You’ll laugh and you’ll cry. Except you won’t laugh.
Get aquainted with the people who control our world’s money
Cops watching a man drown because they can no longer afford water-rescue training? Actually happening. That’s just what happens when one political party openly declares it wants to shrink the size of government until its small enough to drown in a bath tub. Our November/December cover story is up, and it’s a must-read.
PEOPLE OF COLOR WORKING GROUP @ OCCUPYWALLSTREET
Today’s meeting gave me new hope for people of color. It showed me that we never give up. That we fight for our people when the time calls for it. That we can come together and unify in the midst of all this oppression, when the cards are stacked most against us.
One guy argued that we should take this opportunity to educate our communities, and bring this energy and organization to the hood, where the oppression is most evident. the dude read my mind.
There were sub-committees for concerns such as students, arts and culture, press, social media, education, research, etc etc. I (kind of) joined the education committee where they’re proposing to train people on different facets of oppression, such as racism, patriarchy, environmental racism, gentrification, among others.
Then to finish it off there was a bombazo, which is when drummers circle around and play while someone in the middle dances to the beat. i was hype! there were ppl clapping, shaking maracas, singing along: TUMBA LA PARED! (BREAK DOWN THE WALL!) This musical/cultural outlet is EXACTLY what keeps social movements alive. you cannot have a social movement strictly be about politics. You need culture. You need to identify with your roots. People of color are rich in ancestral tradition and veneration.
This kind of energy makes me wanna come back down to the city for good and join my people in solidarity as the times demand it.
*this is the people of color working group Google Group:
*this is the tumblr page: pococcupywallstreet
It’s like they’re not even pretending anymore.
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More #occupywallstreet wisdom. Via Evan O’Brien.
on the backs of slave labor and stolen land.
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#OccupyWallStreet - ‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’ | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com | (via progressivefriends)
I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.
(via itstimefortruth)
I don’t even think thats the best line, here’s more of what the Marine said:
My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the Fucking Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets.
via @newyorkist
I remember reading someone blog or tweet “The NYT is sure to change their coverage of the protest now that their own reporters are getting arrested”
case.in.point
I am almost 40 years old. I am a single parent of two. My supposedly “good government job” is barely keeping us above water. And even that is being threatend by funding cuts and union busting. I did the jobless, functional homeless thing with my kids for six years before we landed where we are. I do not want to go through that again.
I am the 99%
occupywallstreet.org
What appears to be about 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protestors have marched part of the way across the Brooklyn Bridge, stopped eastbound traffic, and are staying put under the western arches of the bridge with a heavy police presence.
For a while, cars were stopped waiting for the march to continue, but they have all now turned around and gone the wrong way back west to Manhattan. For a moment it was a site to behold as a couple dozen cars made awkward U-turns in the narrow lanes, facing in all directions at once. Traffic on the other side, westbound, is fine.
It’s been going on for about 15 minutes on the bridge so far, and some protesters seem to be trickling back to Manhattan.
According to Occupy Wall Street organizers at least 20 people have already been arrested. Here’s the live stream for closeups.
And I’m posting a few more pics, including one with the full arches visible to my twitter feed, @alexgoldmark, since this Tumblr seems very slow at loading now.
and this still isn’t receiving as much media attention as it should. i saw fox news had been covering it last night, but since fox news isn’t a news source, i don’t think it really counts.
WOW
Its kind of shocking how little attention this is getting. But shocking in a “we all knew this was coming and its just sad” kind of way. People are coming together to organize - but lets not let the rest of the country know how people are fighting for the masses…
*sigh* america…
