whatever naomi klein coulda wrote that too
written, even
klein actually wrote one of the big-time rebuttals, we were calling the whole affair “the two naomis”
link?
It is usually best to concentrate on the actions and how ugly and wrong they are, than get involved in deciding who is evil and who is merely wrong-headed. When it comes to the public message, talk about deeds, not people.
Naomi Klein
NaomiAKlein Naomi Klein
Just doing my morning “I’m not Naomi f-ing Wolf” corrections. Love that half the people I have to correct r journos.
3 hours ago
haha
o, mi? na
lol
Tune in next week on “Know My Naomis” where we try to tell the difference between Naomi Campbell and Naomi Yang.
whassup my naomi
Palin’s op-ed in what Sirota called “the biggest altar of corporate worship in the entire capitalist cathedral” symbolizes that this brand of Conservative populism which has increasingly dominated American politics for the past three decades crescendoed with the Tea Party, realized it hit a dead end, and is now doing a U-turn. Why? Because Palin, the queen of the Tea Party and one of the most influential political bellwethers of past three years did the previously unthinkable: She demanded more regulation.
A major pillar of modern Conservatism is beginning to crumble.
I dunno. That article concludes that those who fail to follow Palin’s lead must be condemned to ‘political irrelevance’ and therefore will stampede to follow her new line, because they know she is the bellwether of the Tea Party flock. This seems like a mighty big stretch to me. The power equation just doesn’t shift that simply.
Have we mentioned this one yet?
...In the past two weeks, numerous protests and actions were organized to support the Steidels in the fight to keep their home. An impromptu press conference was held just as Rochester Mayor Richards appeared, media in tow, to sign an agreement with Occupy Rochester for our right to camp 24 hours a day.
[...]
Occupy Rochester and publicly announced its intention to set up an encampment on the Steidel’s front lawn to prevent the imminent eviction and draw media attention to the case. However, it never came to that. Harold and Maria received word that they had secured at 30-day suspension of the eviction notice....
While I don’t know what the ultimate long-term value 30-day suspensions will have, just pushing it back 30 days to give you a chance to breathe and to plan seems like such a lifeline
How many North American camps are left, btw? When I left Quebec City last week, CBC had footage of the Calgary & Quebec camps getting evicted.
and the portland camp is going to try it again:
http://occupyportland.org/2011/11/28/saturday-december-3rd-march-occupation/
Saturday is also the day that several Santarchy/Santa Rampage events are going on in town, and something tells me the two will intertwince
i thought that cory robin blogpost was pretty otm, yeah, and a useful corrective against american cultural kneejerk anti-federal government sentiment grading into paranoia.
not sure if this Dec 6 preamble was posted:
http://occupywallst.org/article/december-6-occupy-wall-street-goes-home/
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:04 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
repost shit on fb and twitter
― iatee, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
So basically what I am already doing, but without the donate part because lol 99%. Cool.
LA and Philly being simul-raided. Press blackout in LA, just heard a CBS anchor say “We’re cutting away from that shot now to protect the integrity of the police operation taking place.”
omg if i’m reading this right philly has emptied camp and started marching to “peacefully relocate”
the cops are flummoxed
lol
la just set off fireworks <33333333333333333333333333333333
12:30 See two livestreams from LA down the page, and another two livestream now just below, these two from Spencer Mills and PunkBoy, down from Oakland. Cops now on way. And here is aerial view from CBSNews.
shit like this makes me feel like i’m living in a william gibson novel
the cyberpunk future arrived and it’s kind of mundane, really
also whoa the nycga finance blog/monthly report is fucking awesome and our finance ppl need to see it stat
the LA UStream guy (crossxbones) talked to me when i was there on sunday and i didn’t realize he was videotaping me until like halfway through. not that i said anything important or of interest
cops in hazmat suits moving in to dismantle the park encampments now
temperature check on a proposal that we rename the action committee “the faction committee”
all told almost 300 arrests in LA last night/this morning
buscemi for the 1%
The Declaration of Occupy DC, consented to tonight. Tomorrow is our two month anniversary.
