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As the occupiers in Liberty Park begin to confront the reality that their movement is now mainstream for liberal organizations or groups and something Democratic Party operatives may want to manipulate to help President Barack Obama win re-election in 2012, hundreds of people have taken over Freedom Plaza in DC. Legally, with permits, they hold down the plaza from now until Sunday is over. They are calling attention to corporatism and militarism, using the general assembly to plan out how they will organize and grow the occupation and they are occupying this federally-owned park.
Last night was peaceful. A large pizza delivery happened late in the night. They slept in the plaza. If the park police did anything, they merely hassled them. There was no effort to evict any of the occupiers from the park.
The action, October 2011, was planned well-before Occupy Wall Street ignited a wide movement in this country. There was an Occupy DC group in McPherson Square when this began. Organizers have reached out to them so they are part of October 2011. And, the organizers are incredibly grateful for how Occupy Wall Street and other occupy actions have created a climate much more conducive to carrying out a successful occupation action in the nation’s capital.
Today, DC occupiers will be going to General Atomics, a manufacturer of drones, to protest the “unmanned assassination vehicles” they produce. These are, of course, used to get around affording human beings due process. People are put on a “kill/capture” list and they are taken out without any chance to prove their innocence.
After the drones protest, they will be going to the Ronald Reagan Building for what should be a massive demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline. The final hearing on the pipeline is today and occupiers have been line-sitting all night for a spot for protesters to attend the hearing tomorrow.
LIVE STREAM OF DC OCCUPATION IN FREEDOM PLAZA
LIVE STREAM OF OCCUPY WALL STREET
4:08 PM Report: After the protest against drones at General Atomics, I headed back to Freedom Plaza to upload photos. The photos in the blog here are the few I took during the march. I have video that will be going up soon.
I uploaded some media and at 1 pm Ryan Cook and Jon Walker joined me for what we thought would be a march to the State Department. The march went by the Ronald Reagan building where the final hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline was being held. When we went by, we saw workers in orange shirts from Liuna, who have been indoctrinated into believing the corporate lie that this pipeline is going to create “family supporting jobs.” 350.org was out and we spotted Bill McKibben. We tried to get Bill for an interview but he walked into the building (perhaps to testify) and we asked someone in a No Pipeline T-shirt to tell us about the hearing.
We rejoined the march and headed past the Washington Monument and down past the World War I memorial. It became clear we were not headed to the State Department and that I had made a mistake. But, it really was hard to tell what was going on. We realized we had followed the march to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial for a press conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. We livestreamed part of that press conference.
We left the press conference and headed back to the Reagan Building to try to find some people leaving the hearing but it was 2:50 pm by the time we arrived so we went back to Freedom Plaza. Kevin Zeese, lead organizer of October 2011, introduced us to some indigenous people who will be greatly impacted if the pipeline is built. They traveled all the way here to testify at the hearing.
You can watch that video by clicking on the player below.
12:48 PM Going to live stream from protest against Keystone XL pipeline
12:45 AM Photos from the march against drone and rally on the steps of General Atomics
12:42 PM Of the encampment this morning:
7:40 AM
7:30 AM “Wall Street Protests Disgusted with Both Parties” (from NBC New York)
7:25 AM In case you missed it: Michael Moore telling occupiers “do not let politicians co-opt this movement.”
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When I wake up to headlines that say Obama is raiding and closing California pot dispensaries, the only thing I can say is he is bloody dreaming if he thinks he’s going to co-opt this movement. I won’t vote for him under ANY circumstances! And I think I have lots of company on this subject.
Good morning, Kevin. Another day for you to shine.
OWS-NY Schedule:
Friday, October 7
1:00pm General Assembly
6:00pm Open Forum: Stathis Gourgouris and Kostis Karpozilos “Uprising in Athens”
6:00pm Information Front Desk Meeting
7:00pm General Assembly
Saturday, October 8
1:00pm General Assembly
6:00pm Open Forum: The end of the financial mind and the transformation of global class structure
7:00pm General Assembly
LS is replay now. It comes in and out.
On the 10th Anniversary of Afghanistan War and Protesters around the Globe, I bring you this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg
Kevin
Thanks for all the coverage. Have you heard of Bill Still and Money Masters. he did the documentary in 1990′s and it is very powerful on explaining how the FED and monetary system works. Just a thought but maybe you or FDL could reach out to him and get him to post here or something. Also I think he would be a great speaker at some of these events.
Good Morning. Today is Atlanta and some other new events. The past days have shown growth in the movement geographically. So much so that we are missing new cities. Boise on Wednesday. Yesterday Nashville. Thankfully Dustin Slaughter reported seeing the Boise Statesman at the DC Newseum last night.
And this morning, Land of Enchantment at dKos reports on Signs of the Times: Occupy Nashville (updated X2).
Salt Lake City had an event yesterday and a livestream. Has anyone seen any reports on these? Ann Arbor is beginning to organize. And something is going on in Richmond. SabzBrach has reported on Birmingham’s organizing meeting.
Pretty soon it’s going to take a collaborative effort of political blogs to keep up with what is happening.
Occupy Richmond VA The 99 The Meeting
Carlin in New York: Watch out for the F-bombs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY
Obama is obsessed with the financial sector as the solution to our problems:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Wall-Street-Protest-Obama-Biden-Politics-Arrest-Economy-131318539.html
Not sure if whatever is being proposed, and what will be passed, will be enough to truly regulate the sector. I’m extremely skeptical. Also, he is saying he believes the financial sector is key to our recovery. If you mean raw numbers and not jobs and an improving standard of living for the 90%, yeah, it may recover, but we will still be f#cked.
And checking their FB page, they have folks getting it ready.
See Perris’ idea for the meme linkage. Now #OccupyDameStreet. Alsowhy to think #OccupyDadalStreet.
The lead in on their video was good.
He’s trying to get the financial sector to invest in jobs themselves. Remember consumers can’t; Congress and the President have made sure that the government won’t; the balance of trade is in the toilet. That leaves only business investment in real goods and services, and the financial industry is sitting on $3T that could be invested if they suddenly took the long view.
Those sorts of statements are what the media used to call “jawboning”.
Americans are doing everything they can to get away from TBTF. The Credit Unions stated yesterday that their online new account service went up 400 percent in one day!
A credit union is a co-operative where each account holder is part owner of the bank. They are invited to the quarterly meetings and vote on decisions. There is no such thing as TBTF in a co-operative.
TWOOPH!
However, while watching Kevin, Jon, and Jane yesterday in DC I had a brainstorm. There was a fine gentlemen that was President of the Machinist Union. He has been lobbying on Capitol Hill to prevent the next three Free Trade Agreements because he knows it will take away jobs.
I am thinking that maybe a push to the Unions to step outside of the Corporatists and take over the business with a Union Shop Co-opertive may be a way to save American jobs. What do you think?
Yes. Cooperatives everywhere! Ditch the compromised leadership wherever it is.
Thank you and Tarheel for constantly staying up all night for us.
sit in at General Atomics
via StopTheMach2011
Unmanned ASSASSINATION Suit: teh Obamanible Baracketeer!
That’s code for, “We need to keep up the pretense that the financial sector isn’t already insolvent because the 1% keeps me in power.”
#OccupyAustin has it’s trolls on twitter…
Riiiiiight. Good luck with that, Osterity.
Loved the link from the diary, especially this:
Bank Transfer Day is an excellent idea. Folks need to set up accounts now and request redirection of their direct deposits into credit unions. Then they need to change any bank drafting arrangements to the credit union. Then make sure that all debits (debit card, credit card, or check) have cleared in the old bank. And then march in to the bank branch and close the accounts. The account representative at the bank will likely want to know why in order to fill out a question in the bank closing task in the banks account application. Tell them you are changing banks. Then tell them why (in my case, the bank had gotten caught money laundering and had paid a lot of money lobbying against my interests in fighting regulation). And then tell them that you are one of the 99%. They will understand. They are too.
OccupyMN started today at 9AM. Government Plaza “People’s Plaza”
Right now Jesse Ventura is there tweeting that he should be the face of the movement…aurrgg!
“If this movement needs a political face, it needs to be mine…” -Gov. Jesse Ventura #OccupyMN
It is not about you bozo!
http://www.occupymn.org/about/demands/
These MM raids make me think that either (1) he’s written off CA’s electoral votes, or (2) he has no control over the government he’s nominally in charge of.
The financial sector IS key to our recovery. Them dialing it down a few notches and ceasing their heinous thievery is key.
Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), identified himself as an ally of the cause. “I’m very, very understanding of where they’re coming from,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of frustration and a lot of anger, and I’d been sort of anticipating that before long, people were going to start demonstrating it in various ways.”
“Today, DC occupiers will be going to General Atomics, a manufacturer of drones, to protest the “unmanned assassination vehicles” they produce. These are, of course, used to get around affording human beings due process. People are put on a “kill/capture” list and they are taken out without any chance to prove their innocence.”
Wonderful. I will be with this march in spirit, would very much appreciate a separate diary on the subject from any FDL participant. This has been an ongoing criminality of international proportions. A great hope for me when I voted for Obama was that as Commander in Chief he would immediately end these operations. Instead, he increased them, and I can never vote for him again.
You getting any rain yet?
Yeah, we have to be very careful not to let the O’Bushma Administration co-opt the movement–which they will do if they can.
We have to teach these corporatist tools that if they punch hippies, we’ll punch back; if they slander and demean us, we’ll do the same to them; if they ignore us and work against us, we’ll do our damnedest to make sure they are NOT reelected. As ignorant and misled as the Tea Party is, it at least has the respect of the Repig leadership–because they are perfectly willing to turn on a Repig if he doesn’t fall into line with their (insane) agenda. We need to put the same fear of god into the Democrats–or forever be the fall guys, doomed to be shat upon by the latest corporatist shill who manages to Clintonize his/her way into office.
Far better that Romney-pig get the Presidency than O’Bushma. So long as O’Bushma is in there, the Democratic Party is corrupted and paralyzed by corporatism, which means that the Democrats are blocked (as intended by the Blue Shits) from being the agent of real change. On the other hand: If O’Bushma loses, preferably in a rout, then the Party will be so shattered that it will be ripe for being taken over by a true progressive movement.
And a good place to start would be to run a primary challenger against O’Bushma.
PRIMARY CHALLENGER NEEDED
Wha!?! No marches scheduled for Saturday?
A-Hole! He knows exactly what is going on. Way back in 2004 his VP running mate told him and the entire country what was going on. Yet, he refused to push the Ohio recount. The jerk!
Yeah, right mr. Million Dollar Heinz.
I am reminded of a lyric from an Everything But the Girl song:
I don’t care if you’ve been here before,
You don’t understand
Tonight I feel above the law
I’m comin’ in to land.
Seconded.
Of course there are! I’m just posting up two days at a time.
This was Obama’s attitude in Thursday’s press conference as well – “folks are frustrated.” That will be the general Democratic Party theme, segues into “it’s all the Republicans fault.” This completely ignores the outstanding fact that the government in all respects is completely broken. Taking to the streets is a last resort when contacting your government representatives through the channels available no longer works. No one in government is attending to the grievances expressed by the Occupiers, nor have they from day one of this administration.
