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(photo: David Shankbone )Sunday was declared a “day of rest” by organizers of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Those participating in the occupation used the day to recover and re-energize their action in lower Manhattan.
Occupiers played music, discussed politics and became more organized. They also rejoiced at the fact that other cities continue to hold small protests that may grow into full-fledged occupations.
Videos of police intimidation, harassment and violence continued to appear on YouTube showing new angles and additional perspectives on what happened during Saturday’s march. Sunday also saw an upswing in media coverage of the protests, probably because of the police-created chaos.
Occupy Wall Street, which characterizes itself as the 99 percent who will no longer tolerate greed and corruption from the 1 percent, has grown into a powerful symbol of rebellion. Organizers say they hope to be in Zuccotti Park (Liberty Park) until October 6, when they will move to Washington, DC, to participate in another occupation being planned by October 2011.
What impact they have between now and then is hard to discern right now—and that should be perfectly acceptable. There is no reason for the occupation to define what success will or will not be, because they have already succeeded.
For one week, they have occupied Wall Street (or gotten as close as possible) and helped awaken the conscience of America. They’ve shown disempowered and disenfranchised Americans there is reason to hope for a society that does not let the top 1% decide everything.
Firedoglake’s live blog continues. Here is a Twitter list to follow for the latest from Occupy Wall Street. LiveStream and more pictures are below the fold.
LIVESTREAM OF OCCUPY WALL STREET VIA GLOBAL REVOLUTION
12:00 AM Spot light turned on the protesters in the park
The protesters have done one thing for America if they have not succeeded already in renewing a conversation about Wall Street and America’s financial system. They have given American an unvarnished look at how the security state of America operates and responds to dissent. The tactics for intimidating, harassing, spying and violating protesters is in many cases subtle and not pronounced like at a G20 protest but it still has the same effect. The police maintain a presence that gives the appearance that the protesters are a threat to law and order and that a patrol of cold-blooded Officer Bolognas and under-paid blue collar working class policemen are needed to stand guard 24/7.
11:23 PM Occupy Chicago again being hassled. This time 7 cop cars, 15 police have pulled up. Cops tell them they have to keep moving and can’t stay in one spot. They are talking to their lawyer for help so they don’t get shut down or arrested.
11:19 PM Lawrence O’Donnell’s segment on Occupy Wall Street. He covers the pepper-spraying incident.
O’Donnell says of one example of “unprovoked police brutality” in the segment:
The reason that man is being assaulted by the police is because of what he has in his hand. He’s holding a professional grade video camera. Since the Rodney King beating was caught on an amateur video camera, American police officers have known video cameras are their worst enemies. They will do anything they can to stop you from legally videotaping how they handle their responsibility to serve and protect you. So, this police commander has decided that the correct response to that man shooting video is to grab him and smash his head into a parked Volvo.
9:14 PM My report on the aftermath of the NYPD officer pepper-spraying protesters on Saturday.
8:40 PM LAPD riot police on hand for Occupy Los Angeles
8:32 PM Moore gave a speech (will post video when it is up on YouTube). The end of his speech focused on the reality that “all great movements start with just a few people.” He continues, “Whatever you do, don’t despair. You’re in the hard part right now.” And, “three months from now, six months from now, one hundred years from now,” those occupying will remember they came to the plaza and “started this movement.” He ends his speech with, “I am honored to be in your presence . Thank you.”
8:19 PM Michael Moore at Occupy Wall Street.
6:18 PM Evening march through the streets now. Probably getting as close to Wall Street as possible. @Korgasm_ got this video up instantly:
5:24 PM I think the media blackout is over. The media team for Occupy Wall Street can now help manage the press interest and setup interviews, etc, and others in the occupation can focus on building the power of the occupation.
3:29 PM “Goldman Sachs rules the world” – stock trader on BBC News
3:20 PM Occupy Chicago – a small but very motivated group – struggling with Federal Reserve police to stay outside of the Federal Reserve Bank and on what should be a public sidewalk. It seems like the police are saying they are loitering and they want to shoo them away for that reason. But, they have signs and are probably chanting and they are clearly protesting. They are trying to get legal assistance so they know if they have the right to stay in front of the building or not.
This is odd because a small group was out on Friday. No problems. And, again, the police get involved and numbers grow so police and/or security guards keep pestering protesters. It helps them.
3:15 PM A video for anyone interested in the police presence across the street from Liberty Park
1:07 PM Rapper Immortal Technique on Occupy Wall Street (video here)
12:20 PM New video for October 15 — a day where people will be out in the streets for a “global revolution”
11:31 AM Democracy Now! report on Occupy Wall Street entering its second week. Features Ryan Devereaux and Jon Gerberg
11:05 AM Livestream statistics from @GlobalRevLive: “Since #OccupyWallStreet start live video stats: 1 mil streams served to 231k people totaling 14.4 million viewer minutes.” Also, “1 million streams served, 76% returning visitors, average time 15 mins” and “67% of viewers are watching from the US.”
10:45 AM Collection of photos of Saturday’s march and arrests. One photo reportedly shows a PBS correspondent who was arrested.
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link:
http://roarmag.org/2011/09/chomsky-speaks-out-in-support-of-wall-street-protests/
pic:
http://twitpic.com/6qzs38
Thanks again, Kevin.
Anonymous leaks personal details of alleged Wall Street pepper spray cop.
LOL. Hell hath no fury like an angry Italian housewife. Have a nice evening, Officer Pig. (I’m half Italian, fwiw.)
Thank you, Kevin, for keeping this thread up to date. I don’t post on here much but this has woken me up to a lot of things that I had tried to ignore for a very long time.
NOLA getting going
Interesting juxtaposition that 60 Minutes last night reported on how NYC is so heavily armed and protected … because of 9/11 repercussions … that they even have the ability to “take out” aerial attacks!!!!! {Shhhhhh. We can’t say exactly how, though.}
All the more reason to be impressed with the protest and unimpressed with the “security” response.
Is it wrong to approve of this leak?
FWIW
Occupy Wall Street is the pre-game. That is what is becoming all too clear. They are laying the foundation that is necessary for October 2011 to be successful.
Mary, are you sure we want to post the person leak here?
Don’t forget the Global Oct15, too.
That’s so great. On my side/back channel that includes people involved on the ground in Greece there have been calls for volunteer American practitioners to support grassroots discussions during protests being organized for Los Angeles!!!!
New Global Revolution, Oct 15 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3X2VFruLM&feature=player_embedded
Lisa Derrick has informed me Anonymous agreed to no hacks because they “didn’t start Occupy Wall Street.” Someone doing this is just saying they are part of Anonymous. This, of course, is one of the main problems with Anonymous. Anyone can say they are undertaking an action and that Anonymous is behind it. And, when the major users or personalities that have made Anonymous such a powerful force challenge that individual, it creates tension and infighting but there is nothing that can be done. You can’t say this individual gets to be part of Anonymous and that person doesn’t.
Unconfirmed confirmation?
