Nothing like joining your local Revolutionary Council of Neighbors and seeing what’s going on this nice autumn day. Things are going nuts (in a good way) from Washington Square to Wall Street, and in the growing Occupy DC party, and in a surprisingly huge Los Angeles campout/concert/protest/march on the banks. And there are hundreds of other local occupations around the country, many getting started on this very day. It’s a great way to not see anybody connected with Washington media or the White House or Wall Street, as they’re all hiding like rats from the sunlight.
Daily Kos has this fancy map you can use to find a occupation near you.
Here’s a look at what’s going at at L.A. City Hall this weekend:
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I've been going to the one in Houston. Most of my time was wasted arguing with a guy who claimed that the earth was hollow. http://burndownblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/why-... http://burndownblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/a-hi...
Ron Paul was there?!!11!!
I haven't been down to Occupy Dallas yet, but I've been following their posts and comments on fb, and guess what? The Ron Paul and End the Fed folks are running amok in Dallas too. I sure hope this is just a Texas problem, those guys are annoying assholes.
Maybe they'll get riled up enough to start a third party. Forza Gnocca. Tell 'em it means Gold Standard.
And then ask them if they'd like to eat a little gnocca for dinner.
God, Guns, Gold…
did he win the argument?
FsubG=G((m1+m2)/d^2)
I was going to check out OccupyDenver today, but it was 40 degrees and raining, and I'm a pussy. Maybe Monday.
the weather DOES make a difference, it was 80 and sunny in Indiana today (NO global warming jokes ok!) and we had a good turnout in the hundreds so I was impressed and happy to be there (I was afraid it would be dozens?)
Hundreds turned out in Indiana? Excellent!!
That is terrific! Thanks for reporting from the frontlines.
Funny, ya don't *look* like a pussy, dog.
Gee, I've never met a hollow-earth person, only read about them! Does the hollow hold saucer Nazis or a utopia or what?
I have met "hollow earthers" before. And yes, each one was also a Bircher and/or Paultard.
Dang Hollow Earth Bircher-Paultard conspiracy, I tell ya!
Yeah, you were wasting your time…because I was right. Occam's Razor, man, Occam's Razor. We can all live inside the earth! I've been there, man! It's beautiful!!
He said dinosaurs lived there and I ever so wanted for it to be true.
I can take you there, man. It's real. Real as Houston or Amarillo or Natchez. I've held hands with a velociraptor and called him friend and slept on the belly of a giant sloth.
I saw a movie about that once.
These people went inside a volcano down to the center of the earth.
I think it waz called EYES WIDE SHUT or something….
You're thinking Dante's Peak.
Of much more importance, how was the weed?
And was it BYOD (Bring Your Own Drum)?
None
Did you tap on his skull to see if it was hollow, too?
I heard if you tap on Ron Paul's skull, it's tuned to the key of thud…
You are going to get the feigned indignation crowd going if you do not quit picking on the mentally disabled.
"who claimed that the earth was hollow"
It's NOT????? Who knew.
Oh gosh – my son went down to Occupy Boston and was immediately waylaid by a 9/11 truther.
One of many great things about being in/from NY. I have been spending my time at the first and original..
To be fair, the French did it the firstest and originalest.
Ok, I live in Arkansas. But so what, I have more p than you.
Nyah, nyah! I win everything!
I find your argument compelling.
No fair! Just because you comment a lot more … & are funnier … stop the madness!
P-LIBEL!
Is it a Ray's Original Occupation or more of a Famous Original Ray's Occupation?
So New York of you. lol You guys have the best and first everything.
How's that a-Roddy, Jeetsy thing workin' out for them?
Hey!!
Don't put those two in the same category!!
(So what if I have a dog named Yogi. SO WHAT??!!)
Go, Tigers!
Every time the Rangers lose, Chimpy cries and an angel gets its wings.
Snob
Yay you!
I'm an old. Your turn.
Their parents were useless. It skips a generation. Who would have thought it?
Wait a minute there, pardner! Those kids are the same age as my kids – we boomers taught (indoctrinated) our spuds well!
You must be a "late boomer."
Mid-boomer. OK, my kids are older than some of these (not teens anymore), but still got a couple in their mid-twenties.
I'm an old. We still have something to do. Gotta join these youngz and support 'em.
When I was young and marched in the streets at least once a week for years, I was always thrilled to see someone my grandparents' age on the picket line.
To see the oldz is inspirational, and more than that, they are encylopedias. They've been there done that, so they are good for consultation. Really. Sometimes, we need a few pointers about whether we should be really mad at a particular something, just a little mad at it, or to redirect the anger and resources elsewhere.
I've been reading the autobiography of Dave Dellinger and he agreed mightily with your point. He was an old during the 60's – he was first arrested for refusing the draft in WWII. That's f'ing old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dellinger
Raging Grannies are out there, and Resident Oldz ttommyunger sez he be joinin' in. Man looks scary enough to give the cops the running shits, so it's all good.
Hey, give an old a break! I don't mind showing up and carrying a sign and walking a few miles, but to me "occupy" means changing residency from my comfy house to a leaky tent – for an indefinite period. I'll leave that to the youngz without a mortgage on a house that's worth less than I owe on it. Sorry guys, sounds like an amazing thing, but I'm afraid the system has me just where it wants me.