Be very suspicious of such ‘allies’.
It’s part of the problem. It alone will not bring living wage jobs back or even enough shitty low wage jobs. The financial sector can be mildly regulated, experience its own recovery, grow the economy, and we can still so endemic job growth, jobs that are mostly low wage.
No, not just a primary challenger. Pressure must be put on Barack Obama to announce that he will not be seeking reelection. That will give legitimate candidates the opportunity to enter the race: Russ, Elizabeth, Eliot, Dennis, others.
Meme seeded & Tweeted.
“Listen To The Music” – Doobie Brothers (1972)
A good point, because most of that $3T on the table is T-bills, debt that the PtB don’t have the smarts to recycle by paying their taxes.
I don’t get it. What are you talking about? The financial sector gambled everything on a bunch of bundled debt obligations that turned out to be worthless because at some point back in ’07 or so there was simply no way the debtors could make their payments if no employer was going to give them a living wage to do so.
So now the banks are insolvent and parading great mounds of toxic assets on their balance sheets. The government loaned them a bunch of money at zero interest so they could gamble it on more inflated asset investment and keep up the pretense that their CDOs are still worth something. Why do you think anyone in the financial sector is going to “dial back” what they’re currently doing? Do you imagine that they’re all going to admit the truth of their current state of affairs, and declare bankruptcy?
Pressure must be put on Obama to do what LBJ did in 1968.
AGree. They won’t change their policies. They’ll try to use it for their election gains. “People are frustrated and we sympathize. The reason they’re frustrated is Republicans. Vote for enough Democrats (whatever majority wins is never enough) and all well be fine then.”
All of the political elites in Washington feel our pain. Then they get over it and pass more laws and regulation ensuring that our money is stolen.
Totally OT, but did anyone see that Brad Meltzer Decoded episode about empty vaults of gold in Fort Knox? No one seems to know if the US *actually* still has it’s gold wealth.
It IS completely broken, and the old rules will never apply.
(Glad you are doing that, I’m getting my info about ows events from your posts.)
Occupy Wall Street -USA Photos, 6 October 2011, Day 20
http://www.cryptome.org/info/occupy-wall-st11/occupy-wall-st11.htm
(photos of 9 cities’ events)
I don’t think they’re going to dial it back. I think they need to. I think they need to be heavily regulated. I think pay needs to be capped. Bonuses, too. I think the predatory decision making assholes in all levels of the current structure need to be jailed.
I’m pretty radical on this stuff. I think the current government needs to be completely overthrown and rebuilt.
I wasn’t trying to make excuses for the banks or minimize their impact. I was saying that in order for our economy to truly recover the banks need to be reigned in. This is key to sustained recovery and to us not ending up right back where we started.
LBJ just like O was part of the controlled democratic illusion. Sure some gave out more crumbs to the peasants than others, but they were all actors, and playing a part for MIC
And Tarheel, this is still trickle down economics which patently doesn’t work. A while back one poster here told how the expansion of his small business depended entirely on customers: if he had more, he could expand. That’s trickle up, which is what the government is supposed to enable by providing a work program across the board, government jobs to take up the slack. Then people have a modest amount of money and can support the business sector. It’s way, way out of whack, and for some reason it’s Reagan who is the idol, not FDR. Obama is stuck going the wrongway, like that pilot of yesteryear (dates me I know) – Wrongway Corrigan?
Agreed. It is too far gone to modify, it is corrupted to the very core.
I don’t see how capitalism can work. I think the worker owned cooperatives are worth a very hard look.
There’s a difference between saying the financial sector needs much more regulation and claiming, or believing, the financial sector’s success is the way to bring about job recovery and restoring the middle class. The former I think we all agree on, the latter is Obama/Republican nonsense.
Some stories I found late last night:
“Wall Street Protesters Gorge on ‘Occupie’ Pizza”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/wall-street-protesters-gorge-on-15-occupie-pizza-free-canned-veggies.html
“Goldman Protesters Are Almost Outnumbered by Security Guards in New Jersey”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-06/goldman-protesters-almost-outnumbered-by-guards-in-new-jersey.html
“How Occupy Wall Street has evolved”
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/06/technology/occupy_wall_street/?cnn=yes&hpt=ibu_c1
I agree. No more top down tyrannical companies. Every company structured this way is ripping off its workers and is killing democracy. No democracy in the work place and they fight to grow big enough to buy off politicians on the local level, then state, then national. The more unethical they are, the more they’re rewarded. Ship jobs overseas to inhumane sweatshops, your profits rise, you win. You fight unions, keep wages low, profits rise, you win. You sell products that are not durable, or are obsolete in a short time, profits rise, you win. You overwork your employees, productivity rises with no extra cost in labor, profits rise, you win. You get around regulations, buy off politicians, your workers and all people suffer the consequences, profits rise, you win.
I agree. I was simply pointing out that Obama was partially right even while being completely wrong. We need the financial sector to change, just not in the ways he thinks.
A long, long time ago. Way back in 2003 the American people had someone telling the truth. This person, no matter what you think of his personal life stood up and said what was going on before the big crash of 2008. Please review this and pay special attention to the last few lines of this speech. There you will find why this man was heckled, smeared, and thrown to the other side of the fence. It is the same as Elliot Spitzor, Schniderman, or anyone else that tries to get the truth out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Americas
Not only have we been imposed with “Free Speech Zones’ now there are “No Speech Zones” have they ?
The Financial criminals and their brought politicians must have very tender little ears that hurt when good people say bad things about them and their total collusion corruption.
Part of the problem of the political elites “getting” #occupy is that they don’t seem to understand just how revolutionary the movement is at its core. By saying simply people are angry, elites are essentially blacking out the message from occupiers that the system is fundamentally flawed and needs a complete overhaul to restore fairness and representation to the 99%.
I don’t think I really saw any hostility, or snarky quotes, or anything like that.
Some folks are starting to act like journalists instead of just mouthpieces for the 1%.
This is a conversation that we’ll all have to have. I think that once the 99% actually takes part in the discussion, as a whole, we’ll be on our way. Until then we all need to continue the task of waking people up.
Not yet, but I heard on the radio there was an Occupy Dallas in the works, so there’s a chance.
Eventually we will need a new, socialist basis for money, which will mean no more banks. Start with a Google search of the phrase “social credit.”
That’s what these occupations are, really. Just modern day rain dances.
I like it. Wiki.
I certainly will not be voting for the fraud in the WH.
You can’t think the missing trillions from the pentagon was taken out in worthless paper.
When you can print a hundred dollar bill for 50 cents and $ 99.50 goes down as a debt to the FED, do you think we can pay our bills by buying faster printing presses and faster drying ink ?
That would be interesting, but you very soon get into the same problem that ESOP’s had (such as United Airlines).
Unions in the US function as cooperative labor contractors. They operate like Manpower does with these exceptions: they have union shops in some states, the equivalent of Manpower having an exclusive contract with a firm. They generally do not permit the firm to have approval in advance of who they send to work, but have procedures in the contract for firm’s complaints about particular workers.
To actually operate an industry requires coordinating roles, and these generally get empowered structurally at the expense of the rank-and-file. Communication network effects again.
Not saying that it can’t be done. Just that no one has figured out how to deal with the inevitable communication network effects that translate into individual power inequality in the institution. In unions today, the shop steward vs. rank-and-file relationship is not without problems, and the union hierarchy above that easily becomes out of touch with the rank and file.
Part of this comes from the size of operations. Big projects require coordination of large numbers of people. Persistence means that procedures and decision authority get institutionalized by habit.
(repost from end of last liveblog:)
wanted to forward this email I got from the NYCLU:
(The short version: send evidence of police misconduct to : protest@nyclu.org ) (Or if some NY police do something especially kind & sympathetic, they would like to know as well.)
Dear friend,
As the Occupy Wall Street movement gains steam, the NYCLU is standing beside the demonstrators and defending their right to speak their minds.
Teams of NYCLU staff and volunteers regularly visit the movement’s headquarters at Zuccotti Park to distribute our Know Your Rights information and engage the demonstrators’ on their experiences with the NYPD.
The park’s makeshift library is well-stocked with our Demonstrating in New York City and What to Do if You’re Stopped by Police guides.
And perhaps most importantly, our royal blue-clad legal observers are on hand monitoring police activity and recording any instances of police misconduct.
We will hold the police accountable for any misconduct. You can help us.
If you or somebody you know has been the victim of police misconduct associated with the protests, if you’ve seen the police engaging in intimidating behavior or using video cameras in a way that chills the right to protest, or if you’v seen the police doing something right, please tell us about it. Email protest@nyclu.org and tell your story. We’ve collecting your videos and photos, too.
We all know how powerful it was to see the video of an NYPD “white shirt” using pepper spray on protesters. Your story, pictures and videos can help us hold the NYPD accountable and strengthen the protest rights of all New Yorkers.
Please take a minute to drop us a line at protest@nyclu.org and tell us what you see.
Thank you for all that you do,
Donna Lieberman
NYCLU Executive Director
Not until the foreclosure fraud time-bomb goes off in their faces, and they end up in court.
That day is coming slowly, but it will come.
(3) Outside California and a few other states, he can’t run on a pro-legalization policy.
This is no bueno.
What is it good for???? War profiteering! Entrenchment of oligarchical power! Manipulation of an misinformed and under informed public in the interests of the status quo and ruling elites.
Occupy Wall Street movement spreads to Australia
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48979
The Stealth Leaders Of Occupy Wall Street
http://www.fastcompany.com/1785698/occupy-wall-streets-leadership-trail
via: http://www.bing.com/social/search/links?q=%23occupywallstreet&FORM=DTPSOO
*tsk, tsk, tsk* What to do about Sacramento?
#Occupy that mother fucker.
Maybe this is the opportunity to put people back to work in huge numbers. If we scale back the size of agricultural and industrial operations, make them localized and responsive to regional needs, we could put people to work rebuilding the infrastructure needed for this new, localized economy. Then we employ the rest of us to operate these local coops.
Economy of scale, such as in big agribiz, has proved to be disasterous on so many levels.
Kerry has fallen a long way since his Vietnam protest days. I guess that’s what money does to a guy.
I.Love.It.
That and free pizza, what’s not to like.
Be careful to fact-check all you read on Twitter.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/676659/%23occupysf_%22crushed%22_what_i_read_on_twitter_didn%27t_quite_match_what_i_saw/
Yep. Jerry Brown should be ashamed. Really ashamed.
You write:
And then you write:
I’m uneasy. This resembles the column by Larue. It’s okay for you to talk about manipulating OWS to a purpose (“reaching out to them so they are part of October 2011″) but not for someone else (“mainstream liberals may want to manipulate”).
I’m 99%. I have no job, I have lousy medical care (well, I have a strange medical care that disappears in the Fall, and will resume in January, so right now my teeth are cracked and I can’t piss too good and am waiting for winter to pass), I have just been through fights with the PTB again over new ideas that apparently are too radical to be printed, and a thousand other things I’d like to see stay with the program and will stay with the program as long as OWS stays its original leaderless and inclusive self.
And now I’m watching the politicos from the various movements move in, including yours, with distinct demands, and slogans, and move it to coalesce on a few tired demands and away from a vibrant counterculture that could make big changes to one that can only march and be focused. And watch you damn people who back people you don’t like, or are too close to unions you don’t like or are too friendly to senators you don’t like or… and all the while the donation emails go out.
