Posts tagged occupy wall street
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By Richard Pace, via badhaven.com. Click here to enlarge.
In response to:
Frank Miller posts idiotic, reactionary rant about Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street surrounded by police, expecting to be raided
Jaded Asshole By Mitch Clem
This is too good.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has defied space and time, and has somehow reached as far as the outer rim!
good:
From cardboard to Photoshop: Occupy Design brings infographics to the aid of the 99 Percent.
(via occupywallstreet)
Occupy Wall Street as observed by Lemony Snicket
the writer of a series of unfortunate events attempts to explain OWS to children.
My favorite is #11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.
ADL Calls On 'Occupy Wall Street' Organizers To Condemn Anti-Semitic Remarks Made At Rallies
1. in radical movements, there’s no room for alienating folks based on fucked up stereotypes.
2. “jews” doesn’t mean “zionists”
3. bullshit in wall street is NOT caused by zionism, and vice versa.
4. I assumed the authors of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were dead, what with it having been over a hundred years, but I guess some things are eternal.
The anti-isreal = anti-zionism = anti-jewish equation is so damaging and so irresponsible to perpetuate. it can not be allowed to happen that through either sinister or ignorant means, rhetoric opposing the actions of the Israeli government comes to equate rhetoric opposing the Jewish ethnicity’s right to exist, and vice versa.
The only possible relation zionism could have to the occupy wall street movement is in the issue of special interest money corrupting our democratic process. AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is an extremely powerful, extremely influential lobbying group that channels over 3 billion dollars in American tax dollars to Israel every year, heavily influences the election process, and has a say in the development of America’s foreign and domestic policies. Many have characterized the actions of the Israeli government as zionist, which harks back to a cultural and political movement which began in the late 1800’s whose principal aim was to establish an independent state for the Jewish people.
AIPAC’s influence over our democratic process is something to protest. The actions of the Israeli government are generally something to protest. Jewish people are not characterized by these things anymore than American people are by their government and their country’s corporate sponsors.
Something as infinitely complex and endearing as people can never accurately be characterized by their governments.
Representative democracy is a lie.
(Source: shiramario)
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An email I just got:
Dear MoveOn member,
Tonight I went to Occupy Wall Street to deliver the signatures of more than 240,000 people—including you—who signed our emergency petition asking Mayor Bloomberg not to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park tomorrow.
We held a huge press conference at the park with dozens of news outlets, and then hundreds people marched up Broadway to City Hall to deliver the petition.
When they found out Mayor Bloomberg was busy dining with the 1% a few blocks away at the ultra-luxurious Cipriani, the march continued to the doors of the restaurant.
It was a strong show of nationwide solidarity, numerous local elected officials joined our march to oppose Bloomberg’s decision, and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell even featured the petition tonight. As of right now, however, Bloomberg’s order to clear Zuccotti Park still stands and we won’t know until tomorrow morning what he’s going to do.
But regardless of Mayor Bloomberg’s actions, the most important thing any of us can do is to make sure this movement keeps growing by supporting a local Occupy event in our town.
Here’s a great map listing of tons of Occupy events all over the country that our friends at DailyKos put together:
www.occupywallstreetevents.com
As we wait to see what happens in New York tomorrow, I hope you’ll find the event closest to you and go there to show your solidarity.
Thanks for all you do.
–Daniel, Tate, Peter, Elena, and the rest of the team
What makes modern day dissent so much different than say, the 1960’s, is the ease at which global communication is done. In Madison, WI protesters were shouting for solidarity with Egyptian revolutionaries, and union organizers in Cairo were echoing back solidarity with the state capital occupiers. The ability to unite causes and connect the dots of distant inequalities with ones at home spells doom for those who sit on the edge of their seats of power.
I’ll just leave this excerpt from Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins right here.
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, at a time when Western civilization was declining too rapidly for comfort and yet too slowly to be very exciting, much of the world sat on the edge of an increasingly expensive theater seat, waiting—with various combinations of dread, hope, and ennui—for something momentous to occur.