Sunday was an interesting day for moi and my Old ex-Republican buddy former-lawyer turned progressive journalist for the Annenberg-sponsored Strawberry Gazette. We took in Taiwan's National Day in LA's Chinatown, an art opening of an young up-and-coming lithographic artist, and finished off with an educational visit to a teach-in at Occupy LA on City Hall's north lawn.
The Old Beanball observed many other Olds at each and every event.
We do get around, as they say.
In Madison, we call this Saturday.
yes, and the football assholes are gone this weekend.
great day to take the grandboys to Vilas Park Zoo!
In the fall, "away" weekends are the only time non-football fans want to be in town. During the lull when the game is on is also somewhat safe, but you have to be quick. I usually plan my visits around the schedule. The Vilas Park Zoo is such a wonderful place to take kids too. They have really grown into a modern zoo which is no small feat considering it is free to the public.
When I lived in Pittsburgh I did my necessary shopping during Steeler games. The stores and parking lots were empty, but you didn't even miss the game because every store had a TV … or they wouldn't have had floor managers.
i lived on the West Side. i was largely safe. but fuck me if i had to drive downtown on a game day. and don't even get me started on trying to drive to Four Star Video from the Westgate Mall area while a marathon was in progress.
Hey, I marched around the Capitol in February and went to the Nebraska game. It's okay to do both.
You are braver than I. One helluva protest and one helluva game, I am delighted you had the experience in both cases. The little island of sanity that is Madison is a wonderful respite.
Yeah, fine. Nothing like pulling a 70 hour week for a corporation unraveling arcane minutiae and then spending a weekend protesting the arcane minutiae that go into calculating the salary of an executive.
Friggin Arcane Minutiae.
I frigged an Arcane Minutiae at a level 16 Orc Barbarian, but I failed the saving throw.
You should try more hand-waving. It worked for Goldman.
I thought that was hand-wringing. Or maybe that's just Blankfein's response to the indictments coming his way.
Their first album was good.
But then they sold out. Typical.
They were ok, but nowhere near as good as Bloody Recondite Frippery. Those guys rocked, man. At least until their drummer, Dr. Apocryphal, drowned in that hotel toilet. All downhill after that.
Nice.
Can't you do the equivalent of throwing a chipping iron into said minutia?
Well then – fuck up the minutiae so that executive's salary gets reduced!
Or, just string the executive, and everybody above him in the org chart, from the nearest tree. No loss, man.
I may or may not get to the one happening near me next week.
Does that make me bi-occurious?
I'll be at Occupy Dc tomorrow. I will send a report- or at least a comment.
This is making me wet.
What the hell, Wyoming?
And what the fuck Mexico?
What are you saying? Mexico has been in on this "Ocupado" shindig for years already! Only difference is that instead of occupying financial institutions, they've been occupying meat packing plants, lawn care enterprises and roofing companies. And hell, their occupation of agricultural occupations is virtually total. Well, except for Alabama. So throw los cuates some respect, no?
Props to user-of-goats, as well.
¡Y bolsa-de-ratones tambien!
Pero "ocupado" significa "busy" en inglés.
I think that's their state motto.
C'mon,would YOU want to occupy Wyoming?
That's what I thought.
to quote are former moron President Shrub Bush, "I wouldn't like it if I was occupied either" (sweet holy jeebus as bad as thing are today I am SOOOO glad I don't have to see that fucking imbecile on the teeveee anymore!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpoOkY1XJxw
I think he spent most of his time as Prezdint being preoccupied with things other than running the country.
Yeah, like snorting coke, getting drunk, choking on pretzels, waving his nutsack in Teh Peeplez' face, and "cutting brush."
Very nice of the folks in Winnipeg to host an event. Calgary, too.
Casper, WY has an occupy group, but no Facebook link. Can't get much closer to Hell than Casper.
Occupy Casper.
You'd think they'd at least have one in Laramie.
The School of Mining has one underground
You mean, inside the hollow Earth.
Occupy Ann Arbor seems kind of redundant to me.
Protesting the corporate/student loan overlords at U-M, amirite?
I occupied the hell out of Saturday errands.
I wanted to go, but I got preoccupied.
I wanted to go too, but the sign on the door said, "Occupied."
You'd never know it going by the small town media.
Since "small town media" these days mainly means "Gannett rags masquerading as newspapers", that's not surprising. They're more concerned with promoting the latest talk on MomsLikeMe.com than they are with Real News.
Local (TV) media here in Seattle has led with the Occupy story the last three days in a row, and spent a chunk of time on it.
I'm heartened.
Goddamn Canada is copying us, again. What do they have to protest about anyways? Has the price of hockey tickets gone up? Is the coffee at Tim Horton's not hot enough?
Well, Canada City does have a Prime Minister who is kinda the Canuck version of George Bush Jr., even coming from the Texas of Canada….
Gary Bettman, also.
Though, Winnipeg is finally back in the hockey game.
Canada has enough idiots that they are never far from going over the edge. Here is an American (Pulitzer-prizewinning US journo Chris Hedges) schooling one of the CBC's more obnoxious fools Kevin O’Leary, Behold and rejoice in the epic smack down: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Business/Lang_&...
man that was a HISTORIC SMACK DOWN. Well played Hedges, well done indeed
I'll say this in O'Leary's favor: he at least pulled back and let Hedges speak and make his points. No one on Fox would have let that happen.
Can you imagine Chris Hedges being invited on one of our Sunday morning chat shows? Man, would that be beautiful. David Gregory wouldn't know what to do with himself, and George Will might actually change expression.
