also i would be remiss in ignoring occupy sandy, obviously:
http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/where-fema-fell-short-occupy-sandy-was-there.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/occupy-sandy-easy-give-victims-hurricane-article-1.1197605
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/occupy-sandy-latino-soul-activism/story?id=17667896#.UJ3VSeTO36U
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 November 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
i gotta say, man
occupy sandy--among other things, very much in the lineage of Common Ground Relief after Katrina
occupy our homes
the rolling jubilee
there have been a lot of moments, especially in the last 8 months, that i've wondered how much i wanted to invest myself in whatever you want to call this thing, this project, this notion, this movement. still: for brief seconds of elation, like these, where i see and sense our collective momentum--so often hidden and so often unknown--as we press forward with our spirit of righteous anger and riotous joy, i can't help but think that a victory will come. the shape of that victory eludes me now, and i can only hope that the children of children i might bear find themselves in a better world than our own, but for this moment our moment will suffice. a breath is a breath, a win is a win, a step is a step. tomorrow is tomorrow.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 November 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
Hoos, are you doing Sandy stuff at all? I think it's an incredible phenomenon.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 12 November 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
The People's Bailout / Rolling Jubilee is really exciting and interesting.
Occupy Sandy has been getting a lot of great coverage - New York TImes, Wall Street Journal, CNN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/where-fema-fell-short-occupy-sandy-was-there.html
― dmr, Monday, 12 November 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
looking fwd to occupation of unspecified North Jersey Walmart on Black Friday
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
climate solidarity actions (Bryant Park next Saturday)
http://ht.ly/2tb1kD
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
Black Friday event source
http://www.corporateactionnetwork.org/campaigns/black-friday/events
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQNbyxWNtM&feature=youtu.be
this is a lot better than the orientation I got, fwiw
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of interesting to see the social media response to Occupy with all the media attention from Sandy -- lots of "right on, government SUX, individuals RULE" comments from conservatives. Which I guess probably overlaps with some of the views of some of the more anarcho elements of Occupy but for slightly different reasons?
Also, can anyone give me a little more info on the rockaway pipeline? I tend to think replacing more oil heat with natural gas is better than NOT doing so, and my approach to fossil fuels is that we kind of need to pursue short-term and long-term solutions at the same time and that we're not going to get everything running solar overnight (if ever).
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Nice to see that these sites still exist:
http://occupywriters.com/
― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 18 November 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Went on a date with a nursing student who's working with Occupy Sandy on the weekends; those people are doing the best work. I'm incredibly impressed and excited by the way Occupy has, in many places, switched gears to a politically charged public service movement instead of just one of protest. I mean, I know that was a part of it from the beginning, but it seems in many places to now be the main focus of the movement, which I think is both generally incredible and politically more effective.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 18 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
PS Big up HOOS for all your work in this area.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Sunday, 18 November 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
just realized that on tonight's Voices of the 99% broadcast i refer--accidentally, i swear to god--to "goldman sack"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 November 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
goldman slacks, new from dockers.
― s.clover, Monday, 19 November 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
v impressed with strike debt/rolling jubilee. Hearing Graeber talk about it on the radio actually did shift the way I think about consumer debt, although I don't agree with all of his ideas about debt.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
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― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Monday, 19 November 2012 07:02 (eleven years ago) link
occupy art, occupy museums
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/19/occupy-art/
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
I have a hard time taking seriously people who are entirely creatures of the art market who say they are "fed up" with the art market.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
why not?
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Because they are inherently parts of that machine, while so many other people work outside that machine altogether. I actually like Jerry Saltz, but I still have found this to be a flaw with him, that he doesn't always seem fully aware of his insider-outsider status.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
I remember the innocent days when regular folks could buy a piece for $3m. now it's all about money.
― iatee, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
^this
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
jeez, next you guys are gonna tell me the renaissance popes were bad guys too
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
they were renaissance men, also sometimes soldiers and crossdressers.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the way the awl put it, "rich people ruin even the things that are expressly for rich people"
― max, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
nice, link?
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
nm sure I can find it
it was just a throwaway line here http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/a-recent-history-of-the-new-niceness
― max, Monday, 19 November 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theawl.com/2012/11/a-recent-history-of-the-new-niceness
ha, my wife came up with the term "fashionably nice" a couple of years ago in reference to an attitude she was noticing among young artists and gallery people
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 19 November 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
thx for the positive vibes, guys. <3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://occupywallst.org/article/give-walmart-organizer-fund/
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 November 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://distilleryimage7.instagram.com/e24a57fe359a11e2a7ed22000a1f8f24_7.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 24 November 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
garment sweatshop fire in Bangladesh kills over 100; company is a supplier to Walmart, H&M, Hilfiger etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/world/asia/bangladesh-fire-kills-more-than-100-and-injures-many.html
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 November 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Thought followers of this thread might find Jefferson's letter to onetime dope MC William Henry Harrison interesting:
http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/Excerpt_Jefferson1803.asp
Does Graeber talk about this at all? Basically Jefferson decided that the US should make Native Americans dependent on consumer goods and get them into debt so they could then use the debt to take their land. Kind of amazing. (btw only used an adl link because that was the first place I found the text of the letter).
