Cities Across the Nation Are Comparing Notes on Occupy Protests
On November 10 officials from several cities nationwide held a conference week to compare notes on their respective Occupy protests, but a spokesperson for Portland's mayor insists there's no conspiracy to end the movement. The existence of the call was revealed by Oakland City Mayor Jean Quan, who told the BBC on Tuesday (around the 5:30 mark), "I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation where what had started as a political movement and a political encampment ended up being an encampment no longer in control by the people who started them."
Quan's quote immediately sparked speculation that the city mayors had been colluding on the recent wave of crackdowns nationwide. In the five days since that phone call, police have either raided the Occupy camps or ordered them to be moved in New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, Portland and San Francisco. On Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told The L.A. Times that his department is working on a timeline to close
