Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

in which paul volcker makes a suggestion, and i lol

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75200.html

ha

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

]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"

btw this is a thing i'm doing every week now that i guess i haven't plugged here yet

www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive

my most recent hour

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive/2012/04/17/voices-of-the-99

will listen!

Earth Day events in NY this weekend:

http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-earth-day/

Guitarmy march on 5/1

http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-street-labor-immigrant-rights-allies-a/

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

nice piece here on the slow defanging of the strike in labor

http://jacobinmag.com/winter-2012/the-strike-and-its-enemies/

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/

heard things are heating up in Oakland again

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.

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.

i remain fond of 'occupoops' since spotting it in a youtube comments section awhile back

Occu*Pops

http://www.awesomehq.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/otterpops.jpg

ACT UP busy this morning on Wall St:

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/04/act-up-chains-themselves-across-wall.html

and newish page for May 1:

http://maydaynyc.org/may-day-2012

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

yeah, cept I dunno where I'd be at 6pm, Union Sq or further south?

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.

The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website. The gift, valued at $4.6 million, included 1,000 patrol car laptops. “These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 56, said in a statement on the website.

LEO's bread is buttered on one side.

Using the (not-really-)anniversary of OBL's death to clamp down on tomorrow's events?

http://occupywallst.org/article/ows-issues-solidarity-warning/

Chicago in particular is raising my eyebrows--deploying battle dressed security forces armed with nonlethal weapons ostensibly for NATO but coincidentally starting tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScvAJG51V4

meanwhile, this has (quietly) been going incredibly well: http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/04/my-visit-occupy-farm-gill-tract-albany-community-voices

meanwhile, this has (quietly) been going incredibly well: http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/04/my-visit-occupy-farm-gill-tract-albany-community-voices
--Milton Parker

With any luck I'm gonna have one of their organizers on my show next week!

http://noskulemay1.tumblr.com/post/17980445709/no-school

this makes me lol cause i hear it in the tone of "NO CLAM?!?!" "no clam."

Occlampy

http://www.missionmission.org/tag/riot-on-valencia/

Beyond frustrating

#letsgetit

I am not down with this

1 arrest huh

I just... a strike = okay, yes. a march = okay, yes. smashing up locally owned eateries = uh waht. get a brain morans.

so counterproductive

http://scottrossi.tumblr.com/post/22184158717/notes-from-an-occupation-17-dolores-park-ruckus

So, rather than describe what happened (since 340958345 other blogs and news agencies will do just that), I think it is more important to point out who did this. But as I’m about to explain to you, I don’t know that I can do that. You see, I don’t know who, the people I’ll dub as the ‘ringleaders’ of the march were exactly. Nobody did. Yeah some of the aggro people we always have to deal with were there, but these guys weren’t it. You remember those asshole jock bullies in high school? Well that was who was leading the march tonight. Clean cut, athletic, commanding, gravitas not borne of charisma but of testosterone and intimidation. They were decked out in outfits typically attributed to those in the ‘black bloc’ spectrum of tactics, yet their clothes were too new, and something was just off about them. They were very combative and nearly physically violent with the livestreamers on site, and got ignorant with me, a medic, when I intervened and reminded them that I was there to fix them from police violence, not protester on protester violence. 

I am typically really bad with names, but I am great with faces. I love people. I love looking into their eyes, looking at their smiles and their body language and trying to guess at their life and stuff. I probably will forget your name the first few times I’ve met you, but I will not forget your face. Even people I pass on the street, I’ll remember you for weeks. With that said, I didn’t recognize any of these people. Their eyes were too angry, their mouths were too severe. They felt “military” if that makes sense. Something just wasn’t right about them on too many levels. I’m not one of those tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, I don’t subscribe to those theories that Queen Elizabeth’s Reptilian slave driver masters run the Fed. I’ve read up on agent provocateurs and plants and that sort of thing and I have to say that without a doubt, I believe 100% that the people that started tonight’s events in the Mission were exactly that. 

^^^

It would make sense. It would be a lot easier if you were a genuine left wing anarchist to bust up windows in the FiDi on a Sunday night than engage in nimby anti-latte drinking cultural politics in the Mission and it would make more sense.

that's true

the timing of this (so that the media gets to furrow its concerned nonpartisan brow over it all day today) and the lukewarm police response set off major agent-provocateur alarms when i read about it last night, but i didn't want to underestimate the capacity of kids to be dumb. gonna need better evidence than "they had severe mouths" but yeah, something could well be up. regardless i guess let's just bury it under cool stuff today.

the lack of arrests thing is pretty weird - the Mission station is right there, and from personal experience those cops are total assholes who wouldn't think twice about cracking skulls.

I used to think that blaming agent provacateurs required some tinfoil, like who exactly is commanding them, and why, no one is steepling fingers to defend Capitalism, etc, but I've decided that it's basic cop mentality: they're not there to discredit, they're there to ~expose~ the real badduns.

I'm leery of that explanation too - it's convenient and unproveable - but historically this tactic has totally been used by law enforcement, it's not all crazy conspiracy theories.

like if a single non agent prov hucks a trashcan, it's all the justification needed for a crackdown, "these kids are primed, if it wasn't one of us that sparked them, it would've happened anyways." that it serves to discredit a movement or w/e is almost ancillary to the idea that police gotta be policing.

good timing on 'cleveland anarchist bomb plot' too, keep the news focused on that

sorry if I'm not being clear: I believe it's a tactic! I just don't think there's an explicit reason for it other than its almost built in to the idea of the police apparatus. the powers it serves don't even need to decree that it be done; agent provocateurs are sort of a foregone conclusion, is all. hence: you don't have to believe in conspiracy theories, it's just cops bein cops

just coppin around