Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

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there's prob not a lot to be livestreaming atm

iatee, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

i got chills. i'm only human!

scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

ive heard reports of cellphone network shutdowns citywide, which if true is kinda scary

am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

there really wouldn't be a good reason to do that

iatee, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I mean that would literally fuck wall street people more than ows people

iatee, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

someone on my facebook said the wikileaks truck was stolen!

(i don't know what that means to anyone...)

scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

in any case and for whatever reason, phone reception was apparently lost and the feeds went down

am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Reports of NYPD deleting phone photo data and confiscating memory cards from arrested protestors

Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, 18 November 2011 05:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

Reports of NYPD deleting phone photo data and confiscating memory cards from arrested protestors

― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

time for another donation to the ACLU. get those lawsuits started, no?

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 18 November 2011 06:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

ive heard reports of cellphone network shutdowns citywide, which if true is kinda scary

― am0n, Friday, November 18, 2011 12:44 AM

err not citywide, but u know what i mean

am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 06:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

ugh in portland today a woman was raped shortly before the riot police converged on occupyportland tried to march over the steel bridge. they didn't respond to the rape victim for three hours and the police chief/portland mayoral candidate blamed the occupy movement for making the police "too tired" to do their job. Go fuck yourself with that shit.

Clay, Friday, 18 November 2011 06:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

URL for that is http://t.co/vRpLMj8U btw

Clay, Friday, 18 November 2011 06:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

also I think maybe being chief of police and running for mayor at the same time is ultra problematic for all kinds of reasons but that probably belongs on some other thread.

Clay, Friday, 18 November 2011 06:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

i just watched law and order for five hours in jail

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

and yeah guy who put the zipties on me gave me the same line about the militarized presence at the protest making it impossible to do police work elsewhere and i was like that sounds serious maybe you should take it up w/ your boss

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^ outside chase today. girl was a trouper.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 10:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

geez dfh.

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2011 11:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

dlh, check your fb messages

The Reverend, Friday, 18 November 2011 11:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

done!

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

(obv you already know that though)

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

also kingfish, checking the other thread i'm sorry i didn't coordinate anything! we need to learn what one another look like at some point because i think chances are good we've seen each other.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

You only spent five hours?!? I spent almost twelve, including three avoiding the pool of urine by the clogged toilet that drew ever closer.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

it wasn't actually a very short sentence, it was a very long book-and-release.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

exactly ten minutes longer in fact than would have enabled me to catch my train. which i am maybe 80% on their doing on purpose.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

how many arrested and did you go to a holding area or the hoosegow?

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

15 i think were arrested in my group, 22 or so more in an earlier action at wells fargo and i'm sure others throughout the day. they took us to a parking garage somewhere i assumed was a cia black site and let most of us go with citations, but i'm an idiot and had looked at my wallet that morning and thought "lol i don't have any cash, i don't even have any money in my bank account, what kind of grandiose delusion is it to carry around a wallet" and left it behind, so i didn't have my ID, so i went to jail, cuz apparently you go to jail if you don't have your ID. a few other guys did too -- most because they had priors; one for the same reason as me -- as did the girl in the pepper-spray photo above, as far as i could tell just for being pepper-sprayed.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

all released around 1 AM.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

except for two guys who went down a hallway and we never saw again. the hallway led both to the cells and to the exit so they could be anywhere.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

we did an earlier thing at bank of america but they locked their doors in time so we just sat outside for a while and sloganed while they yelled "GET A JOB" through the glass. some wag in a suit inside put up a sign saying PLEASE USE OTHER DOOR so i put one up facing in saying PLEASE USE OTHER SOURCE OF GAMBLING FUNDS and he mouthed "that's pretty good" through the glass. they won though because eventually we just left.

oh and somebody commandeered the pompous flagpoles outside of wells fargo and ran up 1) an inverted american flag (totally feel this in the distress-signal sense but probably not the best idea from a PR standpoint oh well) and 2) an OCCUPY banner, which was pretty cool. made the news. the inverted american flag, i mean. of course.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

by pretty cool i actually mean that was totally rad and i saluted it and everything.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

1) an inverted american flag (totally feel this in the distress-signal sense but probably not the best idea from a PR standpoint oh well)

lol agreed

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

some wag in a suit inside put up a sign saying PLEASE USE OTHER DOOR so i put one up facing in saying PLEASE USE OTHER SOURCE OF GAMBLING FUNDS and he mouthed "that's pretty good" through the glass

loooool

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp it was satisfying on a complicated personal level for me, though, because of an Embarrassing Incident i had in fifth-grade "flag duty", to see a crowd of people cheering the upside-down flag.

