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'Trash'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Nov 14, 2011 7:40:27 am PST #6497 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2011 7:43:29 am PST #6498 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
le nubian - Nov 14, 2011 7:50:13 am PST #6499 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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:
Jesse - Nov 14, 2011 7:51:02 am PST #6500 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here's an interesting interview with the author of that Single Women Atlantic article: [link]
Consuela - Nov 14, 2011 7:54:01 am PST #6501 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
javachik - Nov 14, 2011 7:56:01 am PST #6502 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
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.
Jessica - Nov 14, 2011 7:56:18 am PST #6503 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
javachik - Nov 14, 2011 7:57:20 am PST #6504 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Exactly, Connie. EXACTLY.
Amy - Nov 14, 2011 8:02:05 am PST #6505 of 30001
Because books.
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.
Jessica - Nov 14, 2011 8:09:11 am PST #6506 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
One little protest that was making the Facebook rounds a couple of weeks back was for people to return those prepaid envelopes that come with credit card offers - since the banks only pay postage on those once they're mailed, returning them empty would (a) give the post office some desperately needed revenue and (b) flood the banks with junk mail and postage fees. I thought it was nicely poetic.