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xyz3 commented on the blog post State of the Occupation: Permanent FDL OccupySupply Page Shows 63 Encampments on 12-22-2011
I happen to know the person who made that video, and he’s working on trying to get enough funding to make full documentary about the national foreclosure resistance movement. You can help him out here: http://www.indiegogo.com/Expect-Resistance-A-Documenatry-About-Eviction-Resistance
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xyz3 commented on the diary post The Occupy Sites The National Media Won’t Tell You About by Phoenix Woman.
Occupy Rochester had some arrests at first, but eventually the mayor agreed to let us stay through January… http://occupyrochester.org/
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Until Every OWS Embraces This, the Movement Cannot Succeed by Anthony Noel.
There is one respect in which people need to cooperate with the police if the movement is to survive: When cases of rape/assault are suspected or reported in camp, SVU needs to be able to get in. The right wing media has been making hay over cases of rape in camps, and situations where cops [...]
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Do You Know these Black Bloc Vandals? Video by spocko.
Yes. This is the appropriate way to deal with these people. If you don’t agree, dissociate verbally but also physically and immediately. There should be no identifiable OWS people in the footage with the black blockers… this is how you deal with it, not by witch hunts against anarchists
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Do You Know these Black Bloc Vandals? Video by spocko.
yes, at a recent Occupy action in my city where things were tense with the cops, three people showed up briefly in “black bloc” gear and then quickly disappeared when the cops started actually make a move. All the real life anarchists I know were like “who the F were those guys?!!?” It’s really pathetic [...]
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Do You Know these Black Bloc Vandals? Video by spocko.
Most certainly was, at least partially… where do you think the whole General Assembly model comes from in the first place??
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Do You Know these Black Bloc Vandals? Video by spocko.
It is incredibly odd the way the police in the scene just kind of stand aside and let everything happen… this isn’t how police would normally behave in a situation like this, and lends credence to the agents provocateur hypothesis. Also, some of the stuff on these videos just look laughably staged, like the weird [...]
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Do You Know these Black Bloc Vandals? Video by spocko.
I just have to say, as an anarchist, that most of the anarchists I know (myself included) are either straight-up pacifists or boarderline pacifists, due to the inherently coercive nature of violence. None of us would condone these so-called “black-bloc” tactics, and I wish people would stop talking about these kids as if they have [...]
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Race and standing in the Occupy movement by danps.
This is probably the #1 reason for the preponderance of white people in the movement. They haven’t been living with police brutality, racism and oppression their entire lives, and they know the system will be lenient with them.
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Race and standing in the Occupy movement by danps.
Some people of color may be suspicious of a movement where people talk about finding common cause with the Tea Party, and where many occupiers support Ron Paul, a politician whose policies are directly contrary to the material needs of working class blacks, and whose philosophy is antithetical to social justice. If/when the movement clearly [...]
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street: Defining The Undefinable by LUCKYMW.
“There’s no way right now for OWS to replace capitalism, nor should it be seeking to.” Well, that’s your opinion. It’s not a definition of the movement, at least not from the kinds of signs and speeches I’ve been hearing. I suspect many in the movement will disagree with you here. The question is not [...]
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xyz3 commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street: Defining The Undefinable by LUCKYMW.
Yes, no one has the right at this point to dictate that the movement will not challenge capitalist institutions, especially since the movement is explicitely revolutionary. It’s hard to be “revolutionary” and NOT challenge the fundamental premises of society.
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Sixteen, Aftermath of 700 Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge
“We won’t allow what went on in London to go on”
– but wait, I thought what happened in London was all about lazy, spoiled, anti-social youths smashing things for the fun of it and because they wanted to steal a new pair of trainers????
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Ten, Building the Hope for Reform
In order to be able to articulate a clear vision, the left will need something it has spent the past 30 years running away from and condemning: ideology. This might even mean bringing out the “S” word or even the “C” word. Until the left is willing to believe in something, we won’t be able to present a credible vision for a new world.
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
no, it just gives the cops the perfect justification to shut the whole thing down
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
apparently it’s dangerously criminal to orchestrate a protest in this country now
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
exactly. Take away the cameras and the police “escort” can show its true colors
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
proof the oligarchy cannot tolerate the slightest resistance. We are living in a dictatorship every bit as much as people in the Arab world were living under dictatorship. We’ve just learned to call it “democracy” and imagine we are free.
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
if the occupation survives this, they need to develop some way of maintaining discipline, consensus decision making and unified action in the future instead of running off half cocked because some fool/provocateur starts shouting down the people’s mike and demanding people go to the UN immediately..
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xyz3 commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: One Week Later & Growing Stronger by the Day
so much for freedom of speech in this country
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