reeks of the French tbh
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 16 March 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
well just as you need a unionized labor force before you can have a regular strike you need a large percentage of the country to be on board w/ ows before calls for a general strike aren't just kinda....
― iatee, Friday, 16 March 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
i mean
am reminded of max's version of "the emperor has no clothes" where the kid is like 'he's naked' and everybody's like "....well, yeah"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
"fuck you boss I'm not coming to work today" "I'll fire you" "...nevermind..."
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 16 March 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
like a call for a general strike at this point in history is kind of an optimistic appeal to a certain mindset, both an admission that groundwork must be laid and an expression of desire to lay it, though whether that desire extends beyond the day of your proposed strike is always in contention
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
whether that desire extends beyond the day of your proposed strike is always in contention
that is to say "whether the desire to lay groundwork extends beyond 'groundwork for a one day action'"
like, i'm pretty tired of "days of action"
i'm ready to build real community power that can be linked and exercised in concert, and that shit takes hard real often boring work that isn't quite as exciting as trying to get everyone in the streets to "shut down the corporations" on a random day in february or what have you, but i think in the end that that kind of power is infinitely more valuable and in fact what's needed to build parallel institutions.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
so what i'm saying iatee is yes, i am mad super duper interested in building the kind of community awareness and power that leads to buy-in on an idea like a general strike, and that maybe calling for a general strike before building that power is backwards, but i also recognize the historical-sorta-mythical resonance of calling for a general strike and hardly begrudge it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
i'm ready to build real community power that can be linked and exercised in concert
do you have ideas on this?
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 16 March 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
there's a lot of work being done in dc right now on neighborhood assemblies, and we have kind of a yearlong vision that could bring the city to a kind of spokescouncil model where assemblies from neighborhoods are represented, not so unlike we do with working groups (and the spanish did during the revolution). in my mind from that point city assemblies could begin to link up in the same way occupations around the country have linked up to plan and synchronize actions. the interoccupy model has worked well for us in terms of communication and cooperation, and i think it could map over to intercity comm&coop pretty well.
but that's something like a step 4 or 5, and frankly right now we're on step 1. i honestly think we could get there though, with dedication and person power--and for the moment at least, we've got that.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
though honestly the localism of this model is a big part of the power in my mind--that to a certain extent it's about dealing with issues where they hit people the most.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
I like Bryant Park being a base for the NY MayDay as it's essentially closed for a fucking fashion week 4x a year.
aside: a big facefart to the AFL-CIO for making their presidential endorsement in "99%" terms.
I want to go to Charlotte because the unions sure as fuck aren't going.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
big facefart to the AFL-CIO for making their presidential endorsement in "99%" terms.
seiu did this too! facefart to them!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
i figure if o is gonna steal my chicago showdown from me i can at least do him the courtesy of going to charlotte
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
it's like you're standing in a concert hall and this dude starts playing the opening riff of barracuda on an acoustic guitar
the people in the first couple of rows can hear him
and they know what he's going for
and they know what that shit is supposed to sound like
and if they've got any goddamn gumption they're gonna do what they've gotta do to get an amplifier and an electric guitar and turn the damn sound up so the rest of the hall can hear "barracuda" the way those first couple rows know its supposed to sound like
that is why the general strike is just like "barracuda" by heart
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
(i am kind of drunk btw!)
yeah this is the really important stuff. it'll take years but whatever; for all the THINGS ARE CHANGING! THIS IS NOW! thrill of the camps/november/january the real goal here is probably to just get the assemblies -- the soviets, in whatever form -- in place, get them integrated into their communities and into the national/(global) meta-community, get people accustomed to thinking of them as real institutions and mechanisms to express their will/organize local projects, and ensure that they and their radical openness are present+embedded+prepared by the time The Crisis really gets bad, if only so there's someone offering solutions besides the christian right.
