tonight they arrested boston people FOR HAVING A GA IN THE PARK
deets?
― river wolf, Sunday, 11 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Staten Island vs Cheney tomorrow night:
http://occupystatenisland.org/content/protest-dick-cheney
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
GA =?= general assembly?
Sorry, but I'm having a hard time moving this one into standard english.
― Aimless, Monday, 12 December 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
yup, general assembly
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 12 December 2011 07:06 (twelve years ago) link
holy hell you guys the hashtag is on some speed-of-light shit
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
my boys at the portland occupier are liveblogging
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
@qwmagazinehaha, the people arrested for tweeting are now chanting "whose tweets? our tweets." form inside the van. #d12 #ows
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
A+
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
gonna get some live reports myself here in an hour or so and put 'em on the radio.
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Occupy PORTLAND has shut down Terminal 6. - Port spokesman Josh Thomas confirms port is basically shut down for the day
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
i was and am unsure about it tbh
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
"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
?
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
Portland liveblog
livestream
http://occupyportland.org/livestreammedia/
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
portland are a whole gang of badasses
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
Oakland officially shut down as of 10:29 a.m.
― sleeve sandbox, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
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
― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
thx HOOS!
― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
of course that only works if they actually READ the damn thing smh smh smh
― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 12 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
"@susie_c: Two #D12 confirmations: the valiant return of the sound truck, & the valiant return of Scott Olsen, on the sound truck. 3pm."
!!
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
also this
http://www.portlandoccupier.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pawns-take-king1.jpg
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
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
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
CNN Headline News coverage of Occupy Ports is all why do they protest against longshoremen, who they say they support"
― Another Suburbanite, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
christ
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Well, "difficult" in the sense that I'll have to not be too chipper about delivering the news that books are late.
ha
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I have to read more to understand this victory
― Another Suburbanite, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah is there a definitive 'why occupy ports' article
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.alternet.org/economy/153393/how_goldman_sachs_and_other_companies_exploit_port_truck_drivers_?page=entire
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
a few of my boys are on day 5 of a hunger strike for full dc congressional representation & budget autonomy for the district.
they just met with darrel issa's staff & had a productive convo--then issa, presumably having prewritten some damage control imagining he would look bad for not meeting with them, put out a press release demanding to know why the dept of the interior is letting us camp illegally on "stimulus-funded grass."
boehner's staff wouldn't send out anybody but a low-level press secretary who ran away as fast as she could & didn't answer any reporters questions.
eleanor holmes norton, my goddamn hero, just intervened and said she would facilitate a meeting between boehner's people and my boys.
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
might be time to get yr credit cards out (if u have them):
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/donations_to_occupy_wall_street_plummet/singleton/
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 17 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
also, Duarte Square rally/reoccupation this afternoon at Canal St & 6th (Lou Reed lol & Titus Andronicus):
http://occupywallst.org/article/d17-reoccupy-schedule/
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 17 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Near half a million still in the bank, and they're sending money to other occupations--I think they're OK for the moment. Local occs could probably do more with the money; some of them have seen malfeasance that left them nearly broke. Not that DC has heard anything about that.
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
how yr boys hunger strikes hoos?
― big popppa hoy, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link