This is so much more eloquent than I could have ever put it. it’s making me realize I need to develop my ability to write.
We are the consequence. Thus reads the poetry of the moment, spraypainted on the side of a dumpster-barricade outside of Occupy Oakland in the hours before it was besieged by hundreds of cops and destroyed. A threat, a promise, but more than that the phrase means that what is happening here in Oakland is not just a ephemeral explosion, not just another one of the twice-yearly riots that passes through the city like a comet. No, it is part of a sequence. There are consequences to the things we do.
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feeding the trolls
Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 3:31 PM
@decuperate I’m going to send positive thoughts out to you today. I think you could use some. You seem really uptight and angry.
decuperate (@decuperate)
10/16/11 3:21 PM
@JoanneGreco777 quick question for you:http://t.co/peaKEwDA (“Losers? What a hateful word. … Do you usually insult people you don’t know?”)Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 3:11 PM
@decuperate If the shoe fits….decuperate (@decuperate)
10/16/11 3:06 PM
@JoanneGreco777 not my word, friend:http://t.co/8Fk6RNhy (“Let The Losers Take Over”)Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 2:58 PM
@decuperate Losers? What a hateful word. I think you need some fresh air and a hug. Do you usually insult people you don’t know?decuperate (@decuperate)
10/16/11 2:45 PM
@JoanneGreco777 you think exploited are losers? You a loser for loving that record?Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 2:40 PM
@decuperate I love the record. If #OccupyPortland wants to be seen as an anti-American protest, then so be it. Let the losers take over.decuperate (@decuperate)
10/16/11 2:10 PM
@JoanneGreco777 you don’t dig that record anymore, huh? Asking people to denounce those who cover it?Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 2:04 PM
@decuperate No need, I have the album. Bought it when it came out actually. Want real change?#VoteThirdPartydecuperate (@decuperate)
10/16/11 1:59 PM
@JoanneGreco777 I thought it was a great cover and suspect #TheExploited would be pretty down w/ context. look up the lyrix.Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 1:54 PM
@decuperate It’s a shame those idiots at #OccupyPortland ruined a perfectly good song by an awesome band.decuperate (@decuperate)
10/16/11 1:39 PM
@csoshields @JoanneGreco777 huh. really? are we denouncing people for a pretty great cover of a song written by #TheExploited?Joanne Greco-Akerman (@JoanneGreco777)
10/16/11 1:16 PM
#OccupyPortland Sings Fuck the USA t.co/3X7uobOq#OccupyWallStreet
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
So Wrong.
This is why over 50 million people in the US are living in poverty.
The estimated crowd for today’s Occupy Portland was around 10,000. Portland police reported no arrests and said the protesters were “tremendously peaceful and very receptive of police presence.” One of the officers said: “It’s moving to see this large number of people expressing their views and our commitment is to do everything we can to keep them safe.”
(via lindseydreadfuls)
Article: Alleged Radiohead Imposter: Hoax Was To Drum Up Support For Occupy Wall Street: Gothamist
- Alleged Radiohead Imposter: Hoax Was To Drum Up Support For Occupy Wall
- Street: Gothamist
- http: //gothamist.com/2011/10/02/alleged_radiohead_imposter_hoax_was.php
- The prank was to give folks an excuse to go to Zuccotti, and although I’m
- sure I’m terribly sorry for all the pain and suffering I’ve caused
- apolitical Radiohead fans, it worked, and now our numbers are larger and
- growing. But it was also to illustrate the buffoonery of self-important
- spokespeople and committees. This is what happens when two people get put in
- charge of something (the vaguely tyrannical “Arts and Culture committee”)
- and empower themselves to speak “officially.” Now they’ve put one person in
- charge of communications. There are left authoritarians too, they’re a vocal
- minority, but they don’t speak for me or plenty of others.
- So this is a call for more humor, more pranks, more of that good old anon
- shit at Occupy Wall Street and at the other occupations springing up around
- the country. It’s not that hard, it’s a lot more fun than long meetings, and
- it’ll work.
Article: The New Inquiry - A Bridge to Somewhere
The New Inquiry - A Bridge to Somewhere http://thenewinquiry.com/post/10995237203/a-bridge-to-somewhere 5:00 pm: As soon as the officers shut the heavy metal doors, I slip my right hand out of plastic cuffs. As it gets incredibly hot sweat lubricates wrists and 10-12 of us are out of our constraints. I have a few bottles of water in my bag and we pass them around, pouring it into the mouths of those of us still cuffed. We do about five minutes of ideological infighting before laughing it off and sharing names. I’ve never seen a collection of mostly strangers so gracious in doling out and accepting help. Less than an inch of plastic separates the freer from the bound, it only took a few minutes for care to become a collective responsibility. After about an hour, a trip into Brooklyn and back into Manhattan, we can tell that we have arrived at One Police Plaza and were being stored in the wagon awaiting processing. Fifteen people in an unventilated metal box for hours get really hot, and a few started to get faint. We shifted them to the cooler floor, and tried to conserve water. It wasn’t until later that I thought about what it would have been like had our restraints been tighter. I use my phone to Tweet: “We’re considering calling 911: ‘Help, me and 14 other people have been kidnapped and put into a van by a gang of armed men! Send help!’” Our escorting officers enter and exit the car, but won’t answer any of our yells. We all distinctly hear one on a radio say, “But I still have 15 bodies in the trunk…” I scream back, “We’re not bodies yet!” (via Instapaper >)
Article: The New Inquiry - A Bridge to Somewhere
The New Inquiry - A Bridge to Somewhere http://thenewinquiry.com/post/10995237203/a-bridge-to-somewhere As it becomes clear we have taken the bridge, marchers who had already entered the walkway jump over the railing and onto the street. I see two teenagers who must have been a couple from the rehearsed but nervous “I want to if you want to” look they shared before clambering down. The chants are now all about the bridge: “Whose bridge?/Our bridge!” “Occ-Upy!/Brooklyn Bridge!” There is more joy than I’ve seen so far at Occupy Wall Street, no one can quite believe what’s happening. (via Instapaper >)