Yes, I can feel that. October 6 will be like one of those maps showing movements in WWII ~ when the ground troops moved from their initial positions to the central theater!
Let them try.
Whoever leaked it, I approve. Secrecy is what enables bad behavior.
Agreed.
I tend to think not. Why should anyone be able to remain anonymous when they commit a terrorist act against other humans? Although, it does make me feel uncomfortable.
That Bologna was named and exposed is important, and that was done last night without personal details leaked. Do you suppose the leak was done by a real anon or perhaps a sock agent?
He DESERVES a physical punishment. The cops and courts will most likely give him ZERO punishment. The leak will, at most, give him a humiliation punishment. A fair balance of justice and deterrence, seems to me. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy oof the good lol.
Yes, it is uncomfortable, because we actually care about such things. Our adversaries do not.
All’s fair in love and war. And economics, unfortunately.
FWIW
Very nice pushback to the “rules for thee but none for me” crowd!
The thing about twitter is the hashtags emerge and diversify so quickly it’s very hard to follow everything that is happening. This capacity of the twitter network is one of its great strengths which means it will naturally be resistent to attempts to “stamp things out” and if the Twitter people don’t understand this …. well, I don’t know what to say. It’s clear the Facebook people don’t understand their critter …
Reuters
Good morning
Funny, I just checked my Facebook account. Lately I have been getting twenty or thirty people a day to select as friends based on FB’s calculations. I got one today. And not one response to my query about FB censoring #occupywallstreet.
They’re reacting to pressure, IMO.
Facebook is censoring the comments about their censoring. I had a status update disappear yesterday.
One of their favorite phrases.
Morning, Oh sleep-deprived One!
Has anything leaked beyond Insp. Bologna’s identity been confirmed as accurate?
Good morning, TD. Hope you slept well, and are ready for another day of Herculean performance.
Actually, the link I provided didn’t give the details of the officer’s info, it only reported the story. (still feeling weird about it)
on edit: Common Dreams has the story up, too.
*claps for the overnight coverage*
It gave a lot of details. Click on the embedded link in the first papagraph.
I’m getting to old for this kind of struggle. I haven’t pulled all-nighters like this since I was a contractor for IBM a quarter century ago.
Is the park still occupied? Is the list still being updated and is there a link?
I don’t know. I didn’t even follow the link to the info upthread. I assume it’s correct, but that’s an assumption based on, well, nothing.
oh.
mzchief was backing me up so we wouldn’t miss much. Thanks, mzchief.
Park still occupied. Not sure what list you refer to.
And to mzchief! I’m afraid you are right about the clampdown coming in the wee hours. A number of things happened that you noted.
I had the same question.
I was thinking the link should not be up.
LS: trying to get a representative of the 1% to speak. Good luck with that.
I just worry about accuracy, mostly, I guess. Wouldn’t want the wrong dude to be pegged.
Reminds me of Howard Dean on TV when he was running the DNC saying that they had a poll in which 18% of the population thought they were in the top 1% (income). Might get one of those wannabes.
OccupyMemphis is up!
AlJazeera had a US inequality documentary, and they could only find a couple of 1%ers to go on camera. They asked one “Why won’t anybody else talk to us?” and the answer was “They’re ashamed. They know the game is rigged.”
Let me try to speak for them. Ahem…
Squeeeeeeeel! Oink oink! Wee wee wee!
Did I cover everything?
Alright, it’s really not okay to dehumanize them even if they’re evil. Sorry about that.
LOL!
Surely as worthwhile as anything they would have to say.
Looks like #Occupywallstreet needs new hashtags daily?
https://support.twitter.com/entries/101125-about-trending-topics
Kevin’s twitter list. But I went back two diaries and linked to it.
What’s this about Dylan Ratigan doing something at 4? Didn’t he dismiss the legitimacy of the action already?
It’s one thing to hold him accountable, it is another to involve others. If it is a “sock puppet” then pull the info most definitely.
Oh. I just bookmarked it a while back. Guess I should put it up on each thread?
Neither. I think someone did it but those who try to control what Anonymous stands for in situations were unable to prevent this person from taking matters into his or her hands.
I’ll get the list into the blog. It has become rather popular and I added 5-8 users this morning.
Vlad on LS had a spin on anti-social folks – some are paid, some are naturally antisocial. They’re part of a community and have to be dealt with. That brief segment as was buried in the midst of the attack on the LS last night. And dealt with the possible motives of the attackers. It more generally applies.
What was the attack on LS last night?
MoJo
“Those weren’t the only omissions—the entire 60 Minutes piece was practically an infomercial for Kelly. The segment marveled at the extent of the NYPD’s ability to monitor most of lower Manhattan by video camera, uncritically documented the random train stops where NYPD officers walk up and down the train staring at people as though a potential terrorist will simply crack and throw themselves at the NYPD’s mercy, and never questioned the wisdom of having thousands of officers carry around radiation detectors so sensitive they can tell when you’ve had chemo. The show wasn’t the slightest bit interested in examining how much of what Kelly was doing actually deterred terrorism, or how much of it might violate people’s basic individual rights. Reassuring everyone that not a single dollar spent on Keeping Us Safe is ever wasted or misused seemed to be the order of the day.”
Great, thanks.
Representin’ Yáll!
Woot!
The frequent outages of the LS were traced to the Verizon access point, according to Vlad. His theory at the time was that someone somewhere was trying to jam the IP address by duplication. See my comments from last night for the time (around 4:30am or so)
There was a study done about empathy and compassion compared to income level. And…working class folks have a lot more of both. In fact, empathy decreases as income level rises. Who knew?
Well, 911!!
Somebody kiss those cops!
Wow!
Uh oh.
Management OJT trains it out of anyone who wants to get ahead. And then there are those, regardless or background, who never had it in the first place.
Studies like that are not terribly useful unless they also report the variance. I suspect that it is pretty wide across incomes. It would be interesting to see the graph of the distribution studied–if there were enough data points in it. That would tell more than just the conclusion.
Appears Cops trying to roust OccupyChicago at the Fed.
http://trendsmap.com/topic/%23occupywallstreet
I wish I had a link, but I heard it on the radio — probably KPFK.
The operative words are “regroup” and “persistence”.
As these actions multiply and intensify, the necessity of quickly and thoroughly scoping out lots of details becomes more important. We just learned another question to ask. Fortunately a lot of jurisdictions have online property records that can give an approximate answer to property line questions.
IMO the real reason they won’t let them wear masks in NYC.
Army photographer
Anyone recognize the unit patch? Is it really US military or NYPD in fatigues?
Good idea? y/n?
Ding. Ding. Ding. Big Brother is watching you.
It’s not being singled out, though. We/they have to come up with a new hashtag daily to keep trending.
Probably means you CAN buy your friends lol.
Also:
#ourstreet
#ourpark
….
What’s the thing… Possee Commitatus or some such?
On twitter, appears @occupyaustin is sending a message to dm them apparently so that they can retain their twitter site. So this means someone else is contesting the site name?
