sounds good, way to start the year
― Chris S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
go get em
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
best of luck dude
meanwhile, my hometown occupy has been given notice to leave this morning
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
I can't watch streams, what's goin on?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
spending freeze btw
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/occupy-wall-st-faces-its-own-economic-realities/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
"in what observers are comparing to Frogger and Red Rover"
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/arrests-and-standoff-occupy-congress-turn-tense/47511/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
what a fucking day
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
based on personal history, i know it was hoos that threw a smoke bomb at the white house
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
highlights
homies out fronthttps://p.twimg.com/AjYDDE9CEAEAswk.jpg
for the direct action of the day we split into 3 zones for the 3 buildings of congress, color-coded & matched to flags that led the groups: red flag, black flag, blue flag. i (predictably) rode with black flag for livetweeting, but it turned out to be the quietest of the three. red flag, home to a certain Issa--among the richest in congress, 90% of whose campaign contributions don't even come from his district, and also the guy who's trying to kick occupy dc off of federal land--wound up seeing the most action. this was outside.https://p.twimg.com/AjZCug4CAAEDvjq.jpg
all 3 flags reconvened for the mass march. i was livetweeting & got this reply
@amorrisseyAaron Morrisseywhatever, let us know when Fugazi gets there. MT @hoosteen: #blackflag now reuniting at the Capitol bldg. #occupycongress #j177 hours ago via Twitter for Mac
left for the march that would hit the 3 centers of power. got to the supreme court. it's illegal to hold political signs on the steps of the supreme court (iKNOWright?), and typically it gets you arrested--but the metro PD aren't big fans of mass arrests, sooohttp://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/396500_324622100911186_100000901965251_1004922_1493147475_n.jpg
left SC for the white house, and passed the newseum on the way. the newseum has a giant 1st amendment faux-carved-into-stone. we stopped the march to mic check the whole thing, guided by a dozen bouncing laser pointers from the crowd:https://p.twimg.com/AjZqCvBCQAAcfjc.jpg
"NDAA, we say no way!"https://p.twimg.com/AjZx9UDCMAE2pB9.jpg
^^ a couple minutes after this some idiot (provocateur? too easy to blame all the stupid shit on fantasy provocateurs) threw a smoke bomb onto the lawn. there were about 30 seconds of panic as people at the gate thought we were being gassed--masks & hoods & goggles went up everywhere before we realized what was going on. predictably, this was all anybody heard about on fox news.
its impossible to have any real perspective on the day's events right now--in the next day or so we'll have a better sense of how it played, i imagine. suffice it to say i'm fucking exhausted, and that this kinda felt like a sneak peek at the G8 in chicago in may.
oh also, the prettiest girl in the world made me a shirt that says "talk radical to me, baby," and i am possibly in love
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
yay
make sure Issa lets you testify next week
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:11 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm told that as of this morning, we’re approaching 200 tents in McPherson Square," said BIG HOOS, a 25-year-old McPherson Square protester who has been at the camp since its twelfth day. "The south lawn of McPherson, where we have our general assembly, stays empty by design so that we can have our meetings there. But the rest of the park is filling to the brim ... We do expect that a large number of folks coming for this action are going to be staying with us for the long haul." The city's other encampment, at Freedom Plaza, is also adding members, he said. Last week, Occupy D.C.'s S______ ______ told us each park has a capacity of 500 people.HOOS stopped short of promising all those people would join in resisting any police effort to evict the protesters. But he said, quite diplomatically, "I know we will have people who are prepared to peacefully defend our space."
HOOS stopped short of promising all those people would join in resisting any police effort to evict the protesters. But he said, quite diplomatically, "I know we will have people who are prepared to peacefully defend our space."
still feel v strange abt this kind of thing
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
also massive lolz
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxz8f7EXjf1qg5xw5o1_500.jpg
when i tweeted abt this response was "shit! we've GOTTA stop putting our secrets in that truck!"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
oh here's a nicer shot of the 1st amendment mic check from the front of the march, nb laser pointer
http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/full/498118687.jpg?Expires=1326872587&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=FvBX3ymFWZ5DJbhLagDOy0ikfKTfY57nq7e26UbTtBibwrRrpKskBwpDerWXw3G6s4xRcsLyZ-00KQatMNQZ3e7RUYV1TKMvij7rnta38m7iCy1scZAAZPy1n2wTXC0EOWABfx1cJIcsknpbjjWpeDDM3fWYayMHz1t6wbKPsKU_
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:31 (twelve years ago) link
haaa my homegirl made this
https://p.twimg.com/AjYdAptCIAAIN54.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
not rly sure i get why the military is above the goblet-swillers there, but
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:47 (twelve years ago) link
and church should be replaced in that hierarchy by entertainment media/advertising at this point
― Chris S, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:53 (twelve years ago) link
hoos your homegirl is a fan of gerd arntz!!
