I’m sure you’ve heard the riot-gear clad police cleared the Occupy Oakland protesters out of their holdings early Monday morning. In a more recent development, legal adviser to the Mayor of Oakland, Dan Siegel, has resigned: Continue reading Occupy Oakland: Protesters Ousted, Mayoral Aid Resigns
Tag Archives: Occupy Wall Street
Occupy: Possible Showdowns in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has a very cool mayor who would probably be sleeping in a tent with the occupy movement if that wouldn’t have various ethical and legal implications. But Minneapolis is also in Hennepin County and the County has a lot to do with what happens in the city. The County owns property and provided a significant amount of police service in Minneapolis. For instance, if you go Downtown on Friday Night you’ll see a lot of cops in the bar districts, and a large percentage of them are wearing County Sheriff Brown.
The Occupy Minnesota protest has been happening in Government Plaza which apparently is under control of the County. County officials have told the Occupiers that there will be no more overnight camping in the Plaza, and they’ve thrown in a few other rules about posting signs, etc.
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Michele Bachmann vs. the 99%
Oh, and if your blood isn’t boiling and you want it to, here’s a little Ann Coulter for you: Continue reading Michele Bachmann vs. the 99%
Occupy Michele Bachmann
About 30 Occupy Wall Street protesters have interrupted a foreign policy speech by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann in South Carolina.
Bachmann was delivering the speech Thursday on the deck of the mothballed aircraft carrier USS Yorktown near Charleston when the protesters stood up and began shouting, “Mike check!”
They told her she was more concerned with dividing Americans than helping them. They chanted for about three minutes while the Minnesota congresswoman left the stage.
Is there really a “1%”?
Scott Olsen to undergo brain surgery
The protesting vet who was injured by police in Oakland will have to have brain surgery. He was in critical condition but has been upgraded to fair. It is not know if he has regained consciousness.
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Video of IRA style attack on protesters in Oakland
The Oakland cops suck.
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Oakland Occupy: A turn for the worse
Veteran Marine Scott Olsen was shot in the head by a rubber bullet by Oakland Police at Occupy Oakland last night, and is now suffering “skull fracture and swelling of the brain”
Disturbing video below the fold.
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Who are the 99% and what are they asking for?
I love the blog post “Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr”
99% Tumbler is a web site with a zillion pictures of people holding up their signs that say things, and in many but not all cases the thing the sign says is also presented as text on the site. So, Mike Konczal of Rortybomb parsed out the text and came up with some very cool stuff.
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Obama, Occupy Wall Street & 2012 Campaign
News Reporters Consider Stopping Coverage of “Occupy”
Two of our local news reporters here in Minnesota, citing the fact that the “Occupy” type protest are not very Minnesotans and alleging that only a few people showed up for them, considered no longer covering them. One of the two reporters wrote a blog post about their conversation:
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Get a clue, lady?
I’ve been watching, and generally enjoying, the Occupy Wallstreet (and everywhere else) signs. But this one, I find annoying and offensive:
The sign indicates that you are complaining about the world you made, presumptive middle class straight white lady with the presumably genderonormative hat on her baby. And you seen to openly disdain all those who have been telling you this all along (and thus by the exclusionary list you’ve given me I’m guessing as to whom you are). I’m glad if you’ve suddenly decided to become aware and enlightened. But judging just from this sign, you still need to get a clue.
(And what the fuck is a “vague”? What is that? Anybody know?*)
Either you sign needs a phrase added to provide context which would indicate that you are not distancing yourself from man of the movements or groups that have paved the way for you, or you need to rethink your message.
See comments below for a spirited if somewhat mean fight over the meaning of this sign. Which needs a phrase or two to add context.
See also this:
*That was irony
NYC to evict wall street occupiers
The small Manhattan square occupied by anti-Wall Street protestors for almost four weeks will be temporarily cleared for cleaning on Friday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Bloomberg went to the protest site, where several hundred people are camped out, to explain the move, which would be the first time the demonstrators are asked to leave, the mayor’s office said.
Bloomberg said the owners of the plaza wanted to exercise their duty in cleaning it — and that this was their right, although protestors would be allowed back immediately.
That’s from the Raw Story.
What do you think? Plausible? A trick? Should we trust Bloomberg?
It was promised that ….
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Last Night’s Violence on Wall Street
Today is a big day on Wall Street
But not for the stock brokers…
Starting today several new groups will add to the ranks of those “occupying” Wall Street, including MoveOn.org and various unions.
The anti-bank campaign has in fact been incubating for years — a “seed beneath the snow,†as the Italian novelist Ignazio Silone once termed the slow-to-arrive left. The sit-ins, teach-ins and street demonstrations popping up in Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles are formally the handiwork of a coalition of community groups that recently gathered together as the New Bottom Line. Many of these groups have focused on immediate goals — such as stopping particular banks from foreclosing on more homes. They, along with unions, have demonstrated on Wall Street many times since the 2008 financial crisis. But only now, as Occupy Wall Street — an organization that they didn’t create — has grabbed the public imagination the past few weeks, are the myriad mobilizations commanding the media’s attention.
See the rest of this essay by Harold Meyerson
In related news, a new poll reported by the Washington Post (but not on their web site yet) indicates that about 14 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is moving. And, finally, Obama is starting to become aggressive in his campaigning for “change.”
In Texas on Tuesday, the president went after a leading Republican by name: “Yesterday the Republican majority leader in Congress, Eric Cantor, said that right now he won’t even let this jobs bill have a vote in the House of Representatives,†Obama said. “I would like Mr. Cantor to come here to Dallas and explain what exactly in this jobs bill does he not believe in, what exactly he is opposed to. Does he not believe in rebuilding America’s roads and bridges? Does he not believe in tax breaks for small businesses or efforts to help our veterans?â€
This is obviously follow-up to Obama’s state of the economy speech in which he kicked the ball into Congresses’s (and mainly the Republicans’, and really, mainly the Tea Party’s) court.
This is going to be an interesting, and crucial, election season.