Somebody needs to be the official decider/communicator of the hashtag of the day?
Yep. Wikipedia
National Lawyers’ Guild Chicago
http://nlgchicago.org/contact/
Mailing Address:
NLG Chicago
637 S. Dearborn Ave., 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone Number:
312-913-0039
E-mail:
chicago@nlg.org
(Somebody on Twitter please relay…)
No, sorting out who these folks are. They might not be federal military. Or even national guard.
Damn straight. American flags and a white shirt and tie.
Yup. AND they admitted this much: part of the program is to “show overwhelming support” …. [whether it actually exists or not, I add].
AND they can ask for people with “red shirts,” for example, to be tagged and then cameras all over the place start picking up video of people with red shirts on. Instantaneously. The pregnant spokesperson was thrilled.
It was REALLY creepy. And scarey: what if I were wearing a red shirt that day??????
http://twitpic.com/6r1ldz
That’s phenomenal!!!!!!
Throwing down the gauntlet to the top 1%
LS
Tweeted.
Yes. Twitter hashtags are a moveable entity anyway. There are always multiples. As far as I can see, you cannot ever identify one single hashtag that everyone is using, or even everyone involved, or even everyone “important.” It’s a feature, not a bug.
Twitter won’t let you send directly to someone unless they follow you, I sent out a message asking someone to relay the phone number. @OccupyChicago’s response to this (below) was that they got voicemail.
Oct6 “Stop the Machine” being promoted in a new way.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/OCCUPYDC-Oct-6-2011/164322683652471?sk=wall
Yeah, sorting out who they are. Keeps one on one’s toes, though.
Tweeted also.
You can @ people without being mutual followers, but you just can’t privately message them?
I sent the message via @OccupyChicago (publicly).
t-shirts should be printed on multiple colors.
Who is being interviewed on LS? I have no sound.
Looks like they got it (ref 100 above)
Calling all Doctors…
I am pretty clueless, but as I understand (?) it from the twitter help they won’t get it unless they are following you.
Edit: if there’s a way to send to them, I don’t know it.
Appears they got their site going:
I’m 99.9999% sure they’ll get it if they check their @’s, but just not as a *private* message.
IMVHO there are plenty of gov reps there to take pics. It would be clueless and stupid to send a soldier out in his uniform to take pics of the action.
Hope Asya
@nwbtcw Hope Asya
@NduguSumu Here’s a donation site https://www.wepay.com/donate/165154
for #occupychicago #occupychi
Yeah, your talking about a “reply” to a specific message they sent, right?
Might be using the protest as a training exercise for Army photographers or something?
Yeah, you can “@” anyone and send a publicly viewable message that way.
If you are following someone and they’re following you, you can message and reply privately.
Hope Asya
http://www.zazzle.com/egovsego
@nwbtcw Hope Asya
@LeftBehind_CNY This stores proceeds go to #occupychicago we can use all the help we can get
1 hour ago via web
(Those keychains…)
Can I get some opinions here in a safe place?
The pic floating around of “sexual assault” by an NYPD officer from Saturday is kind of bugging me.
While I think the way those cops were indiscriminately grabbing and throwing protestors around on Saturday was wrong and probably illegal, I’m not sure this was sexual assault. I’d like to hear from the victim before perpetuating the meme that the NYPD is sexually assaulting female protestors.
Any thoughts from you guys?
Here’s the pic…
I’d also add that in the case that this wasn’t sexual assault (which I feel can only be confirmed or denied by the victim), that claiming it was sexual assault can hurt this movement and detract from the message.
Or maybe I’m full of shit.
It may make us look a tad hysterical (“shrill”), which is one of the memes that the media keeps harping on.
IMO in the heat of the moment it would be possible for a cop to grab something he shouldn’t be grabbing without intent to do so. I think you are right about hearing from the young lady in question before making such a charge.
I hadn’t seen that. I vote for that counting as sexual assault, without question. Looking again.
I completely agree. There needs to be some kind of confirmation before I jump on this one. I don’t want to be accused of being a skeptic or not for the common goals, but this one is not so clear cut.
I’m with you – if it was intentional. If he was just grabbing protestors and shoving them out of the way, I don’t think it was sexual in nature. While probably illegal, not really sexual. IMHO.
I just don’t want the media to latch onto this and stray even further from the point. If this woman feels that she was sexually assaulted then I’m with her 100%. But from what I’ve seen these allegations aren’t coming from her. I’ve tried searching around a bit and looking for the origin of the pic and can’t find anyone saying “this was me, this guy assaulted me.”
OK, at first it looked like the hand was under her shirt, but the officer is wearing gloves. The fact that both of the police hands are directly over her breasts and she has a defensive don’t touch my boobs retraction of her arms close to her sides makes me think she perceived it as sexual. JMVHO.
In the full(er) video, she was really, really resisting arrest? I don’t think the pic is necessarily a fair description, either.
More video of her (pretty sure that’s her) starts here:
http://youtu.be/tLEIVMki0D8?t=2m4s
Check the video below. She’s pretty obviously fighting these officers and their hands slip/adjust to keep her under control.
Anywho – thanks all for your thoughts, opinions, and thanks athena1 for the video. That cleared things up for me.
I just didn’t want to start retweeting things about this to have it blow up in our faces.
Since I posted the photo in yesterday’s blog, let me make clear: I don’t know if it was sexual assault or not. I was just reporting on a graphic that had been produced.
Oh, I know. No worries.
I can’t sign into YouTube, go figger.
OT: Jane’s going to be on the Alyona show tonight!
Here’s the unit photographing (I think, check the insignia in color against the olive-and-black patch on the fatigues).
27th Infantry Division (ARNG)
I think this means NY National Guard.
Why? might be because Zucotti Park is easier to control that some public open spaces in Lower Manhattan. Someone who knows that part of Manhattan could comment.
“The state mission of the 27th Infantry Brigade is to maintain a manned, trained and equipped force capable of rapid deployment to any area within New York to aid civil authorities. Operations may consist of assistance for natural disasters, civil disturbances and other emergency situations beyond the capabilities of civil authorities.”
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/27th_Infantry_Brigade_%28United_States%29
That’s gonna go viral.
Did you ever see the movie Head Office (with Judge Reinhold, 1985)? There is a great bit in there where Reinhold’s character gives a brief interview about how corporations are in the business of making profits, they don’t care about anything else. It was shocking to the characters in the film because even though everyone knows it’s true, no one says it out loud.
This is the first time I have seen a similar moment in real life.
Imagine easier to control them and do surveillance. If they’re moving around, will be forced to hold more disruptive protests as they wouldn’t have the opportunity hang out in the park and hold many meetings. People would be coming and going, hard to differentiate between “activists” and general New York public. With them in the park, plenty of time to photograph and connect the dots.
Andrew W. Smith
@izombies Andrew W. Smith
#occupychi chi zoning says we have a right call non emer chipd at 311 if Feds kick us out.
