Occupy

[Juana]

OOH, NET. Thanks! I'm going to print those out soon and go to town!

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OOH, NET. Thanks! I'm going to print those out soon and go to town!

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

It was charts like these that reactivated my rage gland. I hope they make you just as livid. Mother Jones has handy PDFs of most of these so you can print them out:

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

[Oysters Rockefeller]

Thanks for the link. I'm going to go shove these in some people's faces, and prooooobably get myself uninvited to a lot of social events as a result.

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Thanks for the link. I'm going to go shove these in some people's faces, and prooooobably get myself uninvited to a lot of social events as a result.

[navkat]

So, have we decided yet whether we're Star-bellied or Plain-bellied sneeches yet? I'm getting tired of going through McBean's Machines. It's costing a lot of money and this can't be any good for my body.

Ironically, this is the same exact thing I said when I stopped "Raving."

[Cain]

Occupy protests have restarted today

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Occupy protests have restarted today

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

WOOOT!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't really want to walk out of my sociology class, though.  It's on social change.

I wonder what the instructor has to say about this? I guess I'll be finding out shortly.

[Cain]

Except in London, because the weather is shit.

"What if they held a revolution...and it got rained off?"

[Triple Zero]

Occupy protests have restarted today

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

... but the status quo is where I keep all my stuff ...

Also, this wasn't today? My stuff appears undisrupted, as does my status quo. Except for being more well-rested. If that's how they disrupted my status quo (globally!) I must applaud them.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Occupy protests have restarted today

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

WOOOT!

Been in the downtown PDX fray since this morning. Walked for a bit to charge my phone. Mostly tame (though I wasn't there for the home "takeback" in NE) but riot police in plenty on standby, about a dozen people arrested. Some reports that the Wells Fargo center lost it's sign, though I haven't been down there to investigate. Nervous looking security guards in front of every Bank of America I've passed.

A "Permitted" march is starting now, with at least two other non-permitted actions planned. 

The main activities are just one of many separate actions. While shit was happening in Pioneer Square, I passed one group headed to the WTC for something, and a group of Black-bloc with balloons and a cart headed in some other direction. There are two helicopters and one plane in the sky right now. One keeeps swooping in and pulling out...not a news copter, the other is hovering and just observing.

The chants are full on hostile: "Don't back down. Strike back."

[Don Coyote]

Evidently there was an Occupy Tacoma thing going on today, too bad I had a midterm to take today. I justify it by me sticking Uncle Sam with my tuition bill.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Occupy protests have restarted today

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/occupy-wall-street-plans-global-disruption-of-status-quo-may-1.html

WOOOT!

Been in the downtown PDX fray since this morning. Walked for a bit to charge my phone. Mostly tame (though I wasn't there for the home "takeback" in NE) but riot police in plenty on standby, about a dozen people arrested. Some reports that the Wells Fargo center lost it's sign, though I haven't been down there to investigate. Nervous looking security guards in front of every Bank of America I've passed.

A "Permitted" march is starting now, with at least two other non-permitted actions planned. 

The main activities are just one of many separate actions. While shit was happening in Pioneer Square, I passed one group headed to the WTC for something, and a group of Black-bloc with balloons and a cart headed in some other direction. There are two helicopters and one plane in the sky right now. One keeeps swooping in and pulling out...not a news copter, the other is hovering and just observing.

The chants are full on hostile: "Don't back down. Strike back."

Nothing to speak of in the news about any of this. Interestingly.

[Telarus]

I noticed that too. I think someone is putting pressure on local authority (Governors/Mayors) to put pressure on local news stations to keep Occupy off the airwaves.


Here's some links I ran across:

http://gawker.com/5906500/nypd-raids-activists-homes-before-tomorrows-occupy-wall-street-protests

One of the most interesting tactics (which I heard about during Esozone last year) is a "Bike Swarm"... as non-pedestrians who are continually moving, the Police don't have the 'loitering' excuse to mess with them. They surrounded one of the Parks last year for hours one night, preventing police from entering.

http://www.pdxbikeswarm.org/

And the WWeek has some interesting coverage of a "foreclosure occupation" (with the 'former' owners approval).

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-28581-occupy_portland_occupy_foreclosed_home.html