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- i_monk0
http://www.alternet.org/story/15…
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
1. Student-Loan Debt.
2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.
3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.
4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
5. Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously.
6. The Normalization of Surveillance.
7. Television.
8. Fundamentalist Religion and Fundamentalist Consumerism.
- i_monk0
Remember capitalism? Glad we got rid of that.
- verbidextrous0
do flash mobs ever happen, anymore? i haven't heard of any, for a while. i really thought that one of the next things to happen after OWS and other places got removed would be to get the occupy flash mob thing going. seems like a natural fit. a hoard of like-minded individuals descend upon a square, or an event, do a quick, video-recorded, mic check and disappear into the crowd, around the block, into the next shop. if it's done well enough, i think few if anyone would get arrested. you can occupy a place, if you need to, but it doesn't need to be for any length of time, does it, if it's sufficiently recorded? i dunno. just a thought.
- Only Improv Everywhere seems to do flashmobs now.i_monk
- flash doesn't run on iPadsmonospaced
- akrok0
TASED FOR NOTHING...
also, who the fuck put both hands around the persons neck from the back. oh the cop did. never mind. lol.
i think the level of humanity has reach it's lowest level ever.
which is pretty sad. shouldn't be that way.- we didn't see the first half of that video, only when the cops start following that dudedirtydesign
- pizzafire0
Happy Anniversary
- mikotondria30
Stupid, stupid tactics.
It wouldn't take much to really piss off a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people enough for them to turn up armed and angry, then there aint no policing that, military involvement or otherwise. That's societal breakdown there on a scale that'll make the LA riots look like a scrap at a kids party. That's what everyone forgets about the US - there's fucking millions of people here and they have 100s of millions of guns. They're pretty easy to control with conventional media, and it goes a long way to overly project the illusion of state power with incessant 24/7 cop shows on tv for the whole of a person's life. It gives the impression that there are thousands, millions of smart, decent, dedicated cops on every corner, but there aren't. I used to watch the Occupy debacle and get pissed off because I thought the Police were becoming the dangerous ones; they're not - what they're doing is. By eroding public good-will like this, at a time of increasing uncertainty, poverty, confusion and anger is putting us all at risk of legions of angry gun-toting idiots who may initially coalesce round a series of wildy unjust and stupid incidents like the one above, or an horrific and unwarrented shooting in the face, or a young college girl getting her head run over in a riot, creamy pink brains splattered down the road, or whatever it is, but a few days of entrenchment and a couple of related killings on either side and it's fucking game-over in every little town from the Grand Banks to Olympia harbor - there aren't enough Police to keep everyone safe if every 10th gun-owner has suddenly had enough and takes to the streets. Somebody somewhere is doing a shit, shit job of deciding what to instruct front-line cops to do. Every minor incident is a world-wide event in this soap opera.
I like liking cops, they come to my door at 4 in the morning if I hear someone breaking into next door. They'll put their lives on the line to protect my family and my stuff, and they couldn't be paid a fair wage to do those sort of things that I wouldn't be able to, but they're being abused by being made to behave like this, and that abuse is putting us all in danger. We'll see.- Considering this is likely what they're trying to do, the tactics aren't so stupid.Horp
- panacea0
MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…During two days of recent congressional hearings into how as much as $1.2 billion disappeared from MF Global customer accounts, the chief operating officer of the imploding investment firm responded again and again that he did not know.
Yet as the House and Senate interrogated Bradley I. Abelow and other top executives at MF Global Holdings Ltd., lawmakers did not mention Mr. Abelow’s role as a financial adviser for the Environmental Protection Agency, which as of Tuesday listed him as the chairman of its financial advisory board.
It’s unclear how Mr. Abelow landed the chairmanship of the EPA financial panel, a position he noted in his biography on the MF Global website, which has since been removed.
He has ties to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson through former Democrat New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. Each served at different times as the governor’s chief of staff. When Mr. Corzine lost his bid for re-election and later joined MF Global, Mr. Abelow followed.
- drgs0
- panacea0
‘God’-awful OWS mob steals sacred item from church
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/loc…There’s no longer room at the inn at a Manhattan church that’s sheltering Occupy Wall Streeters after a holy vessel disappeared from the altar last week.
When the Rev. Bob Brashear prepared for Sunday services at West Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th Street, he noticed parts of the bronze baptismal font were gone.
In a fire-and-brimstone message to occupiers later that day, he thundered, “It was like pissing on the 99 percent.”
In Brooklyn, at another church housing OWS protesters, an occupier urinated on a cross, according to Rabbi Chaim Gruber, who has angrily abandoned the OWS movement.
- frankly authoritatively communicate premier technology is not an optiontroller
- enough with the nypost.com articles. there's a lot more positive stuff happening.pizzafire
- panacea0
- it all sounds great from the comfort of your parents' homezaq
- are you actively protesting today? who's their leader? I'm still at a loss, what's their next step? Same goes for Tea partypanacea
- I'm utterly convinced you're on someone's payroll to be here and elsewhere in the interwebsTheBlueOne
- why would I want to be on someone's payroll?panacea
- popfodders needs to get your ass back in teh kitchen pan!74LEO
- animatedgif0
That thing still going?
- panacea0
Dissension among the ranks at Occupy Wall Street
Some protesters feel left out of decisions, fret about how they'll keep camp life going
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4528…