5 minutes ago via Twitterrific
Wonder what’s been “fixed”?
Probably intelligence group inside needs a break.
I don’t know about that. I think most of Americas conscience is focused on X-Factor and such.
WOW.
That’s what I figured. It’s a safety and control measure. At least if they stay where they’re at the NYPD doesn’t have to deal with a migration and occupation elsewhere.
Binghamton, NY
Thanks for the unofficial poll of the occupants in your living room.
What did he say? I have no sound.
I think you’re right. If they’ve already set up for monitoring and have made containment plans it would be more work for NYPD if they moved out of the park.
My vote is for sexual assault – there was no reason to grab her where they grabbed her.
Not a fast typer, so I’ll paraphrase:
1. Europe is doomed and most people like him, an important stock trader apparently, are fairly confident about this.
2. People who work in the market love crashes, recessions, depressions because they can buy everything at rock bottom prices. Advises viewers to do the same if they can.
3. The governments can do nothing to stop the eminent global market crash because they don’t rule the world, “Goldman Sachs rules the world.” Says to get prepared now, could happen within 12 months.
4. BBC hosts sounded quite shocked and thanked him for his “candor”.
I hope someone posts a transcript, but to sum up, he said that Goldman Sachs rules the world, that traders know how to make money in a downward moving market, that in fact they dream of recessions, because they know how to make money in them, that governments can’t solve the eurozone crisis, that traders don’t care, and that millions will lose their savings over the next 12 months.
That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.
Gosh, I wonder why people are Occupying Wall Street ; )
You should watch the video @136.
I love the sign in that photo. That is all…
Atlanta GenAssy at 9pm Springvale Park Playground
OccupyAtlanta.org
Just in time to pile on the presidential election in the US.
Heh, I didn’t expect a personal attack. I guess we’d have to make it Cowboys vs. Redskins then.
Thanks phred and Username. Must watch tonight.
There was no use to keep being aggressive in the arrest. They grabbed and she kept saying don’t touch me. Instead of giving an opportunity not to resist arrest they pushed for the video of resisting arrest. What I would analyze is the extent to which women were randomly targeted for arrest. Making the protest scary for women, just like making it scary for families feeds the “riot” narrative.
If you google, yahoo, or bing “occupy wall street” you don’t get much and I got nothing from the NY Times but when I went to the NYTimes website and searched I got several current stories so are all the search engines censoring even the msm coverage?
I highly recommend it. It is stunning. And yet the trader doesn’t come across as a dick, he’s just being brutally honest. I’ve really never seen anything like it (aside from the aforementioned movie comparison : )
He and many other traders are going to make bank when the Euro crashes. Euro governments can’t help because (exact quote) “Governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.”
Are there any Cowboys fans or Redskins fans? I didn’t know…
Kevin
THANK YOU. If it were not for you than many would not even know about this. There has been a virtual media blackout on this. Now, because of your work, I visit the live feed every day.
As an update- THIS IS SPREADING.
PORTLAND, LA, CHICAGO and now I just received word- The MINNEAPOLIS FEDERAL RESERVE will be occupied October 7th. I was contacted and asked to be a Street Medic. Kevin, you may remember my live reports on Street Medic during the 2008 RNC in St Paul.
I did reports on Op Ed News.
Before myself and the other COTO folks were banned. Sorry, had to do that. I do the work I do in a very deliberate manner. This will be explained very soon.
I agree that they were more forceful than necessary(if detaining/arresting was just in the first place). The problem I am seeing is that people are concentrating on one image from the whole video and claiming it is sexual assault.
I kind of disagree with this tactic. jmho, fwiw. keep our eyes on the real perps that sent the guy.
Not even here, mostly on Twitter and other sites.
Goldman Sachs is evil. It makes a lot of sense that when prices of property and other assets including stocks plummet, the only peeps who have money to buy at fire sale prices are the obscenely wealthy.
I doubt that it was sexual assault but intimidation. Every man knows that women feel threatened when they are groped. Too bad she couldn’t use her knee.
The Occupy Portland Model
http://occupytogether.org/2011/09/26/the-occupy-portland-model/
(a report on how they organized; probably useful for other groups in early stages of planning)
I don’t approve of giving his home address. That brings his family into play, which is not cool.
However giving his name, rank and precint is acceptable to me, how eelse can victims include this info in their law suit? And how else can witnesses include this information in complaint to the Civilian Complaint Review Board
Complaint Hotline: 1-800-341-ccrb [2272]
Or website http://www.NYC.gov/ccrb
Kerrie Williams
@heykerrieannn Kerrie Williams
“@pHinkasaurus: we could use milk crates and other make shift seats and weights for tarps. @occupyChicago #occupychi #occupythehood
7 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
It’s the short selling they cash in on. I don’t know why it isn’t illegal, because it builds an incentive into markets to take down otherwise perfectly viable companies, and now countries.
How cool is that, huh? /s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agreatbigcity/6186061319/
Another sign I like- They only call it ‘class war’ when we fight back.
Decent article at HuffPo.
This is true. NYPD has let the occupiers remain in the park.
This is cool:
Edit: that is verified Boston Police acct
I could make it so it isn’t past tense. I’ll make it “awakening the conscience of America.” I’m sure you’d still be skeptical though…
photo:
http://yfrog.com/nvkx3mbj
The main thing I’ve been seeing the last two days is that Occupy Wall St has no clear raison d’etre. I understand doing things as a group but the end result is usually alphabet soup, no matter the situation. They need something as simple as saying they want democracy or they want an end to citizens united…Something to help unify those of us who support them but are not there with them and something the MSM can focus on.
Do we know the name of the school?
1) Liberty Plaza is right across the street from the World Trade Center construction site and that whole area is already very heavily controlled. So cops have means and methods already established.
2) it may also be that they are afraid that OWS will go after other properties owned by this real estate company if they are evicted from Liberty Plaza, and those other office buildings have some pretty big MOTU in them. The Landlord owns big chunks of WTC and also owns 1 NY Plaza down by the ferry terminal.
It the streets are much narrower and there are all these little alleys down there, it would be much harder to control the crowd and the effect on traffic would me more pronounced.
Or it could be some other reason.
My main takeaway is simple: they are expressing rage at the basic unfairness of corporate influence in our government and getting the societal needs of the other 99% met.
I think some are pushing for major campaign reform. fwiw.
I would agree with that. But from everything I’ve been reading online, it doesn’t appear at all clear to most people.
Ugh. Twitter binge. Get too wrapped up in it. Need to take a day off and just follow from afar through here.
It might be Murray Bergtrem HS which is right behind One Police Plaza, or it could be Styvesant HS which is on Chambers Street. Or it could that Catholic school on the edge of Chinatown about a block and 1/2 from One PP (might be called St. James?)
LOL. I understand completely.
No idea.
There’s an @OccupyVancouver and a fledgeling OccupySaltLake.
