Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

there need to be at least some people who can do elaborate theoretical analysis and attempt to explain their conclusions to people less interested in or equipped for that kind of thing; these i guess are what you call leaders (the l-word!) and occupy has plenty of them whether it admits it or not; but as far as people being "incoherently" angry, i mean, fucking good that people are angry; i hope they get angrier; and as long as they can memorize a few keywords (collateralized debt obligation!) and get it basically straight who's screwing them (which a lot of people already know anyway) i don't really mind if they haven't read all three volumes of capital. i mean i'm one of them. (if anything this seems like an elitist way of thinking, since it shruggingly accepts that not everyone is gonna be a scholar. but scholars can't revolt by themselves.)

obv different thing from this case which is just :( yeah.

(realize that "read all three volumes of capital" is an ad absurdum cartoon of the level of political engagement you're talking about, since who does that, but still.)

as far as people being "incoherently" angry, i mean, fucking good that people are angry; i hope they get angrier;

I was referring to the fact that this guy was incoherently angry to begin with - he blacks out and assaults people. He's a crazed transient. His engagement with Occupy's rhetoric goes no farther than obsessing over the oath he took to "defend the Constitution" as a member of the US Army, and the fact that the Patriot Act is bad. Also people are taking away his rights. It's like sub-Tea Party stuff.

no i know i was talking about hoos' general concerns

not being like "schizoprenia is a useful tool in the toolbox!"

lol

Guilty lolz xp

hoos i will very much buy you dinner anytime you find me in nyc.

part of the reason i'm so excited about chicago (which, if i can get a ride by tomorrow, i may still be doing?) is that it's finally creating an opportunity to more explicitly make the connections between low intensity class warfare of attrition at home and the war machine abroad

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9205-occupy-chicago-takes-on-the-war-at-home

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2012/05/hacked.html

y'all got me off work on monday, thx B-)

np

yo if i wind up going tomorrow like i'm tryin to trust all of the internet will hear about it

i'm a nerd but this gave me goosebumps

https://twitter.com/#!/kgosztola/status/203273043802464256

Police Preemptively Raid Apartment & Arrest Activists Ahead of NATO Summit

…Police broke down a door to access a 6-unit apartment building near 32nd & Morgan Streets without a search warrant. Police entered an apartment with guns drawn and tackled one of the tenants to the floor in his kitchen. Two tenants were handcuffed for more than 2 hours in their living room while police searched their apartment and a neighboring unit, repeatedly calling one of the tenants a “Commie faggot.”

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/05/17/police-preemptively-raid-apartment-arrest-activists-ahead-of-nato-summit/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

(if anything this seems like an elitist way of thinking, since it shruggingly accepts that not everyone is gonna be a scholar. but scholars can't revolt by themselves.)

I think this is correct.

this is kind of interesting

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive/2012/05/18/voices-of-the-99-like-it-is-w-robert-stephens

my boy is hosting his radio show trying to talk about big picture organizing and strategy stuff, and this dude from oakland calls in and talks about the cops for 10 minutes.

https://www.wepay.com/donations/the-clown-bloq

love this v much

found the article

this is kind of interesting

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/occupydclive/2012/05/18/voices-of-the-99-like-it-is-w-robert-stephens

my boy is hosting his radio show trying to talk about big picture organizing and strategy stuff, and this dude from oakland calls in and talks about the cops for 10 minutes.
--BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

Btw wanna be clear that this is "interesting" just in the sense that it reveals how focuses in certain areas tend to perpetuate themselves.

rally in the loop:

https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyChicago/status/203556607337050113

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

also talking nato all night tonight on the radio show w/interview w/folks on the ground

vof99.org at 9 eastern time

Hearing reports of a police van driving through a crowd of protesters, injuring at least one person.

i looked at that website hoos but don't you realize we're going to need those predator drones for the war on drugs?

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/481230_391128990939947_199067310146117_1149420_506356295_n.jpg

xp obv

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/545527_311936712218648_203536356392018_701914_933260008_n.jpg

btw free the microbrew 3

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/553480_313094695435821_178047252273900_699863_1899724431_n.jpg

still trying to sift wheat from chaff on the nato3

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

"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

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."

video of the cpd van hitting dude btw, caught on livestream

http://t.co/FU1b7I9U

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

occ chicago girl "i fucking ~live~ here. the cops do this to me in ~my~ city? for taking videos at protests?"

fuckin RNC all over again xp

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

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.

gonna be fuckin hot in the chi today, whole city seemed on edge yesterday

maybe some of you will find this interesting:
http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/quebec-emergency-law-attack-freedom-assembly-and-expression-say-critics/10954

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.

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

but where is the utility data

bless

if you need to decamp to mpls HOOS I got room

https://t.co/XJcFvbcR

Police state alright

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

thx for the suggests, i'll try to reach out for sure.

also lol @ arcade fire