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:18 (1 year ago) Permalink


upright shitizen's brigade (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

isn't that chick one of the X-Men

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

whatever, girl's on some boudica shit

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

also digging whatever that garment is in bottom left

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

her right breast?

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

that was your birthday present

occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

my 45-year-old brother

max, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

as did the girl in the pepper-spray photo above, as far as i could tell just for being pepper-sprayed.

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, November 18, 2011 7:33 AM

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/17/1037332/-OWS-Participants-Your-Rights-Under-Federal-Law-if-You-are-Pepper-Sprayed-Why-You-Should-Sue-

am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

PLEASE USE OTHER DOOR so i put one up facing in saying PLEASE USE OTHER SOURCE OF GAMBLING FUNDS and he mouthed "that's pretty good" through the glass.

this is my favorite ows related story so far

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 November 2011 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

see 4 posts up

am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

I walked around, and put up signs in there offering money to rent out an apartment for a few hours.

I spoke with her on the phone, and a few days later went over and met her. I told her what I wanted to do, and she was enthused. The more I described, the more excited she got.

She wouldn’t take my money. That was the day of the eviction of Zuccotti, the same day. And she’d been listening to the news all day, she saw everything that had happened.

“I can’t charge you money, this is for the people,” she said.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

also let her know that the people need a date this weekend

do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

did you just call her a whore

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

pretty sure i did not

do you want me to share what i know w/ you or not? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg/pm_32330/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=gf9Ghoqi

Occupy Portland: Image of Portland police pepper spraying protester goes viral

Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

also glad the nazis at the white house (actual nazis waiting for us at the white house, that's not like a 'white house is full of nazis' thing) got their feathers nice and ruffled. those bullshit flags are way more useful on fire anyway.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 May 2013 04:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

wore an orange vest and Peacekept for the day; saw a lot of faces i hadn't in a while.

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 May 2013 06:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

friend of mine in seattle had the windows of her small business smashed. it's just a little bar/distillery :(

good on you for peacekeeping today, dlh.

Clay, Thursday, 2 May 2013 06:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i ended up having to do absolutely nothing; was proud of us. sorry about your friend clay.

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 May 2013 07:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

oh and hoos as usual making righteous calls

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:22 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

btw there were all kinds of organizations at this march doing all kinds of cool stuff like foreclosure resistance or worker education or helping day laborers or being wobblies or whatever, and they all had people in them i recognized from occupy and i think had met each other at occupy (occupy here meaning The Camps), but what the official "occupy" representatives were there doing was they had a big papier-mache golden bull with bank/corporate logos on it and they dressed up as ancient egyptians and danced around it for five minutes to cake's "comfort eagle". this is nothing people haven't been saying since last may (i just haven't been in touch cuz i'm a useless fair-weather rank-sweller) but felt like there's a tremendous legacy of occupy as event + bankruptcy of occupy as brand.

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

i do like comfort eagle tho.

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:45 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

friend of mine got hurt during his arrest for Being Black In The Cops Way, charged with apo--all charges dropped and he just walked out the courtroom door

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/05/03/may-day-anarchists-will-compensate-small-businesses-whose-windows-were-smashed

i have a variety of competing impulses about this. the synical interpretation is obvious, but if it's legit i enjoy this.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 4 May 2013 05:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

friend of mine in seattle had the windows of her small business smashed. it's just a little bar/distillery :(

― Clay, Thursday, May 2, 2013 6:58 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is your friend one of the above by chance, clay?

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 May 2013 00:51 (1 week ago) Permalink

Oh I didn't see that, yes, Sun L1quor! That's awesome that some people are standing up and helping out!

Clay, Monday, 6 May 2013 00:59 (1 week ago) Permalink

rad. i'm glad to hear that.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 May 2013 01:00 (1 week ago) Permalink

X| at the part of that stranger story that's like 'anarchist that ~wanted to be credited as **the anarchists of puget sound**~" as though that's not one of the best known groups within certain circles of the entire NW

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 May 2013 01:03 (1 week ago) Permalink

like just that minor linguistic turn makes "a legitimate organization made up of concerned humans" into a questionable potentially publicity seeking or something similar troupe and that just upsets me in ways i can't quite work out

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 May 2013 01:04 (1 week ago) Permalink

I don't think the money was really the problem in the first place, though. I think they were just kinda sad about the whole ordeal. Her facebook post on the subject was just like "c'mon, we didn't hurt anybody :(" xp

Clay, Monday, 6 May 2013 01:05 (1 week ago) Permalink

right, that's been the impression i've gathered from the aftermath. i'm glad to hear folks are stepping up in an effort to rectify the fuckup, whatever the cause. i know folks happy to break a window but can't think of anyone who'd go in on a local business.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 May 2013 01:19 (1 week ago) Permalink

from The Alt-Weekly no less xxp

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Monday, 6 May 2013 04:43 (1 week ago) Permalink