I can’t afford any donation emails. I’m working nearly full time as a volunteer. And trying to revive a career that died on the bed of spikes Wall Street created with its phony efficiencies.
I’m from the 99%. Don’t lay down your demands and demand that I follow them before you’ll speak for me. Or you will not speak for me.
@OccupySacto Occupy Sacramento
URGENT PRESS RELEASE: Unfair Punishment of Occupiers occupysac.com/?p=234
#occupysacramento #ows
36 minutes ago via web
And that is what, resign?
LBJ created as disaster with that necessary move because the rest of the party just continued down the same path. We are still trying to recover from that disaster.
And think of this. The first African-American president in US history is forced to resign, tainting the prospects in the future of African-Americans being elected president again. The political ramifications of that move are immense.
There are no simple answers. The President and Congress are now irrelevant until the political culture changes, which is what #occupywallstreet is about.
This movement should not be co-opted by the Obama campaign. Neither should it be co-opted by an anti-Obama campaign. Nor by Ron Paul. Nor by Jesse Ventura. Or any other opportunist. This is a people’s movement that requires some time to gain power and figure out its demands and political agenda.
Granularity/optimal group size.
I understand that. Not saying that Unions don’t need an overhaul or complete remake. I am thinking of short term, save the jobs now and take over the company that is trying to skip the country. The big unions are the only people that have the money and power to do it now. Individual workers do not have the money, but they know their jobs and they know more about how to make/run/produce than the CEO sitting behind a desk for two hours.
I like the guy from Rocky and bullwinkle, Wrongway Peachfuzz.
Good morning,
Michael Moore is delicious. I love how he’s taken to the people’s mike.
Thanks, Kevin. You busy man. Good on ya.
Ray Kelly sez that OWS can stay in Zuccotti Park as long as they are peaceful.
Sounds like he’s getting ready for a false flag op.
@OccupyTacoma tacoma
Anybody headed their way today? @occupyspokane needs propane for heat. They’re freezing out there. #ows
@OccupyBaltimore OccupyBaltimore
The City has removed the fences/barricades allowing access to the grass near Pratt. New homes being found for the signs! #occupybaltimore
29 minutes ago via web
The media still does not get that people in the park, sidewalks, streets is Democracy. Americans paid for and built these public spaces. It belongs to us and so does our Capitol Bldg, White House, and all FEDERAL agencies.
Why Moms Are Occupying Wall Street: 5 Real Stories
http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/126973/why_moms_are_occupying_wall
#OccupyWallStreet: A Revolt Of The Cities
http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/node/30092
via: http://www.twazzup.com/?q=%23occupywallstreet&l=all
@OccupyKC OccupyKC
Requests: We need a large downtown KC map, LARGE tubs (i.e. Rubbermaid, Tupperware), and we still need help with internets. Love, #OccupyKC
25 minutes ago via web
Fuck the corporate media. They have their high salaries, celebrityhood and their corporate bosses to protect. The status quo serves the corporate media.
Send in the provocateurs.
Yep. That’s all Congress has left Obama with the power to do. Beg for Wall Street to trickle down.
WORD! Er, I mean War.
@OccupySacto Occupy Sacramento
Thank for the coffee, hot chocolate and breakfast! You guys are great. You are the reason we are out here! #occupysacramento
7 minutes ago via Facebook
I’ll second that.
Obama pathetic attempt at being a Trojan Horse, led to all of this.
The elites always want to maintain the Status Quo
this is why Obama and Hillary were created
The Elites knew the Intelligent Left would eventually attack, thus the need for OBAMA, the elites thought with OBAMA in the WH, the Intelligent Left would not attack, because they would fear losing the black vote to Rick Perry
The Elites also thought that Hillary in the WH, would keep the Intelligent Left on the side lines, because the left would fear losing the Women Vote.
when it came to Race Base Politics the elites Failed! Big Time
the GOP base like the 81 year old man in GA said hates Obama more than they love the USA! The elites did not see this coming.
The ELites wanted a political climate where GOP members of the house and Senate worked with Dem Blue dogs to push their agenda? they did not see the current GOP taking over the House.
Now the Elites are shocked by the rapid movement of Occupy Wall Street, and they clearly did not see this coming.
They are going to really be shocked, when their Banks are attacked non violently, with people taking their money out of them.
Occupy Wall Street should also tell people to stop shopping at Wal-Mart, make Wal-Mart and Target kill each other!
Yeah, and my response is:
I read the news today, Oh Boy….
@OccupyPeru OccupyPeru
60% desaprueba gestion económica Obama! clarin.com/mundo/estadoun…
20 minutes ago via web
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TWOOPH!
When the Intellectual Left caught on they sent out Rahm to tell us to sit down, STFU. Then they started calling us names. Hell yeah, I am a Purist on the Constitution, or what is left of it and also on Justice when is serves all, not just the peasants.
Oh yeah, and as far as the rest of us eating our cake/peas, well maybe they should share some of the STEAK!
@DhaniBagels Dhani Bagels
I’ve been arrested with 18 others. In the back of the patty wagon now. Our Wagon! #OccupySac #occupywallstreet #Sacramento
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The plastic bag my newspaper comes in had a few drops on it.
you talk about the Media, like it really exist?
is this the same MEDIA that never ask OBAMA why he continued the Bush Tax Cuts, and three months later discovered the USA was Broke? are you talking about that Media?
the current Media thinks Sarah Palin could lead the USA? I say if Palin can lead the USA, so can Donald Duck!
the Media died a long time ago, however, a more current and up to date Media is developing daily!
the Media of corporate America main mission was to make sure all Americans thought a like, and worried about the same dumb shit.
this new MEDIA allows Americans to talk about what they like and feel, thus OWS!
the elites fear this new MEDIA big time, the elites do not want Americans thinking for themselves. For LOL
That sounds like the BS spun by the communist in Russia and look how that turned out. Capitalism is not the problem. We don’t have capitalism we have crony capitalism where it is fixed for a few at the expense of everyone else.
i am nervous of ideas that sound like creating collectives etc……In fact if you have been following the PTB playbook this is what they want. All of us living in hives, are carbon footprint monitored, which will include energy, food etc we use. I think we need a few laws and regulations that can work for us all. So what would they be?
Obviously some of those in the constitution, and what would we add
need a fair monetary system
a fair banking system
fair trade agreements
and so on.
I just think if we put our minds together we could create some rights and regulations that are not extensive and not written in gibberish that provide structure to when you break it down a not very complex society. It has been made complex to confuse and intimidate us.
What do you have against Donald Duck?
#OccupyDisney !
#DonaldDuck4Prez!
I know, but it is the media that pretends to be the news. We all know it’s not. Yes, they do fear the new media. That is why they are all trying to limit access and censor everything.
@OccupyTheCuse Occupy Syracuse
Just so everyone knows, we are following other states/cities as well as @OccupyTogether and @OccupyWallSt so that we can keep up on it all!
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LOL
Today’s Austin paper had Austin’s inaugural occupation day on the front page. It was very accurate, even-handed and complete. I was there yesterday from 10:30 am to 8:30 pm.
The jerk who was reporting in the Metro and State section was being his usual jerk self, ridiculing everything. He did cover his ass with saying all kinds of movements probably looked silly to begin with, even the ones that succeeded, like the American Revolution.
That’s just it! They don’t want you to think. They don’t want you to get together. They work tirelessly to keep hate in the forefront so that we have some reason not to communicate with everyone.
mswinkle@50:
“LBJ just like O was part of the controlled democratic illusion. Sure some gave out more crumbs to the peasants than others, but they were all actors, and playing a part for MIC.”
Not completely accurate, mswinkle. LBJ’s Great Society program can’t be dismissed as ‘crumbs to the peasants.’ It was Kennedy’s second term initiative, not really LBJ’s at all, though it gave him status. In the anguish of the assassination (you had to be there) it had the makings of a new era in this country, shot down by LBJ’s own inability (like Obama) to leave Commander in Chief status on the shelf where it belonged.
The Democratic Party fell, and it fell headlong. I think Carter tried to bring it back, but the power had already shifted to the illusion of which you speak. And the parties, such as they were, fused into one corporate entity, along with the media, opposing Carter’s efforts, putting Reagan into the chair. A media personality, media orchestrated, the only way to make political headway henceforward.
And there you have it. It all began with Vietnam, our first war of opportunity for the corporations(which by the way we lost and lost badly) but not, sadly, our last.
One sign in Austin yesterday said:
FUCK YOUR POLITICAL PARTY
I agree
We think of News Papers Companies that only exist in Movies these Days.
the modern day News Paper or News Organization only cares about making a dollar
most if not News Organizations are own by Corporations that F Up the Planet Earth Daily
That “unAmerican protesters” meme has been all over every newspaper and even scrolled across the bottom of every tv news screen. It is coming out of the mouths of politicians.
Maybe we should help the protesters out by asking them to sing Patriotic songs. “This land was made for you AND ME!”
It is going to happen, loved the post on this subject, can’t remember who posted it. Problem is unless we get really lucky and can out them asap, the media will run with it and give it maximum coverage to destroy ows. We have all seen it happen, so many times, all over the world.
funny how kelly didn’t threaten force when the bankers stole all the money and endangered so many lives. Guess we know who the police work for. The fucked up part is we pay their wages.
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boston
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They’d better rename that park pronto.
Krugman on OWS!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?_r=4&hp
Better late than never!
Like Naomi Klein says Capitalism Destroys all of it’s enemies!
Today Capitalism is killing the Golden Goose that made it powerful, the American Worker!
Without the American Worker Capitalism as we know it, will die
Capitalism needs Consumers with a lot of MONEY to work
With American workers incomes dropping like a rock, Capitalism will soon run out of the energy it needs to survive and die
What led to all of this is the overreach of the PtB. I have no sense that Obama knew what was coming down until the transition period during which the Democratic establishment made its demands on behalf of the PtB. Nor did he know that the GOP would react with historically unprecedented obstruction. Once he found out, he could not get traction on criticism of that obstruction because of the behavior of the Congressional wing of his own party. His best moves at that point, as president with a government to run, was to keep kicking the can down the road until people found out what was going on. What he did not realize was that it was not the GOP who were not negotiating, it was the PtB themselves. At that point, all he could do was posture by introducing yet another Republican bill for the GOP to oppose. But before that happened, the debt ceiling crisis in which Tea Party Republicans were willing to default on US debt in order to defeat Obama awakened the public to what was going on.
And what was going on was that the government had been captured so much by the 1% that the 99% were being treated as road kill. Government had become totally irrelevant to the people. All of it. Not just the President.
What I am thinking of would be the very opposite of hives. Capitalism, crony or otherwise, is not designed to benefit the 99%. We need to look at all ideas, extreme or not, in order to change this unsustainable vacuuming of economic and natural resources to the 1%.
I want everything on the table. And people that represent US to look at it with us and help us make an informed decision on the way forward. Together.
I think the illusion has been going on way longer than you think. go back to 1900′s they were cartoons showing both dems and repubs holding loots of banker cash behind their backs while speaking BS to the people in front of them. Look at the era of the railway barons etc. AG under grover was being paid by the railways. He got groover to sign an order to send in the army to crush a workers strike.
