Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

hoos your homegirl is a fan of gerd arntz!!

http://www.gerdarntz.org/content/gerd-arntz

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fwhoah

awesome

oh i posted this in wdyll so forgive me for the repost but <333333

http://i44.tinypic.com/2duxh79.jpg

some idiot (provocateur? too easy to blame all the stupid shit on fantasy provocateurs) threw a smoke bomb onto the lawn.

eyewitnesses saying they saw a whiteshirt cop throw the smokebomb. can neither confirm nor deny.

my favorite chant of the day was in spanish, borrowed from south america, had a nice rhythm to it that had us all dancing down the street

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oh and A.N.S.W.E.R. showed up and we all booed

we didn't "all" boo

just lots of us are not big fans of a buncha stalinists posing as a grassroots network

haven't actually watched this but friends are posting it on FB so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QptAVWbm9c&feature=youtu.be

just lots of us are not big fans of a buncha stalinists posing as a grassroots network

<3 yeah fuck the RCP

nice to read yer updates, good luck

OWS greeting Obama at Apollo Theater 6pm tomorrow, but doubt I will be able to get near the place after work.

btw who are The World Can't Wait, and are they doing anything worthwhile?

KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON

who are The World Can't Wait, and are they doing anything worthwhile?

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mainly RCP, though they've got some other support--they were formed after the '04 election and their founding charter said that their goal was to 'eject bush and cheney from office in disgrace' because 'the world can't wait for '08'

i kinda wanna start "Occupy Wall Street 4: Last Camp Standing," but there aren't nearly enough messages in this thread, which is depressingly telling

it'll get press again come convention season

so where is the donations link?

i kinda wanna start "Occupy Wall Street 4: Last Camp Standing," but there aren't nearly enough messages in this thread, which is depressingly telling

in truth i haven't been following occupyLA too closely since their encampment got raided (like, i'm not even sure where they've been organizing), and i'm pretty bummed at myself for that. i do think you're doing awesome work hoos and you are strongly advised to kiu w/ both actions and updates

ty guys

heating up in SF

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/occupy_san_francisco_gets_down_to_business/singleton/

yeah they got mad real last night

logisitics people for j17 reporting we served 8000 plates of food on tuesday

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lmao what the fuck is going on in this hearing

nm - it sounds like they're trying to enforce some kind of semantic distinction between "protesting" and "camping," but the subtext of it also reads like they're being critical of yall for being civil to the park police (THE HORRORS etc)

civil servants engage in civil behavior with civilians shocker

lmao what the fuck is going on in this hearing

― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we were all holding our breath waiting for something really damning, and then we realized "wait...'the park service does a good job' is the best you've got?"

the guy right behind the douchleman from south carolina was clearly the person who'd shot it, he couldn't resist grinning behind a fist like HEEHEE WE GOT YOUUUU except they actually didn't

also eleanor holmes norton rules

some friends of mine wrote this

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/01/24/mic-check-occupy-wall-street-offers-a-rebuttal-to-state-of-the-union/

i feel like the 24 hour news cycle has just completely swallowed this up. i don't mean to suggest that it isn't still going on or still potent to some degree, but it seems really noticeable how quickly anything passes out of the news cycle and is thus deemed irrelevant, a judgment all too many are willing to concede.

also can someone explain the point of the guy fawkes masks aside from generalized "rebellion" affect?

i mean even though they are trolls the fact that "zzzz"/"so bored with this" rhetoric is like a thing in comments to articles on OWS is really telling. it's only "old news" or "zzzz" in relation to the ADD cable news cycle. i doubt that a few months after anti-vietnam war protests blew up people, even those opposed, would have greeted it in such a cynical way.

this really really really bothers me because it affects me as much as anyone.

x-post

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

it seems really noticeable how quickly anything passes out of the news cycle and is thus deemed irrelevant, a judgment all too many are willing to concede.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:23 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you'll get no argument from me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

right, i'm not going to watch that movie, and nobody else seems to like it, so why do those masks turn up everywhere?

an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and intentionally theatrical campaign to murder his former captors, bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves.

ugh seriously? embarrassing that people would wear those much less that it would be the "face" of OWS. you might as well give up.

can someone explain the point of the guy fawkes masks aside from generalized "rebellion" affect?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:23 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah the movie and then

Also in 2006, the mask began to appear in a popular 4Chan meme called Epic Fail Guy. According to Housh, the suggestion to use the Fawkes mask as protest gear was almost immediate. But some Anons weren’t convinced that the Fawkes mask was right, so they made a short list of alternatives: a Batman mask, classic masquerade masks, a few others.

“Then we called comics and costume shops, all over the world,” Housh says, checking availability and price, and the V mask won out: “It’s available, it’s cheap, and it’s in every city.” (The actual Fawkes had “nothing to do with it, for us,” Housh says.)

