Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

sorry abt yr friend, hoos

thanks, man.

there were nights we slept on the sidewalk outside a bank ("sleepful protest" seemed like a helluv an idea for a little while, til it didn't), and that's where i got to talk to him most. whenever anything positive happened--a passerby high fived us, a friend showed up with food, good news from some more exciting barricade somewhere--he'd yell out to the nearest person

"WE ARE WINNING ON ALL FRONTS, BROTHER. WINNING ON ALL FRONTS. SOLI-FUCKIN-DARITY"

― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:30 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post

really sorry to hear this hoos

yeah, i'm sorry, hoos, that's heartbreaking.

sorry to read this, man.

tonight at the square some of the crew got together

http://i.imgur.com/5OWdkDM.jpg

Condolences

thanks, forks and everyone, for the sympathies.

i never got to know him as well as some other people did--i was completely stunned when i heard the news in part because i didn't know anything about his mental health struggles. all i ever saw was this tornado of a man with a roar of a laugh, the kind of guy who would jump in front of me at a riot line to protect me from truncheons and then later laugh about what the bruises did to his tattoos.

his daughter is a little younger than me, and i only met her once at a march ("these are my friends, Maddy" " *skeptical sideye* "), but i felt like i knew her because he talked about why and how much he loved her all the time. it's hard to see that last pained post of his be met with an immediate outpouring of love, and to know that he seems to have taken his own life anyway.

there's a candlelight vigil for him in florida tonight, we're mourning him in DC, people are raising glasses to him in LA, and somebody in Ohio just screenprinted this

http://i.imgur.com/EWYvvkt.jpg

anyway. there are other things this thread is for.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html

wow

sometimes, you wonder what happened to all those people involved in creating industrial musicals

http://boingboing.net/2014/04/03/david-debt-graeber-evicted.html

lil microwarfare

https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/statuses/451433732386598912

lolll

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-07/anarchists-pitch-google-on-a-world-changing-idea-give-us-your-money

so, the After Party. I don't know anything, plz inform me...

http://www.afterpartyusa.org/manifesto/

https://occupywallst.org/article/the-after-party/

wellllllllllllllll

in short its the very folks i was complaining about upthread for frustrating but ultimately silly things (justine tunney of the "nonviolent milita" & OWS twitter coup, and her friend micah white "consultant to activists and the inventor of the Occupy Wall Street meme") **apparently going and doing something interesting**.

its slickly put together and in my book is relatively on point in its politics, but knowing the people behind it (and the fact that after their noisy little internet coup they're suddenly very quiet on the site about who they are) i'm a little leery.

and i have to admit there's something in me that finds the idea of, basically, an anarchist americorp appealing. what they're talking about isn't so different from the politics and practice that drove the Common Ground Relief Collective after Katrina in New Orleans, or obviously the Panthers' Service to the People Programs, and i've always admired, learned from, and sought to model the people behind those things.

Occupy Chicago posting pics of riot police protecting McDonald's headquarters as protesters approach

https://twitter.com/OccupyChicago/status/469195009892577280
https://twitter.com/OccupyChicago/status/469195420678119424

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoLiyF3CAAAC2zb.jpg

cool

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/21/mcdonalds-closes-corporate-hq-chicago-protest

head of the fuckin SEIU thanking the cops on twitter today, just 3 weeks after they directed the cops to arrest an undocumented worker taking the lead at their mayday march.

solllllllidarity foreeeeeeeever

as Peter Sellers' shop steward once said "____ you, I'm all right, Jack"

I will be working, of course.

Monday, September 22nd
9am
Gather @ Battery Park

On Monday, September 22nd at 9:00 am, thousands of people will gather at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan to confront the root cause of the climate crisis - an economic system based on exploiting frontline communities, workers and natural resources. On the heels of the largest-ever march on climate change, we have an opportunity to transform the economic system driving this crisis.