http://www.gerdarntz.org/content/gerd-arntz
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
You're leading an interesting and exciting life HOOS
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
4real
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:42 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fwhoah
awesome
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
oh i posted this in wdyll so forgive me for the repost but <333333
http://i44.tinypic.com/2duxh79.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
some idiot (provocateur? too easy to blame all the stupid shit on fantasy provocateurs) threw a smoke bomb onto the lawn.
eyewitnesses saying they saw a whiteshirt cop throw the smokebomb. can neither confirm nor deny.
my favorite chant of the day was in spanish, borrowed from south america, had a nice rhythm to it that had us all dancing down the street
aantianticapitalista
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh and A.N.S.W.E.R. showed up and we all booed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
we didn't "all" boo
just lots of us are not big fans of a buncha stalinists posing as a grassroots network
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
haven't actually watched this but friends are posting it on FB so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QptAVWbm9c&feature=youtu.be
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
<3 yeah fuck the RCP
nice to read yer updates, good luck
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
OWS greeting Obama at Apollo Theater 6pm tomorrow, but doubt I will be able to get near the place after work.
btw who are The World Can't Wait, and are they doing anything worthwhile?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 19 January 2012 05:46 (twelve years ago) link
who are The World Can't Wait, and are they doing anything worthwhile?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
mainly RCP, though they've got some other support--they were formed after the '04 election and their founding charter said that their goal was to 'eject bush and cheney from office in disgrace' because 'the world can't wait for '08'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda wanna start "Occupy Wall Street 4: Last Camp Standing," but there aren't nearly enough messages in this thread, which is depressingly telling
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
it'll get press again come convention season
― iatee, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
so where is the donations link?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
in truth i haven't been following occupyLA too closely since their encampment got raided (like, i'm not even sure where they've been organizing), and i'm pretty bummed at myself for that. i do think you're doing awesome work hoos and you are strongly advised to kiu w/ both actions and updates
― donna rouge, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
ty guys
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
heating up in SF
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/occupy_san_francisco_gets_down_to_business/singleton/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they got mad real last night
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 January 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
logisitics people for j17 reporting we served 8000 plates of food on tuesday
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 January 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
@timcraigpostUndercover Video shot by GOP staffers shows #occupydc protesters admitting they camp and get along with National Park Service1 minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet Reply
lmao what the fuck is going on in this hearing
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
nm - it sounds like they're trying to enforce some kind of semantic distinction between "protesting" and "camping," but the subtext of it also reads like they're being critical of yall for being civil to the park police (THE HORRORS etc)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
civil servants engage in civil behavior with civilians shocker
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
we were all holding our breath waiting for something really damning, and then we realized "wait...'the park service does a good job' is the best you've got?"
the guy right behind the douchleman from south carolina was clearly the person who'd shot it, he couldn't resist grinning behind a fist like HEEHEE WE GOT YOUUUU except they actually didn't
also eleanor holmes norton rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
some friends of mine wrote this
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/01/24/mic-check-occupy-wall-street-offers-a-rebuttal-to-state-of-the-union/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the 24 hour news cycle has just completely swallowed this up. i don't mean to suggest that it isn't still going on or still potent to some degree, but it seems really noticeable how quickly anything passes out of the news cycle and is thus deemed irrelevant, a judgment all too many are willing to concede.
also can someone explain the point of the guy fawkes masks aside from generalized "rebellion" affect?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
i mean even though they are trolls the fact that "zzzz"/"so bored with this" rhetoric is like a thing in comments to articles on OWS is really telling. it's only "old news" or "zzzz" in relation to the ADD cable news cycle. i doubt that a few months after anti-vietnam war protests blew up people, even those opposed, would have greeted it in such a cynical way.
this really really really bothers me because it affects me as much as anyone.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
it seems really noticeable how quickly anything passes out of the news cycle and is thus deemed irrelevant, a judgment all too many are willing to concede.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:23 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you'll get no argument from me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
right, i'm not going to watch that movie, and nobody else seems to like it, so why do those masks turn up everywhere?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and intentionally theatrical campaign to murder his former captors, bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves.
ugh seriously? embarrassing that people would wear those much less that it would be the "face" of OWS. you might as well give up.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:47 (twelve years ago) link