Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

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

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

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.

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

http://tidalmag.org/about/

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.

not exactly a rupture, no.

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

"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?

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

the lazy sunday night answer to your first point of the poem's relevance at the time is read this

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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'.

maybe it should run some piece on how some feminists opposed the fifteenth amendment next. good job building alliances guize.

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.

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

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), Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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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.

xp

yep - as lewis puts it in the preview, vets protested as vets, chicanos as chicanos, soldiers as soldiers

i am curious (clover)

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

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

RT @our_dc: Quick Pita and Flamers manager said workers can come back tomorrow for their 11am shift! #goodjobsnation #unity #u1

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

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.

Chris Hedges: "Camden and Detroit succumbed first. You and I are next."

http://www.nationofchange.org/rise-or-die-1369144349

rumors of a thing at zuccotti this weekend

when i thought it was rumors/a joke i responded 'yeah what the hell'

now that i think its serious i'm realllly hoping its not actually happening

When I started seeing the reoccupy talk I was sort of jokingly down for it--"eh, what the hell?"--but I'm really struggling to see the point

"We will strike a blow against austerity and capitalism and ~the 1%~ by sitting in this park until we are painfully removed in 12 hours!"

"Then a series of follow up actions about the police response where the message of the original occupation gets lost! Then full communism!"

[homie suggests 'why don't we start shutting shit down? banks, bridges etc']

@hoosteen 1h
@p____ but that doesn't just *start* spontaneously, right? Like, that takes real comm orgz'ing, the kinda work we *oughta* be doing

@hoosteen 1h
@p_____ instead of spending energy and time and attention on reprising a song we all know the end of already

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Agree. Doubt reoccupation will accomplish this RT @OccupyWallSt: @hoosteen What has changed? Nothing. Jail the bankers, reclaim our economy.

‏I guess what I'm getting at is that if "nothing has changed" since we took public space two years ago, what will change by doing it again?

Wasnt in the meetings, maybe @OccupyWallSt has secret strategy to use reoccupy to ignite something. Happened once. But again, w/same tactic?

Like why are we re-fetishizing Tents in A Park as if that Solves Capitalism? Is it still 2011? Have we learned literally nothing?

‏Obv all solidarity and love to folks taking action at Z Park tomorrow. I'm just wondering if there are better uses of our collective energy.

sry for tweeting

Splitter!!

amazing scenes in istanbul http://t.co/LidM7Gfh0S

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Reason I love New York no. 4221: Zuccotti Park is filled with Turkish people in solidarity with #OccupyGezi

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also essex antifa stood the fuck up today

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EDL tried to march and essex antifa blockaded them for 5 hours

friend of mine was in Turkey for work, got out this morning

will stop by Liberty Sq if i have time

<3

two friends of mine just got back from turkey like last week

lol assad just asked turkish pm to resign over "brutal crackdown on protesters"

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an anarchist football fan club has captured a riot control vehicle in turkey

https://twitter.com/DirenGezi/status/340589774467383296/photo/1

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/06/occupy-taksim-police-against-protesters-in-istanbul.html damn, some good writing here

yeah thanks, that's great

these are the dudes that stole the riot van lol

They had come up with a new slogan: “Give us 100 gas masks, we’ll take the park.” I asked Ayhan Gÿner, one of Çarsi’s senior members, what he had to say to New Yorker readers. “Çarsi is the last barricade. Çarsi keeps alive the hopes of the people in the resistance of Gezi Park,” he told me. “This resistance has inspired the leaders of Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe”—rival Istanbul soccer clubs—“to come together. Damn American imperialism to hell.” Fifteen minutes later, I got another text: “Pepper gas is the Besiktas fan’s perfume. Nobody can intimidate us”; and, shortly after that, “We are the soldiers not of the imam, but of Mustafa Kemal” (referring to Ataturk, the founder of the secular Turkish Republic).

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right in the feels

http://pastebin.com/1XzsfqeP

­I saw people with bloody hands tearing out the sidewalks and trying to build barricade so that the howling and water-blowing siege tanks wouldn’t pass through and run over people…and all this done within minutes collaboratively…A huge barricade was built by people who were coughing and puking as their tears were dropping on the pavement stones they were ripping off the ground…

melodramatic but harrowing

so. this is happening.

REOCCUPY TONIGHT! Calling all DC occupiers! Calling all curious souls! There will be a group doing a reoccupy of McPherson Square TONIGHT, starting about 9 PM. Yes, rumors are true! Bring your sleeping bag, but no tents. Bring food and water. Bring your passion and your love of justice! Bring your desire to change the world!

We're not sure how this will go but we can't stay indoors anymore while the streets and homes of Turkey fill with tear gas, while the super-rich get richer, while poor people and people of color continue to be thrown needlessly into the criminal injustice system and get foreclosed on, while Monsanto and agribusiness poison our food supply, while indigenous peoples continue to be marginalized and stolen from, while police shoot/taze/kill at will, while the LGBTQ community gets beaten, while our government turns a blind eye, while our politicians let lobbyists buy them off, while some try to turn back the clock on womens rights, while a greedy corporation continues to build the Keystone XL pipeline section by section... while those who are in power destroy our world. We will be idle no more!

Come stand up and stand for something! And have one heck of a good time doing it :)

ahh the 1%

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013, outside a clothing store, near the Gare Saint-Lazare, Méric Clément, France, a young trade unionist, 18 years of age and an anti-fascist activist was beaten to death by fascists. Arriving in Brest for his studies at Political Science, he has been subjected to extreme right-wing violence that has grown in recent months. He died of his injuries, in the night, at the Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière. All our thoughts are with his family and loved ones to whom we express our solidarity.

memorial at the french embassy in dc at 11 tomorrow

saw this on the WaPo site today :((

fucking hell, that's so immensely foreign to my experience that it's hard to even believe.

black vs red will never die tho

:(

fucking shit