This is just one example there are many more. Sure here and there things did improve for the masses, but only after great battles and many many protests.
They should include the line where Woody Guthrie says:
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said private property
But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
I understand a lot of younger folks are frustrated and angry at the system… heck I am too; I’ve been waiting my whole life for somebody to dare to stand up and say ENOUGH!
But at this stage the movement needs to keep growing, reaching out to more and more people, and honestly talk of destroying capitalism et al will only alienate people and lead to marginalization.
I remember 1989 – remember before the Berlin Wall was Tiananmen Square. At one point the authorities were meeting with the student councils and asked their demands, and it was for “democracy” but the students had no coherent idea what that was; they wanted CHANGE & CHANGE NOW. Then the authorities wrote the whole thing off as easy to marginalize, and imported troops from a far off province to start the crackdown (the local troops had been co-opted by the movement).
The other example from 1989 was Romania, where Ceaușescu ended up against the wall for resisting what had swept across the rest of Eastern Europe.
So our choices:
A) Berlin
B) Tiananmen
C) Romania.
Then the NYC City Council will have more blood on their hands won’t they?
“Ray Kelly Vs. Minimal Oversight” (EmptyWheel.Net, by emptywheel, Oct. 7, 2011, 11:15 am)
Abso cracking lutely!
ondelette, your fears are justified, as is well documented on these forums, but the sorting out of where to be inclusive and where to be wary has to be an organic thing, simply because you are part of the 99%. I do not think the original movement will be threatened by expansion; it is inevitable.
On a previous thread Jon made the point that separate issues were about policy, not politics. I thought that was an excellent distinction. Granted, some issues might not seem important to you, others to me. But what is unifying is that at the core we agree – we are not currently being represented; instead it is the one percent for whom and by whom the government is being run. That’s not democracy, for you or for me.
Shirky gets it.
It does need to keep going. Every single citizen that is not the 1% needs to support, get out, stand up, and demand a seat at the table in Washington. We have to take back our country from the 1%.
@OccupyWallStNYC #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
#BrookfieldProps says they can’t clean #LibertyPlaza. We’ll share our brooms if they want 2 help.. riverdaughter.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/img_11…
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WHOOP! (Happy Dance)
Your points are well taken. My emotions and typing get ahead of my head many times, and I am old enough to know better
I am much more subdued when I am taking with people, the last thing I want to do is alienate or make anyone feel threatened.
I keep forgetting these emoticons are always lurking.
if a black guy is going to act like the rest of the white mofo’s then who the f*ck wants another black guy?
i’m white. i worked to get the slime elected and i hate him worse than i hated bush (not yet as bad as cheney but he’s growing into it)
one of my favorite open mike speeches at occupyaustin yesterday was from a young black woman saying a lot of things that basically amounted to discussing the betrayal that obama is.
I don’t see kids, DF Hippies, drop outs, lazy spoiled brats, or stoopids out in the protests.
I see Americans!
The version of This Land is Your Land the PTB don’t want you to hear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s
Germany is as much a democracy as we are. just like we have been fobbed off with this dem is less evil than that repub, we have also been fobbed off well at least we are better than china. these are straw man arguments. We are better off than china and yet that is where our democratic leaders have helped shipped all the jobs? thereby helping the system in china to keep operating. as carlin said and I paraphrase you have no rights beyond watching TV and shopping etc. Go up against the boss and you will find out. Believe me if OWS grows we will see a violent crackdown, and the establishment blaming the protestors. Will it work?? i don’t know, but the point is they will do just what their chinese cousins do.
Wholeheartedly agree. And in doing so, they lost control also. It’s now completely out of control. There is more organization on the streets now than there is in the financial sector or the governing sector. Great post, mswinkle.
I just got this email from Occupy Sac:
Unfair Punishment of Occupiers (10/7/2011)
We have received news that 5 of the arrested occupiers have been released. Thus far, they have all been charged with:
Penal Code Sacramento City 9.16.140(b)(1)
“It is unlawful for any person to enter or remain upon any private property or business premises after having been notified by the owner or agent to keep off or keep away therefrom. Such notification shall be provided by service of a notice of trespass on such person.”
http://qcode.us/codes/sacramento/view.php?topic=9-9_16&frames=on
Penal Code CA 602k
“Entering any lands, whether unenclosed or enclosed by fence, for the purpose of injuring any property or property rights or with the intention of interfering with, obstructing, or injuring any lawful business or occupation carried on by the owner of the land, the owner’s agent or by the person in lawful possession.”
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=594-625c
The occupiers have been also told that they have been banned for life from the premises, Cesar Chaves Public Park. They have an approximate court date of Oct 26.
We strongly encourage all supporters to call the following numbers and protest these unfair punishments. Ask them to stop preventing peaceful citizens from participating in the democratic process.
City Manager: 9168087213
Chief of Police: 9168080800
See 217.
Heh!
Maybe we should just foreclose on the banks and corporations. They haven’t paid their bills or taxes.
We are all Corporate Persons now!
They’re already here, in waiting.
And talk of destroying capitalism will only drive them away.. they will go back to watching American Idol and sit on the sidelines.
I’ve spent a couple years reading, and in some ways I agree we are at a point similar to the early 1900′s when the trusts and the robber barons openly controlled the government. Even the financial Panic of 1907 which led to the Federal Reserve and some regulation did not prevent the “Roaring Twenties” and the subsequent Great Depression.
2008 was 1907, not 1929 – an even bigger collapse will come someday unless the system is reformed in a fashion similar to the New Deal – the social compact between capitalists and workers that worked so well for decades is gone (see Example of Henry Ford paying his workers enough to afford to buy the cars they built).
We need to be aware that it can take years, even decades of struggle to achieve lasting structural results.
OWS is not the end, but merely the beginning.
A PUBLIC PARK?
They also need to call the National Lawyers Guild.
Sorry Tarheel, he knew. We should have known when he wouldn’t take public financing for his campaign. Hopeful idiots we were then.
He knew.
YES on much of the 1%er activity/kabuki except I think Oblahblah’s one of them since the get-go (hint: Chicago).
That is true. I would never want to scare a family owned buisness or shop owner. I was only thinking for and about all those factory workers that are going to lose their jobs. I agree that we shou
not be putting forward topics of changing capitalism to the Occupy movement now.
I don’t agree with this analysis as it doesn’t explain why he pre-negotiated everything away. He’s been a very active participant in making things significantly worse. Civil liberties – he can have killed any American anywhere. Big pHarma under the covers giveaway. Public option giveaway. Trying to etch away Medicare and Social Security. There’s a lot he COULD have done, but hasn’t and won’t.
I understand, heck part of me always dreamed of shouting “To the barricades!” but my generation was so dominated by the Boomers and indoctrinated during the Reagan years that we just kept quiet. There were not enough of us early Gen X folks to get a real mass movement going… but there are 90 million millenials and they have the numbers to effect real change.
Occupy Portland March — We Are The 99%
NoLa
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Seattle
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Same here. And I don’t know enough about the history of social movements to be tossing half-formed thoughts around.
Didn’t mean to suggest that the struggle Occupy Wall Street epitomizes hasn’t been the very one this country has been engaged in from the getgo (see Washington’s farewell address). But this manifestation we face currently had its origins as I stated as far back as I can see, that is, within my own generation. That’s only how far I put it back. And I was even thinking that further back to Great Depression times, that’s when Bechtel got its start with the building of the Hoover Dam. So yes, it all links back and back, the cons and the pros.
I would agree with your points here.
That brings tears to my eyes.
I am really late to this party…. was never interested in politics until recently and not well grounded in history so I should tread more carefully.
Excellent link. Back in the late ’60s that very site was the beginning of protests against Vietnam, but we were never making decisions together. I am impressed. Using consensus decision-making is empowering.
For anyone new to the idea, there are some basics here about formal consensus: http://consensus.net/ocac3.html
One warning: after several years of consensus in your life, you will revolt at any meeting that uses divide-and-conquer methods, such as Roberts Rules.
LA
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Think again they outlawed ,after allowing, electronic voting machines because there is no way for an honest recount.
o was
electedselected on karl’s machinesYep. That’s true. Although the facilitation method that Occupy Wall Street uses is highly structured to deal with bringing conflict to consensus (which is what Roberts Rules were originally intended to do).
Corollary. John McCain failed to be elected on Karl’s machines.
He’s taken nuclear power money forever, starting from running for the Senate. After the primary he voted for FISA. Also, he was up on Capitol Hill, beating the bushes for the banker bailout. At that point, the choice was him or McCain/Palin.
My brother is under a court order to have no further contact with the Federal government, how’s that ?
It goes beyond the vote it is about who you get to vote for. read about who came to power in germany after the war it will shock you?
The rise of the silver protester: Now senior citizens and veterans take to the streets in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046314/Occupy-Wall-Street-The-rise-silver-protester.html#ixzz1a76vj0To
The view from the other side of the pond.
My point is that everybody living behind the Iron Curtain had decades to realize the system was corrupt. That is why the Iron Curtain fell largely peacefully once it was clear Gorbachev would not send in the tanks to support the East Bloc rulers. He knew the whole rotten system could not last.
In China, the whole thing was crushed militarily, then the PTB adopted capitalism-without-freedom as a sop to keep the masses in line.
Romania happened only when the ruler stuck his head in the sand while all the other rulers of the East Bloc fell peacefully. At that point violent revolution was only batting cleanup on the last holdout.
Wow!!!
This again.
The problem with the stock “traditional socialist” line of thought about “decades of struggle” is that the capitalist system itself has a dynamic, that is in fact the main dynamic feeding protests against capitalism. Understanding this reality is what underlies marxist “dialectics.” We can of course say that Marx’s own search for socialism did not bear fruit, regardless of the great struggles which the working class pursued at that time; the capitalist system was still in a fairly early state of process back then. We can also say that it didn’t take “decades of struggle” for CDOs to become toxic assets, and we can moreover say that the current state of global revolt can claim as its not-too-distant cause the implosion of the casino economy of which CDOs were a spin on the roulette wheel.
“Traditional socialists” typically argue that a defining characteristic of the capitalist system is its tendency to be prone to “crisis.” Unfortunately, they never quite discuss, or discover, what about “crisis” actually puts the capitalist system at risk. A crisis could just be a recession, or a depression, and the system could snap out of it with a significant program of reform. That would be what Jason W. Moore calls a “developmental crisis,” a crisis which strengthens the system when it is overcome. We might argue, then, that the current crisis of capitalism is just another developmental crisis, and that capitalism will “snap out of it” at some point soon, negating revolt and bringing us back to the “decades of struggle” plan.
Such an interpretation would be a serious misinterpretation of the dynamic of the capitalist system of the past thirty years. Developments in technology, in politics, and in finance, have spread capitalism throughout the world, while at the same time destroying the robust character of the system itself and making it less likely that the current crisis is in any way “developmental.” Instead it is rather likely that we are in an “epochal” crisis, in which case and at some point “decades of struggle” are likely to be foreshorted by a human race desperate to rely upon something other than capitalism.