Thousands of people in various cities subsequently participated in a day of anti-Scientology street demonstrations, plenty of them wearing the mask. “Videos and images and photographs circulated almost immediately,” says Gabriella Coleman, the incoming Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University and author of the forthcoming Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. “It was just so powerful.” And it cemented Anonymous as, paradoxically, a recognizable phenomenon.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/design/2011/12/guy_fawkes_mask_how_anonymous_hacker_group_created_a_powerful_visual_brand.html

and now...

http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-8.jpg

http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-9.jpg

http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-19.jpg

http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-12.jpg

http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-23.jpg

though that said if you can't hear the assonance between an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask begins a theatrical campaign to ... bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves. and the lots and lots of people running around in these stupid masks lately, i don't really know what to tell you

for my edification is it the "anarchist" part that rubs you the wrong way there or the "violent campaign to murder his former captors" part cause you've got me all http://amciv.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/iww-kat-2007.jpg?w=432&h=478 and i'd rather stand down at 4am frankly

i mean even though they are trolls the fact that "zzzz"/"so bored with this" rhetoric is like a thing in comments to articles on OWS is really telling.

also worth noting here btw that the president of the fucking earth said tonight that he would be cutting taxes "for the 98%," and starting a financial crimes investigation unit, and that there could be "no more bailouts, or handouts, or copouts"

it's rhetoric, maybe, and there's still an awful fucking immunity deal coming down the pike even if o claims to be starting CSI Wall Street--but it's rhetoric in our fucking overton window. we moved it, and the people who want the top job are now having to address income inequality, banking malfeasance, and unjust foreclosures. remember 6 months ago when all they gave a fuck about was the debt clock?

that's a win for us. fuck a park.

Otm and awesome job

Also V for Vendetta is pretty good.

It predicted the use of CCTV in the UK by something like a decade, which doesn't mean that it doesn't glamorize violence or that it's not cartoonish, but it's still something of an interesting text.

Not really a fan of Alan Moore though. Or the movie.

i agree that there are serious victories, i wasn't arguing that. i was just noting that it's possible for people to react with "zzzz" and this is only made possible by the ADD cable news cycle.

so was ows itself

it's rhetoric in our fucking overton window. we moved it, and the people who want the top job are now having to address income inequality, banking malfeasance, and unjust foreclosures. remember 6 months ago when all they gave a fuck about was the debt clock?

that's a win for us. fuck a park.

GO, A HOOS!

It also doesn't really matter if people in general know or admit that the new rhetoric is only there because of OWS...the movement is doing its job by getting the ideas into the conversation whether people acknowledge where they came from or not.

The problem isn't really financial "crimes" so much as a system that encourages financial recklessness. You're not going to find very many people that you could literally charge with a crime, and the ones you find will be an insignificant part of the overall problem. It's not about Madoffs. The system is Madoff.

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http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/clapping/1292223254212-dumpfm-mario-Obamaclap.gif

otm ^

this is what defines the bob woodwards and the josh marshalls of the planet - who are otherwise not very close together on any continuum - that they are hellbent on unearthing a very explicit, incontestable kind of corruption or malfeasance but they have 0 to say about actual politics; they work entirely within whatever overton window they're given

otm

along those lines (guess who):

Noam Chomsky said that Watergate demonstrated how the system polices itself. Woodward and Bernstein weren't all that interested in COINTELPRO, the FBI's program of surveillance and disruption of dissident groups and figures. They probed Nixon's spying on the Democratic National Committee, an action that stepped on numerous elite toes. Nixon and his henchmen overreached with that operation and paid the political price.

Lesson: Don't fuck with those with serious political power. It's a reason why the Reagan gang got away with Iran/contra. Or Bush/Cheney with the Iraq war. Or Obama with the NDAA. I doubt that Romney or Gingrich will be elected; but if one of them is, he has a lot of ground to cover.

The problem isn't really financial "crimes" so much as a system that encourages financial recklessness. You're not going to find very many people that you could literally charge with a crime, and the ones you find will be an insignificant part of the overall problem

Yes and no. It bugs me that there is a rumor that the Justice Department is going to announce next Monday a settlement on the mortgage industry autopen signing fraud case that was opposed by the NY and California attorney generals as being too lenient.

Also, too many people still insist that most Wall Streeters have become successful solely through hard work, and therefore it would be nice to be able to say the Justice Department is indicting people, rather than saying, well Clinton signed off on a Republican prepared bill to get rid of Glass-Stegall and that new looser atmosphere, plus the development of derivatives and post-crash TARP bailouts have allowed Wall Streeters to unfairly profit blah blah blah.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~commodity futures modernization act~~~~~ hi dere

I mean even robosigning strikes me as kind of a red herring tbh, not that it should go unpunished, but (feel free to direct me to corrective links if I'm wrong) my impression is that there are very few cases of actual baseless foreclosure and mostly this is just about bad documentation procedures, whereas the real problem is how the fuck these loans got originated in the first place.

i don't think those two things are separable

punishment for the malfeasors is one aim, but for everybody else, pushing the housing market toward cleanliness is essential for getting out of the economic mess we're in. since these companies wrecked the legal underpinnings of the whole thing via robosigning, there has to be some kind of legal action to unbreak what was done.