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2011-Oct-03, Monday 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerSomething is wrong (or right) in New York.
J.P. Morgan Chase has suddenly donated US$4.6 million to the city's police department. The 1% elite has taken notice of the new Occupy movement in America, and they're clearly scared. People are holding signs "Eat The Rich", "Robin Hood Was Right", and "They Only Call It Class Warfare When We Fight Back".
News has surfaced of 700 people being arrested for crossing Brooklyn Bridge. The people there (including a reporter) thought that the police were escorting them across the bridge. The crowd got even noisier as police arrested a teenage girl among the crowd. The police apparently notified a few people at the front of the crowd and then stood back to let everyone pass unchallenged. So arrest the people in front. For half a thousand other protesters, it certainly looks like police entrapment since the police were standing around without taking any opportunity to divert the flow of pedestrian traffic. Some rumors even say that the vans were specifically brought out that day for planned arrests.
Something is wrong in Minnesota.
I've written previously about theft of copper as people begin cannibalizing the infrastructure in order to eek out a living. Now it seems that food is disappearing too. Not off the grocery shelves... but directly off of the farms. Can't you feel the squeeze too? Wouldn't it be wise to try diverting this trend by acting to influence the American economic system? I've been preaching about the ills of an inflationary money supply for a long time now. Choose that issue or choose another, but DO SOMETHING to forge a peaceful future, please.
Something else is wrong (or right) in Minnesota.
In case you've never been witness or participant to collective action before, the only thing you should ever expect is disorganization. The new Occupy movement in America has plenty of disorganization. :)
I've been unable to contact by email the people that I met at the planning meeting on Saturday. A coworker's email has bounced back. The committee lead has not yet emailed me. I emailed the event organizer but have not heard back yet (I'm sure he's swamped with emails). We have only 4 days to go, and I wouldn't know if any kind of progress has been made for organizing the occupation.
If you've never seen collective action before, don't worry: everything is right on schedule! *laugh*
#occupyMN begins on October 7 Friday at 9am at the Hennepin County Government Plaza. It will continue indefinitely... until government clearly moves to protect the interests of the people over of the profits of corporations.
J.P. Morgan Chase has suddenly donated US$4.6 million to the city's police department. The 1% elite has taken notice of the new Occupy movement in America, and they're clearly scared. People are holding signs "Eat The Rich", "Robin Hood Was Right", and "They Only Call It Class Warfare When We Fight Back".
News has surfaced of 700 people being arrested for crossing Brooklyn Bridge. The people there (including a reporter) thought that the police were escorting them across the bridge. The crowd got even noisier as police arrested a teenage girl among the crowd. The police apparently notified a few people at the front of the crowd and then stood back to let everyone pass unchallenged. So arrest the people in front. For half a thousand other protesters, it certainly looks like police entrapment since the police were standing around without taking any opportunity to divert the flow of pedestrian traffic. Some rumors even say that the vans were specifically brought out that day for planned arrests.Something is wrong in Minnesota.
I've written previously about theft of copper as people begin cannibalizing the infrastructure in order to eek out a living. Now it seems that food is disappearing too. Not off the grocery shelves... but directly off of the farms. Can't you feel the squeeze too? Wouldn't it be wise to try diverting this trend by acting to influence the American economic system? I've been preaching about the ills of an inflationary money supply for a long time now. Choose that issue or choose another, but DO SOMETHING to forge a peaceful future, please.
Something else is wrong (or right) in Minnesota.
In case you've never been witness or participant to collective action before, the only thing you should ever expect is disorganization. The new Occupy movement in America has plenty of disorganization. :)
I've been unable to contact by email the people that I met at the planning meeting on Saturday. A coworker's email has bounced back. The committee lead has not yet emailed me. I emailed the event organizer but have not heard back yet (I'm sure he's swamped with emails). We have only 4 days to go, and I wouldn't know if any kind of progress has been made for organizing the occupation.
If you've never seen collective action before, don't worry: everything is right on schedule! *laugh*
#occupyMN begins on October 7 Friday at 9am at the Hennepin County Government Plaza. It will continue indefinitely... until government clearly moves to protect the interests of the people over of the profits of corporations.