Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

am & Spectrum reflecting the uselessness of Obamney voters
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 30, 2012 6:21 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry dr. morns but as we've established elsewhere you are King Uselessness. your entire persona is built around supposedly devastating cynicism about everything involving contemporary politics.
so i may be useless, but you are uselessness as a principle. so pot meet kettle etc.

you may be right, every man has his reasons, etc

use "cynicism" one more time to change yr name to Nude Spock

There is no way to exclude 'the wrong element' from local Occupy protests because it all takes place in public areas. If some shithead juggalos show up, you cannot blame the non-juggalos for their being there, or for them acting like shitheads.

However, a protest movement that is going to survive this sort of thing needs to act to dissociate themselves from this sort of thing. I would recommend that local Occupy groups innoculate themselves as much as possible, by forming a policy and publicizing it, that whenever they see violent or destructive behavior, the legitimate protestors will call 911 and report it.

They should issue statements, not just condemning the violence or destruction, but insisting that police respond to it, while carefully pointing out that herding non-violent protestors into small spaces before ordering them to disperse, and gassing them, beating them or tasing people sitting quietly, is not an appropriate way to deal with violence, bcz, you know, the people they are mistreating aren't the violent ones. Both pieces of this message need to be vehemently stressed.

I deeply sympathize with hoos, bcz he is one of the ones who is busy trying to manage these messages in the face of a corporate-controlled media, while stuck between the hair-trigger riot cops on the one hand and the opportunistic thrill seeking juggalo-types on the other. And he isn't getting paid for this!

amst/morbs it'd be nice if you kept your personal beefs out of this thread

ie you're acting like a couple of juggalos

how is responding to accusations of "cynicism" purely based on my opinions "personal"?

Bc you initiated a personal attack.

an objective voice at last

GET A ROOM

seriously you guys are just ruining random threads at this point and believe me nobody gives a fuck about yr love/hate relationship

^^^otm

kool, this is now a ShakeyBlow politics thread, bye

sorry bout that.

Like I said on another thread that I follow but never write in, I get fed up w/ Morb's schtick being a predictable line of cynical, un-clever disruptive trolling busting in on otherwise interesting and incisive discussion. I recognize that I just further the noise, so I promise to hold my tongue (or thumbs).

give em hell morbs!

oh yay, Shakey Mo making glib disparaging statements about Oakland again. Dude, you are coming dangerously close to sfgate commenter territory.

okay...?

no one answered my question

"what was the point of vandalizing City Hall, destroying 100+ year old models, etc."

likely to get out some anger. dunno if you're being serious.

from what i've heard: as far as the vandalism of City Hall goes, apparently that wasn't intentional -- it was accidental -- there were physical struggles with security/cops and those items got damaged. The only intentional damage was the flag burning.

Quan is going to "call some of the national leadership of Occupy" to see if they'll rein in Occupy Oakland or disown them. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/30/BAPQ1N0G9K.DTL&tsp=1

right.

mission accomplished!

xp

if that doesn't work, she'll call the protesters' moms and tell them how disappointed she is in them.

picturing Quan calling a payphone near Zuccotti hoping someone in power answers.

lol

I guess I'm not really clear on what Occupy Oakland is trying to accomplish with their tactics. if they just want to continue to fight a running street-war with the cops, well okay you got it, good job. just seems like a waste of resources for an already-strapped City fully stocked with asshole cops.

well, they stated they wanted to open a community center and provide services to the community, so i'd guess they're trying to accomplish that.

illegally taking over a building - a public building that's owned by the city - maybe not the best way to accomplish that

just guessing here, but there may already be some clearly established process for opening a community center, I'm not sure

squatting has a pretty long tradition. they didn't succeed but i don't think that their attempt was the complete failure of tactics you seem to.

explain the clearly established process for upending the current economic system that favors the rich and the rich only and starves our cities of their resources. i think you elided that.

wait I thought the goal was to open a community center

explain the clearly established process for upending the current economic system that favors the rich and the rich only and starves our cities of their resources. i think you elided that.

google+ iirc

seems like the best way to find out what's going on with any occupation would be to go down & ask

why bother when you can argue on the internet.

The first step in upending the current economic system is to hold a dance competition at the vacant building and *poof!* there's your community center. Seems to work whenever an evil developer is trying to turn one into an orphan factory/kitten blood processing plant.

orphan factory/kitten blood processing plant=jobs amirite.

Quan is going to "call some of the national leadership of Occupy" to see if they'll rein in Occupy Oakland or disown them. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/30/BAPQ1N0G9K.DTL&tsp=1
― wmlynch, Monday, January 30, 2012 4:38 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i actually empathize w/ her to some extent but this is completely hilarious.

http://www.thejournal.ie/protesters-take-over-nama-owned-building-and-open-it-to-the-public-339068-Jan2012/

I've been down to OccupySF (back when there was one) - I'm not bothering going over to Oakland, I have other shit to do. But way to not engage with the issue - which is tactics and the efficacy thereof.

just like you didn't engage with the oakland occupiers. i am noticing a pattern

“This is about lifting the veil of secrecy around NAMA and making the buildings available to the public,” Mick O’Broin, a member of the group told TheJournal.ie today.

M'OB RULE

fuckin postrophes

wasn't there a separate thread for occupy concern-trolling?

I don't live in Oakland fyi

xp

honestly not trying to do any trolling, sorry to upset whatever hivemind thing you guys got going here jesus christ

shakey mo will be first against the wall in the glorious new regime imo

I was just asking 'cause my searching was turning up nothing

There's a pretty established way to get the community center thing going. One way is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNhMjziHgzk

But a more normal way is to, you know, create a campaign, connect with community leaders, etc. Instead of thinking you can change the world with one bold piece of action! And then go home and forget about it the rest of your life.

I'm not gonna cast those kinds of aspersions, Spectrum, but yeah I don't really understand what's so irretrievably broken with the City of Oakland's process for establishing community centers/designating unused property that the only acceptable/feasible response is a riot.

y'know the Panthers built Community Centers and got shot at/firebombed/bricks thrown at them, etc. but I don't recall any instances of them attacking city hall.

march turned into a 'riot' when the cops started firing projectiles into crowds AGAINST THEIR OWN INTERNAL POLICIES and like two days after a federal judge told them (yet again) to cut it the fuck out. don't recall all the uproar about that but ok.

i wonder why the 'one bold piece of action' strategy doesn't work.