We Canadians are for the most part quite civil, even that gasbag O'Leary. A major exception to this would be Don Cherry who fortunately is too brain damaged to opine on any subject other than hockey.
CBC–Fox News with snow shoes? I guess that idiocy doesn't stop at the northern border, at least with O'Leary around to be obnoxious. Hedges was wonderful and we need to see him more often.
Not really. CBC's more "fair" than balanced.
If you really want to see RW buffonery. Sun TV (the "Faux" Newz of Canada City) or the slightly less biased CTV (the Faux Newz lite.)
Thanks for that. Aside from enjoying Chris Hedges I thought it was very interesting that while he was talking about how the corporate financial bastards have screwed us all and contribute nothing to society they were running the commodities ticker right under his head.
That was simply wonderful. Thank you so much.
Plenty.
The problem is instead of flaming out like US America did, we're dying by inches and acting all smug about it as the economy gets shittier and shittier.
The irony of the Conservative majority was that Stevie won it because he was the self proclaimed the economic savior of Canada City post 2008. He only "did" so because the other parties put a gun to his head when he had a minority gubbiment.
He doesn't really have much of an incentive in this approaching mess and will look towards spending cuts and tax cuts.
Yeah, some economic savior – just imagine if He Who Eats Kittens had gotten his way back in 2007-2008 when he wanted to trash our chartered banking system in favour of a US-style casino model.
Occupy Toronto is finally getting their shit together on October 14 even though Bay Street is Canada's Wall Street. I hope to make an appearance if only because I want to feel a part of something, however small.
Maybe I'll make a sign with some choice words for Mr. O'Leary, who is one of those people who has made a career by being a professional asshole.
I'm staging an occupation of my own home, but so far, I am the only protester. I will be making virtual protest signs using my Monopoly iPad.
Because you capitalized "Monopoly", I thought you meant you had a Monopoly (ze board game) themed iPad. Now that would be cool.
But I get it now.
That would be cool.
Apple is all about the trademarks. Try typing the word Microsoft into your iPad. See?
So, if I'm reading the map correctly, the only place without a protest is Dick Chenen's
MordorWyoming?I was thinking it's more like Hogwarts after Voldemort took over, which would mean we must dispatch Layne, Weigel, and Maddow to destroy the Horcruxes.
So Michele gets her wild-eyed death glare from Bellatrix.
I don't think the fundies are allowed to watch Harry Potter since children's stories about a magical world = satan.
We saw a couple Horcruxes hanging out near the PATH station as usual.
Nothing there but republicans and some scraggly assed grazing quadrupeds. Maybe there will be a cattle uprising?
Check my comments to AlterNewt above. The map is out-of-date or just wrongish. But it ain't where I ever would have guessed it would be in the upper square state.
Stay warm and dry. Wear layers, and change into dry socks when you can.
no one is occupying Mexico!
Michelle Malkin, line one
There is an Occupy TJ planned for October 15 after the Xolosquintles game! http://derrikchinn.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-ti...
I'm occuping my couch watching my second college football game. My ass is starting to protest from all this sitting so I may have to get up an get another beer. But, I'm out there in spirit with the protesters.
Send them a pizza! I did. #OccupyWallStreet
Which pizzeria is closest to them?
Hopefully not Godfather's.
Hey, where's the map for the bathrooms?
That's easy, the map is here.
Perhaps what is needed is an Occupy Occupado..
Just crap on the CEOs doorsteps!
RetUrn the favor?
Let's also occupy 1989.
Man, Fade City…
If that group actually showed up at Wall Street tomorrow, Bloomberg would fuck the cops, call out the National Guard, and ask Obama for some drones.
I don't care what anyone says. Those guys were geniuses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN54kruANNk
Sweet! Takes me back.
I admit it: I prefer this song with Rosie Perez dancing to it.
That doesn't make me a shallow person, does it?
No. I was going to say the same thing. And the few women the camera did linger on in BMW's link to Fight the Power — how, 'chaste'fully dressed in the jacket & collar boxy-shoulders getup, compared with now?! What a time warp.
When Walmart moved into our town to depose all the long-standing local mom-n-pop retail stores, they insisted that the city build them a street, with a stoplight, with all that new tax money that we wouldn't be getting anymore, because they killed the local retail scene, and NM has this moronic "non-compete with other states' corporate income tax" law that ships all of their tax elsewhere. They named this street "Wal Street" (maybe they do this everywhere?).
We're going to occupy Wal Street, five of us, standing in the main drag, annoying drivers. We hope to get the local paper that publishes twice a week to do a story on how unfocused and leaderless we are.
And then Drudge will pick up the local biweekly's story and run it in a 432 pt. font headline:
"LEADERLESS" ANARCHISTS SEIZE WAL STREET, GO AFTER PASSING DRIVERS!!"
fuck, the same thing happened here. 6 million on tax breaks for Wally world. Now we have 3. so count your blessings
I wish I could give this hundreds of up-fists.
Keep up the good work.
And disheveled and smelly.
Go, Dewey, Go.
Dash into the Mal-Wart, grab their guest scooters and ride them out onto the street, and be sure to misspell the words on your signs. That'll get you some attention.
but at least you got some big laughs at the new Wally World right? that's the only *redeeming* thing I can think these sick corporate whore's can bring to any town (fuck how I hate Wal-Mart, does it show?) http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos
Oh, ntD, I am SO proud of you! I'm so fucking tempted to join in, but I'm not sure I can, right now. My friend came by today to console me with the thought that the protest will probably still be going strong when I get back on my stumps. I sure hope so.