This is the tip of a very big trend. They, PTB, will play their cards badly. If I lived in NY, I would be there. At least feel like I was doing something. My hat is tipped to all who stand. I am as sure as the sun rising that all of us will have our day to stand. Not as heroes but human beings.
We, as Pete Seeger said, shall overcome in the end. Their day in the sun is ending. But it aint going to be pretty between now and that end when they eat themselves.
We are awake here in NoCal. Best back to you.
Wow. OccupySaltLake? booyah.
I hope to see a sign asking Orrin how he expects unemployed people to pay employment taxes…it actually makes sense once you drink enough champagne!
I would agree with that. They will have nowhere else to go to obtain their endlessly accelerating need for greater and greater profits.
The markets demand quarterly growth. Well, when that growth has been largely based on fraudulent bubbles (junk bonds, dot com vaporware, and mortgage-backed magical thinking), then there are only two ways to keep the jonesing markets rolling: ever new frauds or stealing on a massive scale from the rest of us. It appears they haven’t worked out a new fraud to sell, so they are coming for us…
And when they bleed us dry, empty the coffers of our governments, then what? Who gets to be King of the Mountain? Jamie or Lloyd? It can’t be both. But there is a lot of pillaging for them to do between now and then, before they wipe us out completely and need to turn their gold plated yachts into their own private frigates.
The victorious army wins first, and then goes to war, while the defeated army goes to war first, and then seeks to win. –Sun Tzu
I always root for protesters who are even remotely left-wing. But rooting for protesters, and thinking those protesters ever have a clear idea of what they are doing, are two different things.
People often ask, “What should we do?” or, “Okay, Eric, what would you do?” But those are the wrong questions.
The right question, invariably, is What do you want? Once you figure that out, the question of what to do usually takes care of itself.
I will concede that these protests have been more successful in terms of duration and intensity than I thought they’d be. But what results will they achieve? I think the answer most likely will be an increase in the repressive powers of the state.
At some point, everyone will go home. Maybe that won’t happen until after mid-October, but no protest can continue until the end of time; no one seriously expects these protests to last, say, five years. So given that they must eventually end, the important question is, What’s our exit strategy?
But you can’t have an exit strategy without sight of a larger, longer-term goal. And you can’t form an exit strategy once you’ve already begun the action. But you must have an exit strategy. And that requires long-term vision.
So the protests will eventually wind down, and then the forces of the state will go to work to beef up the security apparatus in preparation for the next protest. We’ve seen that already, just recently, in Britain. It won’t be any different here.
The only way to overcome this is through vision and strategy. That is, the left must finally grapple with the question of what it wants — not in vague platitudes like “a better world” or some such nonsense. Even the right wing wants a better world. You’ve got to actually specify what that world looks like, and explain in detail what makes it better.
Put another way … how many poor and working-class blacks have been part of these protests?
LOL That’s really broadening the tax base!
My Original Firebagger t-shirt shows a little in the picture. I am not sure if it’s the type of advertising Firedoglake wanted but we all can’t be Fabio.
A honest and well-written account of the events Saturday to go with some of the other great ones I’ve read and heard.
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/john-halle-covers-the-wall-street-protests/
In order to be able to articulate a clear vision, the left will need something it has spent the past 30 years running away from and condemning: ideology. This might even mean bringing out the “S” word or even the “C” word. Until the left is willing to believe in something, we won’t be able to present a credible vision for a new world.
The demand is the integrity of the process itself.
Even the alphabet organizations never bother to ask people what they think; they are propagating (marketing) a particular point of view. What has gridlocked politics is the marketing paradigm for political persuasion. So politics becomes competing products, and under that paradigm the folks with the largest marketing budgets have won. The contradiction is that that victory is destroying the social contract in ways that will eventually have consequences even on the 1%.
The process is experimental is that it is asking how exactly you deal with problems you are facing through direct social action, instead of depending on the technocrats and politicians in government and corporations to do it for folks. They have clearly shown that systemic and parochial demands are more important for their personal interests, and overcome any sense of personal responsibility for the commonwealth.
None of those specifics you name can occur until the fundamental process of political consensus-building is changed and the context made global.
Wow, I thought that WAS Fabio! :^)
Great shirt! I hadn’t seen that one before : ) I was foolish enough to pooh pooh membership-related loot, but an Original Firebagger t-shirt, well, that’s another thing entirely ; ) I need one of those…
Thanks. This does narrow it down but if I post in live blog will probably have to just say “high school.”
Should be at least some local coverage tonight.
That is when it gets really dangerous I think. I wish us all the very best. I am really emotional about all this. I truly love my country. I am very proud of all of you who fight so hard.
Our humanity and compassion are all we have in the end, and pray to hold on to those qualities, even in the face of all that will transpire.
I have so much to say, I must think we all do. This forum is full of very intelligent people, a breath of fresh air in a murky world.
So thank you.
Maybe Fabio’s cab driver.
There’s actually a clear and detailed vision on the table: participatory economics (click on my profile for links), which has been around for 20 years, but ignored by the left for class reasons (the left is a coordinator-class left, not a working-class left).
While I talk about the left figuring out what it wants — the left actually does want something, it just doesn’t realize it. What the left actually wants is it remove the capitalist class as the ruling class and install itself, the coordinator class, as the new ruling class.
That is, the left is the overseers, and it wants to kick the plantation owner out of the plantation house and take over the cotton-growing operations for itself — but it still wants to retain its working-class slaves to pick the cotton so it (the coordinator-class left) doesn’t have to. The left doesn’t believe this, and it would pass a foolproof lie-detector test to that effect, but based on its actions this is in fact exactly what the left wants.
But, as with battling alcoholism, the first step is to be brutally honest with oneself. The left needs to start being brutally honest with itself about its deep-seated classism — that is, if it actually wants to win anything of substance. As a first step, I recommend the left acknowledge the existence of the coordinator class as a third class in the economy (in addition to owners and workers).
The left routinely conflates itself and its interests with those of the working class. It does this reflexively and unconsciously. It doesn’t see its division-of-labor coordinator-class privileges and it doesn’t want to, just as whites usually don’t want to see their race privileges and men don’t usually want to see their gender privileges.
But the left has coordinator-class privileges, coordinator-class culture, and coordinator-class values. And it wants to unseat capitalists and replace them as the new ruling class, even if it honestly doesn’t believe or see this.
This is why working slobs would rather watch the NFL than join left-wing protests — it’s too painful for workers whose daily lives are ruled by a coordinator class they truly loathe.
WOOT! Representing the Firebaggers! BTW…if anyone orders FDL shirts, the sizes run very, very large.
Hell I was just going to give them money, but when I heard about the shirt they had me.
I can’t imagine occupy Redding, Ca. ha ha or Weed…Ca..it would be spliffy.
bad joke sorry.
In the late 60′s/early 70′s, we protested for peace, we protested to end the “war” in Viet Nam. This was the unifier and this is what the media was able to focus on. On the periphery were lots of other things but the main thing was the peace movement. We eventually turned the tide of public opinion against the “war”. In this completely corporate-owned MSM, a united central desire might get more coverage, might get more air beneath its wings.
