‘Occupy All Streets’ is our way of reminding people that there is change to be made everywhere, not just on Wall Street. At this time we have not made an official commitment to monetarily support the movement.A spokesperson for Rocawear • Discussing the Jay-Z-backed company’s plan to sell the “Occupy Wall Street”-aping shirts the rapper has recently started wearing … without a plan plan to offer any sort of monetary support to the movement for riffing on their slogan. The irony is painful.
Occupy Salt Lake City occupant found dead in tent: A day after a particularly violent turn of events in two separate Occupy cities (Oakland and Burlington, Vt.), the Occupy movement suffered another setback after the death of an Occupant in Salt Lake City led to authorities shutting down the camp entirely. The occupant reportedly died from a combination of a drug overdose and carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a portable heater. City officials say they can no longer allow for the camp to continue due to safety reasons. (Photo by KSL reporter Shara Park)
» Hitting the road: A group of OWS protesters have embarked on this lengthy walk, expecting to arrive in Washington DC on November 23rd, the congressional committee deadline on whether to keep the Bush-era tax cuts extensions President Obama agreed to last year. The Occupy movement, obviously, would like to see these cuts expire; while this would raise the tax burden of middle-income Americans to a remote extent, it would also cause a very large influx of revenue from the class most buoyed by the Bush tax policy — that vaunted 1%. The march consists of a mere dozen or so protesters right now, but they expect (we suspect rightly) to gain large numbers as they work their way towards the capitol.
Annie Leonard Takes On The Occupy Movement With “Story Of Broke”
This doesn’t really take on the Occupy Movement like Fast Company says, but it certainly does a great job of of explaining tax issues in a way that’s easy to understand.
This is why, when you make a claim that something has happened in a news story, you link to the source where you got the information. Sources are too volatile in the online sphere to simply make a claim without backing it up. And you give details explaining the nature of the situation, so people don’t think you’re talking about DC when you actually mean Oakland. It prevents posts like this one. It prevents confusion.
Green Party candidate in Tucson mayoral race lives in Occupy tent: Mary DeCamp is about to have her house foreclosed upon, but she’s decided to walk away from it and run her Green Party campaign from a tent. She certainly has the right name for such a move. source
opinions on matters like the economy are anything but dichotomies.
in fact I bet you a million dollars that there’s a lot of overlap in thinking between the people on either side of that glass.
and I bet you one hundred million dollars that there are fundamentally different opinions on the protesting side alone (when I was at Occupy Montreal, Anarchists and Communists were protesting side by side. yeah.)
and anyone who is as small-minded as to believe that there is a Right-Wrong, Black-White, Up-Down to any single issue in the occupy movement is the exact kind of asshole who turns society into a stagnant mess.
but I guess USians are used to that kind of thinking, seeing as there’s only two (“opposing”) political parties down there.
sigh.
To clarify, we weren’t talking about this in economic terms. Rather, we were talking about it in “people inside wearing suits and listening to conservative figures talk” vs. “people outside the event blocking the people from getting out.” The differences aren’t limited to opinions on the economy. We’re talking everything from lifestyle on down. Sure they might have political similarities without realizing it, but ultimately, they chose two different ways to present them. That is a dichotomy. (And come on, we’re friendly! No need for names! :( )
(Source: wjla.com)
Photo by Josh Yospyn: Occupy DC protesters surrounded the Convention Center Friday night, trapping attendees of a dinner hosted by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity inside. One person was struck by a car and taken to a hospital.
More photos - Story on WJLA (disclosure: where I work):
You don’t get any better dichotomy than this — between those inside and those outside. Be sure to check WJLA’s coverage at the link.
I didn’t destroy any property yesterday, but destruction of property is not violent.Derek Winslow • A demonstrator with the “Occupy Oakland” movement who was arrested early Thursday morning after overtaking a building in downtown Oakland. Winslow admitted that the occupation of the building, along with the ensuing fires that were set around the property to deter police, “wasn’t the best reaction, but we are frustrated.” More than 80 people were arrested after police deployed tear gas in the area. source (via • follow)
It’s not us, it’s a bunch of guys who wear black masks. It’s messing with our movement. They leech off our numbers — they only show up when there’s a rally.Oakland Occupier Michael Porter • Talking about the chaotic elements of last night’s protests, which culminated in the early morning break-in of a vacant building, eliciting teargas and flash grenades from the OPD. Porter’s comment on this is interesting — there have been reports of graffiti sprayed throughout the city bearing conflicting messages, such as “kill cops” versus “non-violence works better.” The protest’s General Assembly is expected to address this today. source (via • follow)
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Speaking to Jim Kent, one of the Luxembourg-based programmers behind the app, he told The Next Web about the inspiration behind creating the app: We created this free app because we love to communicate and we believe in freedom of expression. We had already been working on an app, called Zapon, that is able to identify interests that were trending in the mobile environment but after tracking social media usage by protesters in the Arab Spring and more recently with #OWS, we realised the functionality was perfect for protests and dedicated the app for the mobilisation of protesters around the world. Within 1 day of launching, the app gained over 2,000 registered users from around the world. Protests were created in Greece and the US, and a campaign was launching calling for the release of Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was sentenced to 15 days in military prison, pending investigation. (via Protest4: A mobile app for connecting activists - The Next Web)
Really cool idea — and one that’s always needed a centralized approach. Not bad.
ABC-7 News in the Bay Area is providing an aerial livestream of the Occupy Oakland protests and march. It’s pretty engrossing, you should most definitely check it out — and hats off to the helicopter pilots working hard to get this quality (and socially important) footage.
It’s always important to look at who you’re quoting before you quote them. It could happen to anybody, though. One writer here at ShortFormBlog, who shall remain nameless, once mistook this Onion article for the real thing up until about halfway through.
Why just San Francisco? This seems like a great conversation to have around the country. Great idea by Storify.
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