Occupy Broadwayworld- Page 14

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/23/11 at 11:56pm

Healthcare is something that's on the mouths and signs of a lot of people involved in the Occupy movement, Marianne.

And that pie looks tasty, PJ.

[CountA]

Posted: 11/24/11 at 8:28am

Good Health starts with good hygiene.

"Get a job right after you take a bath!"

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/24/11 at 11:59am

Happy Tofurkey Day everybody.

[CountA]

Posted: 11/24/11 at 9:35pm

Very funny. I love it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 4:33pm

Today, Occupy Boston set up a Really, Really Free Market outside the major Back Bay mall. Because they were giving away gently used books, toys and clothing, they were swarmed by cops. After all, the Shopping Season is a festival honoring the birth of a religious leader who advocated the giving away of personal possessions. Therefore, Black Friday is a holy day of obligation to $pend. It all makes perfect sense.

[CountA]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 7:42pm

There were probably many other legal ramifications and FACTS to your "fairy tale" about Boston, but why let the truth get in the way of a convenient narrative.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 7:58pm

Namo, they probably did not know that they were supposed to start a near riot over $2 waffle makers.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 8:07pm

I have never understood the craziness of Black Friday. All over the states people camp out at chain stores in order to get a few bucks off of some piece of junk nobody really needs anyway - funny how it's ok to camp out if you're doing so to $pend, but not ok if you're doing so to bring awareness to problems, isn't it?

[Q]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 9:54pm

According to Ed Rogers, at the Washington Post,
OWS is over.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 11/25/11 at 10:53pm

LOL! Throw in a few "pig-bitin' mad" comments and that could have been written by Ed Anger from the Weekly World News. Thanks for the laugh, Q.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 4:29pm

Bill O'Liely famously declared OWS finished and dead the day before 35,000 people turned out in NYC. Let's just say, punditry is pretty much irrelevant to this movement.

[CountA]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 10:34pm

It's good to know that with AL Gore out of the picture, there are still people to carry on with his version of reality.

DELUSIONAL.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 10:42pm

Namo, Monday morning in LA will be interesting. The City will be evicting the Occupy LA folks from the City Hall grounds.

While as discussed early, I think the "Occupy" portion of this protest may have run its course, I am hoping that whatever happens on Monday is resolved peacefully.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 12:17am

I never expected anything more from OWS than what it has done - get attention and focus it on many forms of inequality. The government's often violent reaction across the board has done nothing but draw those who might otherwise have remained inert, uninvolved. It was a clarion call.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 12:51am

That's exactly right, ghostlight. In two months they have changed the national conversation in an unprecedented way. Why, even Mrs. Palin, out of nowhere and completely unrelated to this change in national conversation in ANY way, wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week suddenly calling for financial transparency in Congress and invokes "grassroots movements" and Occupy in a positive manner. And really, don't we all believe her sails aren't blown by the prevailing winds at all?

This is happening. Now. And the pundits are irrelevant. It doesn't matter how they knock it for their corporate overlords, it's an idea who's time is now.

Updated On: 11/27/11 at 12:51 AM

[Q]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 9:07am

There's a part of me that feels that this is fairly sensationalistic - and yet, it's exactly what I've assumed has been going on all along.
Whatever truth there is here should be a serious warning siren.
The Shocking Truth

[CountA]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 9:57am

I think La Palin agrees with the saying, "Go get a job right after you take a bath."

It's great that this statement so infuriates and confounds people that they have absolutely no answer to it.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 10:08am

Q, I have a similar reaction - I am not sure I agree with everyone Naomi Wolf says, but there is something there.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 10:11am

Third that opinion. I'm not sure if it's a conspiracy that goes up to the highest levels, but there is no denying that that movement is disturbing and threatening to a lot of people in power despite being in its infancy. Anyone that thinks OWS is "dead" is delusional.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 10:15am

And for the record, and again because I can't edit my posts, here's the article on employment rates within OWS.
Most “Occupy Wall Street” Protesters Have Jobs

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 11:27am

Here is a pretty strong rebuttal of Wolf's thesis:

"But there has not been a single report offered by any media outlet suggesting that anyone – federal officials or police organizations – is directing or in any way exerting pressure on cities to crack down on their occupations. Instead, there have been a lot of dark ruminations that such an effort is underway – notably by Naomi Wolf in an error-filled blog-post and a somewhat bizarre column for The Guardian in which Wolf takes an enormous leap away from any known facts to suggest that Congress is ordering cities to smash the Occupy Movement in order to preserve their own economic privilege."
Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truth’ About the ‘Occupy Crackdowns’ Offers Anything but the Truth

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 11:33am

Even when I don't agree with everything Naomi Wolf says, I usually LOVE the way she says it.

I am really disturbed by the militarization of police operations. I can't imagine the waste of tax payer dollars to buy the Tampa Police Deparment's "12-ton armored personnel carrier", (if it looks like a tank, and rolls like a tank), but there you have it.

Here's a really inspiring blog analysis of the remarkable evolution of tactics going on in OWS.
#OWS => New forms of Nonviolence and Leadership emerging??

Updated On: 11/27/11 at 11:33 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 12:44pm

Where I live the Occupy movement tried to get a permit and were denied repeatedly. The mayor gave a different reason excuse each day as to why it was not granted.

The same thing happened in two neighboring cities.

Whether it was pressure from upper government I can not say, but I wanted to share because I think its important for us to realize that while there is a lot a press on the events in major urban areas, smaller cities are having a hard time organizing.

Also, the WSJ had a good article on why bankers should be greatful that OWS is so peaceful.

WSJ - no wagon bombs this time

Updated On: 11/27/11 at 12:44 PM

[CountA]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 1:25pm

Is there a way to get Barack and Moochelle to pose with these jobless people? These photos/videos would make great campaign commercials for 2012. This is a SURE way for an Obama victory.
A Little Truth about OWS

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 2:45pm

Taz, it's really clear Rupert and his financial industry bible can't afford to laugh off OWS with quips. It's too big and too threatening for dismissal.