What you call an exit strategy really needs to be a regroup and persist strategy. And there should be enough training, consensus, trust, and commitment to carry the movement forward. That’s a tall order. And requires a lot of deliberation in the general assembly process.
Most protests do not last because they are ad hoc or brokered by agreements of convenience of a loose coalition on the basis of an issue set. And because they do not adequately deal with the details of logistics, legal, security, march marshals, And because despite their intentions, a “vanguard” always turns out to have the quality of astroturfing if it focuses on issues rather than process.
There are some links from last night that examine what is going on (and it is invention and evolution of process instead of traditional practices of organizing). There is a TruthOut article with a title like #occupywallstreet is not just a hastag. There is David Graeber’s article in today’s Guardian (reposted at dKos), and there is the information at the general assembly web site nycga.net.
Well said, Twice Tarheel @218, @225.
You said “What has gridlocked politics is the marketing paradigm for political persuasion. So politics becomes competing products, and under that paradigm the folks with the largest marketing budgets have won. The contradiction is that that victory is destroying the social contract in ways that will eventually have consequences even on the 1%”
and you said it very well. I agree completely.
or Shreveport, LA
Of course it gets dangerous. We are opposing entrenched power, and we should do our personal assessments of how much risk we want to take accordingly.
Gandhi’s principle still holds. “First they ignore you. Then they make fun of you. Then they fight you. Then you win..”
For now, #occupywallstreet has won a symbolic public space in which anyone who considers themselves the 99% can come and deliberate on what needs to be done. And there is a personal decision that goes with that of how much one is willing to do.
That’s what makes FDL such a great place — the sparkling conversation. And now of course, the awesome t-shirts! ; )
And carpenterpoetzz… yep, I ponied up for the membership, I just somehow overlooked the fashion possibilities ; ) Now I have to go to Jane, hat in hand, and ask nicely I guess ; )
War is an easy problem to identify and oppose. In this case — Occupy Wall Street — the problem is complicated and loaded with all kinds of nuance. Who *really* understands what Goldman Sachs is doing inside its glassy towers, and in a virulently capitalist country with a unique history of economic thought, Americans have a lot of baggage that prevents thinking about the class divisions between rich and the rest of us. Just sayin’
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Carpool-to-Occupy-Wallstreet/222614057794752
link to carpooling to #occupywallstreet
You’re right. Although I think that baggage is quickly being reduced (over the last 5 years) to carry-on. Perhaps this should be presented as war against the monied interests’ takeover of our democracy, then, since war is an easy problem to identify and oppose. At the least, it is an interesting train of thought.
IIRC the first theme the activists had was take money out of politics. There was some discussion on these threads and many thought that theme was too narrow. I liked it, myself, but I believe the movement needs theme more broad like wealth disparity. Of course, that theme requires snappier language.
Gotta run – thank you all for your enlightening comments. I love the fresh air I get to breath at the Lake! :^)
The first of those institutions is being established; the general assembly.
It stability and justice have not yet been guaranteed. What are some of the principles and practices that need to be applied to a deliberative body to ensure its justice and stability. (Note that Congress fails both of those at the moment; it is threatening its own existence.)
Also check my “Support #occupywallstreet” for some other resources. In particular the NYCLU’s palm cards about demonstrating in New York.
I left for a few hours and come back to 3850 tweets lined up for #occupywallstreet.
http://twitpic.com/6r3y97
I’ve been thinking “the whole enchilada” might be a good answer to “What are you protesting?”
I’m being completely serious, too.
The diary is here:
Action: Support #OccupyWallStreet: Catalog Organizations to Build Support in NYC
On the whole “demand” issue (at the risk of repeating myself from a prior thread):
The point is not to make concrete demands/proposals at this point, the idea is to build a movement. If someone demands a demand (heh) then it should be simply “change the system.” With the right track/wrong track numbers at their worst since the beginning of 2009, why not?
We don’t want to get bogged down with specifics, especially since no one is going to seriously consider them until the movement gets a hell of a lot bigger.
Yeah, I’m with that.
https://twitter.com/#!/jeffrae/status/117652074031890432
good pic from the early evening march:
http://twitpic.com/6r472y
Video of march presently in progress!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahBIsoiSEI
The problem I see with specifics, in addition with what you list above, is that all of the people involved don’t necessarily agree on all of the issues at hand.
Forcing confrontation on the General Assembly identifying specific demands could cause splintering. We don’t want that.
If #occupywallstreet is going well and building, shouldn’t they stay and keep the pressure on there, letting it build, rather than disappearing into the crowd in DC?
I see you said basically the same thing more succinctly at 241. Agree.
From listening to GA meetings, the problem isn’t not agreeing on specifics, but rather the sheer, overwhelming number of things everyone does agree on as being huge problems, it seems. There’s Just. So. Much. Wrong.
I’m sure many will say. The Oct6th thing has been planned for months and months, tho.
It’s a feature, not a bug…
I’ve stepped back a few times over the last 2 years or so and just admired the sheer genius of the PTB. They’ve managed to fuck up everything. There’s nothing they’ve left out.
I imagine it’d be next to impossible to identify one issue everything can agree is of the most import.
Your energy and enthusiasm are unflagging and so contageous. You have all been working so hard to keep us informed that you must be worn pretty thin, but you and Yellowsnapdragon are still positively exuberant!
Exactly, so prioritizing the reforms that need to me made is almost impossible to do by consensus.
Do both. We can fart and chew gum at the same time.
Maybe: the oligarchs?
lol
Aw, shucks. Props to TarheelDem. He takes the night shift with mzchief.
That’s right. It cannot be predetermined. This is a process. That’s how committment is built from the grassroots. That’s where the numbers will come from.
Aww… thanks.
I think I’m just using my OCD for the powers of good! lol.
*bowing deeply to all of you* !
Totally.
Now THAT is a movement!
I cannot help feeling that being told we must have a “demand” all worked out before we protest is actually a stalling and diversionary tactic.
The other side uses broad (meaningless) demands like reduce the size of government. And look at the chaos they create. They are never challenged to come up with a reasonable “demand.” Why should we? Not that I don’t believe our demands to change and fix the whole mess are not reasonable. “Stop lying” would be good.
Which brings me to the other problem. Things that depend on the PTB to do the right thing for the people, like “take the money out of politics” or “stop lying” are useless. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING WE DEMAND.
They are only going to act when they feel our power is greater than theirs, and hence, I am sorry to say that is comes to this, that they feel threatened. That’s what the rise in police action and security is about.
The bottom line is this is about what we can do to make our power known AND act independently of the system, like community sharing and moving our money.
Agree.
Great comment. Props.
unconfirmed?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agreatbigcity/6187020730/
Yep.
http://twitpic.com/6r4jr9
NOw it is at 4472!
Link is worth clicking:
https://occupywallst.org/article/Officer-Bologna/
NBC coverage NOW!