It's just part and parcel of the ""self described """anarchists""" said in court today" style of marginalization, frustrating to see it even in the NW

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 6 May 2013 06:14 (1 week ago) Permalink

@constantnatalie

McDonald's brought in replacement workers to replace strikers at a Detroit store, but those replacement workers are now on strike too. #d15
via Twitter for iPhone

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 16:54 (1 week ago) Permalink

interviewing josh eidelson from the nation on my show this weekend re: this low wage organizing work that's been going on. inspiring stuff.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 17:01 (1 week ago) Permalink

I have been fucking loving the news of the Detroit fast food strike

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/10/detroit-experiences-what-may-be-largest-fast-food-strike-yet/

a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 10 May 2013 17:09 (1 week ago) Permalink

hell yeah

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 17:58 (1 week ago) Permalink

That is so amazing/inspiring.

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:59 (1 week ago) Permalink

just got word that dc cops have visited a half dozen of my friend's houses today.

fuck.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 19:13 (1 week ago) Permalink

arrests or just "visits"?

Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Friday, 10 May 2013 19:20 (1 week ago) Permalink

unclear. rumors of a couple of arrests, but the simmering panic + security culture are such that people are being really vague about it over any means of communication that can get subpoenaed

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 19:37 (1 week ago) Permalink

2 arrests confirmed.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 20:30 (1 week ago) Permalink

they raided a house I'm at all the time. Fuck. Goddammit.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 20:34 (1 week ago) Permalink

oh geez :/

Salt Mama Celeste (donna rouge), Friday, 10 May 2013 20:42 (1 week ago) Permalink

wow ok, feeling some feelings here

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 20:42 (1 week ago) Permalink

that sucks, man. you got a lawyer you can call in a worst case scenario?

Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Friday, 10 May 2013 21:34 (1 week ago) Permalink

yeah, we're in good with nlg people & i've got the number in memory.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 10 May 2013 23:32 (1 week ago) Permalink

one of three back in the world already, still mum.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 11 May 2013 00:04 (1 week ago) Permalink

ugh hoos stay free

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 11 May 2013 02:53 (1 week ago) Permalink

Friend who turned himself in after finding out his house was raided while he was working is now being held for a week. All I'm hearing is "it isn't a felony," but they're still holding him for a week.

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 11 May 2013 18:08 (1 week ago) Permalink

Held for a week on a misdemeanor charge! Fuck that noise.

Aimless, Saturday, 11 May 2013 18:13 (1 week ago) Permalink

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:01 (6 days ago) Permalink

friend of mine quipped 'and thus the pacific northwest comes to the east coast'

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:04 (6 days ago) Permalink

lil grandiose given we think he's out soon, but i gotta ride for my man

hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:06 (6 days ago) Permalink

he's out today--after holding him for the week the gov lawyers suddenly realized "gosh, we haven't even filed the paperwork on this yet: you know what? nevermind."

arrested on a bogus charge. held for a week. charge dropped.

and he was one of a few other surprise arrests too. they're trying to put down a chilling effect pretty hard.

but in any case--he's out and we're relieved.

steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 May 2013 06:38 (Yesterday) Permalink

damn, while i wasn't looking tidal went and got all upscale

http://tidalmag.org/about/

steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 May 2013 07:30 (Yesterday) Permalink

that said the articles in it feel intensely actively dull and recycled and going-through-the-motions except the bond/ratings agency article which just makes no sense and the choice of lorde poem which is almost actively offensive in this context, but at least it has an obvious agenda. outside of that this notion of 'theory' is like high-minded platitudes.

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Saturday, 18 May 2013 18:57 (Yesterday) Permalink

not exactly a rupture, no.

steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 May 2013 19:52 (Yesterday) Permalink

I'm interested that you find the Audre Lorde so poorly placed. Why?

steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:58 (Yesterday) Permalink

"Workers rise and win
and have not lost their chains
but swing them
side by side with the billyclubs in blue
securing Wall Street
against the striking students"

4real? is this in any way relevant to anything that's happend in the past two years (or twenty even)? (leave aside if it even made sense when the poem was written -- still in the long wake of france '68). insofar as there was any agreed upon message or set of grievances from occupy, isn't this directly contrary to that?

a big span of the time that ppl were able to stay in zucotti was bought by the intervention of the labor movement, and in return they get this shit printed about them?

stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:47 (7 hours ago) Permalink

I just wrote a long thing and zing ate it f me

steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 19 May 2013 01:59 (6 hours ago) Permalink


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