OCCUPY WALL STREET

[Dominique]

Originally Posted by SoNotHer

Are you two discussing dancing in a time of great social unrest, political upheaval and paradigm shifting?

Well, then, go on with your bad selves. :-)

Hears Janis Joplin music

[persiphone]

how awesome would that be though.....flash mobs of ballroom dancers in the middle of police clashes. i call it The Mace Tango. it's sooooo Titanic~ish with the violinists playing as the ship goes down.

[dykeumentary]

Originally Posted by persiphone

how awesome would that be though.....flash mobs of ballroom dancers in the middle of police clashes. i call it The Mace Tango. it's sooooo Titanic~ish with the violinists playing as the ship goes down.

Don't even go there, P.
I might incite global revolution just so I can bedazzle you with my "BUTCH DYKE DOUGIE".

[atomiczombie]

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” - Thomas Jefferson

[persiphone]

Originally Posted by dykeumentary

Don't even go there, P.
I might incite global revolution just so I can bedazzle you with my "BUTCH DYKE DOUGIE".

i'm not even gonna ask what that is. i'm picturing something like out of West Side Story though

[dykeumentary]

Originally Posted by persiphone

i'm not even gonna ask what that is. i'm picturing something like out of West Side Story though

Yes, you aren't too far off. Not only will I do the "butch dyke dougie" but will also treat the 'old world order' to this:
An elaborate production number; a kick line of Femmes in sequin gowns and elbow gloves, me-- ascending from a pomegranate-shaped pool of sychronized swimmers in a top hat and tails, disco balls, full orchestra, AND the ghost of Celia Cruz.

Doesn't that vision make you just want to speed the day!

Ps: you can read me like a book! I love that Jets' finger-snap walk!

[persiphone]

Republicans blast Occupy movement at debate
AFP – 4 hrs ago



Republicans candidates vying for their party's nomination lambasted the Occupy Wall Street movement on Saturday, at a debate organized by Christian groups.

"Go get a job right after you take a bath," Newt Gingrich told the audience at the "Thanksgiving Family Forum," when asked about activists protesting over the last two months in major US cities including New York and Washington.

The protesters seek an overhaul to what they see as major socioeconomic inequalities fostered by mainstream US politics and systems of finance.

Another frontrunner in the race, former pizza boss Herman Cain, slammed the OWS movement by claiming that "freedom without responsibility is immoral."The forum, organized by a number of right-wing Christian organizations, was attended by other candidates Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum, were present Saturday to this discussion.

Only Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, both Mormons and more moderate candidates, did not attend.
Iowa is a key state for the Republican primary, as it holds the first in a series of primary votes on January 3, in the battle to face incumbent Barack Obama in the general election next November.


i highlighted the classy bits in red and funny bits in blue

[persiphone]

How Did They Project That Occupy Wall Street Message on the Verizon Building?
By Dashiell Bennett | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Nov 18, 2011




..One of the most impressive moments of yesterday's Occupy Wall Street marches, was when someone projected a giant 99% "bat signal" on the side of one of lower Manhattan's skyscrapers as thousands of people swarmed across the nearby Brooklyn Bridge. New Yorkers know the Verizon Building as the windowless, concrete eyesore that looms over the bridge and mars the downtown skyline, so seeing it used is such a way certainly got a lot of attention.


But who did it? And how were they able to project the stories-high words on the building just as the protesters made their way over the span? Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin spoke to Max Read, one of the Occupy Wall Street organizer who pulled together a team of friends and artists that arranged for the projection to happen.


Read says he got help from two video projection artists, Max Nova and JR Skola, who used a 12,000 lumen projector and programmed the software needed to properly program the message. He also found an apartment in a nearby housing project from where they safely angle the projection on to the building. He says he offered to rent the apartment from a single mother of three, but when she found out what they wanted to use it for — and saw what happened during the eviction of Zuccotti Park — she refused to take their money.


You can read more detail in the full interview at Boing Boing and see a video of the full message below:

Related: Bloomberg Says Unions Supporting Protesters Ought to Be Thanking Banks


here's the link for a nice view of the Verizon building: (i wish i knew how to embed)

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxG4g62rnd8"]Occupy Wall Street 99% Spotlight Signal #N17 #OWS #OccupyEverything - YouTube[/nomedia]

[persiphone]

and this was all i could find on this:


UC Davis launches probe after pepper spray video
The chancellor of the University of California, Davis said Saturday that the school was launching an investigation after "chilling" video images surfaced online showing an officer using pepper spray on several protesters as they sit passively with their arms interlocked.

[Nat]

UC Berkeley English Professor Celeste Langan (1st woman pulled) offers out her wrists and tells police they can arrest her -- they yank her out by the hair and do the same with two students. The police were intent on destroying the Occupy Cal encampment tents. Later in the video, a woman is pinned to a bush and being batoned, and a man trying to rescue her gets beaten by police.

[atomiczombie]

Grrr....

[Toughy]

ain't it hard to be peaceful.........

what kind of revolution do we want?

edited to add: it looks no different from the 60's or the 90's (HIV/AIDS protests)...........so what

[AtLast]

Now, the cop spraying the demonstrators with pepper spray at the UC, Davis demonstration this weekend did piss me off. They were just sitting there- no weapons, no rocks, etc.

One, and only one cop did it- which makes me wonder about him, individually acting completely differently than the other officers right there with him. None of them joined in doing this, not one.

Also having trouble with how faux News keeps trying to link both the murder in Oakland and now the murder (the student died this morning) on the UCB campus (in the computer lab) with the OWS demonstrations. They are not connected. There is some speculation (no confirmation I have heard) that the suspect in the Oakland incident had camped for a few days with OWS campers, but he is not really an activist at all.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by AtLast

Now, the cop spraying the demonstrators with pepper spray at the UC, Davis demonstration this weekend did piss me off. They were just sitting there- no weapons, no rocks, etc.

One, and only one cop did it- which makes me wonder about him, individually acting completely differently than the other officers right there with him. None of them joined in doing this, not one.

I don't think it was just one cop. Here is a description of what happened from an English professor who was there.

Another widely-circulated description comes from assistant English professor Nathan Brown:

Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper-sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.

[Corkey]

Raise your hand if this reminds anyone of the Secret Police of Nazi Germany?

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

I don't think it was just one cop. Here is a description of what happened from an English professor who was there.

Another widely-circulated description comes from assistant English professor Nathan Brown:

Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper-sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.

The "clip" being shown here does not have any of this on it. Just peaceful students sitting and one cop spraying them and then walking away. One cop and he did not touch them at all.

I believe the proff- most likely, the rest was just not caught on video. But, this is what the general public here in CA is being shown. I don't think there was a need for pepper spray at all.

Maybe there are other clips out there?

[atomiczombie]

Originally Posted by AtLast

Also having trouble with how faux News keeps trying to link both the murder in Oakland and now the murder (the student died this morning) on the UCB campus (in the computer lab) with the OWS demonstrations. They are not connected. There is some speculation (no confirmation I have heard) that the suspect in the Oakland incident had camped for a few days with OWS campers, but he is not really an activist at all.

Fox has created an on-going, full-on smear campaign against OWS: