Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

google does the most good throughout the world

Dicey ‏@DiceyTroop 11h

@jackolas @PoweredByCats Well, in the s17 thread she makes super clear tht she wants either to run it as a 501c4 or pay via bitcoin "dark $"
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Dicey ‏@DiceyTroop 11h

@jackolas @PoweredByCats She states that it would be expressly hierarchical like any military and under her control.
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Jack ‏@jackolas 11h

@jackolas @PoweredByCats This idea is about handing Justine the money to build a personal army.
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Dicey ‏@DiceyTroop 11h

@jackolas @PoweredByCats
This idea is about hiring a group of people to engage in confrontations with the police. With bounties. That's the meat of this idea.
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Dicey ‏@DiceyTroop 11h

@jackolas @PoweredByCats She says she intends to pay payroll taxes and believes that will satisfy any state concerns about this operation.
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Dicey ‏@DiceyTroop 11h

@DiceyTroop @jackolas Also Justine explicitly says militia will NOT have an ideology. So they're her personal soldiers of fortune. Fucked.
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Brett G ‏@PoweredByCats 3h

@DiceyTroop @jackolas What happens when Golden Dawn decides to pay them higher stipends?

all the soldiers will be wearing google glass

goog throughout the world

DEVO's world vision becomes more imaginable every day

the person who says 'we'll just wear padding and gas masks, no nightsticks or pepper spray will do any good' has never stood at the front of the line where those items come into play

all that having been said fuck betabeat putting ~"transgender anarchist"~ in scare quotes

air quotes, w/e

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/46192.html

officially grossed out atm

ahahah Graeber, Kramer, Savanarola.

list still needs david berger, doug henwood, doctors of the racist masculinist medical-industrial complex, manarchists, richard rorty, and "dudebros" to really round it out

henwood jumped in on graeber's side on twitter

Got news this week that my radio show is getting honored with an Activist Award from the Washington Peace Center--they typically award people doing really effective work in communities or doing stellar service to the activist universe in DC, so it's really humbling company to be in, I'm very stoked.

congradulations hoos!

is that the same one there's an ilx thread about?

creativity & mental illness

nah, this is "voices of the 99%"--the 'creativity & mental illness' show kinda grew out of me feeling like vof99 was taking up all my creative energy without any payoff, so this award is sort of the ideal payoff.

here are some of our irregularly updated archives

and thx!

congratulations!

deserved honors, hoos!

don't know if this has been discussed yet but bravo!

http://rollingjubilee.org/

yurrp, high lifted applauding hands

hoos i dunno a better thread for this -- did you see this "Informant" documentary, and what did you think? I'm just watching now, and its sort of a wild creepy character study.

somehow i find the fantasies and self-justifications of delusional self-serving inveterate liars continually fascinating

i haven't seen the movie, but i read the book by darby's cofounder at common ground in new orleans, have sparred with Darby a little on twitter, and know folks in austin who Knew Him When. i still don't feel like i'm inside his head at all--do you feel like you 'get him' having seen the flick?

lol I hadn't heard anything about this film, but read "delusional self-serving inveterate liars" and thought "this must be about ol' br@nd0n d@rby"

I dunno if I feel qualified to say i 'get him' since its a mess of unbelievable stories and other people telling other stories and even then its just one film so how can i trust it.

But it at least presents one 'theory' of the guy that makes sense, which is that he just wants to feel important and heroic and doesn't care about the 'truth' of that validation or where it comes from, so he'll say whatever makes him feel the most badass person in the room, and if people don't keep giving him that validation he'll turn on them viciously.

that does line up p well with my sense of the guy

'don't carry a sign about the volcker rule,' they said
'no one will know what it means' they said

"They've cited [Occupy the SEC's] suggestions 284 times in the final rule, and in a lot of those contexts they agreed with us, and a lot of the time they disagreed with us. They're not going to say that Occupy said this and we're going to follow it, but we are pretty comforted that they followed at least some of our suggestions. [For comparison, the rule cites the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association 599 times, Americans for Financial Reform 179 times, and Senator Jeff Merkley 176 times. - ed. note]"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/12/11/the-volcker-rule-cites-the-occupy-movement-284-times/

that's awesome

From the WSJ letters column:

Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?

