OCCUPY SANDBOX

river wolf you are back never leave and also please be doctor river wolf now

doctorate in applied sassiness

omg river wolf how can i help u

occupy this knuck

~knucks~

did u buck?

oh knux were had

why

bcz bux

spirit flagging 2nite

found out mpd are now literally dropping just-released convicts at the square. when i heard nypd was doing this at z park i was able to stay sort of detached about it? like "ho ho, what an insidious and clever tactic, you rapscallions of the nypd!" but this really feels like the city i love just stabbed me in the stomach.

d-esc now instituting "three strikes" policy in hopes of curbing the rising instances of theft, medical tent was ransacked over the weekend (and two of our three main medics are ready to throw in the towel), the numbers of the mentally unstable have been increasing. some month and change ago i heard the other occupation was deliberately pushing out the homeless population that was encroaching on the camp because the homeless "didn't have the full understanding of (their) reasons for occupying" and i thought it was just a blinding display of said occ's short-sightedness & privileging of political expedience at the expense of a human ethic.

now, as their camp putters along quietly if staidly, i kind of wonder why that seemed like such a bad idea.

http://nymag.com/print/?/news/politics/occupy-wall-street-2011-12/

where's the rest of that

"OWS is the “rotten fruit of Obamaism,” says a strategist."

both the ny mag and new yorker article are the work of ppl who were there for an extended length of time sorta refreshing after 100000 'journalist visits zuccotti for 30 minutes, explains it to the world's

oh hmm let me try another link

yeah this and the nyer piece seem much more embedded than everything else i've read

they 'get it'

harkinson almost feels like 'one of us' by now, too much to really give me any perspective

http://nymag.com/news/politics/occupy-wall-street-2011-12/

btw iatee apparently the failure of the supercommittee was your fault

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supercommittees-13th-member-occupy-wall-street/2011/11/28/gIQAIC9C5N_story.html

^ seeing the occupy rhetoric in the comments section there is hope for me tbh

i wish i could shoot pepper spray out my dick

at copz

“It’s ironic. At first, people thought I was a Democratic Party mole. Now I’m like, ‘Fuck it, Let’s go after Obama!’ and they’re like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.’ ”

lol lol a friend of mine said these exact words the other night

could get you in trouble with the secret service if you phrase that poorly

esp in DC I mean

as the cops pour out of the ovens

the fact that he was elected, that so many people came out in the streets for him, that people cried when he won, was an expression of the fact that they wanted what they thought he was, which is an alternative. He wasn’t it. He can’t deliver it. This political system can’t deliver it. This economy can’t deliver it. But there are millions of people who genuinely want it. That’s amazing and inspiring to people like us, who are just, like, ‘Okay. This is for real.’ ”

^

Stellar nonsense from that washington post column linked above:

...would have raised taxes by $250 billion over 10 years by dramatically reducing the deductions and credits wealthier taxpayers could claim to reduce their tax liability

I love how a freaking measly $25 billion a year in reduced tax credits and deductions becomes a revolutionary proposal that 'raises taxes dramatically'. He must think his readers cannot actually read.

a HOOS or a iatee is there anything a dude can do while not occupy-ing? London is a hassle to get to for us country folk.

In other news I am thinking of doing a politics-based masters, because ambition to become a lolw* level civil servant is how a brother brings about change.

unconsious typo/fruedian slip, leaving it in there. was just supposed to be low, now is lol-w.

I was at "eviction night" at Occupy LA yesterday and took a bunch of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/sets/72157628198758577/

Stand off...

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6117/6422165189_9fd564135d.jpg

Meta-viewing

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6220/6422170183_50169796aa.jpg

FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT IS NOT ???? ASSEMBLY

from that New York story, the arrival of Jesse Jackson:

But Jackson played humble, taking the seat next to Nurse, asking if he was welcome, waiting quietly for his turn to speak. Then, holding Nurse’s hand, he proceeded to unfurl a soliloquy in which he described the occupiers as inheritors of the mantle of the civil-rights movement. He talked about Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign, one of the last protests that MLK planned before his death. About Resurrection City, the shantytown on the National Mall that several thousand people populated in May and June of 1968. About how one advantage to having no identifiable leader is that “there’s nobody to assassinate.”

Jackson looked at Berger and asked, “What does Lyndon Johnson mean to you?” Berger shrugged. “The Vietnam War?”

