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View Larger Portland, Oregon — December 3, 2011 — Portland police arrest a man during the Occupy Portland protest in Shemanski Park.
Photo by Ray Whitehouse/The Oregonian
(via Occupy Portland attempts to occupy another downtown park | OregonLive.com)
I just watched “Brazil” (1985) and the police in this image look strikingly like the ones in the film. Gotta love dystopian reality.
View Larger Didn’t get to post this earlier. From Occupy Oakland!
Yes! A great image of the convergence of identity and class politics.
(Source: orangeasaurus)
View Larger “As soon as I’m let out of jail, I’ll be right back here and they’ll have to arrest me again.” – Ray Lewis (retired Philly Police Captain)
Occupy wall street- its not a movement its a fucking sign of the times. Its sign of change but which way will it swing? Shall the police take over as dogs to the corporate government and come barking at our doors at 1AM with black bags to put over our heads? Or will American’s sing the freedom song and help break oppressive chains else where (and not be oppressive our selves?) Anyways listen to what good odle Capt’n Ray has to say.
View Larger Hey, remember when that person on Tumblr told me to “eat a bag of dicks” because I challenged her notion that the cops were reeeeeally polite at Zuccotti Park and in fact did NOT trash the personal belongings of the OWS protesters, and presented as evidence a photo, snapped by a staffer from Mayor Bloomberg’s office, of neatly-piled books taken by cops from the People’s Library?
Yeah, here’s what the NYPD did to the rest of their stuff. Which is how the NYPD tells people to eat a bag of dicks, I guess.
Fuck you.
So much for respect for private property.
Sisters of St. Francis, the Quiet Shareholder Activists - NYTimes.com →
Long before Occupy Wall Street, the Sisters of St. Francis were quietly staging an occupation of their own. In recent years, this Roman Catholic order of 540 or so nuns has become one of the most surprising groups of corporate activists around.
The nuns have gone toe-to-toe with Kroger, the grocery store chain, over farm worker rights; with McDonald’s, over childhood obesity; and with Wells Fargo, over lending practices. They have tried, with mixed success, to exert some moral suasion over Fortune 500 executives, a group not always known for its piety.
View Larger Occupy George circulates dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics about economic disparity
Do this.
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Wall Street Protest Shows Power of Place | NYT
THE ever expanding Occupy Wall Street movement, with encampments now not only in Lower Manhattan but also in Washington, London and other cities, proves among other things that no matter how instrumental new media have become in spreading protest these days, nothing replaces people taking to the streets. […]
We tend to underestimate the political power of physical places. Then Tahrir Square comes along. Now it’s Zuccotti Park, until four weeks ago an utterly obscure city-block-size downtown plaza with a few trees and concrete benches, around the corner from ground zero and two blocks north of Wall Street on Broadway. A few hundred people with ponchos and sleeping bags have put it on the map.
Kent State, Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall: we clearly use locales, edifices, architecture to house our memories and political energy. Politics troubles our consciences. But places haunt our imaginations.
So we check in on Facebook and Twitter, but make pilgrimages to Antietam, Auschwitz and to the Acropolis, to gaze at rubble from the days of Pericles and Aristotle.
I thought of Aristotle, of all people, while I watched the Zuccotti Park demonstrators hold one of their “general assemblies” the other day. In his “Politics,” Aristotle argued that the size of an ideal polis extended to the limits of a herald’s cry. He believed that the human voice was directly linked to civic order. A healthy citizenry in a proper city required face-to-face conversation.
It so happens that near the start of the protest, when the police banned megaphones at Zuccotti Park, they obliged demonstrators to come up with an alternative. “Mic checks” became the consensus method of circulating announcements, spread through the crowd by people repeating, phrase by phrase, what a speaker had said to others around them, compelling everyone, as it were, to speak in one voice. It’s like the old game of telephone, and it is painstakingly slow.
“But so is democracy,” as Jay Gaussoin, a 46-year-old unemployed actor and carpenter, put it to me. “We’re so distracted these days, people have forgotten how to focus. But the ‘mic check’ demands not just that we listen to other people’s opinions but that we really hear what they’re saying because we have to repeat their words exactly.
It requires an architecture of consciousness[.]”
Photo: Central Park protest against the Vietnam War, 1967](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt67e2h48k1qzprlbo1_1280.png)
View Larger Wall Street Protest Shows Power of Place | NYT
THE ever expanding Occupy Wall Street movement, with encampments now not only in Lower Manhattan but also in Washington, London and other cities, proves among other things that no matter how instrumental new media have become in spreading protest these days, nothing replaces people taking to the streets. […]
We tend to underestimate the political power of physical places. Then Tahrir Square comes along. Now it’s Zuccotti Park, until four weeks ago an utterly obscure city-block-size downtown plaza with a few trees and concrete benches, around the corner from ground zero and two blocks north of Wall Street on Broadway. A few hundred people with ponchos and sleeping bags have put it on the map.
Kent State, Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall: we clearly use locales, edifices, architecture to house our memories and political energy. Politics troubles our consciences. But places haunt our imaginations.
So we check in on Facebook and Twitter, but make pilgrimages to Antietam, Auschwitz and to the Acropolis, to gaze at rubble from the days of Pericles and Aristotle.
I thought of Aristotle, of all people, while I watched the Zuccotti Park demonstrators hold one of their “general assemblies” the other day. In his “Politics,” Aristotle argued that the size of an ideal polis extended to the limits of a herald’s cry. He believed that the human voice was directly linked to civic order. A healthy citizenry in a proper city required face-to-face conversation.
It so happens that near the start of the protest, when the police banned megaphones at Zuccotti Park, they obliged demonstrators to come up with an alternative. “Mic checks” became the consensus method of circulating announcements, spread through the crowd by people repeating, phrase by phrase, what a speaker had said to others around them, compelling everyone, as it were, to speak in one voice. It’s like the old game of telephone, and it is painstakingly slow.
“But so is democracy,” as Jay Gaussoin, a 46-year-old unemployed actor and carpenter, put it to me. “We’re so distracted these days, people have forgotten how to focus. But the ‘mic check’ demands not just that we listen to other people’s opinions but that we really hear what they’re saying because we have to repeat their words exactly.
It requires an architecture of consciousness[.]”
Photo: Central Park protest against the Vietnam War, 1967
View Larger “But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.”
