Posts Tagged ‘#OccupyWallStreet’
#OccupyThanksgiving! plus: Stealing Thanksgiving
(This post’s “possibly irrelevant image” is from a heartbreaking group of photos by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, The Ruins of Detroit.) (1) #OccupyThanksgiving! I’ve seen the suggestion go around: many of us are having Thanksgiving with family and/or friends who may not know enough about or be involved enough in the Occupy movement. It ...Read more.
The John Pike Meme; Rick Wolff Video; EU
(1) The Lt. John Pike (UC Davis pepper-spraying cop) meme: See more pictures of UC Davis Lt. John Pike casually pepper-spraying innocents here and here and here. Find a template to make your own image here. (2) Video of Rick Wolff’s Excellent Talk at #OccupyBoston, November 17, 2011. Thanks to Doug G. of the Zinn ...Read more.
NYC March Tomorrow; Mass. 3-Strikes Vote TODAY
(1) Day of Action Tomorrow: If you are in or near New York City, try to make it to tomorrow’s Day of Action. I think it’s important to show the power of the movement after yesterday’s early morning eviction from Zuccotti Park. (2) Mass. House to Vote on “Three-Strikes” Bill: I was shocked to hear ...Read more.
The Weather; General Strike; Goldman Sachs
(1) The Weather and #OWS: The image above is from a German Socialist Students Union poster from 1968 (it was apparently a takeoff on a slogan from the national rail system, according to this site). The poster headed a nice piece from Viewpoint Magazine on #OWS and the weather–super-relevant now that many inches of ...Read more.
#OccupyOakland Raid, Bill Black, and more
I’ve got a backlog of stuff to post–it will be mostly links, and in no particular order. Here goes: (1) Mike Davis on #OWS: Nice piece by Mike Davis in the LA Review of Books, No More Bubblegum. Today’s Possibly Irrelevant Image accompanied Davis’s piece; it’s from a series of wonderful greeting cards by Erika ...Read more.
Quick Update from DC; America Beyond Capitalism
(1) Quick Visit to #OccupyDC: I stopped by one of the two #OccupyDC encampments last night. The Mcpherson Square encampment (known as “#OccupyKSt”) was quite soggy last night when I walked through at about 6:45pm. There was the usual info tent, food tent, lots of tents (more pictures below), but not the kind of interaction ...Read more.
Charts, Comix, Columnists
(1) Incredible Charts from BusinessInsider: Hat-tip to Arjun Jayadev, who inaugurated the series of teach-ins we’ve been organizing for #OccupyBoston, for alerting us to anincredible slideshow of charts, Here’s What the Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About, at the odd website BusinessInsider (odd because though it appears to be an ordinary personal investment site, ...Read more.
#OccupyBoston Teach-Ins, etc.
(1) Great Press for OWSJ and #OWS: In addition to the above photo featuring my #OWS protest comrade Amy Offner (former D&S book editor), the WSJ‘s blog Metropolis had a relatively positive piece on its namesake, the Occupied Wall Street Journal. And David Carr, business columnist for the New York Times (focusing on media) devoted ...Read more.
#OWS/#OB; Afghan War Anniversary; Mark Ruffalo
A quickie post, because I have been busy setting up an Economics Forum for #OccupyBoston. (1) Voices from #OWS: A video from a guy who was sticking a camera in people’s faces on Sunday at Zuccotti Park and asking: Why are you here? I remember him, and my comrade Amy Offner and I appear toward ...Read more.
Occupy Your City! | Rick Wolff on/at #OWS
(1) Occupy Your City! From Brave New Media: (2) Rick Wolff on/at #OWS: From the Guardian: Occupy Wall Street ends capitalism’s alibi This protest pinpoints how dysfunctional our economic system is: we must refashion it for human needs, not corporate aims Occupy Wall Street has already weathered the usual early storms. The kept media ...Read more.
