Archive for the ‘#OWS’ Category
Keeping CPACers Safe in Their Bubble
Jefferson Morley at Salon puts a brave face on Occupy CPAC’s Friday march: The two Americas came face to face briefly Friday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. While several thousand conservatives thronged the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, several hundred progressive unionists marched up to the hotel’s entrance, banging drums, carrying [...]
February 11, 2012
· 
Anne Laurie · 
38 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Decline and Fall, Republican Venality
Occupy the Bedwetters Ball
Our Mission: Occupy CPAC. Create as much non-violent resistance as possible, and make this a conference the attendees will never forget. We will be joining in solidarity with the AFL-CIO, SEIU, National Nurses United, Metro Labor Council, OurDC, and more to make our voices heard in our increasingly top-down, money-corrupted democracy. We will have actions [...]
February 9, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 60 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Open Thread
Occupy the Archives
Not a surprise in a society where we’re expected to “curate” our Facebook pages, but still entertaining. The WSJ labels #OWS “highly collectible“: More than a half-dozen major museums and organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by the Occupy movement. Staffers have been sent to [...]
December 25, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 22 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, KULCHA!
Open Thread: Occupy Christmas
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm… these guys actually got about 30 seconds on the local tv news last night, but the clip’s not online. Jeremy C. Fox, at Boston.com: Around 20 members of Occupy Boston returned to Dewey Square Park for a holiday-themed protest today, the first day the park reopened to the public following the [...]
December 23, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 45 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Open Thread
Why Shut Down the Ports
This doesn’t seem very productive to me: Police in several U.S. cities Monday confronted Occupy protests aimed and shutting down port facilities. Arrests were made, while ports reported only minor hindrances. Police in Houston arrested 20 protesters after dozens of police on foot and on horseback confronted a somewhat larger group of Occupy protesters, who [...]
December 12, 2011
· John Cole · 104 Comments
Posted in: #OWS
Back To The Middle And Around Again
As the Occupy movement struggles to stay in place with winter and multiple pepper spray fronts lashing the countryside, the Right screams that the dirty, criminal hippies deserve to be kicked out of “private property” unlike the law-abiding owners of Zuccotti Park. Oh wait. It turns out that the owners of Zuccotti Park — the [...]
December 5, 2011
· Zandar · 32 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, C.R.E.A.M., Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!, Our Awesome Meritocracy, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right
Occupy Boston, Humming Along
Perhaps because Boston has a historical memory of how well overzealous security crackdowns don’t work IRL (/snark), Occupy Boston is still in tenuous possession of a public-private patch of land. Quinn Norton, at Wired’s Threat Level blog, has a thoughtful scene-of-the-story article on “Defying Police Blockade, Boston’s Occupy Builds a City“: Between the 19th and [...]
December 3, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 38 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Don't Mourn, Organize, Excellent Links
Naomi Wolf’s “Rebuttal” is Pure Nonsense
The sound of journalistic credibility gasping its last breath. Naomi Wolf’s rebuttal to the criticism she has garnered in response to her rant in the Guardian last week is non-responsive, and frankly, bizarre. She writes specifically in response to Josh Holland of Alternet, but Holland’s criticism mirrors my criticism, as well as karoli (Crooks and [...]
December 2, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 146 Comments
Posted in: #OWS
Apparently The Cause Of Income Inequality Is Poor People Existing
That’s this week’s Occupy message from the LA Times, as the “Let’s get the Dirty Effing Hippies” counter-movement rolls on in cities like LA and elsewhere across the country. AEI Junior Randian, Third Class Nick Schulz explains why America’s massive income inequality is reality, and it’s because of you bloody poor people. The reason is [...]
December 1, 2011
· Zandar · 126 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, Going Galt, Jump! You Fuckers!, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
Wouldn’t It Be Cheaper
I guess I just don’t understand. If you were a mayor of a large city, and there was some #ows shit going down, just surround it with port-a-potties, a few cops, and some EMT’s, and let the protest fizzle out? That’s what I would do. It would have to be cheaper than all the brutality [...]
November 30, 2011
· John Cole · 64 Comments
Posted in: #OWS
Occupy OKC
ccupy OKC people at Kerr Park, OKC are reporting that eviction is imminent. I drove past the Bricktown police station earlier, and SWAT/SRT vehicles are staged forward there. Bricktown station is about a three minute drive from Kerr park. I don’t know what to make of this because we hadn’t had any difficulties getting permits [...]
November 28, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 78 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truths’ on #OWS Crackdowns are False
I called bullshit and Bullshit finally responded: “It’s bullshit.” Naomi Wolf’s feverish article charging that the crackdowns of occupy locations were being coordinated by federal law enforcement agencies has captured the #OWS collective consciousness. And, as it turns out, the sole basis for her article—Rick Ellis’s article in Examiner.com—was debunked by Ellis himself nine days [...]
November 27, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 253 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Our Failed Media Experiment
#OWS: The Shocking Truth about Naomi Wolf’s Journalistic Hackery [updated]
Rumormongering at its most despicable. Two weeks ago, a rumor circulated that the Department of Homeland Security was “behind” the crackdown at Zuccotti Park. The rumor originated with Michael Moore who got it from a thinly-sourced article in Examiner.com. I wrote about it here and here. The author of the Examiner.com article, Rick Ellis, published [...]
November 25, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 407 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Our Failed Media Experiment
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Action
Here’s Nathan Brown, author of the open letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, speaking on Monday at UC Davis. His department, English, has posted a call for her resignation, as has the Physics department [pdf]. Katehi was not allowed to speak at yesterday’s General Assembly on the quad, which has grown to include a giant [...]
November 23, 2011
· mistermix · 74 Comments
Posted in: #OWS
Youth Should Be In Revolt
There are a lot of reasons for tuition increases in the UC and other systems, but one of the big ones is that the modern Republican party decided that they would change the terms of the deal. Everyone over 55 gets the package that’s been around for a few generations: an inexpensive state-sponsored University education, [...]
November 22, 2011
· mistermix · 105 Comments
Posted in: #OWS