John can’t deliver like o
Chris Bowers: Occupy Wall Street: List and map of over 200 U.S. solidarity events and Facebook pages
The diary is from three days ago, but the map is current.
It isn’t about which issues are important. It’s about claiming the movement and “moving it” in somebody’s direction. And about saying that somebody who’s gone down to the streets to check it out “doesn’t belong there”.
I don’t buy it. What’s been lost, to me, in all these years is the vibrancy, the counterculture from where things grow and challenge the status quo. Not some specific demand or anti this or that. So my particular demand is very fragile. Perhaps the most fragile of them all — the creative spark needs to maintain. That’s what they killed coming out of “the sixties” and why our society started to distort. And that’s the way to end “Wall Street” as we know it. But that requires non-containment and fighting the urge to make rules. So I’m speaking up. Let the flowers bloom. “Harnessing” the energy is a good way to kill it.
If somebody you don’t agree with comes down to join the protest, you aren’t there to tell them they’re a provocateur, you aren’t there to tell them they don’t meet your litmus test. If society does change, even the bad guys must change with it. Condemning them eternally is exactly the philosophy of the War on Terror, and those who do so have “become their enemies in the instant that they speak.”
@DerekCressman Derek Cressman
Protester just told me 22 were arrested last night at #occupySacramento under no-camping ordinances #ows.people were back by 5 am though
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I especially love the ’99%’ written out in people.
I disagree. We should tell the truth. See my post above.
@OccupySavannah Occupy Savannah
Commit Thoughtcrime… often.
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It should be remembered that, to borrow a phrase from capitalists, capitalism is failing everywhere it has been tried.
The fact is that capitalism, like any other -ism, has its advantages and disadvantages. I agree that it does no good to drive supporters away with wedge issues – but at the same time, America needs to have an honest, informed discussion on those issues (not just a closed-minded shouting of talking points – apologies if my opener seems hypocritical by that standard!) if we are to move forward.
OT, with apologies. Anybody who took my market advice from Comment #4 on Kevin’s 9:16 AM post yesterday, should now lock in a small profit. You now have more money to donate to the cause.
Back to the revolution.
“President Clears Wall Street Of Crimes” (FireDogLake.Com, by masaccio, Oct. 7, 2011, 8:20 am)
My wife just sent texted me pictures of San Antonio occupiers in the rain! She’s down there today with the kids to see a play and passed them on the street.
As soon as I can figure out how to get them off my phone to someplace usable I’ll post links.
Appleton Wonk: Occupy Chicago: This is What Democracy Looks Like!
–Blue Cheddar
Truth is, I’m a libertarian socialist as an ideal and I think those behind the GA and at the roots of occupy movement are as well, but we’ve learned that running around in apocalyptic fashion screaming anti-capitalism, smash the banks, etc. turns most people off, except those interested in the excitement.
Even if the system collapsed and we had a horizontal democracy, we still have to learn to work with the diverse viewpoints of the entire population. People aren’t just going to suddenly turn into libertarian socialists. That’s what’s happening here. Everyone is welcome, let’s talk and work together. Let’s not marginalize ourselves as a specific type of people, but let’s start working on what we’d like to see happen. Open, horizontal democracy in action.
People can say whatever they wish as an individual, but it’s not going to be how the occupy movement labels itself as a whole.
That said, if there is some clashes with police or whatever happens, it doesn’t discredit the movement. As a whole, we’re trying to attract and work with as much of the 99% that can participate.
Re;way up above someplace TD mentioned that this is getting so big to be covered without some type of division of labor among several blogs, and I agree. I’m mostly monitoring #OccupyTogether to keep tabs on the rest of the country, and get a sense of how fast it is spreading, the resolve of those having PD trouble, etc.
I strongly feel that you continue to be WAY too kind to Obama. He’s not a fool, he’s a tool.
LBJ or Nixon? Obama or ? WE can’t care who the very next President is too much unless that person is OWS approved.
LOL. My roots are half-Roumanian, FWIW.
Fritz Klug (The Kalamazoo Gazette: ‘Occupy Kalamazoo,’ bank protest planned in spirit of Occupy Wall Street, planned for next week
–mlive.com
Sorry, I had to step away.
You disagree with what? I am ALWAYS about the truth. TWOOPH is truth x 2!
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great analysis
I totally agree
Does that mean they don’t want his taxes either?
I’m with you. Nothing is a more powerful agent for justice than truth.
I just called Sacramento, the numbers above, and left a message and talked to someone in “the chief’s office” about how Sac is setting a bad precedent. Victory and power to the 99%!
Must be. Isn’t sending the IRS your tax forms every year ‘contact’?
Nicholas Brothers sing and tap “Girl from Kalamazoo”
I agree with that. I simply think it is premature to focus that change in capitalism and force it upon the current occupiers. It is way too early in the process.
My suggestion for the Trade Union Machinists to take over the factory that they are fighting to keep is what I was talking about in the beginning.
Very good!
@OccupySF #OccupySF
Last night was both rain and riot police free! Come down to #OccupySF @ Federal Reserve Building, 101 Market St, 94105 #OWS
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@Occupy__PR OccupyPR
RT todo el mundo…#occupypuertorico 15/OCT…ya es un hecho!
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Hero economist Michael Hudson on the OWS movement. (He really, really, really gets it. Which is not surprising if you’re familiar with Hudson.)
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7412
@Occupy_Boston Occupy Boston
Two marches today! We are growing!
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Sorry if this a duplicate post but here’s Naomi Klein’s speech at ODC yesterday.
http://www.thenation.com/article/163844/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now
China, USA, Europe = State supported Capitalism = Fascism
Does anyone know if there is an occupy event in St. Louis? None of the local news media are covering if there is. hanks for your help.
@OccupySantaCruz Occupy Santa Cruz
From Jeff: “attention good people at San Lorenzo Park, off of Dakota. a lady driving a green Prius has food from… fb.me/u6et9fbO
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Actually, I take back that label I used above. I haven’t used it in person to describe myself in years. I think we’re trying to move beyond these simplistic and troublesome labels now. It’s easier to say what we’re for and want to see happen in a few sentences than it is to throw out a label and then have to counter people’s misconceptions on top of explaining what we’re for and want to see happen. That’s what’s happening with the occupy movement: please leave your labels in the trash, let’s work together and talk about ideas.
In a nutshell; Democracy is hard but we would like to try it and we are still asking nicely.
@stardigan Nikki Vacant
Big concert tonight at Kiener Plaza for Occupy St. Louis from 6:30-9p! Be here. Open forums from 4-6p. #occupystl
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I am going down to OccupySacramento to talk to the folks and get some photos. Any suggestions?
You’re missing the point. To get to be President in the current system, one has to be a tool of some sort. Obama is was a fool to think he could change that from the White House. We were fools to think that he could change it from the White House.
Every attack on Obama diverts attention from the fact that the system itself is a tool of the PtB and it doesn’t matter what one’s motives are in seeking office in that system. One winds up being a tool. Fool or tool is really a superficial analysis of the problem.
Of course, I’m being kind to Obama. I’ve seen senior managers in similar situations. Some have made marginal changes. Some haven’t.
I don’t have an ideological stake in knocking Obama. And I have a personal stake in seeing that no Republican gains the power to end Social Security.
I hope that this does not become yet another thread for beating the drums for the punishment of Obama. To the exclusion of Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Harry Reid,…John Boehner, Mitch McConnell…Paul Ryan, Michelle Bachmann. They all are responsible for the failure of the system and its capture by Wall Street.
btw, returning to our conversation on fraud. The CDOs were against bundles of mortgage-backed derivatives. Those bundles were supposed to be identified risk bundles. The first point of fraud is in the rating of the CDOs. So what you have to have is CDOs in which the risk was demonstrably misrated (not fudged, allowing a human error defense). The second point was in the bundles themselves. Some of the mortgages bundled in were fraudulently originated. But the titles were transferred so many times through MERS and the bundles repackaged that no clear chain of title can be established. You have to be able to trace the fraudulent application of title again the true title to obtain evidence. Finally, the loans that were fraudulently originated. In some cases the loan application was fraudulent. But in others the fraud was in the credit scoring that forced folks into nonprime mortgages.
And you don’t think it takes time to sort through all of that evidence to come up with a strong case against the very many parties who engaged in fraud? And to find the documentary evidence that traces it as high up the chain of command as possible?
It’s not just one act of fraud, it is thousands and possibly millions.
I think I found ours at occupytogether.org
One of the takeaways from the Non-violent Communication class taught last night at occupyaustin was that it would be useful to frame what we, each, as individuals are personally protesting, in terms of what we do want. For example, I’d like a government that is run by, of and for the people.
Great statement. If our “asking nicely” doesn’t work, I imagine there will be problems ahead because people will lose patience.
I second that.
Hey, Mary. Find out what they need – aside from some good attorneys to help them out.
Winston Churchill, in a speech Nov 1942
@KeithOccupy KeithOccupy
#occupy #OccupySTL @OccupySTL All *live Streams* in one place – the Revolution is televised occupymanifesto.proboards.com
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occupymanifesto.proboards.com
Mary,
Maybe suggest they sing patriotic songs to keep media from saying they are unAmerican.
Chris O’Meara (Associated Press): ‘Occupy’ protests spreading
– Evansville Courier & Press
LOL!! I just spoke to the assistant of the city manager’s office. She said something to the effect of I’m just a staff member and I have no connection blah blah. I asked if it was the city manager’s office and she said yes. Well, I said, then you are the point of contact and can you please pass the message along.
Calling police number.
Jenna Carlesso: ‘Occupy Hartford’ Group Plans To March This Evening
– Hartford Courant
I just googled occupystlouis and got a number of hits. You could try that and see if there’s anything useful.
I haven’t read all of TD response yet, but read “Winner-Take-All Politics” to see HOW our political system ended up the way it is. I read it in an attempt to understand just how the political system produced someone like Obama.
Then I read “The Mendacity of Hope” for the inside story of what he really was by the time he got to the White House. I’d like to think that at some point in the distant past he was among the 99%, but exposure to the current political system means absorbing its culture of systemic corruption through osmosis.
As my Father used to say “Patience is the virtue of an Ass”
good for you! wear comfortable shoes. take water. weather related: raincoat or hat and sunscreen. you’ll love it!
Insight: Occupy Wall St, the start of a new protest era?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/us-wallstreet-protests-history-idUSTRE7964CY20111007
Occupy Wall Street Protests Sprout 928 Offshoots On Meetup.com Overnight
http://mashable.com/2011/10/07/ows/
Sacto chief of police office was very nice. Left my name and number to register complaint.
Take some official American flags. A picture of a cop taking down an American flag is not good publicity for the police.
The meme is that we own the American flag. The corporations own the corporate America flag. We are no longer in distress; we are rescuing ourselves; turn that flag upright.
The American flag, “Don’t Tread on Me”, tri-cornered hats, Uncle Sam — none of these belong to the bankers or the Tea Party. They belong to the 99%.
NO contact , a court order.
Godspeed, Mary.
@KeithOccupy KeithOccupy
#occupy #OccupySTL @OccupySTL All *live Streams* in one place – the Revolution is televised occupymanifesto.proboards.com
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occupymanifesto.proboards.com
Thanks a bunch.
Do you have someone to contact if you are arrested?