Don't forget to relay the details, dood!
Don't be too proud. We couldn't get our shit together over the weekend (kid's birthday parties, surprise friends from out of town, firewood splitting, leisurely breakfasts, crossword puzzles piling up, etc) So we're going to do something at lunch tomorrow, but then we're gonna hafta go back to work at some point. Sigh. Direct-action democracy will have to take a back seat to not getting fired.
On the plus side, I've got my signs all made:
https://picasaweb.google.com/jfkrone/OccupyWalStr...
My buddy has one sign that says "unfocused and leaderless" and another, following Radio's suggestion, "disheveled and smelly". The small-town cops aren't going to know what to think.
Great sign! All of 'em!
Anywho, here's your reward. Not exactly safe for work, since ideally you want the full effect of the weird, funky music. Also, bums.
All these hippies were out there protesting against slavery (when they were "abolitionists") and in favor of womens' rights ("suffragettes") and civil rights ("freedom riders) and trying to end the Vietnam War ("draft dodgers"), and did it ever work, even one time?
Why, yes it did!
I be dog, as they say in Faulkner.
Which one is Eric Cantor at?
None of 'em, Katie. NoCandor doesn't have the cojones to show his face to anyone who isn't a paying customer, I mean contributor…
Occupy Grover's Bung-hole.
For The Win! I bow in reverence to your superior snark powers user-of-owls! You wield the sword well and you are mighty.
Chris Christie is at Occu Pie Trenton.
mmmmmm, pie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZzzU3XoOis
I’m picking occupy Ithaca; some of those other groups don’t seem tie dyed enough for my taste. Peace out
IS Moosewood catering?
Don't tell anyone, if they are, or you'll be fucking trampled into the ground by foodies.
Oh, Ithaca is such a great town. I have really fond teenage memories of visiting my favorite aunt and uncle, and sneaking a few beers in the gorges.
CALGARY IS TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK!….
?
The civilized Canadians can be in charge, and I don't have to live in a cold climate. Sounds like a win – win to me.
Hey, Winnipeg took their hockey team back from the US, so why not Calgary too? Oh, wait, they already did. That's pretty hilarious – Atlanta lost not one but TWO hockey teams to Canada City.
Why am I not surprised that hot, muggy Atlanta can't keep their hockey people?
Hard to skate on a big oval slushie
Calgary is just Canadian Houston.
(And Canada can keep both theirs and ours.)
I'm going to occupy this recliner with a bottle of Jack and a shot glass. Today I told BofA to go fuck themselves and closed my account. I went with my credit union. Hopefully somewhere down the line some bank executive or mortage hedge fund manager will jump off a bridge.
Not until after he fires all the tellers and branch managers, unfortunately.
amen brother, I closed my visa account with BofA yesterday, FUCK them! (had been meaning to do it for a long time but finally got *inspired* to get off my lazy ass and do it!)
This is my inspiration in Austin:
http://www.politicususa.com/en/occupy-austin-marc...
My goal is to inspire. Drop BofA, join a credit union or smaller bank. In true capitalism, failing banks really do fail.
You could always join the First Church of The Last Laugh and march in the St. Stupid's Day Parade. I understand they like to go down to the stock exchange and throw pennies at the black rock there that is affectionately called "The Banker's Heart" and yell "Jump! Jump!" at the brokers hangin' in the windows.
"This country is not run by greedy businessmen, no. This country is run by citizens, just like me and you."
I don't know whether to be heartbroken over that kid's naivete, or to do something to make his comment have some resemblance to reality…
…I'm going with "All of 'em, Katie!"
I used to have thoughts like that, too. Too much Frank Capra in my childhood.
The only people who are not negatively affected by Crony Capitalism are the people profiting from it.
I've axed this before, is there any difference between crony capitalism and capitalism?
One of them has 5 additional letters, but otherwise, no.
Sure there is. In the former, you work in tandem with other bloodsuckers. Like, say, your brother.
In the latter, you're a lone parasite eating away at your host society in isolation, with no colleagues nor friends. Think, for example, of one single chigger sucking at your ankle. Or better yet, think of Donald Trump.
lone parasite…you mean like, like, hookworms?….I hope, now, you see the power of a "silly internet meme," a conjecture, if you will, hijoputa de madre de búho sabio.
Hasta las intestinas siempre!
I've axed this before, is there any difference between crony capitalism and capitalism?
Apparently it is a matter of what stage the system is in.
Our farmers' markets in Austin (5 plus we go to 2 in San Antonio) have been so slow we haven't been selling our charcuterie stuff. When people are afraid of what the economy will do they'll do without that artisan made bacon, sausage, and pates. Which means I may have another furlough week without work and the $300 I get from it, my only job. I work on the farm for my rent and won't go hungry but I wish those millionaires and billionaires who create all the wealth, jobs, etc. would start buying about $50 a week of our stuff so I can buy cat food and pay off my car mechanic!
man i'd buy artisan made bacon and pate…
do you ship?
Not yet, we're waiting on USDA approval.
Let us know when you do. Out here is C'Addle we have salmon and rain (wish we could share) but not so many hog farmers. Llamas, goats, cows, 'n sheep, but not so many piggies.
