rally in the loop:
https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyChicago/status/203556607337050113
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
didn't get the ride i was hoping for, but i'll be goin ham on my full-situational-awareness twitter game all weekend so plz feel free to follow along @hoosteen
http://i.imgur.com/sk57C.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
also talking nato all night tonight on the radio show w/interview w/folks on the ground
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
vof99.org at 9 eastern time
Hearing reports of a police van driving through a crowd of protesters, injuring at least one person.
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Sunday, 20 May 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
i looked at that website hoos but don't you realize we're going to need those predator drones for the war on drugs?
― the late great, Sunday, 20 May 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/481230_391128990939947_199067310146117_1149420_506356295_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
xp obv
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/545527_311936712218648_203536356392018_701914_933260008_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
btw free the microbrew 3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/553480_313094695435821_178047252273900_699863_1899724431_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
still trying to sift wheat from chaff on the nato3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
separate wheat from chaff
whatever
i don't know what the fuck you do with wheat and chaff
a car full of livestreamers got pulled over and ordered out of vehicle, guns drawn
tim p is crying in panic on his livestream, he's convinced if they go back to their crash pad to get their things they'll be arrested
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
"we learned a little while ago that our apartment was raided while we were doing coverage of actions, and on our way back there we were surrounded by police cars, cpd emerged guns drawn and ordered us out of the vehicle"
tim trying to figure out if its safe to go home or if they'll all be arrested with, say, empty bottles in the house as evidence.
http://www.ustream.tv/timcast
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
on livestream (which was running at the time) cpd heard saying "we found them" as they approach vehicle. streamer asks "why are we being stopped," cop answers "you'll find out."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
video of the cpd van hitting dude btw, caught on livestream
http://t.co/FU1b7I9U
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
Chicago police had begun investigating the men as early as May 1, using information purportedly supplied by two informants whom the suspects believed were fellow Occupy backers named Moe and Nadia.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-hd-nato-chicago-arrests-0520-20120520,0,7496291.story
Moe
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
occ chicago girl "i fucking ~live~ here. the cops do this to me in ~my~ city? for taking videos at protests?"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
fuckin RNC all over again xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
pre-RNC '08 there was a raid, similar charges, eventually downgraded to something like "conspiracy to incite a riot" iirc, but not before VIOLENT ANARCHISTS had been the headline for the duration of the RNC
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Galway one got closed down at 4.30am at the beginning of the week, think that might have been about the last one still standing. Though I think 2 others were shut at pretty much the same time.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
gonna be fuckin hot in the chi today, whole city seemed on edge yesterday
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Sunday, 20 May 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
maybe some of you will find this interesting:http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/quebec-emergency-law-attack-freedom-assembly-and-expression-say-critics/10954
― Sébastien, Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
definitely. i've been trying to get somebody from CLASSE on my show for the last couple of weeks, i'm down with them. fuck this emergency law.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
The Galway one got closed down at 4.30am at the beginning of the week, think that might have been about the last one still standing. Though I think 2 others were shut at pretty much the same time.― Stevolende, Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:50 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Stevolende, Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:50 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
but where is the utility data
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
bless
if you need to decamp to mpls HOOS I got room
― catbus otm (gbx), Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://t.co/XJcFvbcR
Police state alright
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
Hoos: you could also try to contact Léo Bureau-Blouin or Martine Desjardins, representatives of the other 2 students federation. they are making common front. Talking to Amir Khadir could be of interest , too:" MNA Amir Khadir of the left-wing Québec Solidaire as he suggested a campaign of civil disobedience may be necessary.“This is a bludgeon law imposed by an illegitimate, corrupt government,” Mr. Khadir said. “I call upon all citizens to respect the laws. But we have to ask ourselves the question: Must we obey a law that takes away fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution? Can we be justified to disobey?”"
also, check this cool gesture from lolarcade fire http://voir.ca/voir-content/uploads/2012/05/arcadefire-428x285.jpg
they were wearing the red square on SNL, symbol of the strike
― Sébastien, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
thx for the suggests, i'll try to reach out for sure.
also lol @ arcade fire
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
been shitty watching my friends get kettled on livestreams all day since the medal throwing
otoh watching a dozen afghanistan & iraq vets, including scott olsen, throw their medals back was pretty moving.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
also this happened, which, kind of lol but mostly awesome
https://twitter.com/#!/BoingBoing/status/204334358864199680
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/05/21/bank-accountability-advocates-show-up-at-geithners-house/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Sunday, May 20, 2012 7:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this chicago?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
yup
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
other photos
march yesterday that led to scott olsen & a dozen other vets throwing back their medalshttps://p.twimg.com/AtYDbIyCIAEpjBb.jpg
another anglehttps://dwoq5s27enw2w.cloudfront.net/uploads/manual_img/12/05/nonato.jpg
black bloc stands guard outside a church housing protesters for the nighthttps://p.twimg.com/AtcG0d1CEAIwcuP.jpg:large
"moe," now widely believed to be the undercover informant in the nato3 (5, now that two more have been arrested) casehttp://truth-out.org/images/052112mo_.jpg
also thishttp://p.twimg.com/AtYVbnOCEAEydvr.jpg
for fuller context on the above: see the black officer without a helmet in the background? a few seconds earlier someone had hit him in the head with a stick. a second stick gets raised in the crowd, and officer rageface decides to go ham, no pun intended.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
so all of this is now completely under-the-rader more or less, no...? I don't see any mention of recent OWS activities anywhere in mainstream media outlets, not even negatively.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
It's been all over Chicago news, though mostly w/ praise for the 'restraint' the cops showed in face of protesters.