I have done that but there aren’t any specifics. I have emailed a couple of groups who are organizing but no replies yet. I will keep looking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRH5wzCQQw&feature=related
Utah Common Values
Ohhh. An American flag with a caption: Owned by the 99%!
From occupytogether listings of meetups:
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/?see_all=1
Mr. End of History weighs in:
Don’t need a caption. Most folks treat the flag as if it’s owned by the 99%. A chant saying “Whose flag. Our flag” would be more effective.
it certainly seems so
He went up against Union Oil when raygun was Governor exposing leaking tanker rail cars he loaded with nonexistant inspectors. BIG mistake.
Thanks OmAli I think there is a meeting tonight from 6-9 pm.
You are welcome. Hopefully you and I will both be attending our locals.
Occupy Kansas City
Krugman is a Democratic Party loyalist, he just doesn’t cheer lead.
@OccupyMN OccupyMN
Getting ready to do some more interviews on our livestream! – ##occupymn live on livestream.com/occupymn
http://www.livestream.com/occupymn
Now, THAT is some real wisdom! I heartily endorse.
@OccupyHouston Occupy Houston
Tourists are taking pictures of us. We are citizen celebrities!
3 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
Note the change.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/elitist-me/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
…or freaks. Edited to remove the odious emoticon.
@OccupyMartnsbrg OccupyMartinsburg
“@WeAllOccupy: @OccupyMartnsbrg we just added you to our #occupy list at sites.google.com/site/wealloccu…
Spread the word! #solidarity #ows” thank you!
28 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
https://sites.google.com/site/wealloccupy/
Yes I am going and taking my camera for video and pictures. If I don’t get arrested and camera confiscated.
Well there is already Occupy Buffalo going… and Utica. Not sure if Albany and Syracuse are up & running yet.
My name is KrisAinTX and I approve this message.
*g*
glad you said that. batteries.
Livestream is showing DC. Kevin and Jane are at the State Department for the Tar Sands hearing protests.
I find you to be so knowledgeable and persuasive in matters relating to demontrations and protest movements, that it is hard for me to comprehend how you can be missing the truth re Obama and mortgage related crimes by such a wide margin. I know every detail of the processes you refer to, and, you know, I’m also a lawyer so I know what’s involved in proving crimes. I hold to my position. And suggest you read massacios post on the front page today. He probably knows more than either of us on the subject. As to O and his personal culpability, he packaged himself as a reformer and has behaved as the opposite, through choices, not due to coercion. Such a degree of misrepresentation cannot be countenanced or excused without negating any real value that might be attributed to the election process. IMNSHO.
@OccupyColleges OccupyColleges
STUDENT SOLIDARITY MARCH in support of Occupy Wall St. THURSDAY, October 13th! Let’s spread the word #occupywallst #occupycolleges
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This is increasingly going to be part of the tension that has to be maintained to avoid “know-nothing-ism”. But technical skills are only privileged when you are doing something that produces helpful information or practical action. He can lay out a technical proposal. But he must explain it, answer questions, and get consensus on action just like anyone else.
I don’t know what Krugman’s financial situation is, but I suspect that he is within the 99% even as a Nobel laureate.
Last time Americans protested like this was to end the Viet Nam mess. And, Americans were proven right. Robert McNamara later wrote a book basically saying he and the warmongers in America were wrong, “very wrong.” I think Americans are on the right side of history in this case, too. Too many different ages, walks of life, ect. are protesting. And, it is a fact that when too much money is bunched up on top–Bush tax laws–it ruins a nation and economy. Was just like this–too much at the top–right before the Great Depression. It’s a consumer driven economy. Right, Bush? Dunderhead? or Sadist? No wonder Bush had to build his library at his wife’s college–and I read that was an uphill battle. Where will Obama build his library after allowing the completion of the demise of so many and so much that is good in this country?
Does that mean he is forbidden to pay taxes.
@OccupyPhilly Occupy Philadelphia
Good afternoon #Philadelphia! Welcome to Day 2 of #OccupyPhilly. If you haven’t seen the love yet, come on out for our GA @ 6ish!
5 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
1%. 99%. Let’s take care to remember that these are also labels, adopted for convenience and impact more than for accuracy. People in the top 2%-10% are still pretty well off, and not very likely to be aching for systemic change.
http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/paul-krugman-gets-new-place-hang-his-hat-and-nobel
@SactoNews Sacto News
Sacramento protestors stay put, upset over arrests dlvr.it/plk7w
#sacramento
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@MCSacramento MCSacramento
MORTGAGE SECURITIZATION AUDITOR TRAINING CERTIFICATION OCT 21-23 IN LAS VEGAS!! (CERTIFIED FORENSI mcclip.me/HOzS
#coupon #sacramento
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seems like a growth industry… gonna need a LOT of auditors…
@OccupyFTCollins OccupyFTCollins
@OccupyWallSt @OccupyDenver (3/3) We urge all IWW union members and their allies to participate in building this movement. #IWW
7 minutes ago via web
@Occupyfresno Occupy Fresno
Last night went well, doing it again today, website coming soon, more details after these messages #occupywallst #occupyfresno
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OT-Any who took my stock market advice from yesterday morning should now be locking in at least half of their profit.
LOL. Good point.
@occupyoakland Occupy Oakland
#OccupyOakland AND #OccupySF just got an amazing endorsement from the SF branch of the Industrial Workers of the World! #IWW
2 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
AND hungry prosecutors!!
Good job.
A lot of people are assuming that the fact that they’re not in court now, means they’ll never end up in court.
No individual home owner could move that ball but some large pension fund, or maybe another investor group will eventually end up dragging one of these banks kicking and screaming into a courtroom and many will follow.
@OccupyIthaca Occupy Ithaca
#OccupyIthaca stands in solidary with #OccupyWallStreet *today* Friday 10/7, 12-6, Commons #OccupyTogether #OccupyEverything
6 minutes ago via web
just an update saw 1 tweet about an hour old from Dhani Bagels so maybe got released in Sacramento?
@OccupySaltLake Occupy Salt Lake
No corruption to see here folks. Please go back about your daily business. fbi.gov/news/pressrel/…
4 minutes ago via web
If you look at the legislative record, he has been a reformer. What else inspires the characterization of him by the GOP, the hatred by the Tea Party than the fact that he has been a reformer.
What I don’t understand is how folks ignore the fact that Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is a powerful player in DC who outlasts two-term presidents. He can sit on legislation and not let it move, which is what he did until the public option was out of the healthcare bill. Over 360,000 OFA phone calls to Congress could not move him.
Or that the Catfood Commission came out of Evan Bayh, Mark Warner, Dianne Feinstein, Kent Conrad, and Joe Lieberman threatening to filibuster the December 2009 debt ceiling bill unless there was attention to Pete Peterson’s concerns. And that Kent Conrad almost didn’t let reconciliation through his Senate Budget Committee without a reaffirmation of that commitment.
He was coerced on these items as a matter of record. The fact that he went out of his way not to antagonize any of the members of the Senate Democratic caucus is one of the criticisms FDL has had of him from the beginning. Rightly so. Rallying the grassroots against the obstructionist was what he needed to do at the time.
But do not underestimate the difficulty of the job of President. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush made it look easy because they did what their Congressional caucuses wanted them to do. And Reagan had enough corporate Democrats to cross over. Obama has had zero Republicans cross over.
But all of this is inside baseball. The PtB put the economic system in crisis in 2008, and they put the political system in crisis (in terms of popular legitimacy) this summer with the debt ceiling debate. This issue is as of September 17 no longer worth debating. The 2012 election will happen as it happens. The more significant historical event will happen outside that and it is unclear at this point what effect it will have on this election. But 2014 and 2016 will be totally different elections than if business usual continued.
If I don’t get my camera confiscated hopefully I will have some video and pics to share. Not sure how to post video to FDL but I will have the info available hopefully tomorrow. That is unless I get arrested.
The time is now.
Occupy Syracuse – October 5 event
The difference between the Democratic party & Republican party is that if a Republican doesn’t toe the party line, the US Chamber of Commerce will throw up a primary challenger in his district. There is no similar centralized source of pressure on the Democratic party in Congress, so it is difficult to maintain party loyalty & discipline.
It’s like the old joke goes “I’m a member of no established political party; I’m a Democrat.”
The question before us is if this can eventually grow into something that can exert that pressure, but with sheer people power instead of bags of cash.
Yes, that will probably happen, but will only be about civil liability, i.e., money. There is criminal liability to be found, sure as shit, and I want to see the bad guys in cages. Preferably, with big, rough boyfriends.
@OccupySanJose OccupySanJose
We need as many people here today as possible! They have threatened to cite and arrest today! Our power is in numbers! Join us! #99Percent
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@OccupyIthaca Occupy Ithaca
Stand with #OccupyWallStreet: Sat 11/5 “Bank Transfer Day” Transfer your $$ into a credit union: findacreditunion.com
facebook.com/event.php?eid=…
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Occupy Santa Rosa
Since #occupywallstreet can’t really trend (it’s not new enough), why don’t we try #AmericanAutumn instead?
20 minutes ago via web
wow, I guess you believe this about O. Oh well
@leilclark Leilani Clark
Let’s admit it, #AmericanAutumn sounds like the name of a bad emo band.
13 minutes ago via web
in fact there is a band called that
If we are all moving in generally the same direction, that’s enough for me.
Not quite. first about 75% of seats are safe, so if you don’t toe the line you will not get one of those. second if you don’t toe the line, then the dnc will not back you with dollars and support, and unless you can raise tons without them hard to get elected. third the chamber of commerce funds both sides through different mechanism, so again toe the line. that is why both parties are really just the same, puppets for MIC, and all the rest is just smoke and mirrors
@OccupyAustin OccupyAustin
#OccupyAustin General Assembly live stream is up: occupyaustin.org/livestream/
#OWS
1 minute ago via CoTweet
http://occupyaustin.org/livestream/
I love you, man, but can’t agree. “Pretend reformer” is as far as I’ll go, and that ain’t good, or good enough. Where was the bully pulpit? Where are the investigations? What did W accomplish against an opposition Congress? Don’t know why you love the man so much. You seem to cut him slack as though he was your own errant child. I don’t get it.
Occupy Indy promo
Spliced to an Inside Job trailer.
Not to intrude into an otherwise high-minded conversation, but tolerance of prisoner-on-prisoner abuse in the people’s penal institutions are a scandal and could reasonably be added to #OWS concerns.
I was venting (smiles). Of course I am with you on that concern, and many, many others.
Seems the Twitter list is now
https://twitter.com/#!/kgosztola/occupy-everywhere
I know. Just had to say it. Thanks.
This one seems OK too
https://twitter.com/#!/farrins/occupy
@OccupyChicago Occupy Chicago
Jesse Jackson has just arrived at the Federal Reserve to show his support. One of many.
2 minutes ago via web
“Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.”
Louis T Mcfadden in 1932. he died suddenly (murdered) in 1936
Investigation:
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Financial Fraud Task Force
Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force Announces Results of Largest-Ever Nationwide Operation Targeting Investment Fraud
Financial Fraud Task Force – Search
One view:
Why no major indictments?
My understanding is that there were referrals made from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to the DOJ.
