Head DC Health Inspector just said “As long as the protesters remain peaceful, there won’t be any health issues that I can see.”
What an interesting sentence.
peace = not littering.
anger is a filthy, disease-ridden energy
amber is the color of your energy
hi hoos I missed this thread
the folks here successfully dealt w/an overdose, paramedics came and dude survived.
flash mob stuff in the malls on Buy Nothing Day, one arrest that seemed almost like an accident.
our deadline is Dec. 15th, city council will have to vote for the camp to stay longer.
I mentioned this on ILXFB, but I am still sort of discombobulated by learning via the New Yorker that a 19-year-old art student I met at the Genius Bar in 2005 and fruitlessly pursued for two months is now one of the guiding forces and on-the-ground organizers of OWS. She is described as “dark-haired and eloquent.”
aw troo love
I have actually always wanted to be notable enough to be profiled by a magazine, just so I could read the pithy description of my appearance and personality.
The NYT called me “doe-eyed and lugubrious”. Wait. Nevermind. I dreamed that.
i’d describe you like that aimless, if i knew what lugubrious means.
has the Occupy dude that handed Obama the note been ID’d? He looked like such an ilxor.
wait I didn’t hear about that
plz say the note said “Do you like me? select one: __ yes __ no __ maybe”
Did Obama go down there????
Being British, I have no idea what has been going on for like the past two weeks. I don’t think there has even been a news story about St Pauls recently (which is bad; not liking this ‘pretend it isn’t happening and maybe it’ll go away’ non coverage.)
good job Kingfish!
I lol’d at “banksters”
Did Obama go down there????
Nah, it was while he was campaigning in New Hampshire.
how come he could spell “impunity” and not “amendment”
sorry I am focusing on trivialities
I keep thinking that says “Mr. Presidetn”
whoa that’s great
was so fucking proud/jealous of occupy NH for the mic check, only mad cause we were supposed to do it first, dammit
i’m on the ed board of the newspaper now? and so like i’m trying to organize a punk benefit show for us and doing proofing of loopy articles?
good thing i wasn’t tired or anything.
oh also a judge just rejected Citigroup’s argument & concluded that it ~did~ knowingly mislead investors over CDOs in 2008
http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/judge-rakoff-rejection-of-citibank-settlement-with-sec
BIG UP THIS JUDGE
oh i’m gonna be on al-jazeera next week?
and in a greek documentary?
lol
the ny marchers showed up last week, fucking heroic. some buddhist monks & nuns came by and cared for their feet for a couple of days.
proud of a hoos
whoa hoos! is it another interview?
hoy, latest St Pauls/Occupy LDN news story is this ‘un:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/28/occupy-london-policy-vision-corporations
was down at bank of ideas yesterday, it seemed, you know, a nice space.
Where was Hoos on the Newshour segment on ODC?
Bam needs to be mike-checked EVERYWHERE. Notes are a waste of time.
xp to self
and of course there was the Observer’s Occupy-themed gift guide: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/nov/27/christmas-present-ideas-protests#/?picture=382326416&index=0
whoa hoos! is it another interview?
― iatee, Monday, November 28, 2011 6:36 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
it’s a panel, me and 3 or 4 of our people talking about what we’re doing, plausible impact, and the influence of the arab spring. making sure to bring some of our free egypt connections.
wow!!!
“The S.E.C., of all agencies, has a duty, inherent in its statutory mission, to see that the truth emerges; and if it fails to do so, this Court must not, in the name of deference or convenience, grant judicial enforcement to the agency’s contrivances.”
srsly u guys i love this man
wow that’s great
i went to occupy LA last night for the first time in about a month. it was (we were told) the hugest turnout they’d had to date (over a thousand, easily) because mayor villaraigosa had announced his intentions to close down the plaza just after midnight. the GA sort of dissipated around 10:30pm and i went to the direct action group, where people were split off into those willing to be arrested and those who just wanted to lend support in case any shit went down. i tried carrying a sandbag from one part of the plaza to the other except it was super heavy and i’m a wimp. at about ten to midnight someone announced that the mayor released a statement saying he wasn’t going to intervene until the crowd at the park thinned out a bit, but that only revved everyone up more.
