Thread: Thousands to occupy Wall Street in protest

Ms Civil Society vs Mr Unaccountable

The Occupy movement has taken the development of civil society into a previously unimaginable direction.

Rebecca Solnit Last Modified: 26 Nov 2011 03:42


Ms Civil Society vs Mr Unaccountable - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Alexander Dubcek, the government official turned hero of the Prague Spring uprising of 1968, once said: "You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring."

^ A very good op-ed article Mobs, well worth reading.

It's as though the great New York-centric moment of openness after 9/11, when we were ready to re-examine our basic assumptions and look each other in the eye, has returned, and this time it's not confined to New York City, and we're not ready to let anyone shut it down with rubbish about patriotism and peril, safety and sanitation.

It's as if the best of the spirit of the Obama presidential campaign of 2008 was back - without the foolish belief that one man could do it all for civil society. In other words, this is a revolt, among other things, against the confinement of decision-making to a thoroughly corrupted and corporate-money-laced electoral sphere and against the pitfalls of leaders. And it represents the return in a new form of the best of the post-9/11 moment.

As for the worst after 9/11 - you already know the worst. You've lived it. The worst was two treasury-draining wars that helped cave in the American dream, a loss of civil liberties, privacy, and governmental accountability. The worst was the rise of a national security state to almost unimaginable proportions, a rogue state that is our own government, and that doesn't hesitate to violate with impunity the Geneva Convention, the Bill of Rights, and anything else it cares to trash in the name of US "safety" and "security".

Easy Rider




'A Man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere.'

Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry
And I would dearly like to know
I've all this wonder of earthly plunder
Will 't leave us anything to show
And our time is flyin'
See the candle burnin' low
Is the new world risin'
From the shambles of the old
If we just join hands
If we could just join hands
If we could just, if we could just
If we could just, if we could just
If we could just join hands, hands
That's all it takes, that's all it takes

Led Zep - The Rover

Occupy Dallas Thugs Throw Fake Blood on Windows of Neiman Marcus



Just like the Red Shirts throwing blood on Abhisit's house, eh?
Real classy, NOT!

Downtown Neimans Now a Little Less Festive After Protestors Throw Fake Blood on Windows - Dallas News - Unfair Park

Here's a new barbaric tactic for dispersing the #OWS protesters!



Look at 'em run!

And then they unleash the most terrifying & repugnant terrorism tactic of all.

^
It seems there are a lot of dirty and lazy Americans now.

Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix.

George Carlin describing facts about this plutocracy/Oligarchy

Those two clips really say it how it is. The George Carlin one is spot on.

Some OWS in this.

Start setting yourselves on fire, and we'll try to take you at least half seriously.

Originally Posted by bsnub

George Carlin describing facts about this plutocracy/Oligarchy

it's a nice rant, but unfortunately not really based on reality but perception

what is currently lacking in America is a strong national "union" that would cover all those low paid jobs

the rich are only abusing the working poor because the working poor are letting them get away with it. They need to get organized and tell the abusing corporations to fuck off.

Just like the tea party, eh?

1. NY: 10/1/2011 — – Video

This can only end badly...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Just like the tea party, eh?

More balls and staying power than tea baggers ever imagined.

Looks like the campaign to shut down the big nasty corporate stores was a bit of a bust. The shoppers were shooting and pepper spraying each other to get at all the junk on sale. Final numbers are over US$50 billion in sales---(for one day!! A new record....sending the markets, and no doubt management bonuses soaring at all the big retail outfits.... The 1% must be really pumped...

I don't think most of the 99% are listening to that 0.0001%. Maybe time to pack up the tent and sleeping bag...... Go home and recharge your batteries listening to some good George Carlin rants and catch up on some real truth from Russian TV....... You can always camp out again in the spring.....if you have'nt been converted by the Evangelical Right by then.....

Post #1440 is in such bad taste. Boon Mee, you have absolutely no repect from me any longer.

Originally Posted by koman

I don't think most of the 99% are listening to that 0.0001%. Maybe time to pack up the tent and sleeping bag...... Go home and recharge your batteries listening to some good George Carlin rants and catch up on some real truth from Russian TV....... You can always camp out again in the spring.....if you have'nt been converted by the Evangelical Right by then.....

Those Walmart zombies are hard to kill. (I had to do a Walmart visit myself the other day.)

Komen, I don't think the numbers are shrinking. Looks like every time there is a big push to get the protesters out, even more get riled up and show up the next day.

Miley Cyrus

Originally Posted by misskit

Those Walmart zombies are hard to kill. (I had to do a Walmart visit myself the other day.)

Yes, shopping at Wally world is always an uplifting experience. I think it comes from knowing that you are helping to keep a political prisoner busy in China....and helping out the Walton family at the same time. Win win situation...

^What? Buy shopping at Walmart I am helping the COMMIES?

Originally Posted by misskit

^What? Buy shopping at Walmart I am helping the COMMIES?

Yes, I think you have some explaining to do. You are clearly increasing the net worth of the Walton clan who are most definitely 1% ers....and as those 3 pair for $1 panties you buy are made in China....sometimes by prisoners who are used as slave labour..(up to 5 million apparently) ...you are also helping the commies. Some "occupier" you are going to make...sheesh... At least have the decency to buy your tent and sleeping bag from a local Co-Op store and check the labels before you pay....