Something momentous was bound to happen soon. The entire collective unconscious could not be wrong about that. But what would it be? And would it be apocalyptic or rejuvenating? A cure for cancer or a nuclear bang? A change in the weather or a change in the sea? Earthquakes in California, killer bees in London, Arabs in the stock exchange, life in the laboratory, or a UFO on the White House lawn? Would Mona Lisa sprout a mustache? Would the dollar fail?
Christian aficionados of the Second Coming scenario were convinced that after a suspenseful interval of two thousand years, the other shoe was about to drop.
And five of the era’s best-known psychics, meeting at the Chelsea Hotel, predicted that Atlantis would soon reemerge from the depths.
To this last, Princess Leigh-Cheri responded, “There are two lost continents… . Hawaii was one, called Mu, the mother, its tips still projecting in our senses—the land of slap dance, fishing music, flowers and happiness. There are three lost continents… . We are one: the lovers.”
In whatever esteem one might hold Princess Leigh-Cheri’s thoughts concerning matters geographic, one must agree that the last quarter of the twentieth century was a severe period for lovers. It was a time when women openly resented men, a time when men felt betrayed by women, a time when romantic relationships took on the character of ice in spring, stranding many children on jagged and inhospitable floes.
Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.
Finally!
This is great. An organizer of the the Occupy Wall Street movement dispels the media insinuations that protesters are inarticulate and muddled with their aims for a better world.
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‘Occupy Wall Street’ gains institutional cheerleaders - The Washington Post
With attendees from Washington’s major progressive institutions — from MoveOn.org and labor unions to the Center for American Progress and members of the House Progressive Caucus — the CAF conference had already been planned a Wednesday march on Capitol Hill to advocate for “jobs not cuts.” Now the conference’s progressive leaders are urging them to support a D.C. offshoot of Occupy Wall Street,” which converged Sunday at McPherson Square. On Thursday, they’ll protest the role of corporate money in politics. “Occupy K Street is starting. It’s from Wall Street to K Street,” says Liz Butler, campaign director for climate advocacy group 1Sky. “To send the same message to corporate lobbyists that’s being sent to Congress and Wall Street. It’s a beautiful moment of convergence — versus Wall Street, versus cuts, for our future.”
(Source: fromthenovel, via occupywashdc)
Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
The latest example is You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.
I’m not an Alex Jones fan, but this is still alarming.
Mayor Bloomberg Tells People to Respect their Betters and Stop Protesting
“The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line,” Bloomberg said, presumably meaning service workers on Wall Street, adding that “we all” share blame for taking on too much risk, not just the financial industry.
“And people in this day and age need support for their employers. If the banks don’t go out and make loans we will not come out of our economic problems, we will not have jobs so anything we can do that’s responsible to help the banks do that is what we need.”
Read the article to find out exactly why Bloomberg is such an ass. No one is protesting service workers. They’re protesting the entire industry that has made billions while impoverishing everyone else.
These are the 1%
Inspired by http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ this blog will show the rich counterparts to those currently struggling in America. The rich are not in this struggle with us. If we sink, they’ll still swim.
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This is who they protect, this is who they serve
New York City Police Foundation
JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD’s main data center.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing “profound gratitude” for the company’s donation.
“These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Dimon said. “We’re incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work.”
This money is basically a thank you for beating up on occupy wall street folks.
“Let’s go back in history. In 1893, bankster JP Morgan funded Tesla’s free energy device. When Morgan found out that there was no way of charging people for it, he suppressed this technology. Shortly afterwards, Morgan became one of the founding fathers of the Federal Reserve Ponzi scheme. The corruption between JP Morgan, the individual and JP Morgan, the corporation, is undivided.”
http://www.in5d.com/occupy-wall-street-the-marines-are-coming-to-protect-the-protestors.html