Regarding your editorial "Censors on Campus" (Jan. 18): Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its "one percent," namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the "rich."

From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these "techno geeks" can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a "snob" despite the millions she has spent on our city's homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.

This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendent "progressive" radicalism unthinkable now?

Tom Perkins

San Francisco

i did not speak up because i was not danielle steel

i was more thinking french revolution

soak the rich then beat the shit out of them forever

love the scare quotes on the American one-percent, namely the "rich." if by "rich" you mean "have collective wealth equal to that of the 4 billion poorest people on the planet" well then

Eye of the needle, motherf***ers

Nuke Silicon Valley from orbit.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/09/10/some-95-of-2009-2012-income-gains-went-to-wealthiest-1/

this is inefficient! 100% to the 1%! and stop whining you envious losers! socialism!

ook this is too good http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116351/sex-and-single-zillionaire-author-tom-perkins-predicts-kristallnacht

The premise [of Perkins's 2006 "novel," Sex and the Single Zillionaire]: a wealthy widower named Steven Hudson is asked to be on a reality show where young women—or, as he describes them, "a gaggle of gold-digging bimbos"—compete for his love.

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She held a long, black whip in her right hand. It had a leather handle and numerous strands whirling in the air as she manipulated it over the prone girl on the bed. Heather's body was glistening with perspiration as she moaned in anticipation of the whiplash, which seemed always to be withheld. The wind, the rattle of the windows in the old building, made it hard to hear what the two were saying exactly, but Steven made out, "Hurt me, please, mistress."

Father and son watched in silence. The eroticism between the girls was transfixing...

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It was natural that they found their way into his bedroom. He turned down the bed and lit a couple of candles, while she withdrew to the bathroom. Shortly, she returned, wearing nothing at all. Steven came forward to kiss her marvelous breasts, but she said, 'My darling, I am so sorry, but it's the wrong time of the month for me. We will have to wait until we're on the yacht.'

He was frustrated. He shyly undressed to join her in bed. He could not recall ever feeling as adolescent, as embarrassed by his erection. She blew out the candle but didn't offer relief.

best thing since that david brooks book review

She blew out the candle but didn't offer relief.

as she shouldn't, obviously; breeds dependency

The hardback is available on Amazon for $0.01.

someone buy this plz

hardback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXyi6g-Ouc

so i can't imagine anyone who's not a big twitter person really giving a shit about this, but the last 24 hours have been bizarre and oddly painful and weird

http://iacknowledge.net/in-depth-ows-twitter-feed-hijacked-by-google-exec-who-claims-ifoundedoccupywallst/

After taking over the account and apparently blocking access to any other administrators, Justine went on a twitter rampage. Some of her ideas were fairly lucid, some were common sense and interesting, but there was a toxic overtone of ego. For many who find a home in Occupy, the distribution of leadership amongst all of those who choose to show up is one of, if not the, singular defining attribute. So, having anyone, trans woman, cis woman, trans man, cis man, show up and say ‘Hey, I built this and now I am taking it back’ comes as something of a slap in the face.

http://iacknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Y005.jpg
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there probably won't be a salon article for me to link to on this, so that's the best i can do.

same person as this person btw

for the benefit of those who don't click through, this is the creator of @OccupyWallSt & occupywallst.org (also now a Google employee) proposing fundraising for body armor & paychecks for a rapid response direct action team that could physically withstand assaults by the NYPD

when other members of the team that run @OccupyWallSt argued with her about the idea, she locked them out of the account

― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, September 27, 2013 4:53 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i remember that

Yikes

That is pretty lame.