Day of Rage

[the last yatto]

They have free yoga classes

[the last yatto]

There's some bite to it since us uncut is asking people to close their accounts at these banks...

Tactic seems to work... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/11/wisconsin-protesters-target-bank-that-supported-governor-walker/

There's no point in closing a bank account when most people have less than $300 in their account at any given time.

Twid,
living paycheck to paycheck.

Firefighter union withdrewn at least 200k, all it takes is a few investors or hundred people to switch to a credit union.
That said this seems more like an illegal street fair then a protest

[Da6s]

Supposedly this "occupation" of wall st is going to last for the next two months.

Read reports on twitter earlier of police setting up barricades.

The only media mention of this that I've seen was one tweet by @cnnbrk earlier stating "hundreds protest on wall street".

If anon is attaching themselves to this don't expect the wall st protests to be more than people holding up signs with memes and boom boxes blasting rick astley.

At least the hacktivist approach works. I really wish it would hurry up and evolve further than ddos-ing though. Can't wait until the truly juicy digital records of corruption get thrown out in a much faster manner than wikileaks, which has kind of shit the bed with the months long analysis between publishing leaks. I guess thats the price of credibility.

[East Coast Hustle]

There's some bite to it since us uncut is asking people to close their accounts at these banks...

Tactic seems to work... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/11/wisconsin-protesters-target-bank-that-supported-governor-walker/

There's no point in closing a bank account when most people have less than $300 in their account at any given time.

Twid,
living paycheck to paycheck.

Firefighter union withdrewn at least 200k, all it takes is a few investors or hundred people to switch to a credit union.
That said this seems more like an illegal street fair then a protest

To most banks, $200K might as well be $300. If you're not playing with 8 digit amounts, you're chump change.

[Triple Zero]

At least the hacktivist approach works. I really wish it would hurry up and evolve further than ddos-ing though. Can't wait until the truly juicy digital records of corruption get thrown out in a much faster manner than wikileaks, which has kind of shit the bed with the months long analysis between publishing leaks. I guess thats the price of credibility.

Um they're already doing both. Have been for months. Longer, if you count LulzSec. The truly lulzy records are already out there, too. When it comes to hacktivism, stealing data is a 1-3 man op. DDoSing is the only way to combine group involvement and hacktivism, anything more complex can't be done by 100s of people. Wikileaks created such a big stir because they took so much care releasing and redacting their data. LulzSec and many other recent leaks have potentially revealed just as much terrible secrets (not globally like Wikileaks, but concerning corporate corruption in the US) but they didn't create as big of a stink because they have no media plan whatsoever.

In other words, just about everything you said was wrong uninformed armchair criticism which annoys me to no end because we already got the mainstream media doing a great enough job of missing the point entirely.

[Luna]

Yep.  People are being cranky that the protest wasn't reported.


http://www.politicususa.com/en/media-blackout-us-day-of-rage

[Telarus]

There's some bite to it since us uncut is asking people to close their accounts at these banks...

Tactic seems to work... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/11/wisconsin-protesters-target-bank-that-supported-governor-walker/

There's no point in closing a bank account when most people have less than $300 in their account at any given time.

Twid,
living paycheck to paycheck.

Firefighter union withdrewn at least 200k, all it takes is a few investors or hundred people to switch to a credit union.
That said this seems more like an illegal street fair then a protest

To most banks, $200K might as well be $300. If you're not playing with 8 digit amounts, you're chump change.

Yup. If they don't have to report your transactions to the SEC / etc, then you're part of a 'product portfolio', not a customer.

[Doktor Howl]

Yep.  People are being cranky that the protest wasn't reported.


http://www.politicususa.com/en/media-blackout-us-day-of-rage

HAHAHA!

Dumbfucks.  What the hell were they expecting.

I swear to God, this fucking country is RETARDED.  It's like everyone married their first cousin, or drank while pregnant or some shit.

[Iason Ouabache]

Why the hell did they plan this for a weekend when no one would be around? 

[Doktor Howl]

Why the hell did they plan this for a weekend when no one would be around? 

Well, they wouldn't want to be a nuisance.

[Doktor Howl]

There are no words.

[East Coast Hustle]

Wow, the rage is palpable from here.

[Salty]

It's like they don't even understand the word.

I can't decide whether I find this extremely funny or pathetically sad. What in the hell has crippled people like this? I'm pretty sure there was a time when people would get together in the streets and cause some serious damage. Not that I'm stupid enough to think that would do anything either, but when they design a sign like that and stand there like an idiot holding it until their arms get tired, just what goes through their heads?

WHO THE FUCK MADE THAT SIGN? What kind of mind thinks RAGE and designs that piece of shit? I'll bet they had some kind of fucking committee that worried over it for hours on end and THAT'S what they came up with. I want to roll it up, stick a giant lead pipe in the middle, and beat those people holding it just to illustrate what actual rage might look like.

[Da6s]

At least the hacktivist approach works. I really wish it would hurry up and evolve further than ddos-ing though. Can't wait until the truly juicy digital records of corruption get thrown out in a much faster manner than wikileaks, which has kind of shit the bed with the months long analysis between publishing leaks. I guess thats the price of credibility.

Um they're already doing both. Have been for months. Longer, if you count LulzSec. The truly lulzy records are already out there, too. When it comes to hacktivism, stealing data is a 1-3 man op. DDoSing is the only way to combine group involvement and hacktivism, anything more complex can't be done by 100s of people. Wikileaks created such a big stir because they took so much care releasing and redacting their data. LulzSec and many other recent leaks have potentially revealed just as much terrible secrets (not globally like Wikileaks, but concerning corporate corruption in the US) but they didn't create as big of a stink because they have no media plan whatsoever.

In other words, just about everything you said was wrong uninformed armchair criticism which annoys me to no end because we already got the mainstream media doing a great enough job of missing the point entirely.

i'm having an off week. i should retreat back to not posting for another few months and try again later.

also, i thought the lulzsec bank hack data they never released? and the leaks they have thrown out weren't game changing, which is what i was referring to.

[Triple Zero]

Yep.  People are being cranky that the protest wasn't reported.


http://www.politicususa.com/en/media-blackout-us-day-of-rage

HAHAHA!

Dumbfucks.  What the hell were they expecting.

I swear to God, this fucking country is RETARDED.  It's like everyone married their first cousin, or drank while pregnant or some shit.

I checked the news here.

3 big newspapers ignored it. One big mainstream news website and the public TV news broadcasting website both did report it. Not very in-depth or anything, but it was mentioned.

When I see that photo, I kinda get the feeling of a nation that's pretty much forgotten how to work up a proper RAGE and ... well, they're trying, going through the movements, seeing if maybe it'll come back to them, you know?

Sorry but isn't dumping or laughing at these people just as bad as when some disagreed with the "perry/gay" campaign? I mean sure, it's not as sharp and doesn't carry a punch like your ideas, but at least these people are doing something, right? They're not just posting about it on a website, but they actually printed off a huge banner (which indeed is laughably bad) and went onto the streets.
So what if they forgot how to do a proper protest? Should you laugh at them for being pathetic or should you encourage them, cheer them on, see if they can take yet another step to proper real rage?

And one thing, maybe it doesn't do *much*, this RL protest, but I walked around on Wall Street this summer, and there's Important People With Expensive Suits And Expensive Watches walking around all over the place. If you actually get a crowd there and have them chant some vaguely threatening things (free speech, right? "EAT THE RICH! EAT THE RICH! EAT THE RICH!") would make them pretty damn uncomfortable, no?