i kinda wanna start "Occupy Wall Street 4: Last Camp Standing," but there aren't nearly enough messages in this thread, which is depressingly telling
in truth i haven't been following occupyLA too closely since their encampment got raided (like, i'm not even sure where they've been organizing), and i'm pretty bummed at myself for that. i do think you're doing awesome work hoos and you are strongly advised to kiu w/ both actions and updates
― donna rouge, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
ty guys
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
heating up in SF
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/occupy_san_francisco_gets_down_to_business/singleton/
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they got mad real last night
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 January 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
logisitics people for j17 reporting we served 8000 plates of food on tuesday
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 22 January 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
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lmao what the fuck is going on in this hearing
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
nm - it sounds like they're trying to enforce some kind of semantic distinction between "protesting" and "camping," but the subtext of it also reads like they're being critical of yall for being civil to the park police (THE HORRORS etc)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
civil servants engage in civil behavior with civilians shocker
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
we were all holding our breath waiting for something really damning, and then we realized "wait...'the park service does a good job' is the best you've got?"
the guy right behind the douchleman from south carolina was clearly the person who'd shot it, he couldn't resist grinning behind a fist like HEEHEE WE GOT YOUUUU except they actually didn't
also eleanor holmes norton rules
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
some friends of mine wrote this
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/01/24/mic-check-occupy-wall-street-offers-a-rebuttal-to-state-of-the-union/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the 24 hour news cycle has just completely swallowed this up. i don't mean to suggest that it isn't still going on or still potent to some degree, but it seems really noticeable how quickly anything passes out of the news cycle and is thus deemed irrelevant, a judgment all too many are willing to concede.
also can someone explain the point of the guy fawkes masks aside from generalized "rebellion" affect?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
i mean even though they are trolls the fact that "zzzz"/"so bored with this" rhetoric is like a thing in comments to articles on OWS is really telling. it's only "old news" or "zzzz" in relation to the ADD cable news cycle. i doubt that a few months after anti-vietnam war protests blew up people, even those opposed, would have greeted it in such a cynical way.
this really really really bothers me because it affects me as much as anyone.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
x-post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
it seems really noticeable how quickly anything passes out of the news cycle and is thus deemed irrelevant, a judgment all too many are willing to concede.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:23 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you'll get no argument from me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
right, i'm not going to watch that movie, and nobody else seems to like it, so why do those masks turn up everywhere?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and intentionally theatrical campaign to murder his former captors, bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves.
ugh seriously? embarrassing that people would wear those much less that it would be the "face" of OWS. you might as well give up.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
can someone explain the point of the guy fawkes masks aside from generalized "rebellion" affect?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:23 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yah the movie and then
Also in 2006, the mask began to appear in a popular 4Chan meme called Epic Fail Guy. According to Housh, the suggestion to use the Fawkes mask as protest gear was almost immediate. But some Anons weren’t convinced that the Fawkes mask was right, so they made a short list of alternatives: a Batman mask, classic masquerade masks, a few others. “Then we called comics and costume shops, all over the world,” Housh says, checking availability and price, and the V mask won out: “It’s available, it’s cheap, and it’s in every city.” (The actual Fawkes had “nothing to do with it, for us,” Housh says.)Thousands of people in various cities subsequently participated in a day of anti-Scientology street demonstrations, plenty of them wearing the mask. “Videos and images and photographs circulated almost immediately,” says Gabriella Coleman, the incoming Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University and author of the forthcoming Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. “It was just so powerful.” And it cemented Anonymous as, paradoxically, a recognizable phenomenon.
“Then we called comics and costume shops, all over the world,” Housh says, checking availability and price, and the V mask won out: “It’s available, it’s cheap, and it’s in every city.” (The actual Fawkes had “nothing to do with it, for us,” Housh says.)
