Submitted by okanogen on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:30pm
Sterling Newberry (and h/t Vastleft) interviews 40 OWS participants, finds only one "angry" person and zero interest in Obama, with next to no interest in the D party, either pro or con:
Now for some killer notes:
Not one mentioned amending the constitution.
Not one mentioned Barack Obama/The President. That's 0. None. Zero. Nil. Zip. 0 for 40 on left leaning activists in #OWS. He's invisible.
Only 2 mentioned working within the Democratic Party.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by twig on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:54pm
via Andy Borowitz:
Dear Investor:
Up until now, Goldman Sachs has been silent on the subject of the protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street. That does not mean, however, that it has not been very much on our minds. As thousands have gathered in Lower Manhattan, passionately expressing their deep discontent with the status quo, we have taken note of these protests. And we have asked ourselves this question:
How can we make money off them?
Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 6:11pm
Less than 24 hours ago, sitting in a NYC Barnes & Noble cafe, a message popped up on my laptop from one of my brothers in California alerting me that there was a crisis with the Occupy Wall Street protest. Mayor Bloomberg was demanding the park be evacuated at 7am Friday morning for cleaning and some “NEW RULES” to be applied to the occupiers thereafter.
My mailbox began to fill up with alerts from a number of political organizations whose mailing lists I had somehow made it onto.
I checked the correntewire website and a headline urged anyone who could to get to Zuccotti Park by midnight. One of its links warned about possible arrest and advised bringing something to help recover from pepper spraying. Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 12:42pm
I'm going to quote a great slab of what I believe is a famous text, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness." (I'd give a hat tip to whoever I got the link from, if I could remember. Thought it was Violet, but looking there, I think not.) I think the author would say their text is relevant not only to the workings of our sociopathic stupid and/or evil top 1%, but to all groups everywhere, including the General Assemblies. Read the whole thing, but here's my excerpt: Read below the fold...
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Submitted by chicago dyke on Sun, 10/16/2011 - 9:26am
Just wondering, but how many of the OWS folk are brown and/or speak say, Spanish?
This is important, and will define the "movement." I bet a lot of you are like me (and color isn't important, in this sense) but if you are, you're too broke to pitch a tent in Manhattan. Because if you leave your job, you'll lose your house or apartment, and other stuff you need to live. Read below the fold...
Submitted by JuliaWilliams on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:29am
Submitted by lambert on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 7:12pm
Submitted by lambert on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 10:53am
http://twitter.com/Franzys999/status/124493219936485376
No, the Occupations are not about Obama's jobs bill. If Obama were serious about jobs, he would have done something about that when he had the power. This is just kabuki for the rubes.
http://twitter.com/jadira/status/124493073601400832
No, the Occupations are very much not about electoral politics in any form. And considering the scope of Obama's bait-and-switch etrayal of "hope and change" in 2008, I am entirely skeptical of that critique, especially since so many youth took that bait, and then were used and discarded.
http://twitter.com/Selamtom/status/124492906793938944
No, the Occupations are not about Democracy Now! We know where that site is, please stop RTing! Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 9:38pm
Markos:
So what are those protesters fighting for? The same thing Elizabeth Warren will fight for when elected to the Senate.
If you still don’t understand, then you’re probably part of the problem.
Oh, really? From the first official declaration of Occupy Wall Street: Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 4:57pm
Dear Lord, it's happening so fast. Funding helps, of course:
http://twitter.com/WORLD_KIDS/status/123861783768350720
The occupations are not about helping the Ds collect more money for their candidates! Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 2:24pm
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