Edit: OK, now over. (~2 mins)
I just popped in to tell everyone the same thing – right there on nightly news, NBC! FINALLY!!!
Well …. CNN has inside the Washington Monument during the quake.
It’s a *metaphorical* take …
Absolutely agree. What one sentence sums up the Tea Party’s “demand”? There isn’t one and one has never been expected from them. Double standards, just like how it only takes a handful of them to warrant media coverage, how they’re constantly discussed as a major component in political negotiations by the Very Serious People.
Cool. Thanks.
Hoping for a longer piece, but at least they did something. Probably the first a lot of people have heard of it.
Yes, we have to play this game as we find it, not as we wish it were played (fairly).
Major networks fucking led with that ancient shit.
Agree.
It’s a very important breakthrough!
Now CNN is reporting on the Taliban Turban Bombs! Geez Louise!
Awesome!
I also love that Detective Pepper Spray was outed. As long as it’s the right person, it’s good.
Wow, what Immortal Technique had to say at OccupyWallStreet in this video was great. I noticed the hand signals of agreement common for consensus-based meetings.
Our one demand: Listen to the frigging 99%.
IOW, the channel of communications to DC are working backwards. Yeah, that works real nice for the 1%.
The Super Committee pols have received a total of 41 million in donations from 1%’ers.
One demand: “Real change”?
Ie, not a meaningless political slogan.
Tough.
Imagine that demand is appealing to authority too much. May fly in a crowd of just liberals, but…
Yes. And justify/answer things like “why are we cutting schools and bridges over here while we are (re-)building schools and bridges over there that we spent money blowing up?
But they can’t of course.
If the numbers are built carefully, they will be able to do both because the daytime people can supplement either location for a day or two.
Great vid.
Kevin says up top that there are news crews all over the place now!!!!!!
Twitpic.
Michael Moore is on the livestream.
He’s on LS now.
What’re you drinking?
And 300!
pic
Good point. Maybe it’s: “Get out of the frigging way; we’ve got this.”
Just letting some punchiness loose.
Michael Moore is on the People’s Microphone now.
“I want to see a perp walk!”
“Tax them!”
Tax them!
Continuing on the People’s Microphone …
“There’s only 400 of them.”
“All we have to do is to realize how much more power we have than they do.”
“Our power is derived from all the people, all the people!”
That was great!!!!!!!!
God bless Michael Moore.
I love that guy.
I love to do math.
Good on him for going to the Park.
Wonder if he is going to be on Count Down tonight?
he looks thinner than the one that pepper sprayed the two young women who were kettled.
On the Global Revolution …
Sequences from personal interviews including that of the Raging Grannies.
The LS will resume.
OT– Ottawa, Ca: “Pipeline protesters cross barricades on Parliament Hill” (CTV.Ca, video, Sept. 26, 2011)
Is there a direct link to the video being aired on the LS right now. This one is great. First time I’ve seen it.
On Global Revolution … prior video of OccupyChicago … prior photographic still of student occupation of the Greek TV station in Athens but sounds like new audio. Someone grab the email if it’s given again on the audio as yesterday they ask for people around the world to write them.
TAX THEM!!!
Here it is–
Email: info@stopcartel.org
Website: http://www.stopcartel.net/main.html (Greek and English; carrying the Global Revolution LS)
Username, is the one you’re asking about the video with the protestors and the police and the industrial/electronic/techno backing track? If so, this is a youtube link to it.
Faceoff at 55 Wall Street
Michael Moore’s email today says he is going to be on CNN and CNNHN tonight ~ Piers Morgan AND Joy Behar.
On Global Revolution …
Part of the video of Michael Moore’s visit to Liberty Park on now.
Expect more of this. And expect some of these folks to disruptive during the general assembly. It’s a sign that some somebodies are worried at the strength and persistence of this movement. The smears come under the heading “They make fun of you.” The disruptions are a light form of fighting.
The way the method works is that these folks will have to participate honestly or they will eventually leave.
Photos of Ottawa Action (Sept. 26, 2011)
Did someone just knock their site down? Nothing is loading.
Prior video clips playing (e.g. Immortal Technique rapping on-site last night). LS will resume. Video sequence of Michael Moore speaking on the People’s Microphone up now.
No, it was artsy, had a lot of interviews from people why they were there, showed clips of people sleeping, guy who was a vet and worked for a lawyer who is about to close, guy with glasses who is in massive debt.
Olbermann just had interviews with people from OWS.
It was the video right before OccupyChicago.
“kids” KNEW IT. JUST TRUSTAFARIAN KIDS!!! EVEN MICHAEL MOORE SAYS SO! /rightwingtroll
LAPD
Hells yeah.
With all this media attention and 17 million ppl in NYC, it says a lot about what we’re up against when there aren’t thousands there right now. Just have to stay persistent and keep going, try as best as possible to reach people and get them involved despite the obstacles.
Oh, if you find a link to it, can you post it here?
Occupy Wall Street Los Angeles live stream ( also on webpage http://occupylosangeles.org )…
Chant: “Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Los Angeles”
Facebook.Com/OccupyLA
Ah, predictable riot loving LAPD (at least the “white shirts” who make that decision). To see the glee on their faces as they had the chance to dust off and put on their dehumanizing costumes.
Was Ryan Devereaux one of them?
Not into that chant. “Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Los Angeles.” Doesn’t LA have a financial district?
Between the Twitter list, the livestream, and this site, I’ve got so much going on that I couldn’t tell which end of the tubz was weighted down without my system monitor up.
The entire net has been funky recently in general — or at least in my sector of it.
The “Sam Yorty Memorial Unit” no doubt.
Hope they’re planning what to do if they’re kicked out. Still people saying the owners want them out in 1-2 days. The next nearest large open places are Bowling Green and Battery Park.
Hollywood.
Ah, nothing like a little police brutality to get the media interested…
LS back up … General Assembly underway.
Eagainst.Com has been covering Greece. A video montage about the Greek situation.
Here ya’ go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWInp75ua0&feature=player_embedded
Global Revolution video funky (toggling between video image and “Lost Signal”). From the LS text crawl … 67% of the LS viewers are from the US, 5% from Canada.
I didn’t say that. But I said the media blackout is over. I am sure news crews are coming and going along with reporters though. I don’t know how much press is parked on the streets around the park.
Hi Everyone. I’ve not been able to help with live blogging the past two days, but have been checking in.
It has just occured to me that at times when something important is happening the camera or sound goes out in NY. I’ve also noticed how there is always a person that needs to come up and charge a battery or move something at the media station. Has anyone else noticed that?
I should have said: People/persons come up to charge or move the camera at the times of something important going on.
This was discussed late last night. The media team is operating in a challenging environment and are working to keep the coverage “up time” and quality of coverage as high as possible.
OT– ‘Major Human Rights Report Affirms That Sexual Abuse by the Clergy is “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment”‘ (CCRJustice.Org, Press Release, Sept. 26, 2011)
Surprising number of celebrities seem to be following #occupywallstreet
I think in the livestream chat they mentioned that they’re using a Sprint aircard for the stream. It’s got enough bandwidth, but the downside is that it is erratic.
