-- Bayard Rustin
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Nov 3rd, 2011
"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
-- Bayard Rustin
-- Bayard Rustin
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Really, Google.? Really?
Oct 29th, 2011
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This rough video we produced was up on my site and many others last week. Today, some readers asked, and I quote, "why did you remove it?"
WE DID NOT REMOVE IT. Someone else did. Here it is again. We will not be moved. These streets are OUR streets. This country is our country. Here's proof...
Please help us continue our work by donating whatever you can afford to our PayPal account on the right.
This rough video we produced was up on my site and many others last week. Today, some readers asked, and I quote, "why did you remove it?"
WE DID NOT REMOVE IT. Someone else did. Here it is again. We will not be moved. These streets are OUR streets. This country is our country. Here's proof...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 11th, 2011
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-- Emiliano Zapata
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-- Emiliano Zapata
Monday, October 10, 2011
Faces Of The Occupation, cont...
Oct 10th, 2011
This photo is making the rounds and drawing a degree of snark from the occupy movement's detractors. Is it profane and inflammatory? Sure. Does it offer any concrete solutions? Nope. However, can anyone tell me with a straight face that it isn't an accurate diagnosis of pretty much the entire American experiment today?
This photo is making the rounds and drawing a degree of snark from the occupy movement's detractors. Is it profane and inflammatory? Sure. Does it offer any concrete solutions? Nope. However, can anyone tell me with a straight face that it isn't an accurate diagnosis of pretty much the entire American experiment today?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 5th, 2011
"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications,
the infrastructure of that republic, is under the yoke of international business how,
at last, do we save it?
We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order."
-- Mark Lloyd
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the infrastructure of that republic, is under the yoke of international business how,
at last, do we save it?
We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order."
-- Mark Lloyd
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 4th, 2011
"Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas."
-- Bill Hicks
-- Bill Hicks
Monday, October 3, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 3rd, 2011
"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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-- George Bernard Shaw
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Distorting The Narrative, part 3
Oct 2nd, 2011
Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal has now reported on the deceptive tactics we highlighted HERE and HERE.
I think he goes a little too easy on the NYPD. Nevertheless, he does raise an eyebrow.
"Some have apparently claimed entrapment by the police (who encouraged them to walk on the road), but the people we talked to last night mostly suggested that the police merely stood by and watched, not encouraging them, but not stopping them either.
So far we've seen no evidence of police actually encouraging protesters to go on the road, but there are videos that show police walking in front of the protesters, as they go up onto the road.
This isn't the same as encouraging them to go on the road, but on the other hand, you could see why people in a crowd would think that going on a bridge is kosher if the police are calmly walking in front of the crowd as they go up the road."
Weisenthal also included new video from the Brooklyn Bridge
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I think he goes a little too easy on the NYPD. Nevertheless, he does raise an eyebrow.
"Some have apparently claimed entrapment by the police (who encouraged them to walk on the road), but the people we talked to last night mostly suggested that the police merely stood by and watched, not encouraging them, but not stopping them either.
So far we've seen no evidence of police actually encouraging protesters to go on the road, but there are videos that show police walking in front of the protesters, as they go up onto the road.
This isn't the same as encouraging them to go on the road, but on the other hand, you could see why people in a crowd would think that going on a bridge is kosher if the police are calmly walking in front of the crowd as they go up the road."
Weisenthal also included new video from the Brooklyn Bridge
Quote Of The Day
Oct 2nd, 2011
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu
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| Robert Stolarik for The New York Times |
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Oct 1st, 2011
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
-- Abbie Hoffman
-- Abbie Hoffman
Friday, September 30, 2011
Solidarity With The Occupation
Sept 30th, 2011
Yesterday, Russell Simmons spoke to Martin Bashir about his support for the Occupy Wall Street movement:
"Last time I got involved in a protest I brought a hundred thousand people there, for the Rockefeller Drug Laws. And if I get involved really heavily in this one, we find the agenda and have a common ground we can bring hundreds of thousands of people small seeds are planted, but it could grow into something very big."
Yesterday, Russell Simmons spoke to Martin Bashir about his support for the Occupy Wall Street movement:
"Last time I got involved in a protest I brought a hundred thousand people there, for the Rockefeller Drug Laws. And if I get involved really heavily in this one, we find the agenda and have a common ground we can bring hundreds of thousands of people small seeds are planted, but it could grow into something very big."