Wearing blue to represent the sea that surrounds us, we rise to the steps of the NY Stock Exchange at 12:00 pm, flooding the area with our bodies in a massive sit-in - a collective act of nonviolent civil disobedience - to confront the system that both causes and profits from the crisis that is threatening humanity.

There is no time to waste - Wall Street must be transformed. Through the power of people taking collective action we will build an economy based on justice and sustainability and stop the climate crisis.

Full call to action and information here: http://floodwallstreet.net

9 AM - Gather @ Battery Park - Breakfast and Music from Rude Mechanical Orchestra
9:30 AM - Speakers - including frontline community leaders of the Climate Justice Alliance, Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Chris Hedges
11 AM -- Nonviolent Direct Action Training & March
12 PM -- Flood Wall St. and mass Sit-in

Sign up for updates and more information:
http://www.beyondthemarch.org/floodwallstreet

Join the Facebook event:
facebook.com/floodwallstreet

@annamerlan
Bystander: "what's going on?" Police officer setting up barricade, grimly: "Hipsters are gonna go crazy." #FloodWallSt

http://gothamist.com/2014/09/22/flood_wall_street_protest.php

@ChristRobbins
Cop to protester: "@BilldeBlasio supports this stuff, but then he expects us to do stuff to the protesters. It's confusing" #floodwallstreet

https://twitter.com/christrobbins

just cops "doing stuff"

Trying to watch the livestream but so many pauses at times it's almost impossible.

http://new.livestream.com/JamesFromTheInternet/events/3416732

Judging from my experience in the march yesterday, network access can be very location-specific, since from one block to the next I would lose connex.

police response does seem like a litmus test for deBlasio

@ChristRobbins · 18m
Hipster Cop to protester: "You can walk out of here...Because at some point the white shirts are gonna plug this place" #FloodWallStreet

oh well

‏@sarahljaffe 1m
Crowd now singing "We're not gonna take it anymore" #twistedsister #floodwallstreet

apparently several arrests, but

@ChristRobbins · 12m
Talk is that #FloodWallStreet will hang out until the closing bell, or until _____. Atmosphere in the barricades is fluid & festive

If this goes til 4pm, I see several cable bookings for Adolf Giuliani about de Blasio "losing control of the city."

@zoeschlanger · 29s
NYPD just sealed off Wall St. Doesn't look like #FloodWallStreet is getting down here.

@zoeschlanger · 1h
Hearing that after the NYSE bell rings at 4, people are going to 47th and 1st ave for a sit-in at/near the U.N.

@ChristRobbins · 3m
We have pepper spray, now people are sitting down

glad he made it down anyway

https://twitter.com/jordanmammo/status/514192634932658176/photo/1

8:30 p.m.: Police have reportedly arrested approximately 100 people in two large NYPD buses, including the aforementioned polar bear, the superheroes and four people using wheelchairs.

http://gawker.com/nypd-pepper-sprays-flood-wall-street-protesters-1637831529

Keith Devlin
I wonder how it would have ended if it had been a black bear? #JustSaying

Brian Wolven
Ya gotta admit, it truly was a Kodiak moment.

Downtown Josh Brown @ReformedBroker · 3h
How determined is the Fed to keep asset prices elevated? They're literally arresting bears on Wall Street.

I can't help but think that Occupy helped pave the way for Bernie Sanders.

In addition to whatever rhetorical/political groundwork laying OWS may have done, there's actually a significant portion of OWS alums on staff & managing volunteers for his campaign too.

his major campaign themes are def ripped directly from the OWS agenda.

(it's so weird how people on this thread were discussing, many years ago, whether OWS had "failed" or not. history is long, and stuff has a way of taking a while to ramify.)

was just reading this in the NYC lefty monthly tabloid

https://indypendent.org/2016/02/02/what-happens-bernie-sanders-movement-if-he-loses

well

http://i.imgur.com/bdf9SLG.png

this time i'm getting paid at least

is a hoos locked up yet?

Still driving the STEEN.

hunnerts arrested

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473874785/hundreds-protest-gerrymandering-campaign-finance-laws-on-capitols-steps

this was fun