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One thing I love about this movement is the creativity of signs. I just love ‘em. It’s truly an artform unto itself. I heard from Amy Goodman on the Charlie Rose show mention that the pizza boxes in Zuccotti Park are being used to create signs.
How green and metaphorical is that?
The narrative is changing. Bank of America eliminates a fee. Small stuff. But this thing is growing.
And when the Congressional Budget Office explains that the gulf between the haves and have nots is growing, the Occupy movement gets even more credibility (as if it really required it).
A quick Google search on Occupy Wall Street within last 24 hours revealed the following links in the top 12 or so hits. Yeah. I’d say the narrative is changing….
Millions and Millions Served. Just for kicks, I typed “Occupy sign” in Google images and got…349 million results. Wait–what?!
Yours in solidarity.
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The signs of the times.
Thank you, Groobiecat, a most excellent diary.
Recommended to everyone at FDL.
DW
send them food, blankets, sleeping bags, stop by and buy them some coffee, do whatever you can
I love you, OWS!
The pendulum is indeed starting to swing back after almost 40 yrz! Go OCCUPY!!
The Beginning Is Near!
My favorite sign of OWS.
tweeted and recommended.. thanks groobieat!
At last! It terrifies the MOTU but they’ll either have to move with the flow or get swept under.
FORK…. groobiecat — so sorry about misspelling your name
” . . . singing songs and carrying signs . . ”
Nice diary.
The message/communication analysis of METHOD of message and communication is always a fun method to explore.
Yer links are great n thanks for sharing all of them.
This thing has mo . . . . mo and mo it had mo.
Kewl.
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N rcc’d, heartily . . . (com studies major/PR, journ minor)
The first week or two of Occupy Los Angeles, there was a good sign on a tent on the north (Temple Street) side of City Hall.
It said, “Class warfare? We’re late to that party, but we’re here now.”
I like, “Respect Existence, or Expect Resistance.” AND, of course, “Fleshies Unite!,” which is now permanently attached to my bicycle.
Buffalo Stringfield, 1967! Back then we were involved in a money driven, undeclared and unwinnable war in Asia, the Republican party’s satellite, (the John Birch Society), was clinically insane, the Democratic Party was more interested in collecting
campaign dollarsbribes and running for re-election than in standing up for their own stated values, corruption in the banking and investing industries were rampant and unchecked and police brutality was a common fact of life. And now here we are, 44 years later and we’re right. Back. Where. We. Started.Fuck!
“Springfield” of course!
Face reality, guys and gals. The jackboots are marching and the cops are going to come down hard on OWS. I predict that this will happen within the next month. The Portland (Oregon) police union is already clamoring for “law and order”. Right wingers have already organized anti-OWS email campaigns to city councils. If they know how do do anything, it is how to organize to crush their opponents and influence public opinion.
“Face reality”? Whom here has argued that what you suggest isn’t going to happen? I mean, that whole debate aside, why jump in here by suggesting that the users of this blog aren’t “facing reality”?
I think one of my favorites is “Chains You Can Believe In” but my new sign is going to say “Occupying for America.”
You mean that you REALLY believe that the “Pendulum is starting to swing back”? I see no evidence that there is a widespread movement, yet. The MSM is controlling the perception, and I’m sure you know where they stand. If the movement exists at this time next year, then I’ll concede that the pendulum may be starting to swing. I remember McGovern and I remember the outcome of that, too. There was not enough general support to effect change then, and there may not be now. What actually brought the change was illegal acts by Nixon, but in today’s political climate what Nixon did would be shrugged off. What makes you think that the tactics that didn’t work in 1972 will work now? The anti-populists are more entrenched now than they were 40 years ago, and they have the same allies. Carter was the only President that wasn’t “one of the elite” (Nixon’s Republican Coat not withstanding) and look what happened to him. Idealism is not a recipe for success, if history is any indication, and I believe that it is. What I’m saying is the road to oligarchy is paved with the bodies of idealists.
Look at that lovely young woman — heist that sign! I was here…1971.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_Protests
If one were to compare OWS with anything, the Black Civil Rights Movement would come closest. According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%931968%29] it lasted from 1955 to 1968. I rather dispute this since as far as I’m concerned if began with the initial slaves and is – or should be – still going on.
OWS is still in it’s infancy and the grievances of those participating and supporting it are fairly recent by historical standards. They have yet to really become multi-generational. No collective memory of these injustices NOT occurring.
Which leaves to to wonder how long it will last or whether some seemingly positive turn on the economy will cause it to diminish. Even though the injustice will remain.
Longevity would be the best thing for OWS. But I am not thinking in months but years.
Can it hold on ?
Clickable link to the above. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955%E2%80%931968%29
As well, don’t I love that so many of these signs are written on cardboard boxes — recycled from trash, clearly.
“The beginning is near.” That made me do a double take. Very nice. I’ll copy that, thank you.
Thank you. Great diary. Somehow the pictures show the variety and make it all the more real.
Rec’d.
Facing reality, sure we are…there is fine tradition for Americans confronting power. News Flash: Our government has not always been for the people.
for example:
On July 28 1932, Attorney General Mitchell ordered the tents of 17,000 American veterans and their families (26,000 women and children) removed makeshift community called Hooverville in Anacosta Flats.
Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded 500 US Infantry troops fixed bayonets, 500 Cavalry, 6 battle tanks and 800 District police who fought hand to hand battle with bayonets against their countrymen and burned all their belongings in their temporary tent homes.
Just like the Boehner/McConnell Republicans now (and, notably, Democrat Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman included) reject all efforts to help the American 99% , that American Senate (in a vote count of 62-18) refused to release promised funding to WWI Veterans payments during the Great Depression.
Four people were killed, among them American Veterans and leaders of the Movement William Hushka and Eric Carlson and of the 1, 017 injured Depression “99%ers” was 7 year
That’s another thing we can be regularly delivering to OCCUPYs along with fruit and books: fresh jumbo ink markers and additional signs.
From the outside, can we provide posters to illustrate the history of the American People to show 99%ers of the past: photo reproductions of historic events like: the Greensboro Woolworths sit-in, The Haymarket Square police riot, Selma…?