OCCUPY SANDBOX

that list is so gross

i like how "one of the nation's foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message"'s answer to "people are starting to dislike this word" is once again "quick replace it with 'freedom'!" can i get paid to do this too pls

i love that it got out though, it's like getting a seminar in lightsaber fighting from darth vader

did i really just say that

is it possible Luntz is frontin'? where was that said?

Tell them, "You shouldn't be occupying Wall Street, you should be occupying Washington. You should occupy the White House because it's the policies over the past few years that have created this problem."

lol, THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT IS DOING THIS ALREADY!

also "hmmm"

lol, THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT IS DOING THIS ALREADY!

― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:40 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

dude with an "#occupyDC" column in tweetdeck i CAN NOT TELL YOU how often i see this line

is it possible Luntz is frontin'? where was that said?

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:36 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?
"I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation's foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message.

I doubt Luntz is fronting otoh is he really stupid enough to let the press in on such a seminar without thinking about how it will play...? (ans: maybe)

Well I've always wondered abt him bc he does those bits in the Colbert report. This list looks like the outcomes of the focus groups he does with Colbert.

I feel like he's basically saying that it doesn't matter if we see behind the curtain because that's how effective it is to say "careers" instead of "jobs"

occupy boston: sonned over a sink beef?

they good ppl

WeHo LGBTs marching Saturday

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-weho-lgbt-99-march.html

aaaand now OccupySF has devolved into what I expected it would: a large homeless camp

awesome

24hr event apparently underway in times square

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/384928_2741065892319_1427583604_2990990_1872315940_n.jpg

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136402/george-packer/the-broken-contract

hunger strike across the street from my office. Guess I won't eat my lunch on the benches facing these guys.

http://occupywallst.org/article/ows-hunger-strike-new-outdoor-occupation/

that wells fargo mic check is so good. so stirring. when the applause comes in though, is that people applauding the sentiment of the mic check or the fact that they're being thrown out?

think it's the latter :/

worth reposting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ePZHSOmvQ

the occupy k st livestream is terrifying right now

wha happen?

I just see a lot of hoodies

they built a big temporary wooden structure/shelter overnight; park police came in and gave them orders to dismantle it, eventually cordoned it off, and began arresting people. there were a couple dozen people inside/atop the structure when the stream went out, and there's some sort of standoff ongoing afaik - the last shot you saw on the stream was of a bunch of cops trying to pull pieces of the building down and the cameraman falling/getting pushed over

http://twitpic.com/7ocvl2

arrests are starting now

Why the cockshit did they try to build a ferchrisakes barn?

fucking shit you guys

what a fucking day

all told there were 31 arrests, about half of which were people inside the ~occubarn~ and half of which were people who crossed police lines to get food & other supplies to those inside. cops tried to tackle my friend rooj when someone gave her bread, but she twisted out of her jacket and got away. mike was hit with the tazer pins, but at the last moment the officer who fired the tazer *didn't* send through the electric shock. mike has a heart murmur, and it could have fucked him up something fierce. the last guy clinging to the structure was named david, and as the cherry picker & 5 other cops worked over half an hour to wrangle him down the crowd started chanting "david beats goliath! david beats goliath!" so that was kinda cool.

i'm a little bit annoyed by the whole affair, honestly, because as i recall when we consented to this project in GA it was on the understanding that if we were asked to take it down we would do so in order to protect the camp at large. in the heat of the moment the opposite happened. still, though, media team worked to frame this on-message, and i think we did well. cnn & the times running with the themes we worked in the release--"we built this structure to shelter ourselves, but also to highlight the systematic dismantling of services for the poor. we thank the park police for helping us fully realize this piece of theater by tearing it down with a bulldozer." the times even quoted part of the release, and it was a little surreal to see my own writing in the fucking times.

my man

hoos, you're the fucking man, in case you didn't know

xp

I echo that sentiment. Well fucking played.

well done, hoos

thx guyz but i just wrote some shit & tweeted--i spent my evening hugging the people who'd gotten arrested and released.

also david shuster rolled though to give daps to our livestreamer for his impressive reporting from the front line; easily a half dozen people found him and said "your commentary on this stream is the reason i came out here."

oh also i went to a positive force meeting (!!) on saturday and got some emails for people who want to help promote this punk show i'm organizing at the square, including possibly "the dc punk vegan" ie ian mackaye.

my man adrian just liked a comment i made on fb, so i guess he's out of jail. lol.

damn what's the big homie shuster up to these days

BIG SHUS

o i see he works for current.tv -_-

lol big shus

hoos, how is friend w/ heart issues?

also ~hugz~

he's good! he's an iraq war vet, sturdy as fuck, he was just concerned about the effect a tazing might have had on his heart murmur.

as one would

solidarity hoos

*lifts fist*

one of the highlights of this whole thing has been the realization a few weeks into it that we weren't doing that ironically anymore </tumblrwhite>

also david shuster rolled though to give daps to our livestreamer for his impressive reporting from the front line; easily a half dozen people found him and said "your commentary on this stream is the reason i came out here."

that dude was incredible all day

in general i think you guys are doing a great job of media and community relations - yeah, there are gonna be assholes saying "the first amendment doesn't say anything about FREEDOM OF PLYWOOD amirite" but kst's messaging hasn't really been amorphous or didactic at all (and working with agents like positive force is only gonna strengthen/legitimize kst to the dc community)

and i realize there are a lot of reasons why kst never really got confrontational before this, but don't think for a second that the media work you're doing isn't one of them

(although this all would have been a lot funnier if it had happened the day BEFORE i had to endure a night of hanging out with matt ygl3sias at some party)

yo as someone1 who is ostesibly on ys side where is this bad mattyglesisas article?