At the risk of link-whoring here is a list of what we offer: http://www.kocurekfamilycharcuterie.com/
Portland has several places that offer hazelnut-finished pork products and Mario Batali's dad's place in Seattle has some goodies :http://www.salumicuredmeats.com/
What this country needs is better bacon!!!!!
wow you're a farmer, I'd never have guessed that! y'know funny thing is I started growing a lot of my own food a few years ago in my backyard (helps to be a vegetarian) and realized I didn't NEED to go to local farmer's market every week cuz I had plenty of veggies, but I missed it so much I started going again just to support my local peeps and made a personal commitment to spend at least $50 bucks each visit and since I can't eat that much I take it in to work so they'll know what REAL food is! (BTW hope business picks up for ya, and I srsly admire you for doin' what you do!)
As fulfans asked, do you ship?
What fuflans and weejee said.
The kind of spaces I would like to occupy are heavily fortified, due to many of them being married.
You might also have some difficulty spinning that as "sticking it to The Man".
Viva Mejico! http://derrikchinn.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-ti...
Olé.
Tequila!! *slam*
Oh yeah, this will be fun watching wingnuts and the lot of Democratic politicians trying to explain this away. Soros is behind it; our economic woes are Obama's (+Union's) fault, not Wall Street's — but at the same time Obama and the Unions are the rabble-rousers; they're smelly and directionless; they're like teabaggers, but they don't have the integrity of teabaggers.
And BTW, one of the funniest talking points I always hear from them is that the teabagger rallies always picked up their litter afterwards and left the sites spotless. WTF? It's akin to the teleprompter crap. The power of steady misrepresentation I guess.
How could they pick up litter from their Hoverrounds? Must've had those poking sticks, I guess.
Is there any real purpose to corporate news sources than spin? Fox is the most blatant, but hardly a lone player, when you're owned and run by people with a vested interest in a "certain viewpoint" you can't expect much else. If you want to know something about what is going on, you have to multisource and go anywhere but network and cable news. And even then the real story isn't available until years after the fact, when all of the guilty have passed.
multisource….anywhere but network and cable news. And even then the real story isn't available until years after the fact, when all of the guilty have passed.
Dag, Rotundo, I admire encapsulation.
They've been saying that all day today, beginning with Herman Cain. "This president is starting a class war, these are his foot soldiers out there on the streets harassing innocent job creators." It's actually pretty fucking ugly and getting worse.
I was busy occupying a married straight lady, but maybe tomorrow…
Sweet baby Jeebus they're having one in Wasilla. I take back my mooning of your Chamberpot of Commerce this past summer. Way to go Denali alley guyz & guyettes.
When you have upset Wasilla, that's pretty bad.
I'm sure that they have endured more from the Abomination of Palination than anyone else!
Wouldn't it be a hoot if they "occupied" the house next door to $arah?
Today we are all "Joe, the Occupier".
None in Beverly Hills? Dern.
Find something nearby, then, and have the chauffeur bring the Bentley around.
Drops monocle.
What color Bentley do you think would be appropriate ?
edit: and chauffeur, depending on the Bentley.
The Occupy Coronado, Ca event was a non-event. Maybe they were all at Occupy Phoenix. That is where the librlz in Coronado live – they Summer here.
Maybe Yuma.
Also one in El Paso / Juarez that could be interesting.
We shouldn't be too surprised at this momentum. How quickly people forgot "The Rally to Restore Sanity." Like our Ocupado friends, the RTRS had scant media support and was downplayed in its aftermath. Nonetheless, as witness to that event (and the Wonkette Hunt Club get together the night before), I realized we are not alone. We are, however, devoid of a full time propaganda outlet and the wanton, unscrupulous misconduct to regurgitate the most unreasonable talking points. A small, but extremely vocal and well-funded machine have poisoned the whole political discourse in this country — from Roger Ailes to Bryan Fischer and all the dismal points in between.
We, and millions like us, don't need to encase ourselves in a concrete flag, or act out of fear, to try and change things. But one thing I think we can agree on is the fact that the media is not going to help us. When Ezra Klein, or Richard Cohen, have become voices of liberal journalism, we know to be very careful.
I'm one of those complainers who think the RTRS was an incredibly wasted opportunity, all because Stewart was too afraid to address our actual problems in this country, head on, and instead took the very media-friendly meme that the problem is the tone of the debate in this country and the so-called lack of "civility (as if civility is the end all/be all), instead of the fact that we're not having honest debates. To misfocus on the "civility" of the debate is oh-so-convenient to people that don't want things to really change.
I really don't see Occupy as the child, or even the cousin, of the RTRS. In fact, I see it almost as a rebuke of beating around the edges of the real issues.
RTRS really makes me angry. Let's not forget that 3 days after, we gave control of the House back to the Republicans, and Stewart wasted his influence with Kindergarten lessons about civility rather than getting slacker hipster youngsters to the goddamned polls. He really should have either gone partisan or not bothered. I am sick of the fucking futility of our gestures on the Left.
I don't disagree with you guys. For whatever Stewart's approach was, I just wanted to point out the fact that over 200,000 people went to the Mall on short notice, without much MSM hype and brought a positive spirit. Especially in light of a rapist, murderer's nazi-inflected hoverround palooza a few months before. The press downplayed RTRS, wingnuts dismissed it and, well, like I said, there was no one from the Left who looked at it's constructive aspects. Democratic politicians shunned the whole thing as well — and yes they still lost ground. I'm all for voting, but as you both said the problems lie deeper than our present Two-Currupt-Party system.