And in my estimation, massacio’s equating “a lot of” with “all” is a leap. They are not the same thing at all. That was a statement of the difficulty of sorting what was actionable and winnable from what was not.
My sense is that this story is not over yet.
@DustinSlaughter Dustin M. Slaughter
#OccupyDC leaflet. “Two marches per day.” Talk of Fed agitation, others. Committed to consistent nonviolence. lockerz.com/s/145171091
http://lockerz.com/s/145171091
It already has been discussed in the development of the Statement of Occupy Wall Street, which was a call to action. All that came through was the contracting of executions. But this certainly is a Wall Street-related issue.
Sure O might go after a a few low hanging fruit to save his election. I’ll believe it when I see the top dogs across the board indicted and geithner is in that bunch
Thanks. I missed that all morning.
Are you one of the organizers of OWS
@henry_hobson Henry Hobson
Check out #occupysacto very cool signs. Please RT!! yfrog.com/hwlpvoij
https://yfrog.com/hwlpvoij
Sign: The Media is Part of the 1%
The clever ones always have plausible deniability. It is extremely difficult for prosecutors to penetrate that wall. Especially against a strong defense lawyer.
Shit no.
I’ve been liveblogging it for almost 3 weeks. Check the record at http://www.nycga.cc
We do have free markets or capitalism, people need to understand that. we have corporations in bed with govt. where govt writes laws, and sets up regulators that benefit corps to the detriment of everyone else. call it what you want but it is not free market capitalism. it could be seen as fascism, communism, socialism, etc.
@swellyn sue hepner
RT @FOX40: Final Occupy Sacramento demonstrator released from jail, group marches back to Cesar Chavez Park #occupysac #occupysacto
2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Not really, because once we rip open the system they will have a hard time using that, and reporters such as matt at rollling stone and many others have put a lot of the pieces together. If we charge them with treason it will be hard to hire high fee attorneys with all their assets frozen.
Ah “plausible deniability” – ingrained in my head by Iran-Contra.
Who are you following for OccupySacto news?
I’ve been following, and a fine job you have been doing. Just had to say that, too.
@OccupyChicago Occupy Chicago
130pm GA moved to 500 s.Michigan due to crowds.
7 minutes ago via TweetDeck
just #OccupySacto and #OccupySac mostly as #OccupySacramento is full of trolls
boston
http://twitpic.com/6wjrhb
http://instagr.am/p/PX_DJ/
http://twitpic.com/6wjfm0
DC
http://twitter.com/#!/legbacarrefour/status/122369868958937088/photo/1
http://twitpic.com/6wkkph MLK monument
http://twitpic.com/6wl87h nader
http://www.yfrog.com/h8tp8jnj
@OccupySanJose OccupySanJose
We have an eviction notice for 11PM tonight. Lets show them how serious we are! #solidarity @occupyca @Occupy_USA @OccupyTogether
11 minutes ago via web
there a trend developing on the West Coast…
Seattle SF Sacramento San Jose?
each incident seems to make the other occupations more defiant
danger of becoming “us vs. the pigs”?
That is what I thought, but got confused for a second. thanks for all your hard work
chicago
http://instagr.am/p/PYZH1/
http://yfrog.com/h8wvpirtj
http://yfrog.com/h7y5weoj
@OccupyBaltimore OccupyBaltimore
6PM at #occupybaltimore: Teach-in on the economic crisis with Lester Spence and Joel Andreas. Don’t miss it!!
4 minutes ago via web
#OccupyAustin seems to have shrunk considerably. We’ll see how things go in the evening hours. I’m sure tonight and the weekend will be much busier.
Reply to ondelette@181
Not seeing that we disagree, ondelette. Perhaps you could be more specific? You say:
“If somebody you don’t agree with comes down to join the protest, you aren’t there to tell them they’re a provocateur, you aren’t there to tell them they don’t meet your litmus test.”
I thought that was what I was saying. 99% includes all. But ‘provocateur’ as I have been seeing it used here, means someone who wants to provoke violence and so cause the police to have an excuse to shut it down. We saw that happen to the London protests where many legitimate protesters did get arrested along with those who were smashing things. The great thing about this and about Egypt which inspired it is the attention to nonviolence – that’s where the importance of not letting the message change lies, not in what this or that individual has as a personal belief.
From the start even the ‘one percenters’ have been invited in for discussions. But that’s a different thing from a co-opting of the event by this or that political entity. A justifiable care is being taken for that not to happen.
wallst
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcmillianfurlow/6221131524/
@RDevro Ryan Devereaux
Giving a friend a first time tour of Liberty Sq, struck me just how much has been has built in this space in under a month. #ows
2 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
comp on Twitter overload so must reboot here be back in a few mins
Has the curiosity and the shine worn off? Hang in there. The numbers will return. Probably after working hours.
Another email I just got:
“Hey Job Partiers,
What a day! The Community / Labor march constituted a ‘Madison Moment’ for New York City, and we couldn’t be more encouraged about it.
New Yorkers now not only can show solidarity with Wisconsinites, but have a shared experience as well within occupation-based movement politics.
So like Wisconsin, we are already hard at work to keep this going, and there are a host of great events coming up next week and beyond to do so!
To start, next Tuesday there is a Billionaire’s Tour in NYC that begins at 12:30pm at 59th Street and 5th Avenue.
This event comes from the Beyond May 12 coalition who staged the historic rally on Wednesday.
It includes a walking tour of the homes of some of the local bank and corporate executives that tanked our economy. We will be marching from house to house demanding both accountability for Wall Street crimes and an extension of the Millionaire’s tax.
Who will we be visiting exactly, you ask? Well, you’re just gonna have to come to find out!
So join us Tuesday and / or help spread the word, and let’s keep this momentum going!
Onward,
–Harry Waisbren, Job Party co-founder
http://www.jobparty.us/ “
“begins at 12:30pm”
so they will walk past the 1%s houses during a time they will be at the office or wherever… yeah really effective plan there
Occupy Chicago today
But their hired help will notice.
Drones, Tarheel, drones. He didn’t have to do that. He did do that, and to murder two American citizens besides.
Speaking of which, many thanks Kevin for the photographs of the General Atomics building where they make that crud, to whoever was kind enough to take them. It totally amazes me that the corporation is so proud of what they do that they have one mounted larger than life on the exterior of the building. (But I guess if Wall Street can have a raging bull…)
Thank you all for that particular protest march. That’s the one that strikes home for me. I don’t see any way around it. Four days into his administration he gave the go ahead. You don’t do that. You just don’t.
Laid off traffic aide of 15 yrs directs traffic at #occupychi, #takingbackchi. Clearly wants to get back to work
@AACina Alyson Ann Cina
We should just go ahead and create a new America while they are too busy fighting with each other to notice. #ows money.cnn.com/2011/10/07/new…
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@RDevro Ryan Devereaux
Jeffrey Sachs thanks Liberty Sq, “You’re changing the direction of this country and the country needs change.” #ows
16 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@RDevro Ryan Devereaux
Sachs giving his account of the history of the 1%, via the ‘Peoples’ Mic.’ Describing how inequality levels haven’t been this bad since 1929
13 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@RDevro Ryan Devereaux
Sachs: Obama has dinner with rich people all the time. He doesn’t have dinner with the 99%. #ows
7 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@RDevro Ryan Devereaux
“No offense to the cayman islands, but stop hiding our profits there.” Sachs addressing Liberty Plaza. #ows
5 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@RDevro Ryan Devereaux
“The 1% are lazy and they stopped trying and they don’t care.” Sachs to Liberty Plaza #ows
5 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@OccupyWallStNYC #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
Check the livestream in 10 mins. @PaulOakenfold going live at #LibertyPlaza livestream.com/occupywallstnyc
#occupywallstreet
Look, I’m not defending Obama. I just think that some of the criticism has gone overboard.
On drones, I agree. He did not have to do that. On the finding that permitted the assassination of al Awlawki, he clearly violated the 4th amendment of the Constitution.
He gave the military the opportunity to “win” in their terms and asked for the results. McChrystal couldn’t do it. Petraeus couldn’t do it. The politics in the military and in the public now is pushing to get out. I’m not saying that was his plan. I’m just saying that that is what happened.
*heh* Great tweet.
Huge crowds in front of Chicago Federal Reserve, Board of Trade, B of A
Are you running for President? Have you declared yet?
@OccupyTulsa Occupy Tulsa
Text from our speech at the Labor Rally: We at Occupy Tulsa, stand together with you today, uniting against the… fb.me/JDmrHn63
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Thanks very much, SouthernDragon.
@occupywichita occupy wichita
At the present time, General Assembly are held at the Docum Sit-in Memorial at Douglass and Broadway.This is a… fb.me/1lnitWQEM
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@occupypgh OccupyPittsburgh
Event rental application has been received by Parks Dept and we are all set for Sunday. We have the area… fb.me/18ncUqDkg
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@OccupySacto Occupy Sacramento
I uploaded a @YouTube video youtu.be/5onYXRhYsSs?a
Occupy Sacrameno: Anthony Bondi on CBS 13 (10/7/11)
@ribsnbibs ISAAC T CLARK III
@OccupySacto can we plz not have clueless peeps spk to the media. We need someone w/knowledge of y this is important talking to media
15 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@wagingnv Waging Nonviolence
#occupywallstreet is a school in how to organize yourself is.gd/MCp0YL
7 minutes ago via TweetDeck
@OccupyPhilly Occupy Philadelphia
Got kids but want to join #OccupyPhilly ? Bring them by the kids area where they can color signs at City Hall! Little revolutionaries!
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@OccupyLasVegas Occupy Las Vegas
#OccupyLasVegas is in the #LasVegas @reviewjournal! lvrj.com/news/occupy-wa…
#OccupyLV
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A Citizen’s Guide to Reporting on #OccupyWallStreet
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2011/citizens-guide-reporting-occupywallstreet
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Reflections on a week with #OccupyBoston
http://mariamastrippin.blogspot.com/2011/10/reflections-on-week-with-occupyboston.html
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McKenzie Wark on Occupy Wall Street: ‘How to Occupy an Abstraction’
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/728-mckenzie-wark-on-occupy-wall-street-how-to-occupy-an-abstraction
via: http://www.delicious.com/tag/occupywallstreet
@OccupyHumboldt Occupy Humboldt
Occupier Torrey hand made a sign for us! Awesome!! We march on the plaza today at 2:45. Join us! yfrog.com/ob2msj
Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA
“what’s in your wallet?” heh.
I took the photos. I have video I will be posting by tomorrow. The protesters were in the lobby of the building where General Atomics conducts business as usual. October 11 livestream captured some great action with the police shoving the masses out the door. I was on the outside of the mass being moved around and got an overhead shot of police shoving.
@OccupyWallStNYC #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
Just finished a rousing game of #TaxDodgeball. Want 2 play? Buy dodgeball, write TAXES on it, dress in suits like $GE, $BA. Throw! Dodge!
7 minutes ago via Twitter for Mac
Clever.
i expected today to be slow and the weekend to pick up again when people aren’t working.
i’m not planning to go today. i was too wired to sleep much last night after being there all day yesterday, so i’m just dragging myself around the house today, hoping the clouds will bring some actual rain.
