supposedly independent political entities, united by nothing except for the word "city" decide to create a unified power bloc and attack their own citizens simultaneously.

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