Thousands of people in various cities subsequently participated in a day of anti-Scientology street demonstrations, plenty of them wearing the mask. “Videos and images and photographs circulated almost immediately,” says Gabriella Coleman, the incoming Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University and author of the forthcoming Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. “It was just so powerful.” And it cemented Anonymous as, paradoxically, a recognizable phenomenon.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/design/2011/12/guy_fawkes_mask_how_anonymous_hacker_group_created_a_powerful_visual_brand.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
and now...
http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-8.jpg
http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-9.jpg
http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-19.jpg
http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-12.jpg
http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anonymous-global-protest-23.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
though that said if you can't hear the assonance between an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask begins a theatrical campaign to ... bring down the government, and convince the people to rule themselves. and the lots and lots of people running around in these stupid masks lately, i don't really know what to tell you
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
for my edification is it the "anarchist" part that rubs you the wrong way there or the "violent campaign to murder his former captors" part cause you've got me all http://amciv.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/iww-kat-2007.jpg?w=432&h=478 and i'd rather stand down at 4am frankly
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:00 (twelve years ago) link
i mean even though they are trolls the fact that "zzzz"/"so bored with this" rhetoric is like a thing in comments to articles on OWS is really telling.
also worth noting here btw that the president of the fucking earth said tonight that he would be cutting taxes "for the 98%," and starting a financial crimes investigation unit, and that there could be "no more bailouts, or handouts, or copouts"
it's rhetoric, maybe, and there's still an awful fucking immunity deal coming down the pike even if o claims to be starting CSI Wall Street--but it's rhetoric in our fucking overton window. we moved it, and the people who want the top job are now having to address income inequality, banking malfeasance, and unjust foreclosures. remember 6 months ago when all they gave a fuck about was the debt clock?
that's a win for us. fuck a park.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:13 (twelve years ago) link
Otm and awesome job
― encarta it (Gukbe), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
Also V for Vendetta is pretty good.
It predicted the use of CCTV in the UK by something like a decade, which doesn't mean that it doesn't glamorize violence or that it's not cartoonish, but it's still something of an interesting text.
Not really a fan of Alan Moore though. Or the movie.
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:49 (twelve years ago) link
i agree that there are serious victories, i wasn't arguing that. i was just noting that it's possible for people to react with "zzzz" and this is only made possible by the ADD cable news cycle.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
so was ows itself
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
it's rhetoric in our fucking overton window. we moved it, and the people who want the top job are now having to address income inequality, banking malfeasance, and unjust foreclosures. remember 6 months ago when all they gave a fuck about was the debt clock?
GO, A HOOS!
It also doesn't really matter if people in general know or admit that the new rhetoric is only there because of OWS...the movement is doing its job by getting the ideas into the conversation whether people acknowledge where they came from or not.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
The problem isn't really financial "crimes" so much as a system that encourages financial recklessness. You're not going to find very many people that you could literally charge with a crime, and the ones you find will be an insignificant part of the overall problem. It's not about Madoffs. The system is Madoff.
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/clapping/1292223254212-dumpfm-mario-Obamaclap.gif
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
otm ^
this is what defines the bob woodwards and the josh marshalls of the planet - who are otherwise not very close together on any continuum - that they are hellbent on unearthing a very explicit, incontestable kind of corruption or malfeasance but they have 0 to say about actual politics; they work entirely within whatever overton window they're given
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
along those lines (guess who):
Noam Chomsky said that Watergate demonstrated how the system polices itself. Woodward and Bernstein weren't all that interested in COINTELPRO, the FBI's program of surveillance and disruption of dissident groups and figures. They probed Nixon's spying on the Democratic National Committee, an action that stepped on numerous elite toes. Nixon and his henchmen overreached with that operation and paid the political price.
Lesson: Don't fuck with those with serious political power. It's a reason why the Reagan gang got away with Iran/contra. Or Bush/Cheney with the Iraq war. Or Obama with the NDAA. I doubt that Romney or Gingrich will be elected; but if one of them is, he has a lot of ground to cover.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
The problem isn't really financial "crimes" so much as a system that encourages financial recklessness. You're not going to find very many people that you could literally charge with a crime, and the ones you find will be an insignificant part of the overall problem
Yes and no. It bugs me that there is a rumor that the Justice Department is going to announce next Monday a settlement on the mortgage industry autopen signing fraud case that was opposed by the NY and California attorney generals as being too lenient.