There are several things going on. The battery changes occur at pretty regular intervals. The loss off signal an loss of streams seem to trigger a backup server, which when then lost, triggers another until the signal and stream are restored. There is likely some DoS attacks going on. The interviews at night are pretty much uninterrupted. So the problem seems to be content-related. I haven’t detected any action at the media table causing outages except when they switch to walk around instead of sitting at the table.
MMoore speaking earlier via LS http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c_5Jp-CP-4A h/t to WaronError’s DKos diary http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/26/1020466/-UPDATED:-Listen-to-Michael-Moores-Speech-at-OccupyWallStreets-Liberty-Square-
See comment 179.
Oh no. I wasn’t speaking of the media team changing or charging. I was speaking of other people coming up to the media table wanting to charge a battery or sit on the table. Sorry. Yes, I understand how hard it is for them with no real electric and the elements of bad weather.
Yeah, I was wondering if they’d switched from Verizon to Sprint as a result of the spoofing attempts. I also wondered if the Verizon truck prompted a switch. But I’m just observing the chat – getting questions answered is nearly impossible except when Vlad or someone sits down and has the mods freeze the chat and scan back.
Good piece in the Guardian re the pepper-spraying – gives details of the other civil rights violation the officer is up for.
Seems well balanced. Also quotes a protester saying she heard other police saying ‘I can’t believe he just f’ing maced her.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-anthony-bologna
Edit: Sorry, having real trouble adding the link for some reason.
Second attempt at posting link.
OT– WikiLeaks: Obama’s Hiroshima visit not recommended in 2009 (NHK, Sept. 27, 2011)
Japan trying to calm China over Fukushima and restore trade (NHK, Sept. 26, 2011)
#OccupyWallStreet fundraiser
Nobody’s bought anything yet
My wife worked her butt off on the designs and it took us hours to figure out how to get hold of someone from the Media Center on the phone to approve the store.
Please contribute if you can, folks. Cool merchandise and ALL of the proceeds go to #OccupyWallStreet general assembly and media center.
You know, most of the time I think O’Donnell is a useless tool, but he actually got it right this time. After ignoring the story for over a week, that is. As always, “If it bleeds…”
Lawrence O’Donnell trying to be just a smidge less toolish.
Don’t get me wrong, I still think he’s a mostly useless tool.
Some music for the revolution?
They have now…
Chicago folks getting hassled by the cops – series of tweets – 15 cops in 7 cars
You rock!
Comic relief: “Whadda Ya Mean … BE the cheezburger??” (photo)
I actually laughed out loud! Thanks for that.
Tweeted:
From Global Revolution …
Video playing of Barrett Brown @barrettbrownlol on corporate spying exp0sed.
Update
Thanks! We just learned that they only drawn down profits and snail mail a check once a month at cafe press, so I think what we’ll do is just donate daily through the NYCGA.org site based on whatever profit is made at the store.
Lawrence O’Donnell YouTube supporting OWS
This is actually a real indictment of police brutality.
Coterie TV
@CoterieTV Coterie TV
Occupy Chicago [Day 4] – Fed tries to kick protestors off sidewalk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1X7KtmYu_k&feature=share
#occupychi #occupywallst @occupychicago
Jeeze. Walk away from the tubes for a couple little hours and Michael Moore shows up to yaps on the People’s Mic.
Wait – is Kevin in Chicago?
I think he was pretty much in on Occupy Chicago from the get-go there.
(If I’m remembering right… been following posts here since the 17th.)
IIRC he is in Chicago. Not at the site AFAIK.
Wow! He did a GREAT job!
Alright folks. I’m out for the night. After only 3+ hours of sleep last night I’ve got some catching up to do.
I’ll see you all in the morning.
I think he went to the kickoff day to see how things were going.
Sleep deprivation is a bitch. Pleasant dreams.
Really! Hadn’t noticed it was posted above at 362, but that’s the nature of blogs, duplication, OK. When you post the term “police brutality” (appropriate in this case IMO), we lefties take notice. And that’s good, too.
Kansas City GA
Hey– you tried.
i had seen it at 362 but what you said about it made me want to click on it and i’m glad i did.
Thank you. Presentation is important!
We have @OccupyPhilly.
No update from @OccupyChicago, wish them well!
3503 viewers on Global Revolution and 95 viewers (is that all?
) on Occupy Wall Street Los Angeles.
“This Is It” – Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald and Dave Koz (sax) live at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium
Brett Heinkel
@bheinks Brett Heinkel
We’ve been offered a compromise, whereas we’ll be permitted to park alongside the reserve and sleep in said parked cars #OccupyChi
2 minutes ago via web
Yes. MIA — I’m going to go down and talk to them. Shoot a couple interviews and get their story. They are heroes for sticking around and trying to build something in front of the Federal Reserve bank.
You bet your bipper!!!
NY Times Letter to the Editor
Revolution juke box: “Turn Me Around” – Kenny Saint Brown (Nigeria) and Dagrin (Nigeria)
Alyona (from Russia Today) clip up on Occupy Wall Street Los Angeles.
“Occupy Wall St. ‘We all know we’re robbed by the banks’” (Alyona Show, Sept. 27, 2011)
That’s great! OK, not being a night person I leave it to y’all to let us know what happens at the barricades tonight.
Give ‘em hell in Portland!!!
following#occupywallst
#maxbunko
new tweeter anyone near Redding, Ca
Occupy Chicago Ustream
From Occupy Chicago (Sept. 26, 2011, can’t tell the time of comment:
We will in the wild weird land of wet.
self organization as opposed to government is a wonderful quality we humans possess..egalitarian at its best.
Santa Cruz getting started
Chicago update- good news!
Edit: the CPD (or at least these officers) may realize that they are part of the 99%!
OccupyArkansas getting set up.
I just saw that!
Everyone go here and click the like button!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Arkansas/216470221751122
Good (early) morning!
You can see from above that OccupyChicago has some issues with CPD that were happily resolved.
OK, I’m gonna bail. Sleep deprivation is the enemy, after all. Twitter feeds are mostly retweets.
Good night, in solidarity.
OT– “Over 200 arrested at Ottawa tar sands protest” (rabble.Ca, Sept. 27, 2011)
OT– “China, Pakistan to cooperate in fighting terrorism” (NHK, Sept. 27, 2011)
“Japan, China and S.Korea set up cooperation office” (NHK, Sept. 27, 2011)
Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday announced that his government will perform DNA profiling of the bodies buried in unmarked graves in the State (The Hindu, Sept. 27, 2011)
British Soldiers in Afghanistan Shown ‘War Snuff Movies’ (Independent [Uk], Sept. 25, 2011)
the power structure is morphing. No wisdom in us gov. they seem locked in a paradigm that is doa. Tbags, gop, and dems are blinded.
This violence to gain resources is so not the path.