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of talk on the news about CPD "facilitating" marches.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Monday, 21 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Five men have been accused of planning to bomb President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets. Defense lawyers for some of the suspects, however, charged that it was undercover officers who brought the explosives to the apartment where the men were arrested.Smith was discussing the case with analyst Judge Robert Napolitano on Monday. "That's entrapment, isn't it?" he asked, referring to the activists' allegations.Napolitano described the practice as the normal course for the FBI. He said the only difference was that federal agents left the case, and that the suspects were being charged just to scare other protesters."But the Chicago folks want to make a case out of it, because they want to make an example out of these kids to deter other people from expressing their political opinions in the streets," Napolitano said."You've got to be kidding me," Smith said. Later, he asked, "How do we have stories like this, two or three times a week, and no one in the nation seems to care?"“Because the American public has been deluded into thinking that when the government finds a dope and persuades the dope to say bad things and think he’s assembling a bomb and then he eventually pleads guilty, somehow we are kept safe by that happening,” Napolitano said.“That’s a load of it!” Smith cried. “Somehow we are made to feel like maybe they're doing something for us, and what they’re really doing is trampling on our liberty.”
Smith was discussing the case with analyst Judge Robert Napolitano on Monday. "That's entrapment, isn't it?" he asked, referring to the activists' allegations.
Napolitano described the practice as the normal course for the FBI. He said the only difference was that federal agents left the case, and that the suspects were being charged just to scare other protesters.
"But the Chicago folks want to make a case out of it, because they want to make an example out of these kids to deter other people from expressing their political opinions in the streets," Napolitano said.
"You've got to be kidding me," Smith said. Later, he asked, "How do we have stories like this, two or three times a week, and no one in the nation seems to care?"
“Because the American public has been deluded into thinking that when the government finds a dope and persuades the dope to say bad things and think he’s assembling a bomb and then he eventually pleads guilty, somehow we are kept safe by that happening,” Napolitano said.
“That’s a load of it!” Smith cried. “Somehow we are made to feel like maybe they're doing something for us, and what they’re really doing is trampling on our liberty.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/shep-smith-nato-summit-arrest-liberty_n_1534074.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=3265216,b=facebook
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
i admit a lot of my anger is at the black bloc folks who make it so damned easy for the media to ignore the substance of the marches and focus on "chaos," "scuffles," etc. there's got to me a way to make those kids go away.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
damn black bloc kids
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
amateurist your anger is more appropriately directed at the media and it seriously enrages me that you can't seem to wrap your fucking head around that relatively simple equation.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know if you were disagreeing or agreeing with me there, but yeah the weathermen were bullshit as well.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
why are you on this thread again?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, May 21, 2012 10:27 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my anger is definitely directed at the media. the tribune's "coverage" of this has been beyond appalling, throwing out any standards of what i used to think of as "journalism."
that said, am i allowed to be mad at _both_ the media and the selfish thrill-seeking black blockers as well? it isn't a zero-sum game.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, May 21, 2012 10:29 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow, you are really being not-nice. why is that? can i not criticize the black blockers on this thread?
I understand your frustration but I think it is tragically misdirected. there will always be at least one stupid person at any rally, it is not the responsibility of everybody else there to prevent the media from using them as the quote.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, a lot of this "oh these horrible black bloc kids" handwringing reads as indirect criticism of the entire movement/everybody who was present and I am really seriously not down with that.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, May 21, 2012 10:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't know if you think i'm stupid or your inability to imagine that i might be enraged at the media _and_ critical of the "black block" types is indicative or your own small-mindedness (or perhaps just the heat of the moment). but you are being amazingly ungenerous here, for no discernable reason.
"there will always be at least one stupid person at any rally" does not really capture the concerted efforts by groups of young folks (in varying numbers, but sometimes in the dozens or 100s) to show up at every recent demo and systematically ignore the principles on which those who organized the rallies intended to carry it out -- indeed even showing contempt and even hostility to those in the rally itself.
does that make you frustrated? i don't have a limited supply of anger, i'm willing to share it with the tribune too. ;-)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link