Also, too many people still insist that most Wall Streeters have become successful solely through hard work, and therefore it would be nice to be able to say the Justice Department is indicting people, rather than saying, well Clinton signed off on a Republican prepared bill to get rid of Glass-Stegall and that new looser atmosphere, plus the development of derivatives and post-crash TARP bailouts have allowed Wall Streeters to unfairly profit blah blah blah.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~commodity futures modernization act~~~~~ hi dere
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I mean even robosigning strikes me as kind of a red herring tbh, not that it should go unpunished, but (feel free to direct me to corrective links if I'm wrong) my impression is that there are very few cases of actual baseless foreclosure and mostly this is just about bad documentation procedures, whereas the real problem is how the fuck these loans got originated in the first place.
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think those two things are separable
punishment for the malfeasors is one aim, but for everybody else, pushing the housing market toward cleanliness is essential for getting out of the economic mess we're in. since these companies wrecked the legal underpinnings of the whole thing via robosigning, there has to be some kind of legal action to unbreak what was done.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
madoff went to jail cuz he stole from rich people
hoos is totally right that the speech last night as well as lots of other speeches and interviews and casual remarks by all sorts of politicians not to mention the big to-do over romney's income tax returns demonstrate that the OWS issues really are becoming the national issues, and as soon as it gets warm enough for people to get back on the streets you are going to see OWS leaning more and more effectively on the 2012 circus
the masks drive me crazy but what are you gonna do
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
(obv there are still people on the streets even in the cold, such as our very own hoos, but the movement's taken the hit we all knew it would from the weather and if it's still relatively alive and active in january, which it is, imagine what this summer's gonna be like)
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
at least in nyc the movement's taken as much damage from its inherent unwieldiness as it has from the weather / the man
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
xps i don't really have any interest in sending people to jail when the entire culture of high finance is designed around teaching each new wave of MBAs how most effectively to make a frightened and obsequious government work for you while inventing the most boring and obfuscatory words you can think of for predatory gangsterism; i guess it would be nice to set a precedent but i worry that the sheer labor that would go into prosecuting basically anyone would create the impression that we had fixed the problem
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
xp oh no doubt, and here in pdx too; i think the relative downtime has been good for us.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
that is, the camp here became harder and harder to administer because we couldn't be an effective political movement AND an art installation AND a soup kitchen AND a self-policing extralegal community (for more than a few months; we actually did a pretty good job of being all those things for much longer than i expected) but the winter retreat has i think kept hold of and even gotten better at the first thing, which was the most important thing to me, and when it stops fucking raining and the serious crowds come back we'll have plenty for them to do.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
another couple data points: davos elites are freaking out
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/01/davos-man-trembling-his-armani-boots
morgan stanley chief feels the need to appear a hardass about bonuses
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/morgan-stanley-ceo-to-bonus-whiners-just-leave.html?
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
from the dailybeast soros profile that mother jones article links to:
Occupy Wall Street “is an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest,” but it will grow. It has “put on the agenda issues that the institutional left has failed to put on the agenda for a quarter of a century.” He reaches for analysis, produced by the political blog ThinkProgress.org, that shows how the Occupy movement has pushed issues of unemployment up the agenda of major news organizations, including MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. It reveals that in one week in July of last year the word “debt” was mentioned more than 7,000 times on major U.S. TV news networks. By October, mentions of the word “debt” had dropped to 398 over the course of a week, while “occupy” was mentioned 1,278 times, “Wall Street” 2,378 times, and “jobs” 2,738 times. You can’t keep a financier away from his metrics.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
(the question of course is what are the numbers now, not half a month into the protests, and i don't watch cable news so i don't know, but judging from the SOTU and the republican primary i'd be surprised if they aren't pretty similar)
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
they're certainly down a lot less, but the major pop-messaging of ows -- most specifically "the 99%" and the "the 1%" -- is completely burned into the media's consciousness now.
At least that's how it seems from my casual cable news viewing.
― Clay, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
once phrases enter the national dialogue they tend to stick around for a long time
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
hell I go to nba basketball games and there are people with handmade "OCCUPY THE [ARENA NAME]" signs at pretty much every one.
Which like, sure, whatever that means. But there's something of "this belongs to the people, we can take it back" in the national brain now maybe.
― Clay, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
idk if you guys have noticed/heard, but students (not just in CA!) are adopting the occupation tactic and winning small victories
i'm not sure if the tactic has been deradicalized or if it means students are radicalizing, either way i'm good
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link