Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

would happily read 100 articles from reason magazine i fully disagree with before reading another article that uses terms like "the amerikan way."

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a thousand times yes. and it's not just the juvenile language, there's a divisive, condescending and simplistic slant to the whole mindset. the product of getting into an intellectual rut and fighting tooth and nail to stay there.

― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's just so fucking uncharitable. you'd think he was the perfect human the way he castigates just about everyone. it's like he wilfully denies the complexity of human motivation.

it's like he wilfully denies the complexity of human motivation.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, February 3, 2012 4:48 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^ this is what spurned me from radical politics for years

pigs

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/occupy_oakland_protesters_denied_medication_in_jail/singleton/

Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street, the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments.

here's a DC address that needs occupying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/business/sec-is-avoiding-tough-sanctions-for-large-banks.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments.

pigs

otm

Its up to Hoos to change the SEC

I am Hoos. (/spartacus)

ILX general fap for May 1st (after whatever)

pigs

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/occupy_oakland_protesters_denied_medication_in_jail/singleton/

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, February 3, 2012 2:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is some nasty behavior in this story, but the angle suggests that it's unusual for inmates (talking about jail, not prison) to be denied medicine for a day or two. The beatings were the awful part.

In my checkered past I've been in jail a couple times and I was denied meds. In New Orleans I had a little visit to the Orleans Parish Prison* (jails are called "parish prisons" in Louisiana) where I met a guy who I'm still friends with. He was HIV + and he went without meds for 2.5 days. He never once got to see a nurse or doctor, and he said guards just didn't respond to his telling them he needed meds.

I was only there for about 18 hours, during which time there was a guy w/ a bleeding head injury who never got to see a doctor. He hollered a lot, and tried talking to a deputy who sat down outside the cell, but the deputy slammed the solid metal door shut in his face.

In the worker's rights org I worked for, arrests were part of the job for some people, and they were always some new kind of terrible (except for one Quaker guy who the jailors apparently fawned over b/c he *looked* like Quaker, w/ the beard actual Quaker hat).

*Orleans Parish Prison = "OPP" which is pretty lol

just b/c it's not unusual for inmates to be denied medicine doesn't mean it's not awful.

Absolutely agree and nothing I said was meant to suggest otherwise. What led me to post was that the Salon story makes it sound like it is unusual by making it seem newsworthy that some people waited hours or a day for their meds. The horrible thing is that their stories are totally commonplace.

Just reread my earlier post and it wasn't that clear, sorry.

ah i see. you are right.

yo

motherFUCK the police

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/occupy-wall-street-in-dc/2012/01/30/gIQAebz9cQ_gallery.html#photo=14

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/occupy-dc-police-raid-camp/

^^^^ thank fuck i got some legitimacy in this headline

a dozen of my friends have broken bones and bruised ribs and gashes from barricades and violent induced stampedes and they have no fucking place to sleep and the media is losing their shit that the cops said some shit about a brick

fuck the mother fucking police

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ushered-into-compliance/2012/02/04/gIQAiDvWqQ_graphic.html

yo real fucking talk riot cops rolling in on horseback while a helicopter buzzed us with a spotlight and we shielded up was a real "what the fuck is my life" moment

they set up two fucking parallel lines

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and then started hitting people when we had no place to fo

fuck that

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/422110_10150560740193451_535551753_n.jpg

girl on the left is one of my closest friends

fuck the police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6VmmKrFkaY

you ok, hoos?

sorry hoos. fight on.

everything hurts, ankle is twisted from when cop pushed me onto and off of a wet bench into the mud, and i have a few scrapes, but at least i have a damn bed.

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/423307_10150560739508451_619898450_9018349_973443282_n.jpg

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/419929_10150560739908451_619898450_9018357_983379877_n.jpg

Hey, it's a free country! That is, until it isn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eu28qj9U7Q0

i keep having these moments of remembering some flash or another and i can feel my heart rate spike and i want to break something

That's what it is like to be in a double bind, hoos. Tha police have been given a free pass to break things and be abusive, to commit blatant injustices, trample on your freedoms, and ignore all the rules of civilization, up to and including manslaughter.

If these acts trigger your anger (as they ought) and you allow your anger to manifest itself, even in ways FAR less abusive or uncivil than the cops do with perfect impugnity, your lack of a license brands you as a criminal and an outcast, and legitimizes the police abuse. Like I said, double bind.

https://p.twimg.com/Ak6bC0OCAAAMXZZ.jpg

caption there was: "THESE COPS ARE SHITTING IN THE STREETS"

aimless otm; that's part of why peaceful protest requires some immensely deep injustices before a populace embraces it

sorry you're getting fucked in xfire Hoos; take pride in your courage to stand by your principles under duress

keep your head up, hoos

hope you're ok as well, HOOs. they can't silence you guys!

no idea why I lowercased the S

Absolutely no headlines anywhere of front pages of CNN msnbc or fox

Only national news website I see with a story is salon, which does a good job at outlining the chronology

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/05/dc_occupiers_tumble_as_cops_move_in/singleton/

Stay strong hoos

nothing to add to what's already been posted ... just stay safe, keep your head and get some sleep.

Just saw a headline that read Police Clean Park, An End To Occupy DC, this was the beaumont,tx newspaper with a photo of police in bio gear. Under the headline it said police take precautions due to diseases found in park due to camping!!! Really??

Putting on biohazard suits makes for good photos. It visually says "dirty hippies" and "menace to society" and will instantly be understood as such, and few Americans will question whether the action was ordered purely for the purpose of propaganda. It is pure genius in its own ugly, nasty way.

Not to mention that spilled blood, these days, is considered a biohazardous contaminant, so the very act of breaking protestors's heads provides an automatic excuse for the suits.

Disgusted with my country right now.

yeah

keep your head up, hoos

Last comment on this: hospital workers encounter diseases and spilled blood every single day in much more dangerous ways than during a park cleanup, and somehow or other they manage to cope wearing only non-latex gloves, not full hazmat suits.

keep it up joe hill