Occupy Wall Street 2: Occupy Everything

#OWS wins the battle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9D33hr4CW0&

Geithner (!) says they won't win the war

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65969.html#ixzz1almFImRd

oh wait

haha i misread that headline

"too much time on #occupy"

occupy harder

protest tunes for y'all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsh3mt0FNc

http://mcenter.slideshowpro.com/albums/027/935/album-272055/cache/occupy13_JA05254.sjpg_900_540_0_95_1_50_50.sjpg?1318611622

Occupy Denver protester Matt Velasquez and a State Trooper he has known since first grade.

so already happened

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Occupy Citius, Altius, Fortius

Occupy Denver protester Matt Velasquez and a life-size action figure he has owned since first grade.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/10/06/fi-sam-ralph-warner-bros.jpg

"Mornin', Sam."

"Mornin', Ralph."

http://i.imgur.com/g3Nkv.png

http://trendflux.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/chimneysweep-mary-poppins.jpg

Never need a reason!

how long before Patti comes to sing "People Have the Power"?

ahaha xp

The Voice witnessed two positively violent encounters on Beaver Street today, one in which a young woman was lifted kicking and screaming by her hands and legs and carried away forcibly. And this video of a cop punching a guy in the face isn't pretty either.

http://llwproductions.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-fri-oct-14-01-andrew-gombert-epa.jpg

always the guys in the white shirts

video of the legal observer getting run over by a cop scooter

cop runs over the leg with the front wheel, slows down when he sees what he's done, and then runs over him with the back wheel, gets off, and proceeds to zip tie him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyrQyUrHlZk&feature=youtu.be

There need to be specific protests for prosecuting and de-badging these assholes whose abuses have been recorded.

CNN's American Sauce asked a number of senators what they think the movement is about, and the initial responses were consistent.

"What do I think of the what?" asked Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia. "The which one?" responded Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey. Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, also checked the question, asking, "The what?" After we repeated the movement's name and explained it was the month-old protest centered in New York, senators showed more recognition and a strikingly similar view.

pretty amazing photo xp

http://i56.tinypic.com/110bxvs.jpg

red is occupations, blue is arrests

Who's at Occupy Billings? Or is that Occupy Helena?

did new england secede

got a link to that google map, Hoos?

hey hoos, can you recommend any good / fav sources on twitter for ows news & info? having a bit of trouble sorting wheat from chaff here

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-map#map xp

Or is that Occupy Helena?

I don't even know 'er etc

http://www.herospy.com/wp-content/herospy2006/Movies/_1hwHelenaBonhamCarter.jpg

xp to elmo

Josh Harkinson has been basically live tweeting from Wall St for a while now, he's awesome and Mother Jones in general, for whom he writes, has been great.

#Occupy is a good tag, #OccupyDC sometimes gets tagged on broader interest stuff because of the perception of DC as a locus of power, and absolutely worth following @Occupy_Boston as a big player whose media team catches big stuff all over too.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yp0RREISknI/TLIn_b8XNBI/AAAAAAAAAF4/__GnsBA7SCk/s1600/USREV0500081_640x480_01.jpg

more like andpoo sheitfart

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/10/14/crowdsource-this-social-list-emails-expose-occupywallstreet-conspiracy-to-destablize-global-markets-governments/

there are broader tags like #OccupyTogether & #OccupyEverywhere that catch news from locals trying to reach bigger audiences too.

I guess liberty plaza is pretty disorganized compared to those? even the official and officialish webpages and twitters always seem behind on things.

ps tomorrow's schedule

11 am 'march on banks' liberty square
1 pm student meet-up wash sq
5 pm demonstration times sq

I'm gonna go to the times sq one

Flying back to Portland today. Anything going on at the camp? Is the weather shit?

i've really been pushing the guys behind the @OccupyDC acct to tweet out the GA resolutions daily so we can prevent confusion with the old left momentum hijackers across town.

they're the ones who keep starting up circuses like (uh) storming the air & space museum with that agent provocateur and yelling at innocent potential compatriot senate staffers while unfurling banners in random beaurecratic buildings and then tagging their actions as #OccupyDC

is greg oden there? xp

xp

yeah shit like that would be really useful

ty hoos!