Has anyone occupied Miami yet or we are not allowed into a foreign country. Is there a treaty with the US if you get thrown in jail in Miamicuba.
we have had a horrible week (my guy's father died suddenly, on a cruise in the middle of the pacific) and i have to say, i keep checking news b/c i am so goddamned proud of my country right now.
Sorry for your loss, fu.
My condolences, fuflans. My oldest sister's husband died suddenly on a cruise in the Pacific, and he was only 58. I'm staying away from cruise ships.
I'm so sorry.
I am glad that the news is a small, but shining bright spot in your life.
So sorry to hear that. Good warm hugs 'n stuff.
Am I seeing that right…none in Wyoming? Is that where Darth Cheney is from?
I thought Darth had been exiled to the east shore of Maryland….
According to comments above, somebody found one in Casper.
Ciclavie is in LA tomorrow, so go ride a bike and occupy something while you're there!
I'll be there today! Rode by City Hall with the Tour de Fat parade yesterday. I got chills. But I needed to OccupyBeer first so I didn't stop.
And unfortunately I did neither, apathetic liberal that I am. TdF looked like a lot of fun, and plenty of beer flowing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/russroca/
We didn't occupy the beer, the beer occupied us!
Wonketteers!!
Put your snarky brilliance to good use!
My daughter needs a slogan that will go with her (ever so appropriate) pirate regalia.
Any ideas?
Arrest just one Wall St. turd and I won't move to Somalia.
More rum!
vampires are so 2009.
π rates a 3.1416
Eat The Rich!!
Somalia: It's a dry heat.
Make the banks walk the plank.
I really like those. +will fit well on a sign.
"What's another name for Pirate treasure"?
Pedobear approved?
Welease Woger!
Johnny Depp went to Hollywood and all I got is this crappy costume.
All suggestions have been forwarded, and pictures will be posted.
Thanks for all your great ideas!!
"The people have the power
the power to dream, to rule
to wrestle the world from fools…"
And on an unrelated note, fuck the Values Voter Summit.
But it's a constant source of hilarity.
I am signed up for Occupy Atlanta on the l5th of October at ll am at the State Capitol. Do not want to get locked up….we'll see what happens.
If ya get popped, tell 'em to keep their hands off your junk.
Might wear an athletic cup, just for grins.
ttommy, if they throw you in the hoosegow, that would be the biggest story since OJ, well, OK since Springsteen divorced what's-her-name. I will pay your bail. I've got a little Jacob Riis in me. I've provided legal strategy in Fulton County before. The only thing that would be better would be if Georgia had an open-carry law and you showed up with a Glock strapped to your flannel. Fuck these fuckin' fucks.
I carry 24/7, even while at home. Will prolly not pack that day, carry a Driver's License or cellphone (the former is a bitch to replace if “lost”, the latter could divulge my contact list). I have a carry permit. It is issued free due to my retired Law Enf. status. A firearm would send the wrong signal if discovered, plus, there are restrictions; public gatherings is one of them. Actually, I've been locked up on more than one occasion; the first in l956 for breaking a Sailor's nose in San Mateo, CA. They will get no cherry. This movement must eschew violence or its appearance to avoid being crushed/discredited. I happen to be a peaceful man with a violent past and an extreme capacity for same when deemed necessary. BTW, no convictions-ever.
Your life sounds like a screenplay. Liam Neeson can play you.
Locally here in Seattle, a public defender wrote a little blog piece about "what to expect if you get arrested demonstrating" and one of the things was, "They WILL look in your asshole."
Well, I've had a camera up there on the end of what felt like a fire-hose, so I guess a quick peek won't kill me. Maybe I can work up a juicy fart for their benefit.
Good for you ttommy. If you get a chance kick Gov. Deal in the nuts for me.
No chance; I think Karl Rove is keeping them in a drawer at his office in Arlington, just in case.
Double T, sign me up for the defense team. I used to "craft messages," as they say, for the Fortune 100, so I'm great at story spin.
Writing the story is great, getting them published is the trick, though. With the Fortune 500 ownership of our Media, I put all that in the Fat Chance Category.
I'll write the theme music.
It's all coming together…
Music? We don't need no stinkin music!
ZOMFG, please don't get arrested. Please.
I'll do my best to avoid it.
Whatever else happens, it's pissing off the right people!
I enjoyed comparing this map to the one tracking Tea Party Rallies. Portland, OR (Yo!) has had three 'bagger rallies. All three had less than 200 people attending, two of them had only 1 person attending. Track your own cities and compare – THAT's what's real, people!
http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/tea-party-nation...
what i really love is everyone is starting to talk about 'baggers'.
this is as it should be.
Fucking Portland! {shakes fist}
Here in Seattle, the rallying cry to get people out to the Occupy Seattle stuff is "look how much bigger Portland's is, we can't let that happen".
I went. My sign was:
"THIS IS
THE
HAND"
URL is http://twitpic.com/6xbz7w
Invisible hand says *slap*
Good on ya, MICE!
Well done!
Thanks for the link. This is just coalescing so beautifully.
Oh, look:
The Tea Party should endorse the protests, but so should the Oath Keepers, taxpayer rights groups, conservative Christians, limited government groups, and all other conservative groups….
To point this out to the masses, Oath Keepers is organizing a joint effort along with Alex Jones of Infowars dot com
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/conservati...
False flag, infiltrators, hijackers, or true bipartisanship?
