Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

I went to a concert performance of Marc Blitzstein's lefty '30s popera The Cradle Will Rock at City Center last weekend, and the white backdrop had on it in a cursive font:

In the Rich Man's House
the Only Place to Spit
is in His Face

Septuagenarian woman in front of me, to her husband: "Don't worry, we don't have a house."

lolll

i mean flop bro i know you're down you just made a statement i thought was kinda eliding some facts about how all this stuff works

and then you asked for resources on specific topics, so i tried to be helpful, thassall

it's cool we cool i appreciate it regardless, i am actually currently reading that panitch & gindin book and while it's not quite what i was referring to it's p tight

all i meant re slitting of throats is that u can't *just* point to existing inequalities or injustices and expect everyone to be radicalized. americans love inequality, dgaf about a lot of injustice & the reason is they have a sealed tight ideological set of explanations for not caring, ppl who abide capitalism don't see it as the slitting of throats... maybe what i should have said is that's the problem

I know. :) I just read that last line and pictured some nutcase going "ah-ha!" and coming up with a really bad plan.

Haha

hoos you need to be watching this season of newsroom it will make you so angry i swear.

but angry laughing astonished angry, not necessarily just worthlessly angry.

newsroom left me consistently worthlessly angry, ymmv

yeah ppl on twitter keep talking about 'the newsroom's portrayal of ows' and i sorta can't be arsed as the folks say

but i suppose if you think so

don't know if its actually worthwhile. i was just watching sorta jaw open and wanted to spread the dumbfoundedness

On Bill Maher's last show he had ax-Wall Street and pro-Occupy activist Alexis Goldstein.

*ex-Wall Street

I watched that ep just for her. She was always great on Chris Hayes. Got a good zing about wall street bankers, cocaine, and stop and frisk.

alexis is awesome! also good taste in beer

the gif of her throwing shade at barney over her glasses was instant classicq

I really hated how they put her on the spot by having her defend the success of OWS vs the power of Tea Party. A pro-corporate pro-Republican AstroTurf funded by billionaires and promoted by sensationalist politicians has been more successful than the genuinely grassroots OWS? No way!

imo her line about 'we were never about getting people into office, it's about changing our culture' is the real killer in that whole segment

from email

After an almost year long fight, we're elated to announce that Jacqueline Barber has worked out a deal that will keep her and her family in their home for good! Jacqueline, a retired police detective who has been fighting a rare form of bone marrow cancer, was facing eviction when she first reached out to Occupy Our Homes Atlanta last October. Jacqueline was dual tracked and her mortgage documents were filled with forged signatures, and like millions of Americans she was now faced with losing her home. But after fighting for a year, Wall Street backed down and agreed to let Jaqueline and her family keep their home.

the previously ballyhooed 'cop facing eviction'

lewis wrote abt that hard hat thing from upthread the other day in jacobin, just incidentally

anti-Syria-strike action in Zuccotti Park this Sunday, apparently

happy birthday.

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http://greatmomentsinleftism.blogspot.com/

omg at this one. really its the text of the 2nd poster that makes it

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yes

lol

inside the tent pissing into the tent

with fire

i love that dude has a riseup email

the mother jones one is lol (and otm)

i dont think these are funny or well drawn

no...

max, does the Working Families Party send you cartoons?

i'm with max on this

not especially funny or well drawn. just the pain of recognition.

narrowcasting

ugh, jacobin

every article i've read is just full of the kind of hyperbole (ALL THOSE WHO ACCEPT TIPS ARE SLAVES!!) that the authors no doubt picked up from all the French theorists they've been skimming.

often there are really good ideas in there but then I just hit a wall of self-righteous, snooty, condescending bravado and it's like nuh-uh, i'm out of here

that said that cartoon is a little wittier than some but I get the same flattery-is-not-humor hives that i get when reading tom tomorrow or whatever

i mean flattering-your-audience

also the cartoon is so pervasively cynical that it makes me said. in one comic, mainstream unionism is ridiculed. in another, the wobblies are ridiculed for imaging themselves to be a viable alternative to mainstream unionism.

sad

I get the same flattering-your-audience-is-not-humor hives that i get when reading tom tomorrow

flattering? these horribly formed "jokes" are largely mocking the subsets of people who'd know the reference points at all

really, you think so?

i guess it depends which cartoon

ok yeah this is just stupid and offensive. what an asshole.

http://greatmomentsinleftism.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-08-23T10:04:00-07:00&max-results=1&start=8&by-date=false

i mean, that dude exists. i've picketed with him.

oh, they mean self-styled "organizers," not legit organizers, i guess.

when your local fast food strike is made up of a dozen SEIU employees holding down second jobs as fry cooks so they can go on strike you meet a lot of that dude.

and i'm not saying that sort of thing is without merit etc etc

again, just like despairing pain of recognition here