Quote Of The Day
Sept 30th, 2011
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
-- Clarence Darrow
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-- Clarence Darrow
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Sept 29th, 2011
"We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them."
-- Alexander Bickel
-- Alexander Bickel
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Quote Of The Day
Sept 28th, 2011
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
-- Voltaire
-- Voltaire
Monday, September 26, 2011
O'Donnell Breaks Down The Police Riot
Sept 26th, 2011
Once again, the irony that the violence was consistently caused by the "white collar" Commanders and not the "blue collar" rank and file officers is amazing.
Once again, the irony that the violence was consistently caused by the "white collar" Commanders and not the "blue collar" rank and file officers is amazing.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Why They Are There
Sept 25th, 2011
I have written and argued over the last day about the relative disorder and even incoherence at times of the Occupy Wall Street protest. That doesn't mean I don't stand with them. In fact, I wish I could join them.
However much I continue to push for a simple 3 to 5 point set of demands with very specific targets, only a fool could fail to understand their need to be there.
David Graeber of The Guardian writes:
"Why are people occupying Wall Street? Why has the occupation –despite the latest police crackdown – sent out sparks across America, within days, inspiring hundreds of people to send pizzas, money, equipment and, now, to start their own movements called OccupyChicago, OccupyFlorida, in OccupyDenver or OccupyLA?
There are obvious reasons. We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most, I found, were of working-class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: studied, got into college, and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated – faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats, moral reprobates.
Is it really surprising they would like to have a word with the financial magnates who stole their future?
Just as in Europe, we are seeing the results of colossal social failure. The occupiers are the very sort of people, brimming with ideas, whose energies a healthy society would be marshaling to improve life for everyone. Instead, they are using it to envision ways to bring the whole system down."
This can only be done one brick at a time. This is why I continue to challenge the protesters to do better and unify more succinctly. It is our duty to help them pull the bricks.
However much I continue to push for a simple 3 to 5 point set of demands with very specific targets, only a fool could fail to understand their need to be there.
David Graeber of The Guardian writes:
"Why are people occupying Wall Street? Why has the occupation –despite the latest police crackdown – sent out sparks across America, within days, inspiring hundreds of people to send pizzas, money, equipment and, now, to start their own movements called OccupyChicago, OccupyFlorida, in OccupyDenver or OccupyLA?
There are obvious reasons. We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt. Most, I found, were of working-class or otherwise modest backgrounds, kids who did exactly what they were told they should: studied, got into college, and are now not just being punished for it, but humiliated – faced with a life of being treated as deadbeats, moral reprobates.
Is it really surprising they would like to have a word with the financial magnates who stole their future?
Just as in Europe, we are seeing the results of colossal social failure. The occupiers are the very sort of people, brimming with ideas, whose energies a healthy society would be marshaling to improve life for everyone. Instead, they are using it to envision ways to bring the whole system down."
This can only be done one brick at a time. This is why I continue to challenge the protesters to do better and unify more succinctly. It is our duty to help them pull the bricks.
The MSM Starts To Pay Attention
Spet 25th, 2011
If anyone can identify officers who have used violence or excessive force during Occupy Wall Street, contact the New York ACLU at 212-607-3300
The coverage is biased, but at least it's something.
If anyone can identify officers who have used violence or excessive force during Occupy Wall Street, contact the New York ACLU at 212-607-3300
The coverage is biased, but at least it's something.
Great. We're Mad. We Still Need A PLAN To Get Even.
Sept 25th, 2011
F. Grey Parker (NSFW post)
Ongoing streaming coverage of events in New York can be viewed at AnonOps
There has been a lot of discussion in the last 24 hours about the ongoing Wall Street protests. What, exactly, are the goals? I have asked this. Other folks that I genuinely respect have asked this.
Even some of those who are on the scene in New York have begun asking this.
The pushback against these legitimate questions has been fairly intense.
These petulant reactions to reasonable queries need to stop and they need to stop right now.
F. Grey Parker (NSFW post)
Ongoing streaming coverage of events in New York can be viewed at AnonOps
Even some of those who are on the scene in New York have begun asking this.
The pushback against these legitimate questions has been fairly intense.
These petulant reactions to reasonable queries need to stop and they need to stop right now.
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