http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/04/no-silicon-valley-did-not-and-does-not-partake-of-the-anarchist-utopian-nature-why-did-you-imagine-it-did.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BradDelongsSemi-dailyJournal+%28Brad+DeLong%27s+Semi-Daily+Journal%29
― iatee, Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if he's related to tynan
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
xp ha i've actually seen that wolff lecture, i am as scholarly as david graeber
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
(on this one point in his enormous book)
(that is admittedly still a pretty lazy oversight)
it's not the point it's how he's reacting to it. the twitter feed where he says 'oops, my bad, that's prob wrong' vs. the way he does in the response post
― iatee, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
academic is petulant face-saver
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
"It's not the crime, it's the cover-up."
― s.clover, Saturday, 7 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
People's Assembly/Spring Awakening in Central Park this Saturday afternoon:
http://www.nycga.net/events/event/spring-awakening-2012-occupy-new-york-city-peoples-assembly/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
rad
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 April 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
interesting read re currency dominance: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/seignor.html
― s.clover, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
just catching up on this thread, and that egregious/hilarious hstoday.com post (?!!? at that whole site)
unless there is more than one Ian Oxnevad about, this is him:
http://twitter.com/ianoxnevadhttp://www.chabotstrategies.com/recent-articles.html
amazing that such bad writers can get paid telling other people about the world
― goole, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
UC Davis report on the pepper-spray incident is up: http://reynosoreport.ucdavis.edu/reynoso-report.pdf
Anonymous statements by police officers at the end are interesting.
― all things must pass (shaane), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
uc davis was forced to release a report to maintain safety
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
so here's a kind of back-patting thing i wrote
http://eyesopen99.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/what-have-we-accomplished/
i'm broken and looking for hope, sue me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 April 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
occ chicago & staff at a mental health clinic have occupied & barricaded demanding to talk to rahm
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tangello
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't hear about these doings in Montreal:
http://occupywallst.org/article/montreal-students-occupy-banks-12-hour-protest-mar/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Made it to the park for the last 10 mins or so of the GA, then floated between a few breakout groups (kinda like a lol cop).
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
i used to hang out with the cops during the slow parts of the GAs and field questions. (by "questions" i mean "why don't you guys have a platform".) gradually our relationship with the PD decayed, which can't all have been on me.
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 15 April 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
btw hoos the bolshy history dork in me (i.e., most of me) was excited to find the link to "dual power" behind the "building the new world in the shell of the old" bit at the end of your article; i did not know dual power was an anarchist Thing as the last i'd heard of it was feb-oct 1917 but i think the slow, patient success of the russian soviets as parallel and eventually undeniable political institutions is a really important lesson. anyway the article is a v solid Previously On; i hope it cheered people up.
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
ty
i was pleasantly surprised to see it get pretty widely shared by friends on fb & twitter
and yeah i mean "build the new world in the shell of the old" has been a wobbly/anarcho-syndicalist slogan for a while, i think adopting "dual power" as the name for the strategy as used by anarchos has been a relatively recent development
really gets to the heart of the way i feel about this stuff though. i argue with a lotta anarcho-minded friends about it; you can't just say "smash the state" and refuse to engage with actually existing politics. it's like chess--you can't just say "pawn takes king," try to overturn the table, and pretend like that means you win. you have to play the game. you have to do the slow, boring, important work of organizing and building counterinstitutions that can meet people's needs. i'm not interested in smashing the state. i want to supercede it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 April 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7260/6913618532_860371f276.jpghttp://farm6.staticflickr.com/5160/6909583572_53f5850fff.jpg
A friend in NYC took these.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
i like that second one especially
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 April 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
never gonna be able to send him an email unless we see the rest of wallst.isover5.1.12@ what?