FWIW…
@OccupyTijuana Tijuana Revoluciona
@OccupyPyongyang HOLY SNAPS! You really exist?! O AO This just proves how awesome it is! Greetings from Tijuana, Mexico #unitedwestand
5 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
Did you get pictures.
@OWSAtlanta Occupy Atlanta
http://j.mp/nJU7jQ
- Atlanta G.A. tonight at Woodruff Park at 6. Power to the people. Power to the peaceful #occupyatlanta #occupytogether
3 minutes ago via TweetDeck
It’s spreading beyond the Twitter / FB crowd:
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/
which I find significant as it costs money to have a Meetup group, and attracts an older crowd than Twitter/ FB
Reported Occupy Together actions today:
Atlanta
Chicago
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Albuquerque
Asheville
Iowa City
Oklahoma City
Lawrence
Ventura
Boise
San Juan
Davis
El Paso
Kingston NY
Rochester
Buenos Aires
Las Cruces
Winston-Salem
Lincoln
Marquette
Tuscaloosa
Seaside OR
Williamsport PA
Brattleboro
Ogden UT
These might not all happen, but it gives a list to check Twitter against.
@USDayofRage US Day of Rage ☮
The independence of government comes from its dependence on the people alone. Federalist 52 #usdor
3 minutes ago via web
#OccupyWallStreet Journal Map Calls Mark di Suvero’s “Joie de Vivre” Weird
http://hyperallergic.com/37434/occupywallstreet-map-mark-di-suervo/
https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyTogether/occupy-together
for the message chatter… I’ve sure I’ve spotted a bunch of places not on that list, with the sense that today was to be their kickoff day.
Must wait for further reports.
See my list @380 of communities scheduled for today.
If you look through the list, some look suspiciously like they’ve been registered defensively to prevent a group from forming. (Anderson SC, for example) And some are just troll jokes. (Occupy couch, for example).
The more solid ones are probably beyond relying on meetups.
Yep. There is no one authoritative source of info.
March on LA Financial District (Occupy LA Day 6)
Awesome
the one pic i took, i forgot to save, but there are some good ones here. KrisAinTX linked to these last night. As it turns out, I’m in one of them, holding my straw hat and a sign saying “I MAY NOT HAVE A JOB BUT I DO HAVE AN OCCUPATION”.
Presence on Meetup might also tick off Tea Party Meetup groups, at least locally, as they tend to dominate the group listings and activity ’round these parts for anything remotely political.
At this rate I won’t have to go find an occupation, one will sprout up near me pretty soon, even if it is only marches or demonstrations by a few people.
There are cells of 2s and 3s and 5s starting to appear nearby.
This Is Bad: The US Drone Fleet Has Been Infected With a Virus
Wonder how long it took them to find out?
The decentralization makes it harder for us to follow what is going on, but makes it more likely the movement will survive and grow.
@OccupyNJ OccupyNJ
#occupyjc now has a lawyer working along side to make sure we don’t get in trouble.
6 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
ya don’t want to give Goldman Sachs HQ security force any excuse…
Alexandria Baca, Alison Matas: Occupy Wall Street movement spreads to Columbia
– Columbia Missourian
Leaving for Occupy Chatt in a few minutes. Hopefully will have some photos later. I’ll behave. Promise *g*
I saw you! So great to be able to put a face with a name. Go Greenwarrior!
Occupy Huntsville *raw footage*
Yesterday (10-6)
@OccupySacto Occupy Sacramento
The live stream is back up! If you cant make it down to Caesar Chavez Park then join us on the web! http://www.livestream.com/OccupySacto
2 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
http://www.livestream.com/OccupySacto
@OccupyAnchorage Occupy Anchorage
We’re sending our winter survival guides and some supplies to Liberty Square. #needsoftheoccupiers #OWS @OccupyWallStNYC @OccupyWallSt
4 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
Well look at you! Kewl.
#OWS “hippies” ?? More like HEROS to me
Occupy Salt Lake City 10-6
@OccupyMaine OccupyMaine
occupy maine is live !!!
2 minutes ago via Chat Widget
@DustinSlaughter Dustin M. Slaughter
Have 2 friends who at best are apolitical. Received word from both today they will be attending respective occupations. #OccupyWallStreet
10 minutes ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry
great photo and great sign!
A key logging virus in a computer used for facebook and email is inconvenient, a key logger infecting a business system is possibly costly, a key logger infecting a system armed with Hellfire missiles is potentially the start of Armageddon.
The first thing I thought of when I learned about drone warfare was the possibility that someone might high-jack one.
The first thing I thought about when I heard of the Stuxnet virus was that someone would inevitably re-purpose the bastard.
Got a point there. My view was that all the civilian deaths were from bad human intelligence. It could be something else.
It’s a poor way to kill or capture terrorists anyway.
But this news should move folks away from military solutions. Will it?
Moment of serenity: Sufi GA
@SabzBrach Joanne Michele
March is back. #occupydc twitpic.com/6wnapv
What could possibly go wrong?
@OccupyFlorida OccupyFlorida
#OccupySpaceCoast – Oct 9 – 4pm – Lee Wenner Park – Fellow 99%! Come out and support the Space Coast with… tumblr.com/Z_3WrwAOow0m
2 minutes ago via Tumblr
lotta downsizing at NASA these days…
next we’ll have OccupyMARS
Anthony Fleg: Occupy Albuquerque: The Voice of the 99 Percenters
– Clearly New Mexico
It’s another of those “plausible deniability” built-ins.
@OccupyKnoxville OccupyKnoxville
Take Krutch Park! #occupyknoxville #solidarity #occupy
3 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
#occupyFF on overload its associated w/ the DC action
I think they’re using it as a relay to link together peoples Twitter handles
I followed the “investigations” you cited VERY closely while they were going on, as they had direct relevance for the markets. They were all toothless whitewashes, and criticized as such at the time by those who were knowledgeable and commented on them. You know DC specializes in such “investigations.” Still love and admire you w/o limit, my friend, but we are never going to agree on this unless you adopt my viewpoint.
@OccupyCleveland #OccupyCleveland
. #Nonviolence training will be held at 1801 e 12th corner of chester. Meet in lobby at 6. #OccupyCleveland
3 minutes ago via TweetDeck
@DownWithTheBull DownWithTheBull
#ows DC Law Firm whos handling the class action lawsuit for the brooklyn bdg protesters got it’s account suspended! justiceonline.org/our-work/brook…
http://www.justiceonline.org/our-work/brooklyn-bridge-mass-arrest/welcome-to-brooklyn-bridge-email-list.html
Twitter acct I’d guess
@CBantic Cory Bantic
Occupy dc needs urgent pizza at mcpherson square. #occupydcneeds #occupydc
8 minutes ago via txt
all that marching burns a lot of calories
@OccupyPhilly Occupy Philadelphia
Listen up #Philadelphia – #OccupyPhilly is hosting a march tomorrow at 2:30pm from Dilworth Plaza to The Liberty Bell! facebook.com/event.php?eid=…
4 minutes ago via web
@DustinSlaughter Dustin M. Slaughter
General Assembly is now convening. #OccupyDC #OccupyKSt lockerz.com/s/145214297
http://lockerz.com/s/145214297
@OccupyCOMO OccupyCOMO
outsource congress ~goji
5 minutes ago via Facebook
@OccupyHumboldt Occupy Humboldt
Strolling to the plaza!
8 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
@MaNnyfESteR Mannington Festerson
@OccupyHumboldt Just heard your PSA on campus radio.. Sounded Amazing! great work #occupyHumboldt #OWS #occupyfdsf #occupy
7 minutes ago via web
I am going to Occupy St. Louis in 45 minutes. Hopefully will have video and pictures.
@OccupyCleveland #OccupyCleveland
Much love and #Gratitude RT @mrchrisdonovan: @WestSideMarket donating bags of food #occupycleveland #occupywallstreet
8 minutes ago via TweetDeck
“Compare the legitimate complaints about police actions at OccupyWallStreet to those used during anti-war activities taking place in 1971 in Washington DC.” … “Longtime Police Strategy: Instigate A Brawl” (CapecodToday.Com, Oct. 5, 2011)
@OccupyIowaCity The 99%
I’ve just broadcasted a video. Please watch it now! ustre.am/:1cqjU
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17737450#utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=17737450&utm_medium=social
@OWSAtlanta Occupy Atlanta
ustream.tv/channel/occupy…
Occupy Atlanta Live Stream.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupyatlanta
@OccupyMN OccupyMN
we have 300 strong here at the Peoples Plaza. http://www.livestream.com/occupymn – ##occupymn live on livestream.com/occupymn
http://www.livestream.com/occupymn
@allisonkilkenny allisonkilkenny
ICYMI: New #CitizenRadio: Citizen Radio joins @SamSeder and @NaomiAKlein from #OccupyWallStreet bit.ly/nuPUfP
#ows #tpot #p2
4 minutes ago via TweetDeck
I think we broke Twitter again lol
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Hamster Dance: The Remix
@kennethlipp Kenneth Lipp
Oh, and they really need pizza here at mcpherson park #occupydc #ows
4 minutes ago via txt
cannot change the world on an empty stomach
it stalled out on me about 1 min in but yeah I remember the days when a wall of animated hamsters on a webpage was amazing … just because it was 1996 or so and the internet had not been corporatized yet
@SabzBrach Joanne Michele
#OccupyDC needs more volunteers for the food committee.
8 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
@SabzBrach Joanne Michele
#OccupyDC needs space blankets, gauze, bandaids, cough drops, antiseptic. #OccupyKSt
6 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
Evening live blog
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/10/07/live-blog-of-occupywallstreet-day-21-an-evening-in-freedom-plaza/
Thanks everyone.
They just arrived marching from Brooklyn
@Occupy_Boston Occupy Boston
The food tent is in desperate need of all basics. Things like lentils, beans, rice are in high demand. Food delivery donations are good too.
5 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
I recall. The engineers loved HD as a whimsical symbol of resistance to the corporatocracy.
Photo: “Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist giving away free healthcare … you’re thinking of Jesus” #ows #occupymcallen #Solidarity
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4” – Daft Punk
You have made my day! I loved the original and this is even better. Thanks.
Photos: #OccupyDC March 2 State Department 2 Join Keystone XL Pipeline Hearing Protesters–
http://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/KXLinfographicFINAL.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/energyactioncoalition/6219093307/sizes/m/in/set-72157627711966767
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/10/06/pipeline-protests-planned-on-eve-of-final-keystone-xl-hearing/
#WeRAllHamstersNow! #OWS #OccupyEverywhere #Solidarity
Photos: #OccupyDC March 2 State Department 2 Join Keystone XL Pipeline Hearing Protesters
http://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/KXLinfographicFINAL.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/energyactioncoalition/6219093307/sizes/m/in/set-72157627711966767
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/10/06/pipeline-protests-planned-on-eve-of-final-keystone-xl-hearing
Photos: #OccupyDC March 2 State Department 2 Join Keystone XL Pipeline Hearing Protesters
http://priceofoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/KXLinfographicFINAL.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/energyactioncoalition/6219093307/sizes/m/in/set-72157627711966767
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/10/06/pipeline-protests-planned-on-eve-of-final-keystone-xl-hearing
great. that lifted my lethargic old spirits!