I thought the Oath Keepers were too busy threatening judges in Oklahoma over Charles Dyer being arrested for raping a seven year old? Though I guess that explains why they do not want the "nanny state" getting into their business.
The fact he bragged numerous times about his military training and how he was going to use it against the government, but then was found because he was too inept to figure out how to survive in the woods was just a bonus.
This from a group that openly advocates treason and armed resistance to the President. And thanks, Oathkeepers, for turning me on to your even more wacko sidekicks, the Wayseers, with whom I was previously unfamiliar.
I'd have to say, in answer to my own question, "hijackers". They see the Federal Reserve Bank as the source of all tyranny, and want to turn the conversation:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/10/05/oath-keepe...
Fuck them! They try to bring that hater shit in the name of Jesus in and we'll kick their asses – peaceful protest or not!
I think at this point it's just free-floating hatred. I fully expect some of the perpetrators to show up. "Hello, you're the vice-president of GE. What are you doing here?"
I'm too lazy to take down The Man. Can I just walk away from my mortgage instead?
That works for me. Just make sure you have a new place to live set up before you go. But at this point, even a lot of apartment complexes are in the "I see nothing" mode.
I wonder why the one's in Michigan are starting so late? I'm a bit disappointed the one at the capitol in Lansing is not only being held on the same day as the MSU-UofM game, but that it'll be mostly held during the game; it's sad to say, but that could really effect the turnout given the ridiculousness of the school rivalries. At least the game is in East Lansing so that if folks want to make it down after they can just go down the street.
Something to chew on…
Detroit's most eminent dick-covered-prig (or prig-covered-dick; your choice), Detroit News columnist Nolan Finley — who is nasty enough to make Bill O'Reilly seem pleasant –, can't wait for Occupy Detroit:
You guys can send him some friendly letters, if you'd like (nfinley@detnews.com), and the brave amongst you can take a look back at some of his previous columns that he's been writing in this rag for years. I've witnessed a lot of conservative media, but he has to be one of the most bitter, the most nasty, the most racist people you'd ever expect to head up a daily, let alone in the the Motor City.
You know the saying about being careful about what you're wishing for?
He ought to have some balls and personally deliver his thoughts to the protesters. And poll after poll shows the majority of Americans want to tax the rich, like this one:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65135.h...
I bet van de Hei, et. al., had to work thru tears to manage to post that.
When even the Granma of the Right is submitting that to tax the rich polls well, you know it must poll really well.
"I haven't taken a poll" is the new "I don't have the facts to back this up."
I can only speak for myself. I think we should start taxing the Corporations, take away their "personhood", and spend on the 99%. Polls can be manipulated, but I think that the majority of people agree with me. "Citizens United" has awakened a sleeping giant, and that giant is not happy with what it found.
"I haven't taken a poll, but my hunch is more Americans relate to 'cut the spending' than to 'kill the wealthy.'"
You might want to start that polling, Noley, because I'm pretty sure checking in with the citizens of goddamn Detroit will give you a surprising (to your pea-brain) answer.
I wonder how ignorant this guy is, because I'm seeing polls showing anywhere from 65% to 81% support for taxing the wealthy.
Nolan Finley is a scum sucking lackey who writes like a not particularly bright baboon. Having skimmed through your excerpts I have now read one and one half of his columns.
Don't like BoA, or the attitude of banks in general? Do this.
Go to their ATM machine with a debit card which is from an institution which is part of one of the ATM networks which they belong. Withdraw $100, $200 or so from the ATM. Go inside and ask them to exchange the $20 bills for $50 bills/ Often, as happened to me at BoA and a few other banks, they will ask you if you have an account and when I have said no they refused to exchange the money.
They are, after all, a friggin' Federal Reserve Member Bank, and when instructed that they are, they will make a lame comment about 'We need the large bills for our regular clients.' Mumble something about money laundering and leave quietly.
Now, go to https://www.federalreserveconsumerhelp.gov/compla... and file a complaint. In the past it generated an inquiry which brought a politely worded letter from the President of a smaller bank which assured me that they were apologetic, do wha, do wha, do wha and their tellers would be instructed to exchange my currency and they would advise their tellers of the proper bank policy.
Will this lead to an "Occupy The Seats Of Republicans And Blue Dog Democrats" movement?
THIS is the question. What's needed is a way to bring the hardhats, the longhairs, the AME church choir together into a stable coalition that can get out the fucking vote, even in off years.
It sure as hell better, because I'm dismayed that after 2010 we didn't see the Dems dumping vulgar amounts of cash into voter registration machines.
The quickly phony-fied, co-opted Tea Party movement led to an Oligarch-funded political insurgency that put extremist right-wingers in Congress as part of the Republican Party. Their caucus pulled off the most successful anti-U.S. terrorist hostage-taking siege since the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979. What is the plan to make Occupy Wall Street any more than just the World's Largest Block Party?
Soros? Cuban?…Buffet?
Why do you think HDNet brought Dan Rather on-board?
I think a big part of this movement is showing the average American how they have been screwed for the last 30 years or so. Most Americans don't even realize the middle class has been decimated and the wealthy have enormously profited. They think we have the wealth distribution of a Switzerland. They've been taught to blame themselves when they lose a job, can't get a job, get foreclosed on, etc., and be ashamed. I see OCW as reversing that and placing the blame where it belongs. That's a big start in my opinion.
The teabaggers were "co-opted" about as much as those Clear Channel "spontaneous support for the invasion of Iraq" rallies (that would be advertised on air a month or so in advance) were spontaneous.