The Declaration Committee, rightfully, is out drinking beers together.
Corporate interests threaten life on Earth by extracting and burning fossil fuels and resisting the necessary transition to renewable energy. Their drilling, mining, clear-cutting, overfishing, and factory farming destroys the land, jeopardizes our food and water, and poisons the soil with near impunity. They privilege polluters over people by subsidizing fossil fuels, blocking investments in clean energy and efficient transportation, and hiding environmental destruction from public oversight.
yessssssssssssssss.
one of the big things i still dont understand is whoever takes the first step and does it right will be loved as a massive job creator, revolutionise industry and have potential to make themselves a huge amount of money getting ahead of a market we are going to need for the next forever.
really have seen nothing about Zuccotti Park in the last 10 days in the NYC media, which is distressing. They need to reappear in the headlines next week.
Bloombagg calls the NYPD “my own army.”
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/01/mayor_bloombergs_army/singleton/
Not even bothering to deny this shit anymore....
there’s nothing particularly interesting to report on @ zuccotti
well, it’d be a good idea for a march or something else to make thing interesting (I guess this housing thing on the 6th might fill the bill).
there are marches every day, most just don’t attract many people or much attention. tbh I think hardcore occupiers are just bogged down w/ logistics stuff right now. maybe there’s gonna be a sustainable way to stick around and get press—there is a decent amount of money left (tho it’s not gonna rain in at the same rate) and already a rented office. will there be anything as large as the times sq rally in the future? I’d bet on no, but it’s worth noting that all the huge rallies had v. v. heavy union involvement = top-down planning.
so if the unions wanted to do more big events w/ the OWS stamp of approval (which anyone can really grab) that’s a possibility for coming months
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/12/1/occupy-goldman-recruiting/
Instead, the bank was simply one actor out of many, and certainly doesn’t fit the role of super villain as well as the Occupy Harvard folks imagine it does. For example, an excellent argument could be made that the millions of Americans who took on mortgages beyond their means are equally responsible as a group for the financial meltdown. Certainly, the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act also figures prominently in our nation’s pre-crisis financial instability. It would be convenient if we could easily paint Goldman Sachs as the evil enemy of the 99 percent, but it’s more complicated than that.
someone please burn this school down
iatee/hoos/whoever—how are you guys coping w/ the fact that winter be coming/has come? living in a tent must suck if/when the cold weather really hits.
people aren’t living in tents in ny anymore because zuccotti was cleared out by bloomberg. I think a lot of people have gone home, others are staying at churches + other random places. there’s been a relative warm-weather spell lately but I’d be surprised if there’s anyone sleeping outside by jan.
so y’all are just occupying in spirit?
during business hours
more and more these last couple of weeks i’ve been hearing the words “occupy 2.0,” people asking “what do we do next?”
i’m still pushing for us to basically
^ top down organization
yes and no: like the ezln & their good government communities, there’s a tension at play when there’s a military command structure for a force designed to protect a group of non-hierarchical community-run initiatives, but as the hilliard book makes clear, these were programs run by the people themselves.
and i mean its basically a cookbook in how to make this shit happen—our committees can do this.
I think ows is so different from previous movements, mostly due to the media+internet, that it’s dangerous to compare it to / model it on anything. and I think if ows 2.0 is gonna be a success, it’s gonna have to be radically different in the same way.
imo that prob suggests something that ‘exists’ online more than irl but remains capable of mobilizing and achieving things w/ tangible end results
plus lotsa Panthers got shot
and put on trial
it’s dangerous to compare it to / model it on anything
Looking for analogies from the past as a guide is just plain smart, if it is done well. But you can’t just stop once you’ve identified the commonalities; you have to go on and identify the differences and what they mean in terms of different opportunities and directions. Slavish adherence to past experience just repeats old mistakes and adds new ones.
that Hilliard book is dope btw
my old boss’s boss’s boss’s boss
“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. “They’re having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.”
SUCCESS
lol at the ‘wonderful distribution’ amongst mexican drug cartels.
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
24hr event apparently underway in times square
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?
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
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 -_-