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
max's brother? http://boingboing.net/2011/11/17/interview-with-the-occupy-wall.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=36761
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:29 (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
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/17/interview-with-the-occupy-wall.html
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:01 (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
there are two dates this weekend: the 19th and the 20th. the people can pick either, or both.
― s.clover, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
wish there had been pepperoni spray for the free pizza in Foley Sq last night
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2011 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Chris S, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11314508/1/tj-maxx-debuts-amid-occupy-wall-street.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
"People are most excited to get through the barricades," said one TJ Maxx salesperson who was greeting shoppers with "I heart TJ" bags. "One woman ran in and exclaimed, 'I made it!'"
― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
"People are most excited to get through the barricades," said one TJ Maxx salesperson who was greeting shoppers with "I heart TJ" bags.
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
LOL
― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I remember her from the old Corner thread. What was her name...?
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
hello Jeanketeers!
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hola amigos, it's been a while since I last rapped with ya
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
jean teasdale
― am0n, Friday, 18 November 2011 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
a friend who attended the occupy chicago march yesterday sent this:
While the cops followed the marchers meandering around the loop, a suspension system was rigged and when the crowd came back they raised a big beautiful banner....
― bomb.gif (dan m), Friday, 18 November 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's the board of trade bldg fyi
http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg/pm_32330/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=gf9GhoqiOccupy Portland: Image of Portland police pepper spraying protester goes viral― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, November 18, 2011 9:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Friday, November 18, 2011 9:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
oh rad. was hoping it would become an at least minor Deal; it seemed to have potential.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
― The Reverend, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
(much cheering from us waiting to be released when it came on the news. was a relief after the mentalist.)
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
A group of students launched into a rendition of The Star Spangled Banner, to the disgust of an older protester who shouted, “Those bombs bursting in midair created this beast. The Star Spangled Banner is not our song. We will create a new song, a new anthem.” As if to clinch the argument, he added, “Wall Street was built by the Dutch to keep the Native Americans out!” Here, microscopically, were the two sides of Occupy Wall Street: those who believed they were reclaiming an American value that had been lost, and those who believed that there was nothing to reclaim, that an acceptable history did not exist and would have to be created from scratch after a revolution.
Occupy Wall Street Turns A Corner
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
old lady from code pink got into a long shouting match with our people when they put this up, saying "he would not want to be memorialized in that baby-killer uniform"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 November 2011 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the uniform is the least of that image's problems.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
thank goodness 4chan's on our side
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Those bombs bursting in midair created this beast. The Star Spangled Banner is not our song. We will create a new song, a new anthem.” As if to clinch the argument, he added, “Wall Street was built by the Dutch to keep the Native Americans out!”
the Sententious Hippie makes his appearance.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2011 20:21 (1 year 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 (1 week 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 (1 week ago) 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 (1 week ago) 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 (1 week ago) Permalink
not exactly a rupture, no.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 May 2013 19:52 (1 week ago) 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 (1 week ago) Permalink
"Workers rise and winand have not lost their chainsbut swing them side by side with the billyclubs in bluesecuring Wall Streetagainst 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 (1 week 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 (1 week ago) Permalink
the lazy sunday night answer to your first point of the poem's relevance at the time is read this
hard hat riot in '70 was a real and contemporaneous thing
as to why tidal printed it here, i'm not sure, though it could be read as a reminder that apparent natural allies can be mobilized against 'us'.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
maybe it should run some piece on how some feminists opposed the fifteenth amendment next. good job building alliances guize.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:07 (6 days ago) Permalink
i've wondered often what your ~positive~ interest in this stuff is, s. clover, only because many of the posts i've seen of your itt seem to trend negative on these projects 'as implemented' though not 'as a whole.' this makes me uncertain but curious where you're coming from politically.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:16 (6 days ago) Permalink
penny lewis has a revisionist riposte to that hard-hat history just published http://www.amazon.com/Hardhats-Hippies-Hawks-Vietnam-Movement/dp/0801478561/ref=la_B00CF6GDZS_1_1
she writes about it in the chronicle of higher ed, but it's subscription-only online. looks quite interesting http://chronicle.texterity.com/chronicle/20130517b?pg=10#pg10
― rather ugged man (zvookster), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:42 (6 days ago) Permalink
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:43 (6 days ago) Permalink
well yeah, and 'stayin alive' does a lot to muddy the waters by talking about points where labor dovetailed with the anitwar movement, and that a lot of rank and file--particularly vietnam vets--were completely anti-war. would def like to read that though, looks great.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:44 (6 days ago) Permalink
xp
yep - as lewis puts it in the preview, vets protested as vets, chicanos as chicanos, soldiers as soldiers
― rather ugged man (zvookster), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:50 (6 days ago) Permalink
i am curious (clover)
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 May 2013 01:51 (6 days ago) Permalink
lol clover i wonder if u might enjoy wiiiai's breakdowns of obama (& bush before him) SOTUs & pressers http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/2013/05/obama-press-conference-and-so-i-make-no.html
― rather ugged man (zvookster), Monday, 20 May 2013 02:00 (6 days ago) Permalink
notes
- foreclosed & threatened homeowners from around the us occupied the steps of the DOJ for the last two days, upon arrest/tazing/eviction they've moved on to occupying holder's old law firm (where lanny breuer now works) and are locking down right now: http://t.co/3vk5uGmZv9
- yesterday a few hundred workers at federal buildings went on a one-day walkout strike. friends of mine organizing for months to make that happen. big win for them, really fuckin proud. today a lot of those strikers are being barred from returning to work. info on how to help: http://bit.ly/11YrfiY
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:24 (4 days ago) Permalink
RT @our_dc: Quick Pita and Flamers manager said workers can come back tomorrow for their 11am shift! #goodjobsnation #unity #u1
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:33 (4 days ago) Permalink
New rules to regulate derivatives, adopted last week by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, are a victory for Wall Street
That's from the New York Times
http://truth-out.org/video/item/16500-banks-win-big-as-regulators-refuse-to-rein-in-700-trillion-derivatives-market
A discussion of it from elsewhere
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:44 (4 days ago) Permalink
http://www.occupyhomesmn.org/hbor_victory?recruiter_id=67
After a year and a half of on-the-ground anti-foreclosure organizing with homeowners publicly standing up and fighting the banks' abuse, the Minnesota legislature passed the Homeowner Bill of Rights almost unanimously--61-1 in the Senate and 123-0 in the House. National analysts are calling this legislation the strongest Homeowner Bill of Rights in the country. This victory shows that the community pressure Occupy Homes MN has helped to build--from grassroots organizing to the hearing rooms at the Capitol--can force legislatures to take steps toward holding Wall Street accountable. This legislation does not solve the housing crisis, but it does enforce basic protections against some of the banks’ worst practices.
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 23 May 2013 20:46 (3 days ago) Permalink