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Seriously guys, REBLOG PLEASE.
This shows the brutality of the police against protesters. Stands at 6,464 arrests of Jan 31, 2012.
Democracy Now presents a concise tale of what happened in Oakland in ugly clashes between peaceful protestors and aggressive police:
“They are more interested in protecting abandoned private property than they are the people. And the idea that opening up a social center is terrorism is very telling of the narrative of the police state,” Lewis says.
Wall street circa the ’60s.
Oakland protests on January 28, 2012
Hey mom and dad-
Remember how awesome and revolutionary you were in the 80s when you bought me a child-sized gas mask and took me to all those protests that changed the course of our country? Oh wait- that’s MY GENERATION.
Elle of Oakland: Street Medic Supply: What to Pack & What to Wear.
Please keep in mind that this is intended to be a basic primer and not an exhaustive list. While it is recommended to carry all items on this list, there may be additional things you want to add based on your expertise and ability. Certain things may be marked “optional,” dependent on level of…
Great little write up on preparing to help your brothers and sisters if that is your calling.
Occupy protesters show up at foreclosure sales | ajc.com
Occupy protesters showed up at monthly home foreclosure auctions on courthouse steps in three [metro Atlanta] counties Tuesday, with one protester arrested in Fulton County. The auctions in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties, each attended by as many as a dozen protesters, went quietly, witnesses said. Several dozen protesters stood in the rain at the Fulton courthouse, making noise to protest the foreclosures nonviolently. Tracy Flanagan, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, said protesters were blowing whistles, holding up signs, speaking loudly over the auctions “and kind of blocking the sidewalk.”
This is an interesting idea.
Alan Moore Responds to Frank Millers ‘Occupy’ Rant
“Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided. I think that there has probably been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller’s work for quite a long time. Since I don’t have anything to do with the comics industry, I don’t have anything to do with the people in it. I heard about the latest outpourings regarding the Occupy movement. It’s about what I’d expect from him. It’s always seemed to me that the majority of the comics field, if you had to place them politically, you’d have to say centre-right. That would be as far towards the liberal end of the spectrum as they would go. I’ve never been in any way, I don’t even know if I’m centre-left. I’ve been outspoken about that since the beginning of my career. So yes I think it would be fair to say that me and Frank Miller have diametrically opposing views upon all sorts of things, but certainly upon the Occupy movement.
As far as I can see, the Occupy movement is just ordinary people reclaiming rights which should always have been theirs. I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it; they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s too big to fail. It’s a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it. I’m sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces, he’d be more in favour of it. We would definitely have to agree to differ on that one.”
Almost Two Years of US GDP were Secretly Extended by the Fed | $16 Trillion in Secret Loans and Another $10 Trillion in Secret Euro Money Swaps by the Fed | Secret, low-interest loans from Federal Reserve helped banks reap $13 billion in income - The Washington Post
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required emergency loans of a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market interest rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.
Saved by the 2007-2010 bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse.
While Fed officials say that almost all the loans were repaid without losses, details that emerge from 29,000 pages of Fed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and central bank records of more than 21,000 transactions suggest taxpayers paid a price beyond dollars as the secret funding helped preserve a broken status quo and enabled the biggest banks to grow even bigger.
“When you see the dollars the banks got, it’s hard to make the case these were successful institutions,” said Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown. “This is an issue that can unite the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.”
We are nearing the time when people who ask “what is Occupy about?” can not continue to hide behind their feigned innocence. The question is becoming a marker of sorts- one that warns of either of the false ignorance of the terrified 1%, or of a head shoved so far up one’s own ass that there really is no use in even trying to explain.
Shit that pisses me off.
I normally hate Facebook fights, but I JUST HAD TO REPLY.
Don’t know you- but thank you- this is what we need- people talking to their Facebook friends and real life friends about the truth! Solidarity.
To the Occupy Wall Streeters who are contemplating occupying the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, I have the following statement:
In your attempt to stand for something great, you have become more corrupt than those whom you are protesting against.#occupyignorance
I know, right? Can you imagine the atrocity and horror of an Occupied Macy’s Day Parade? Truly, they have become more corrupt then those whom they are protesting against.
Law and order at #OWS. Near the New York Stock Exchange.
(Via @katz)
But he had to pull her hair for his own safety. Her pony tail was like a fire hazard or something.
Today at Occupy Portland: Protester hit with pepper spray at point blank range.
How can anyone justify this? Or this?
POLICE STATE. POLICE STATE. POLICE STATE. Resist or join by default.