Chet, it's getting there. I've been pleased that our society is being patient and giving this thing time to cook before taking it into the our systems. It'll make the movement so much more legitimate than the tea party was when the thing is mainlined right into the heart of America.
Congregate, educate, elucidate and then set the thing into motion. I think the time that has been given to the movement illustrates to the American people that this isn't some funded front for some shadowy entitty. Time is giving Americans time to buy into the movement.
That said, I give the movement until the time that it really starts to get cold to get moving. What we can't allow is for the thing to shrink into the dozens at the NYC basecamp.
Fox's Faux Five want to lynch Lily, the hungry muppet. Is it because Lily let her subscription to Bon Appétit lapse?
But do they want do so with a
Swiftnessquickness?Well, http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/09/eating-muppets-...
We just need equal time for conservative representation on Sesame Street: They need a bloated, white, gun toting, tobacco using muppet in a hoverround named Teabag to chase Lily around and bitch about her living off the government teat. CTW just hasn't come around to conservative values yet.
Needs moar casual bigotry.
Your teatard muppet idea could be the seed for the Avenue Q peeps librettists/composers to start work on a new Broadway production Sugarland Cul-de-sac.
Hahaha. Wow. What an incredible bunch of soulless morons. Except for the one guy who actually understands that poverty is not a liberal hoax like global warming. What's he doing on Fox anyway?
At first I sadly thought the title about 'occupations' meant jobs.
Did anyone else notice that Wyoming appears to be the only state with out a revolution?
Does the density increase the further away from Dick Cheney's secret lair?
Don't defame Wyoming. Check out the Billings Gazette: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regiona...
"Hundreds of Occupations Nationwide; Find One Close To You!"
Wow! How do you know? Because there's more than 14 teabaggers at these protests, the media won't cover it.
Do you have ESPN or something?
On the subject of protests, check out this piece by some douchebag over at the American Spectator:
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/10/08/standoff-in-...
All I can say is that pepper-spraying was too good for him.
Conservatives sure love to brag about their crimes.
Well, they continue to get away with them (as long as they stay away from The Hague), so why not?
I'm still not clear what this fuckface supports, Air OR Space??!?
Either way, what a world class salted rat dick.
Aside from reporting for a shitty magazine, he's an absolutely shitty writer. The piece barely had a point, at all. It was an editorial that went from general reporting, to inane observations, to shallow opinions. I really have no idea what I'm supposed to think beyond reading that beyond that it's just plain, shitty writing.
Shorter Patrick Howley: Those Dirty Fucking Hippies.
I love how conservatives are questioning if the movement presents "danger". Yeah, 'cause dozens of folks packing loaded weapons (including long guns) at tea party rallies and threatening to "water the tree of liberty" just cojure up images of peace and safety, right?
All true, and just think: we also have his shitty article about pleading guilty in court to a charge of committing criminal mischief in a federal building to look forward to reading.
American Spectator, just a bunch of conservatards posing as "intellectuals." At least the moran's on freerepublic and the Breitfart sites are openly r33tarded and honest about it.
Occupy the nation?! I'll be lucky if I can even occupy the Wonkette comments page right here!
OT: God, the Michigan GOP is relentless. They are trying to take the last non-profit health insurer on the Great Lakes, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and privatize it:
This is insane. BC/BS of Michigan has its problems, as does any insurer in a nation without single-payer, but boy if things wouldn't get worse privatizing it.
Occupy Grand Rapids kicked off on Saturday, and had a good turnout in Calder Plaza, downtown. They have now moved the permanent settlement to the other side of the river in downtown Grand Rapids at Ah-Nab-Awen Park.
Ah-Nab-Awen, Ah-Nab-Awen, Ah-Nab-Awen, in the jungle, the mighty jungle the….
Let one thousand occupations bloom.
I took a break from Occupying yesterday to go check out the new part of the HIgh Line. It was choked with tourists. I think I liked NY better when people were afraid to come here.
Another 200 in Albuquerque this weekend. One of my fellow villagers was arrested, for apparently being an idiot:
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/49730–so...
The Albuquerque Journal <a href="http://(http://bit.ly/pBU4DF)” target=”_blank”>(http://bit.ly/pBU4DF) says Barghout went into several businesses along Central — from Yale to San Mateo — harassing store owners and customers and spit on people while ignoring police warnings.
I mean, the temptation to spit on incidental people can be great, but still.
Also, UNM doesn't like dirty commie hippies sleeping all over their campus:
http://www.koat.com/news/29438373/detail.html
EDIT: Reports of spitting are now being disputed. But he most certainly was chanting "Death to America".
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s2320278.shtml
Poor R.E.M. Just when they could have rereleased "Welcome to the Occupation" as a single.
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant & fill him with a terrible resolve."
–
Admiral Yamomoto, 1941Rupert Murdoch, 2011Do pigeons count? I mean, they ARE feathered rats, right?
Thnx. It's not link-whoring when asked.
BTW do you sell any stuff in Houston. No. 4 son will be there in a couple of weeks.
No, we're only selling in the Austin/San Antonio region right now. If your son is older than 21 I suggest he visit the Anvil bar (http://anvilhouston.com/) for the best in real cocktails or for a great beer selection The Gingerman (http://houston.gingermanpub.com/).
I envy the selection of tipples in the great Northwest and hope to relocate there in a year or two. Too damned hot in Texas and dry and full of crazy people!
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