i had work today so i tried leaving the plaza around 12:30am, only to find that cops were blocking off most of the intersections around the plaza and weren’t letting anyone pass. sometime around 1am a police van came down 1st street to try to get to the plaza. protesters swarmed the van trying to block it and about ten minutes later i saw a stream of riot cops charge down 1st. there was some verbal confrontation but i didn’t see any arrests or physical violence taking place. i managed to finally wend my way down around the south side of the park and made it to a friend’s place nearby. didn’t get home til 2:30am. the people i went with stayed until about 5:30am and apparently it was peaceful for the most part but i don’t know what the plaza looks like at the moment. i did read about a few arrests that took place but it sounds like the cops refrained from using tear gas/bullets.
occupy LA: where even police bust-ups of protesters are super chill, brah
^ my manz nate wrote this!
This is what the modern Greenspan-era Fed sees as its charter: making sure that banks are well-served and virtually guaranteed to make a profit, however sleazy their practises or reckless their actions become. The Fed has extensive regulatory powers, but the Fed board has precisely zero appetite for using them as evinced by the fact that it never does.
hoos
hey hoos
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.
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
btw iatee apparently the failure of the supercommittee was your fault
^ 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...
Meta-viewing
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.”
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 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.
“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
^ A+
Occupy movement definitely needs more Crass in the soundtrack
i’m really happy she’s gotten so much shit for that bullshit article
ya but I think the bigger point goes beyond naomi klein—tons of people wanted to jump to ‘national conspiracy’ as soon as they heard about the mayors talking to each other. really that’s just an unwillingness to deal w/ the more complicated issues.
like, maybe the chancellor of uc davis *isn’t* part of a big national conspiracy, she was just a clueless person responding to the situation she’s in by doing what she thought she was supposed to do a la stanford prison experiments etc.
Naomi WOLF
oops
meanwhile in boston
http://www.livestream.com/occupyboston
here we go
feels like a lifetime ago that i did this the first time
livestream: easily over a thousand people
@c_________ now
Going out the way I came in- defending my media tent. #OccupyBoston
my fuckin girl
there’s a marching band playing “which side are you on”
@diymediadotnet ·More
So two guys livestreaming from their phones run into each other at #occupyboston. “We just exploded the Internet,” says one in greeting.
@nicoles ·More
Chants of “NYPD does not respect law and order!” as cops rush in. #mockupy
Retweeted by #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
lmao <3333333333333333333333
boston:
“the police have said that they will not clear the camp tonight”
fuck yes
in all seriousness though i wonder if it’s gonna be a moot point when the students leave town in a week anyway
no yeah i mean
i go out of town next thurs to the following tues and i’m terrified we’re gonna get hit while i’m gone
and i have a sense bpd are just waiting til 4am or whatevet
@dailyrev ·More
@OccupyWallStNYC Can you evict a fake idea? Can you fake-evict an idea? Can the occupiers at the perimeter move to arrest the NYPD inside?
seriously this is making my entire life
@jopauca 26s
Livestreamer: “Are these barricades yours or the sets?” NYPD: “I don’t even know. They don’t look like ours. I don’t know.”
i am loling harder than i ever have in my entire life
robin is going home in boston—she would not go home if she didn’t think boston was safe
boston is safe
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_1207why_meninos_wary_of_ousting_occupiers/
this is actually kind of insightful from the boston herald (!):
“(The mayor) expects the judge to come down his way on this,” the source explained. “And when she does, he’ll do nothing. At least not right away.
“He obviously expects the weather to get brutal soon. And that will make it harder and harder for them to stay, especially with the ban on any winter tents.”
So, exasperated though he may be, Menino will wait on a judge and then wait for winter to start feeling like winter.
also having lived in boston for as long as i did, i wouldn’t put it past menino/the bpd to make a big spectacle of themselves even if the simpler thing to do WOULD just be to wait for the students to clear out for the holidays and take a bunch of occupiers with them (as the article alludes to, the bpd have also had some pretty prominent, erm, crowd control issues over the past decade or so)
@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:
also there are some folks out west raising a ruckus tomorrow
#D12 is the hashtag
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
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
“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 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
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
In re: the Luntz thing from a coupla weeks ago, George Lakoff wrote a thing saying not to fall into his trap:
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
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.
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/
also, Duarte Square rally/reoccupation this afternoon at Canal St & 6th (Lou Reed lol & Titus Andronicus):
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.
how yr boys hunger strikes hoos?
