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
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― beachville, Saturday, 31 March 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
fajitas is mexican
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 31 March 2012 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
(this btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federaci%C3%B3n_Anarquista_Ib%C3%A9rica )
We have taken the center of the city. We have made it ours, and with our determination we have opened a fault line of indignation in the wall of consent and social resignation.Now we only have two options: allow this crack to close up, losing a unique opportunity for a veritable social change, or open it as much as we can, widening it until it reaches the very foundations of our misery and exploitation.If we want to get somewhere, if we want everything that we denounce and disdain to disappear, we must exceed the limits of the plaza. We must exceed the limits of the very legality which yesterday told us we could not occupy it, and today tells us we cannot leave it, that we cannot touch the normality that surrounds it.We must disobey the voice of Power when it tells us that blocking a street is violent while it blocks human lives with layoffs and exploitation, when it tells us that confronting the police is violent while they torture immigrants and and dissidents in their jails, when it tells us that attacking a bank is violent while it leaves whole families on the street for not paying the mortgage.We must disobey, because no revolution has ever been carried out while respecting the laws of the powerful. We must disobey, because the greatest violence would not be to continue to act illegally, but rather to pass up the opportunity to end once and for all the abuses and all the massive violence this society produces.We must take the streets, we must extend the revolt to all the neighborhoods and every field of life.We don’t want just a plaza, we want the whole city.
Now we only have two options: allow this crack to close up, losing a unique opportunity for a veritable social change, or open it as much as we can, widening it until it reaches the very foundations of our misery and exploitation.
If we want to get somewhere, if we want everything that we denounce and disdain to disappear, we must exceed the limits of the plaza. We must exceed the limits of the very legality which yesterday told us we could not occupy it, and today tells us we cannot leave it, that we cannot touch the normality that surrounds it.
We must disobey the voice of Power when it tells us that blocking a street is violent while it blocks human lives with layoffs and exploitation, when it tells us that confronting the police is violent while they torture immigrants and and dissidents in their jails, when it tells us that attacking a bank is violent while it leaves whole families on the street for not paying the mortgage.
We must disobey, because no revolution has ever been carried out while respecting the laws of the powerful. We must disobey, because the greatest violence would not be to continue to act illegally, but rather to pass up the opportunity to end once and for all the abuses and all the massive violence this society produces.
We must take the streets, we must extend the revolt to all the neighborhoods and every field of life.
We don’t want just a plaza, we want the whole city.
flyer distributed throughout barcelona after two weeks of occupation in may of last year
love these motherfuckers
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 31 March 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Saturday, 31 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
ha whoops wrong jpg tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 April 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
day 1 of the carnival was rad
also this is my favorite fucking photo ever
http://distilleryimage11.instagram.com/bd9865f87b7411e18bb812313804a181_7.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 1 April 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
day 2 of the carnival was rad
also we sorta-saved a house today
http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-our-homes-dc-wins-stay-foreclosure/
this thing is happening all month
http://www.nowdc.org/
we don't trust the people who put it together for a long list of reasons, mainly a longstanding diff in organizing style (dude doesn't really get the whole "non-hierarchical" thing and has a habit of being the eternal spokesman & shadow leader of every group he's a part of)
but it's bringing a lot of people to town
so we're trying to engage with them
some of them already hate us--the anarchist tent got vandalized (?! lol) by someone writing SHAME ON YOU FOR HIJACKING OUR MOVEMENT. "their movement," presumably, was started by code pink or the afl-cio or their tiedye group of choice.
like, the generational/cultural divide within the movement is what's starting to grate on me the most--old ass motherfuckers with gray ponytails in the cred-boosting olive drab they bought at the vintage store in the 80s telling us we're never going anywhere because we don't sign enough petitions, or because we don't plan our actions as publicity stunts aiming for page 12 of the b section.
we have plenty of problems with their tactics, style, and strategies, but we know enough to have stopped wasting our breath arguing with immovable rocks months ago. they don't seem to have that bit figured out yet, because the hectoring continues.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
but look at how petitions have changed things, HOOS
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
read that as saved a horse, thought 'right on'
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://campusprogress.org/articles/spotted_best_book_on_unaffordable_education_for_lgbt_americans/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
My city's mayor on the request to occupy a park this occupy season and his reasons for denying a request in the fall/winter. This is Ithaca, NY btw and the mayor is 25 years old.
"I would very much like to find a way to grant this application," he said. The Occupiers helped avoid a dramatic confrontation by conceding to the city's request, he noted. "We could have had a situation like Oakland in December."
― all things must pass (shaane), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
interesting article about the head of my grad program's attempts to get OWSers to archive the movement
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/for-archivists-‘occupy’-movement-presents-new-challenges/35929?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hstoday.us/blogs/guest-commentaries/blog/the-occupy-movement-rising-anarchy/3a87bb57b44e5779f7d087472df92af2.html
the black bloc boogeyman rides again
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
The most significant anarchist attack occurred in 1914 when the anarchist group, the Black Hand, murdered Archduke Ferdinand of the Austrian Empire. This attack sparked WWI, causing millions of deaths.
these guys sound dangerous!
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
you gotta look out for those anarchists, you never know when they'll start the next world war one
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
i love that shields are consistently cited as evidence of violent behavior
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
could get into "homeland security today" tho
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/541780_10150614365110876_505490875_9575747_1168938492_n.jpg
horizontal architecture coop forming
love this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
(how does an architecture firm meaningfully coop? idgi but i don't know anything about architecture)