Happy Birthday, ChiKat!
The Vonsuena Objection is noted.
Heh. I see what you did there.
So the cops started removing the Occupy Oakland encampment at like 4 AM this morning. Which meant that all of downtown was fenced off, and my bus got rerouted. Still ended up getting to work on time, though, oddly enough. So far it's all been peaceful, even the arrests are quiet (yay!).
I saw someone online yesterday comment that the Occupy movement appears to have developed into a protest about the right to camp out indefinitely. Which strikes me as somewhat distant from the original point. Surely there are other forms of protest that could be used?
Surely there are other forms of protest that could be used?
I'm not sure what else. I mean, no one cares when there's a march on Washington. At least not the media, anyway.
I am having a shitty Monday! I hope others are having a better one.
If not, check out this video of an 8 month old tree kangaroo:
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Here's an interesting interview with the author of that Single Women Atlantic article: [link]
I'm not sure what else. I mean, no one cares when there's a march on Washington. At least not the media, anyway.
Daily marches. Letter brigades. Phone calls. Pizza deliveries. Balloons. Boycotts. Each day block the entrance to a different bank.
The point of the projects originally was economic injustice; but the camps have become about the camps themselves, so far as I can tell. They're losing the middle ground of citizens who won't or wouldn't participate in the occupation, but have sympathy for concerns about the economy. The more the narrative becomes about the occupiers themselves and the conditions inside the encampments, the less it is about the inequities in the financial system.
What makes me sad about Occupy Oakland is that my city is already so completely in shambles that the OO thing is making it worse. It's a broke-ass city that already can't afford necessary police. And its very delicate downtown infrastructure (economy-wise) can't withstand the losses. So the effect of this protest against the 1% is ONLY fucking other 99%. Can't they go somewhere that actually targets the 1%?
I think in general, the OWS movement is necessary. But I don't agree with a lot that's happening around it.
The point of the projects originally was economic injustice; but the camps have become about the camps themselves, so far as I can tell. They're losing the middle ground of citizens who won't or wouldn't participate in the occupation, but have sympathy for concerns about the economy. The more the narrative becomes about the occupiers themselves and the conditions inside the encampments, the less it is about the inequities in the financial system.
I'm seeing this too, and it's unfortunate.
Exactly, Connie. EXACTLY.
the camps have become about the camps themselves, so far as I can tell. They're losing the middle ground of citizens who won't or wouldn't participate in the occupation, but have sympathy for concerns about the economy.
This is my feeling on it, too.