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
naw that's the dude's tag, his name is sliza
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
NYPD begins arresting Wall St sidewalk sleepers
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/04/nypd-decides-ows-sidewalk-sleepovers-are-illegal.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
metro pd officers are arresting our sidewalk sleepers while saying, on livestream, that they know the arrests are unlawful
then they're coming back and donating food and sleeping bags
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
in which paul volcker makes a suggestion, and i lol
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75200.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
arrests, nastiness at Federal Hall last night:
"They're whiny fucking bitches!" shouted a man who also said he lived in 37 Wall Street. "Oh boo hoo, we want money, we want cars, we want government handouts. It's fucking bullshit!" Two white-shirted NYPD officials who appeared to be in charge most of the evening, Deputy Chief McNamara and Inspector O'Connell, attempted to calm the residents down.
When we asked for the two residents' names, Inspector O'Connell blocked us. "We know what you do," he said. "You're done here. They're not gonna give you their names." We replied that we had to at least ask. "Get the fuck back."
Later, O'Connell told us that he was trying to prevent "a riot." "You wanna incite them? You want these two groups throwing bottles at each other?" When we attempted again to speak to the man, he swore at us and said his name was, "Fuck You. Want me to spell it for you?"
http://gothamist.com/2012/04/17/video_ten_arrested_as_ows_tests_pro.php#photo-1
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
]Minutes later, one of the residents, a short, stocky man with thinning hair got into a shouting match with a protester, and lunged after him, punching him repeatedly. NYPD officers pulled the man through the police line. He was not arrested.
Another entry in "graves I need to piss on before I die"
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
btw this is a thing i'm doing every week now that i guess i haven't plugged here yet
www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
my most recent hour
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive/2012/04/17/voices-of-the-99
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
will listen!
Earth Day events in NY this weekend:
http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-earth-day/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
Guitarmy march on 5/1
http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-street-labor-immigrant-rights-allies-a/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
last week's "occupy earth week" actions were great, climaxed with 3 days of action on the imf/world bank spring meeting. i got to do some cool shit i won't much mention otherwise.
this made me lol
http://media.salon.com/2012/04/tumblr_lyxwi7P7nG1rohucco1_500.jpg
Central to May Day plans is a push for a mass student walkout from high schools and colleges. This online poster is part of the energetic propaganda efforts to get students out of the classrooms and into the streets on May 1. And, oddly enough, for me the image of a gun-wielding velociraptor riding a shark perfectly captures something about the idea of general strike in this country in 2012: it's confusing, it's threatening, it's attempting the impossible. We're not sure what's going on, but we know it's awesome.
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/12/occupys_strike_propaganda/slide_show/8
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
nice piece here on the slow defanging of the strike in labor
http://jacobinmag.com/winter-2012/the-strike-and-its-enemies/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 07:04 (twelve years ago) link
really dig jacobin lately tbh
lolol i love when the fascist right pays attention
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/occupy-partners-with-anarchy-movement/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
heard things are heating up in Oakland again
― Chris S, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
duh_swamiTop 50
Years ago when the 'People Park' riots were going on in Berkeley, I read where chemists had developed an anti riot, or battlefield gas, that was not harmful and only had one effect...If anyone gets one wiff of it, they have an overpowering need to defecate...not later, right now...I don't know if it was ever used, but it is one dandy way to stop a riot...
Defending capitalism with urban myths, lol.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
Some nice populist right vs free-market right examples in their comments box too.
Disappointed in 'Occutards' as an insult though. I would have gone with 'Occupussies' myself - though maybe they're worried of appearing misogynistic.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
i remain fond of 'occupoops' since spotting it in a youtube comments section awhile back
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
Occu*Pops
http://www.awesomehq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/otterpops.jpg
― fruitsbs (beachville), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
ACT UP busy this morning on Wall St:
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/04/act-up-chains-themselves-across-wall.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
and newish page for May 1:
http://maydaynyc.org/may-day-2012
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/wall-street-tracks-wolves-as-may-1-protests-loom.html
I can't miss work but I'll prob go to whatever's going on in the evening if you wanna meet up morbs
― iatee, Friday, 27 April 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, cept I dunno where I'd be at 6pm, Union Sq or further south?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
according to the schedule the march starts at union sq at 5:30...I can make that. if the crowd is big enough that I couldn't find you maybe try to hang out near the main covered subway entrance? if it goes off schedule or whatever don't worry about it.
― iatee, Friday, 27 April 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link