Who's at Occupy Billings? Or is that Occupy Helena?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, October 14, 2011 12:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

looks like missoula you coastal snob

i met clay at the pdx camp yesterday and told him i'd been wrong to be so doomy the night before last; the camp is thriving and we've managed to spin our way out of the fucking Street Issue. (with the help of the mayor, who seems to love us.) yes the weather is shit, though.

6 pm Dinner at Sardis
7:30 pm Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark

i have not seen greg oden. yet.

i visited Occupy LA this week, talked to people there etc - was it discussed at all on the other mammoth thread that i can't face opening? if not i can jot down thoughts later.

might go to the first day of Occupy LSX tomorrow but think it'll be underwhelming on the weekend, might wait til the week

breitbart should "crowdsource" an analysis of the last thread

he can crowdsource an analysis of deez nuts

In re Geithner: would just like to throw out there that reforming the system is FAR more important than sending people to jail -- to extend the drug metaphor, otherwise you're just trading Avon for Marlo.

I don't know that it will "hurt" the banks, but I think its good for credit unions and it's not good for banks so...

shakey:

But consider that in the five weeks leading up to the weekend – ever since the Sept. 29 announcement by Bank of America about a $5 debit-card fee, which has since been rescinded – more than $4.5 billion has shifted from big banks into the nation’s roughly 7,000 credit unions alone, according to the Credit Union National Association (CUNA).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/10/1035088/-Big-Banks-Could-Lose-85bn-In-Deposits?via=search

http://static.zoovy.com/img/redford/W414-H414-Bffffff/3/384523_1020_a.jpg

thx sleeve

Heading to the pdx waterfront march within the hour. Anybody else around?

more than $4.5 billion has shifted from big banks into the nation’s roughly 7,000 credit unions alone

wow that's impressive. I love my CU. I don't understand why anyone would use a commercial bank for regular checking and savings stuff. borrowing I can understand though because the big banks usually have better rates.

*head in hands*

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/13/occupy-seattle-interrupts-pro-occupy-wall-street-forum-drives-away-supporters

oof

I can move my regular checking and stuff to a credit union (still sorting out the process here) but my mortgage is a pretty different matter

mic check

1, 2 what is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKmz3Yfzvw

*head in hands*

*dons tinfoil hat*

*head in hands*

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/13/occupy-seattle-interrupts-pro-occupy-wall-street-forum-drives-away-supporters

― The Reverend, Thursday, November 17, 2011 5:26 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

that sounds like my vision of hell tbqh.

http://i.imgur.com/071Fe.jpg

well im glad i went

foley square was kinda wack tho

how so

they had a irl mic and speakers and ppl talking gib on stage... horrible slam/rapping, even worse a cappella, and they kept shouting "mic check"

its like, lady, you have a fucking microphone, okay? you dont need to shout mic check. we can all hear you.

the vibe was fun though, lotta live music, wacky protest characters, etc. i just wanted to throttle the ppl w/ the microphone

So much for heading downtown right now. Ah well.

sorry max I didn't look at ilx.

the problem w/ these things is that nobody controls the microphone or whatever, so there's not an agenda or serious speakers or something to wait around for.

foley was smaller than last foley protest unless it got bigger after I left.

the big protests have been all about the unions tho, and I think they didn't push this one as much as the last one.

i saw a ton of union groups but yeah not at the same level than at the last march at foley

but it seemed like there was someone controlling the mic? or the same like three horrible people?

someone was telling me that van jones new group was behind all this, not like a fox news type, one of the protesters

yeah rebuild the dream is trying to organize around this

so is moveon, kind of lol getting their emails in particular

"BIG HOOS,

Can you attend a 99% Learning Event tomorrow night in Washington?"

like nah actually i'm busy producing a newspaper and organizing a teach-in

watch this full-screen. cinematic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhQCpXM-Sm4

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/11/occupy-vs-tea-party-what-their.html

^ dumb but pretty kinda

Noticed this offhand bit in this;

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/saving_ows_library/singleton/?mobile.html

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines. I’ve visited twice in its two months, and recently participated in a group reading of Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

And you can hear Adam Reed and the rest of the _Archer_ writers cheer from here

wow that's impressive. I love my CU. I don't understand why anyone would use a commercial bank for regular checking and savings stuff. borrowing I can understand though because the big banks usually have better rates.

well, last year i almost transferred my funds from my credit union to a large bank (not BoA/Citi/Wells Fargo or the other obvious bad guys, but a large regional bank) b/c the credit union office was far from where i currently live (i joined when i was still an undergrad) and their service had been deteriorating over the years. just before i did that, though, they were bought out by a larger credit union with offices throughout the state of New Jersey and much better service.

