Occupy Wall Street

[Dr Dolittle]

Well, did they occupy Wall Street on September 17th? I don't remember hearing about a revolution in America on that day. It must have been while I was listening to Pick of the Pops.

 

[ska invita]

Democracy Now interview and footage etc with (who else) Michael Moore
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/28/something_has_started_michael_moore_on
...worth a watch. Interesting about how they cant use any amplification equipment, and the solution to it!

[the rest of the interview is not related to wall street, just MM talking about his life, genuinely interesting stuff: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/28/here_comes_trouble_michael_moore_tells ]

 

[Kanda]

Have they made any impact yet?

 

[ska invita]

Have they made any impact yet?

doesnt look like it - slow burn at best to hope for - not a critical mass yet, but theyre still out there it seems

 

[purves grundy]

Slow burn is good, accretion of varied and disparate elements, building towards something massive.

I'll be donating my copy of Laclau's 'On Populist Reason'!

 

[catinthehat]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/nyc-transit-union-joins-o_n_987156.html
Now being joined by Transit Unions.

 

[ddraig]

brilliant news and article
thanks

Jackie DiSalvo, an Occupy Wall Street organizer, says a series of public actions aimed at expressing support for labor -- from disrupting a Sotheby's auction on Sept. 22 to attending a postal workers' rally on Tuesday -- have convinced unions that the two groups' struggles are one.
"Labor is up against the wall and they're begging us to help them," said DiSalvo, a retired professor at Baruch College in her late 60s who has emerged as a driving force in the effort to link up labor and the protests. DiSalvo is herself a member of the Professional Staff Congress, which represents teachers at the City University of New York.
Recent anti-labor actions like Scott Walker's in Wisconsin "really shocked the unions and moved them into militant action," DiSalvo said, and the inflammatory video of a NYPD deputy inspector pepper-spraying several protesters on Saturday also generated union sympathy.

"There's a lot of good feeling. They've made a lot of friends," said Chuck Zlatkin of the postal union.
When a band of about 100 protesters showed up at a postal workers' rally featuring Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday, complete with purple hair and big drums, "they went a long way towards touching people and making connections," Zlatkin observed.

ace

 

[ska invita]

Is anyone else getting an annoying blocking Security Warning on the main Occupy Wall St page? https://occupywallst.org/ or is it just me?

 

[lizzieloo]

Nope, OK for me

 

[ddraig]

works for me too

 

[ska invita]

tried a different browser and working now - thanks for checking lizzie

 

[ddraig]

that Immortal Technique vid is great, love him more
"it's not trickling down, they're pissing all over us"

 

[albionism]

Where can i see the vid?

eta: ok found it.

 

[ska invita]

Just got an email from a friend visiting NY for the first time who is going through culture shock at the wealth disparity there, saying it feels like a caste system. I was surprised to read the other day that the bronx is the poorest urban area in the States - thats up against some tough competition

 

[catinthehat]

Aerial view of Wall Street. Seems to be more than a 'couple of hundred'/

 

[tar1984]

Thousands upon thousands

 

[IC3D]

Aerial view of Wall Street. Seems to be more than a 'couple of hundred'/

Can you get a source for that please?

 

[catinthehat]

From a friend in the US via random other people in the US - hence my use of 'seems'....... this is also interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWv9gV8Cxo&feature=youtu.be

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Shall I change the title of this thread, seeing as how (a) "anonymous" has little or nothing to do with it (b) it might confuse people looking for Occupy Wall Street threads by making them think this is about some connection with anonymous and (c) it makes my teeth grind every time I see it and so probably does for others as well?

 

[ddraig]

From a friend in the US via random other people in the US - hence my use of 'seems'....... this is also interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWv9gV8Cxo&feature=youtu.be

you know the city cunts used to wave wads of money and alledgedly burn the odd one when there were protests in the city of london right?
cunts are cunts

 

[ddraig]

Shall I change the title of this thread, seeing as how (a) "anonymous" has little or nothing to do with it (b) it might confuse people looking for Occupy Wall Street threads by making them think this is about some connection with anonymous and (c) it makes my teeth grind every time I see it and so probably does for others as well?

good idea i reckon
cheers

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'll do it and if anybody has a big problem I can always change it back.

 

[Treacle Toes]

From a friend in the US via random other people in the US - hence my use of 'seems'....... this is also interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWv9gV8Cxo&feature=youtu.be

Oh, let's take our drinks onto the balcony and see what the proles are doing below!'

 

[IC3D]

From a friend in the US via random other people in the US - hence my use of 'seems'....... this is also interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAWv9gV8Cxo&feature=youtu.be

Seems to be shopped, a shame makes you wonder who did it and why. Shame.

 

[ddraig]

yeah, blatant
lot of people there on the stream outside some NYPD place
thousands

 

[ska invita]

you know the city cunts used to wave wads of money and alledgedly burn the odd one when there were protests in the city of london right?
cunts are cunts

 

[killer b]

laurie's over there now. i look forward to her florid reports.

 

[ddraig]

notes from the 99%
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

 

[Kaka Tim]

This is good stuff -

Is this going on today as well?

 

[ddraig]

every day for over 2 weeks so far
check the live stream

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
other vids below it