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 26 November 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
very interesting.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm so mad i forgot to tell my extended metaphor story linking simpson-bowles to genghis khan on the air tonight
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
EXTENDED METAPHOR STORY YALL
today i saw a minivan in my neighborhood with three bumper stickers: OCCUPY WALL STREET, LABOR CREATES ALL WEALTH and... VOTE YES [on mn's recently failed anti gay marriage amendment] ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN
i live around the corner from a catholic church...
― before and after broscience (goole), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
hoos doin hour of radio gab w/out notes? v impressive, kid
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all/
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
wow. that's a pretty brutal article.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
down here we're all passing it around and comiserating. truest thing i've read about this stuff in as long as i can think of.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
By DC, the last eviction I wrote about, not even I could stay outside this need anymore. We all stood on the police line, cold and wet and sad, 12 hours into the rainy eviction. We took blows and kicks from riot police and SWAT rather than step on the people behind us that had slipped in the mud. We had relearned in each argument and every pitched tent that the fundamental job of humans is to care for one another, to keep each other whole and safe.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/279332051411402752
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
so, now what?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
well.
i think the strength of occupy--and i think quinn's awesome piece has given me the courage to use that word without scare quotes to subtly distance me from the worst of it--is that it represented a moment of unity between people fighting a lot of different enemies. it was a season of fraternity where we could stand in uneasy alliance knowing that whether homeless addict or college student, union mom or fired yuppie, we had a common antagonist in an industry that gladly bought our debt and our government while we drowned.
i think those pre-occupy issue silos are recalcifying, and i think the fact that there's a democrat in the white house is keeping many liberals & democrats from stepping into the streets where they might have in case of a mccain or romney victory, else being equal.
the alter-globalization movement of the late 90s was folded into the international anti-war movement, which i will kind of never forgive either for, because like occupy those two movements represented moments of unification between enormous and varied constituencies that were largely squandered. the anti-war movement such as it is has slowly faltered and faded into irrelevance for a number of reasons, but i do think it's significant that the players in it have reappeared in the last year as the weekend warriors* have faded. throughout the last year there's been a sense both that this is *something new* and that the "new activists" have ~something to learn~ from the ostensible "old guard" that's been around for somewhere between 11-13 years.
i think we've opened new fronts, with varying degrees of long-term viability, on things like consumer debt and eviction defense. quinn touches briefly on those. there have been people using direct action to fight unjust evictions and foreclosures for years, but the occupy brand-name has brought those fights new attention, and i think that attention in itself leads to more victories than might otherwise be possible. my friends think aloud about eviction defense direct action becoming the stuff of mass movement, the leading edge of a change in our cultural understanding of housing and community and ownership and capital(ism), but this strikes me as optimistic.
ultimately i think quinn gets it right, even if it is a little eye-roll-y and romantic for our cynical culture. we're from a broken future to tell a broken past that its time is up, and if we work fast enough we can do better. or, if you like, the batsignal got it right too.
WE ARE A CRYFROM THE HEARTOF THE WORLDWE ARE UNSTOPPABLEANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
and i think what we do now is continue to fight our silo'd battles with what i hope are the significant reinforcements made possible by some of the newest alliances. in my mind class struggle and the environmental battles are deeply bound up together, and it's sort of my mission to make their links clearer to other people so that hopefully we can build more bridges between those two movements. maybe if the working class can save the world we'll get to run it for a while.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ wishful thinking
Don't know everything about these people or the whole idea, but this seems like a really cool thing.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12797-occupys-new-offshoot-set-to-cancel-millions-in-medical-debts
Medical debt is the cause of 62 percent of bankruptcies, say organizers of Strike Debt, which threw last night's offbeat fundraiser for their new “Rolling Jubilee.” Ordinary people donated enough money to collectively buy an estimated $5.9 million in bad debt in order to cancel it.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 20 December 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
I saw some of them on Chris Hayes a few months ago and I love the idea.
Of course, other opinions are available: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/strike-debts-rolling-jubilee-puts-borrowers-at-risk-to-politicize-debt-issue.html
― Gukbe, Thursday, 20 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link