that said, i do support transferring funds from the large banks to credit unions if it makes sense and it's an available option.

lolllllll @ the end of that vid

hold me back yo, hold me back

went on a mass walking tour of downtown chicago w/ occupy chicago today. i can't really find any numbers; everything seems to say "hundreds" of protesters, which i think is just the phrase they use for all occupy chicago demonstrations, even if the police estimates are much higher.

oh but btw if you want to read something annoying the chicago sun-times has got u covered: http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/8899083-452/occupy-chicago-joins-the-party.html

Learn the name Catherine Cortez Masto, because she just took a big leap in front of every public servant in the country in terms of restoring faith in government. As Nevada AG, she actually indicted someone for blowing up our housing system. Specifically, she handed down 606 counts of felony or gross misdemeanor indictments on robo-signing against two employees of big bank subcontractor Lender Processing Services.

It’s pretty clear from the indictment that these are mid-level employees, one level up supervisors of fraud rather than top CEOs. And yet, even if this were as far as it goes, it would still be a big deal. These would be the only charges served involving the housing crisis and its link with the structurally corrupt securitization chain so far. By itself, these indictments signify that the fraudulent foreclosure game is over for the big mortgage servicers in Nevada, which is the center of the foreclosure epidemic. It says the rule of law matters, in at least one corner of the country. But you don’t throw 606 counts against someone if all you’re going for is jail time for that person; this is about starting at the bottom, and flipping people. It could be the takedown of the mortgage servicer mafia, and then back to the origination.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/matt-stoller-nevada-attorney-general-catherine-cortez-masto-cracks-open-the-financial-crisis.html

At Pioneer Square for the smaller OccupyPDX ga. Maybe 5+ dozen folks/participants/gawkers here.

john robb arguing that the european crisis is gonna give global occupy all the steam it needs to reignite outrage at banks

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/protests-illustrate-dire-economic-anxiety-bloomberg-says/

As Occupy Wall Street protesters massed in Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was in Midtown, telling an audience of business leaders that the protests were a dire sign of the public’s economic fears.

“We’re coming to a point where Occupy Wall Street is just the beginning, the Tea Party is just the beginning,” he said. “The public is getting scared. They don’t know what to do, and they’re going to strike out, and they don’t know where.”

“Occupy Wall Street had this great saying, and they were chanting it: ‘We don’t know what we want, but we want it now,’ ” the mayor continued, prompting laughter from the crowd, which included Rupert Murdoch.

“And if you think about it, that tells you what the problem is,” he said. “They just know the system isn’t working, and they don’t want to wait around,” he said, for another hollow promise by politicians (the mayor punctuated his remarks with an expletive).

sorry if that was posted already! i can't keep track anymore.

His comments echoed remarks he had made on Sept. 16, on his weekly radio program, when he raised the prospect that youth unemployment might cause riots in the United States.

“That’s what happened in Cairo; that’s what happened in Madrid,” he said at the time. “You don’t want those kinds of riots here.”

The Occupy Wall Street protests started the next day.

does michael bloomberg...........................................get it?

He's like Penn State: his mindset is, "Sure, this particular batshit strategy didn't work in every other circumstance, but it's sure to work in this situation!"

if he didn't get it, he wouldn't have ordered the crackdowns.

Wojciech Jaruzelski and Hosni Mubarak "got it," too.

idk I'm still of the mind that there is almost nothing *more* bloomberg could have done for the protests. make the zuccotti takeover more violent, I guess? I mean throughout this there's been just enough police brutality to get people angry and out on the streets. and the crackdown was a pretty good way for us to save face because it's gonna get unbearably cold and there's nothing that noble about 20 crunchy dudes freezing to death in tents.

frozen phish sticks

its like, lady, you have a fucking microphone, okay? you dont need to shout mic check. we can all hear you.

That's what I was yelling.... I was glad I could only stay 45 minutes, there was nothing more to do as I wasn't crossing the bridge.

also unimpressed with a few morons acting out and pushing barricades over, when there was nothing to be gained.

Occupy Wall Street 3: Now What?

prompting laughter from the crowd, which included Rupert Murdoch.

i am starting to think that bloomberg is doing some really stealth PR for OWS.