OCCUPY SANDBOX

@JeffSharlet ·More
So it was all a ruse: @occupyboston head fake, NYC #mockupy, and meanwhile @occupyphoenix really is being raided. livestream.com/OccupyPhoenix

whoa boston getting raid now maybe

Remember to get you some sleep, hoos.

boston evicted this morning, 46 arrested

tonight they arrested boston people FOR HAVING A GA IN THE PARK

so much for the 1st Amendment, RIP.

Our city council is voting tomorrow on whether to extend the camp's permissions.

tonight they arrested boston people FOR HAVING A GA IN THE PARK

deets?

Staten Island vs Cheney tomorrow night:

http://occupystatenisland.org/content/protest-dick-cheney

also there are some folks out west raising a ruckus tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqncu3wlEI

#D12 is the hashtag

http://westcoastportshutdown.org/

GA =?= general assembly?

Sorry, but I'm having a hard time moving this one into standard english.

yup, general assembly

holy hell you guys the hashtag is on some speed-of-light shit

my boys at the portland occupier are liveblogging

http://www.portlandoccupier.org/2011/12/12/liveblog-d12/

the port of oakland is closed

also hearing reports via cnn that portland is shut down

@qwmagazine
haha, the people arrested for tweeting are now chanting "whose tweets? our tweets." form inside the van. #d12 #ows

A+

gonna get some live reports myself here in an hour or so and put 'em on the radio.

Occupy PORTLAND has shut down Terminal 6. - Port spokesman Josh Thomas confirms port is basically shut down for the day

cops (somewhere on the west coast, too fast for me to figure this out atm) are bringing in dogs, calling for dispersal of illegal assembly "in the name of the people of california"

which people, i wonder

ows is taking over the brookfield lobby! diceytroop tags "#BONUSROUND" lol

what are yr thoughts on the port blocking thing btw hoos? i am out of the loop (& don't really know what's going on wrt this port) but thought i remembered you being sorta unsure about it on here somewhere upthread.

i was and am unsure about it tbh

but then again when the cops start arresting people with cameras who don't have "official journalist credentials" i'm kinda down for whatever

we've traced the ows livestream

its coming from INSIDE THE PADDYWAGON AHHH

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

"When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on." -George Orwell

xp to myself

cops escalated simultaneously in oakland & lb, now simultaneously backing down

?

goddamn

last weds was exhausting cause we had 3 actions i tried to cover throughout the day

this is like 8 simultaneous actions around the country

Portland liveblog

http://www.portlandoccupier.org/2011/12/12/liveblog-d12/

livestream

http://occupyportland.org/livestreammedia/

portland are a whole gang of badasses

Oakland officially shut down as of 10:29 a.m.

ugh do I even bother engaging with sub-intelligent "friends" on fb/twitter saying shit like "you can't protest a business like a port, you just can't" and "why do they protest against longshoremen, who they say they support"

ffs

I'd link them to this

http://cleanandsafeports.org/blog/2011/12/12/an-open-letter-from-america%E2%80%99s-port-truck-drivers-on-occupy-the-ports/

thx HOOS!

of course that only works if they actually READ the damn thing smh smh smh

"@susie_c: Two #D12 confirmations: the valiant return of the sound truck, & the valiant return of Scott Olsen, on the sound truck. 3pm."

!!

also this

http://www.portlandoccupier.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pawns-take-king1.jpg

In re: the Luntz thing from a coupla weeks ago, George Lakoff wrote a thing saying not to fall into his trap:

http://www.truth-out.org/words-dont-work/1323270276

i just wrote a rhyming press release for an action outside a GOP xmas party in the style of "twas the night before christmas" that rhymed "republican staff" with "wall st gold calf."

what is my life.

based on the number of "where do we go from here" thinkpieces showing up online and being written by nutjobs & sent to our ~official~ accounts (including a whole series sent by a guy which begin FOCUS, OCCUPY, ITS TIME TO FOCUS) i feel like we're entering the "but have you ever ~really~ looked at the back of a dollar bill" phase

CNN Headline News coverage of Occupy Ports is all why do they protest against longshoremen, who they say they support"

christ

and they're not interviewing any of the wildcat ILWU guys, i suspect, who were behind it all the way.

Support the values of the strike and all, but it's going to make for some difficult conversations w our inventory people in a few weeks.

Well, "difficult" in the sense that I'll have to not be too chipper about delivering the news that books are late.

ha

i mean i don't mean to uncomplicated a complicated situation

there were a lot of competing issues here and lots of union people i know in dc and through twitter were not behind the blockade in principle--i wasn't even behind it all the way--but in practice as a one-day shutdown i think it was successful and counts as a victory.

I guess I have to read more to understand this victory

yeah is there a definitive 'why occupy ports' article