Jackson folded his hands across his belly and declaimed, “Civil Rights Act of 1964—LBJ. The Voting Rights Act of 1965—LBJ. Medicare—LBJ. Medicaid—LBJ. Child Nutrition Act—LBJ. Jobs Corps—LBJ.”

lol:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/connecticut-asset-managers-win-254-million-powerball-lottery/

Really, dude?

And if Obama thinks that they’re gonna be able to divert this energy by talking about doing something, he’s got another think coming.”

yeah, but: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/another-think-coming.html

yeah but lol, british ppl

with examples from the US, but don't let that stop you being a dick

'think' makes more sense if you 'think' about it but almost everybody says 'thing'

Yes, but it was (still is) one of those things that people that tut about 'people who cannot use the queen's english properly' will cite as being an example.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/at-top-colleges-anti-wall-st-fervor-complicates-recruiting/

http://janelanaweb.com/trends/david-graeber-the-american-empire-collapse-is-effectively-being-negotiated-both-internationally-and-within/

"The IMF was driven out of East Asia, out of Latin America, just as now it’s in the process of being driven out of the Middle East."

This claim seems dubious to me in multiple ways. I've been reading his book and he makes the same claim upfront, and there also doesn't seem to back it up (although he might nearer the end of the book?)

yeah I also had problem w/ that sentence, I think he might have too much invested in the 90s anti-globalization movement to talk about it objectively

aw antiglobalization movement miss u boo

he proceeded to unfurl a soliloquy in which he described the occupiers as inheritors of the mantle of the civil-rights movement. He talked about Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign, one of the last protests that MLK planned before his death. About Resurrection City, the shantytown on the National Mall that several thousand people populated in May and June of 1968. About how one advantage to having no identifiable leader is that “there’s nobody to assassinate.”

Jackson looked at Berger and asked, “What does Lyndon Johnson mean to you?” Berger shrugged. “The Vietnam War?”

Jackson folded his hands across his belly and declaimed, “Civil Rights Act of 1964—LBJ. The Voting Rights Act of 1965—LBJ. Medicare—LBJ. Medicaid—LBJ. Child Nutrition Act—LBJ. Jobs Corps—LBJ.”

― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:06 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

he gave us the same bit a few weeks ago and ppl were like visibly awed by him, it was weird

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/connecticut-asset-managers-win-254-million-powerball-lottery/

Gah, this reminds me of the well-off attorney I know who just bragged on FB about having won a 100-person poker tournament with a $200 buy-in.

It's a good anecdote but I don't understand what it's doing in the story. Is it supposed to underscore the importance of using the political system? Show the ignorance of young people? Remind us how Jackson is overweight?

a HOOS or a iatee is there anything a dude can do while not occupy-ing?

― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:04 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

Join a working/discussion group remotely, spread the word online, read/learn about the issues involved with a little more than casual depth so you can talk about it with others, donate donate donate. O London is at http://occupylsx.org/?page_id=192

repost shit on fb and twitter

(constantly)

ahhhh ok my favorite dc band just reached out asking to play this benefit for the occupied wash times ahhhhh

a hoos would it be crass to point out that you are gonna be able to get an awesome job somewhere after this

http://jeffburk.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/crasslogo_font.png

my homie drew is from iowa and he travelled back there for #occupycaucus, keep waiting to see a photo of him getting dragged off

so

#J17 is a thing that is happening and i'm one of a few spearheads

http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/12/occupy-dc-planning-major-january-demonstration/2039451

ilx shld be more like facebook because i want to 'like' every hoos update on this thread.

xposts those seem like legit recommendations. thanks you. gonna get on that for the new year.

don't know if this is inline with occupy (and its the first time i've heard of it): lawrence lessig and mark meckler held a 'conference on the constitutional convention' back in sept. i'm convinced at this point that an article 5 convention might be the only viable avenue for occupy to get its needs met. otherwise it seems occupy will be relegated to local skirmishes with little effect at the federal level. not that local activism isn't equally noble.

the url is unfortunate: http://conconcon.org/

http://occupycapitolhill.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/crearresistir-014.png?w=640&h=1024

media team is at the bar for new years and my man says "dude, search twitter for zuccotti park right now"

"what am i looking for"

"just do it"

*thumbtyping*

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.999411.1325401567!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_485/image.jpg

"..................oh. fuck."

happy fucking new year