"general strike" right now is kinda dress-up, sure, but i think the response will be big enough to avoid Looking Dumb, if nothing else, and there'll be plenty of time for generaller strikes later.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Friday, 16 March 2012 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
CHANGE ALL THE THINGS
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
a HOOS should go international: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/mar/16/occupy-america-looking-back
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 17 March 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
love that 9 day gap
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 March 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
so
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/uneditedcamera
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
better
http://www.ustream.tv/timcast#utm_campaign=ss-post-backlink&utm_source=9824271&utm_medium=social
reports of around a thousand people in zuccotti
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 March 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
first new tent up
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166854/occupyusa-blog-special-weekend-edition
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
happy 6 months, yall
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 19 March 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile in Washington D.C.
With the so-called JOBS bill, on which the Senate is due to vote Tuesday, Congress is about to make the same kind of mistake again -- this time abandoning much of the 1930s-era securities legislation that both served investors well and helped make the US one of the best places in the world to raise capital. We find ourselves again on a bipartisan route to disaster.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/fiscal-affairs-a-colossal_b_1362060.html
Liberal economists and some Dem Senators versus Apple, Boehner, Obama and bipartisan types
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 March 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWMu0cTnBZ4
― s.clover, Monday, 19 March 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/557176_10150679445323808_727383807_9317163_1865164840_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
wedding at the square tonight btw
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=109&sid=2800609
they used my shit photo that i tweeted lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
Sunday march to Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn
http://occupywallst.org/article/april-1-march-commemorate-brooklyn-bridge-action/
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
The bridge will become symbolic either way.
pretty sure it already is sort of symbolic.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
"the 99% spring" is starting in the next few weeks, (hopefully) massive direct action/organizing trainings (spurred by a coalition of dem-to-left groups) that they're hoping will unleash a torrent of inspired organizers (in, surprise, election year).
a lot of people, maybe myself included, are skeptical of the ends to which this clearly Dem coalition intends to press their new trainees--but honestly? training tens of thousands of people in messaging & direct action? i'm all fucking for it, even if a few months down the line they try to direct their shiny new organizer machine to the re-election campaign. there's no rule that says you can't take the training and run.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
this weekend is odc's 6 month anniversary, and we're having a carnival with issue-themed carny games etc to celebrate. it should be rad & fun.
oh also check out the winner of the post's annual Peep contest:
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/541570_10150636235347293_6250307292_9371890_394225943_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
that's great, love "Power To The Peeple"
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh haha i didn't see this was just half of the image!
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/542466_10150650356725897_611215896_9173264_2113132269_n.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
omg peep mcpherson statuuuuuuuuue
A+
― all things must pass (shaane), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
overflowing trash can otm tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
rats probably unnecessary though.
― beachville, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
i meeeeean there's no denying there are lots of rats, side effect of having an outdoor kitchen for 4+ months
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, but really side effect of being in washing dc for 4+ months.
― beachville, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
def
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
cute http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/subway-gates-chained-open-allowing-riders-free-6-stations-article-1.1051974
― s.clover, Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
finally, we're taking a strike at the real enemy, our overfunded public transit system
― iatee, Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Transit-Workers-Urge-Mass-Transit-Funding-Endorse-Occupy-Transit-Day
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
meanwhile, in spain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/29/eurozone-crisis-spanish-general-strike?fb=native
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 March 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
hah, I got a M*ve On direct action training email, anyone else?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
it's kinda sad how relatively easy it is to get a good protest together in europe, tho I guess 50% youth unemployment is gonna do that
― iatee, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 30, 2012 9:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha i'm getting various scripts encouraging me to join the 99% spring from moveon, 350.org, people for the american way, and nat'l organizing institute
getting separate "reaching out to our members" emails from all the orgs is sorta eye-opening in revealing the degree to which this is a coordinated super-not-grassroots push
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 31 March 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Friday, March 30, 2012 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i mean spain is also the home of the largest functioning radical labor cooperative on earth, a direct descendant of the anarchist unions that held cities against the fascists during the spanish revolution & they were taking the plazas & twinkling their fingers 6 months before anybody was on wall street. first ows facilitators came from barcelona iirc
raised my eyebrows when i saw that this was their first nationwide general strike "in 18 months" for sure tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 31 March 2012 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
like a lotta the spanish kids who can't find jobs today prob had grandparents who were card-carrying monkeywrenching FAIistas
am sort of jealous that they have that heritage to draw on
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 31 March 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link