Sometimes I think Lou Reed has been declared mentally incompetent and has some power of attorney person with instructions to just bring him to whatever seems relevant.
Sam had an editorial published in the Post:
my boy adrian got arrested for blocking one of the doors to congress with his wheelchair
k bowed out at hour 177 because medical was seeing unexpected complications.
nice piece on them here:
Meanwhile, in Portland, the World’s Smallest Park has been occupied:
what they’re calling “the portland snake”
The Portland Occupation stumbled upon a tactical innovation regarding occupying public spaces. This evolution in tactics was spontaneous, and went unreported in the media...
Now, to move on to the actual application of these tactical principles (that evolved by accident rather than conscious thought), we can take the example of Shemanski park on the 3rd. We occupied the park and set up a few tents and facilities to serve food and coffee. The police soon declared an emergency closure of the park and came out in force, with full riot gear and all the weaponry. The line of riot cops soon forced us out of the park, so someone decided that we ought to march to City Hall. It was about 9 pm on a Saturday night, so City Hall was closed, but we marched there anyway, 800 of us blocking traffic the whole way. Once there, the riot cops once again lined up to disperse the crowd. However, since City Hall was closed and there was no point in staying there anyway, someone had the idea to march down to the area of town where all the clubs were, so we took off marching again. The riot cops were trailing behind us...
After marching for 3–4 hours, we eventually found ourselves a block away from the park that we’d been forced out of, so we took it again. The riot police lined up and prepared to take the park again, but the attempt was called off and the police just left. They realized that they would have to go through the standard military procedure of clearing the park inch by inch, only to have us go back out into the streets and march again while they, one more time, trailed along helplessly- their entourage functioning as a part of the march, creating an even larger disruption to traffic (the marchers covered a city block, the trailing police took up another city block, effectively doubling the size of the obstruction to traffic)...
hey lookit i’m in greek
http://www.megatv.com/warzone/pages.asp?catid=24530&subid=2&pubid=28189187
this article about archiving OWS is great (and namechecks my MA program!):
http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/the-struggle-for-the-occupy-wall-street-archives
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/tom-clancy-game-casts-99-percent-as-domestic-terrorists/
^^ new rainbow 6 game has villains that sound an awful lot like a weaponized ows
“This all started when you became bigger than the governments,” a narrator’s voice explains. “And governments became bigger than the people. That’s how the land of the free became the kingdom of the few — a few like you, Mr. Walsh. It’s time for a new balance of power. You may not answer to the government, but you will answer to us.”
xp hey thank you so much for that archive article link
fwiw i’ve been known to play some real dogshit in terms of FPSes from time to time, and even i have no clue who still plays rainbow six games
lol
can I get a book rec for anarchist thought inline with occupy and horizontal democracy? or just anarchism generally? thanks bunches.
well kinda depends what direction you wanna come at it from—
mcglaughlin’s “anarchism and authority” is a good one on broader principle stuff, david graeber’s “direct action: an ethnography” is good on how those principles have been put into practice by the anti-globalization movement.
those are both great but a touch dry, though. the “spirit” of anarcho organizing & ows comes through really well in Crimethinc’s book “Days of War, Nights of Love,” i think. also their newest book “work” is actually a kinda sophisticated analysis of capitalism from a “”“”postmodern“”“ anarcho perspective, which i didn’t really expect from them.
Proudhon?
haha i was just about to type “property is theft”
i was just leaning towards more recent stuff—i read a lot of proudhon & kropotkin in college and as “timeless” as it was it was also frustrating that these were mostly dudes that had died a century ago. took crimethinc to made me realize people were still talking about this stuff.
Gotcha — I’m only now getting into Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin et al so I’m no expert. All this is pretty much extra-curricular so I don’t have as much time to spend on it as I would like.
btw some friends of mine in a dc art group put up this lil “guerilla gallery” in the park today, all pieces about economic inequality
park police said we can’t have it there “because this is where you have GAs.” not kidding.
they moved it to a diff lawn, all copasetic.
plan is for companion “galleries” to pop up throughout the city.
arrests in Iowa at Dems’, Paul’s HQs:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/12-arrested-at-occupy-the-caucus-protest/
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2103332,00.html
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
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/
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*
“..................oh. fuck.”
happy fucking new year