March 25, 2012

climateadaptation:

OWS has jumped the shark. This stupid movement has got to die.

shortformblog:

In which Occupy Wall Street protesters attempt to goad cops by making them “fish” for donuts, but instead jump the shark themselves. Painful to watch. Who thought this was a good idea? (ht @antderosa, via @palafo)

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was comic relief. Maybe it was a moment of levity, like President Obama singing Al Green. But OWS has had such consistently choppy planning, execution and return (if any) that this just makes it easy to declare the movement an unfortunate failure of protest.

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Filed under: OWS Occupy Wall Street 
October 31, 2011
msnbc: Scariest Halloween costume of 2011: The pink slip. More Zuccotti Park protesters in costume here. Image: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP - Getty Images

msnbc:

Scariest Halloween costume of 2011: The pink slip. More Zuccotti Park protesters in costume here.

Image: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP - Getty Images

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Filed under: Halloween Occupy Wall Street 
October 26, 2011
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The point being: we have a massive police force in America that outside of lower Manhattan prosecutes crime and imprisons citizens with record-setting, factory-level efficiency, eclipsing the incarceration rates of most of history’s more notorious police states and communist countries.

But the bankers on Wall Street don’t live in that heavily-policed country. There are maybe 1000 SEC agents policing that sector of the economy, plus a handful of FBI agents. There are nearly that many police officers stationed around the polite crowd at Zucotti park.

These inequities are what drive the OWS protests. People don’t want handouts. It’s not a class uprising and they don’t want civil war — they want just the opposite. They want everyone to live in the same country, and live by the same rules. It’s amazing that some people think that that’s asking a lot.

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Mr. Taibbi, sometimes you can be a bit hyperbolic for our tastes. But in this case, you’re spot on.

OWS’s Beef: Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via ronmarks)

(via utnereader)

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Filed under: Occupy Wall Street 
October 4, 2011
lunarobverse: wearethe99percent: PUBLIC SECTOR UNION WORKER Yup. Most public employees are at or near the median American income (~$50,000/year) and are just doing their jobs, but the rich and their spokescreatures have demonized them as lazy and outrageously (somehow) overpaid as part of their campaign to destroy government. Why don’t they want people to have middle-class jobs with decent healthcare and a small pension in retirement? What’s so wrong with that? It’s not just the ill and unemployed that they’re targeting. All of the 99% are in it, together.

lunarobverse:

wearethe99percent:

PUBLIC SECTOR UNION WORKER

Yup. Most public employees are at or near the median American income (~$50,000/year) and are just doing their jobs, but the rich and their spokescreatures have demonized them as lazy and outrageously (somehow) overpaid as part of their campaign to destroy government. Why don’t they want people to have middle-class jobs with decent healthcare and a small pension in retirement? What’s so wrong with that?

It’s not just the ill and unemployed that they’re targeting. All of the 99% are in it, together.

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Filed under: capitalism middle class public sector Occupy Wall Street 
October 2, 2011
"… in America we’re now entering into a third wave of movement politics (the first being the rise of the ‘netroots’ within the Democratic party after its leadership collapse between 2000-2003; and the second being the rise of the Tea Party after the conservative losses of 2006 and 2008). … By putting their bodies down at the figurative center of power in America and refusing to leave, the Occupy Wall Street protestors are inventing a new way to gain voice in the national political process. In the coming days, we will see whether this rising new movement is listened to, or if the same people who gave us the Washington Consensus will, despite their failings and their need for an American spring, choose to close their ears and call in the cops in force."

— Micah L. Sifry on Occupy Wall Street.

(Source: washingtonpoststyle)

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Filed under: Wall Street Micah L. Sifry activism Occupy Wall Street Myles Horton 
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