Occupy ROTH Army

[Satan]

[Satan]

Occupy Seattle: Octogenarian activist Dorli Rainey on being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, importance of activism
November 16, 2011

Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson and her advice to “take one more step out of your comfort zone” as an inspiration, saying, “It would be so easy to say, ‘Well I’m going to retire, I’m going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,’ but somebody’s got to keep ’em awake and let ’em know what is really going on in this world.”



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[Dr. Love]

[Blaze]

Ummm, what is that brown thing on the map?

Addressing this to the world court might be necessary. Signs and GIFs need to be made in key languages.

What I mean is if federal judicial systems and LEO can not address corruption issues in key cities, other judicial documentation and means will need to be sought.

[Nitro Express]

The whole occupy thing is turning interesting. I think maybe Adbusters had an agenda and people have come in trying to exploit it but it's just turned into a big monster nobody controls. There is good and bad in it. People I thought would be critical of it actually support it. One thing that was pointed out was the library they put together in New York that the police dismantled. In Seattle the paramedics said the occupy movement there had their own well organized emergency response team that was quite impressive. Hard to say where this is all heading but people are pissed and they know the establishment in politics and the corporations are responsible for most of the corruption. People have been being ripped off for years but when it gets personal to masses of people, they say enough is enough.

The genie is out of the bottle and no amount of police or thug tactics are going to put it back. I think the police are targeting old ladies and pregnant women to infuriate the crowd into rioting so they can point to it and label the whole movement as trouble and have the excuse to bring in the heavy hitters and mop it up. The protesters are onto that and refuse to play that game. If anything, it just makes the police and government look bad.

[Dr. Love]

that's scumbag steve's hat on the country (it's put on anything that's identified as acting like a scumbag)

[Blaze]

The whole occupy thing is turning interesting. I think maybe Adbusters had an agenda and people have come in trying to exploit it but it's just turned into a big monster nobody controls. There is good and bad in it. People I thought would be critical of it actually support it. One thing that was pointed out was the library they put together in New York that the police dismantled. In Seattle the paramedics said the occupy movement there had their own well organized emergency response team that was quite impressive. Hard to say where this is all heading but people are pissed and they know the establishment in politics and the corporations are responsible for most of the corruption. People have been being ripped off for years but when it gets personal to masses of people, they say enough is enough.

The genie is out of the bottle and no amount of police or thug tactics are going to put it back. I think the police are targeting old ladies and pregnant women to infuriate the crowd into rioting so they can point to it and label the whole movement as trouble and have the excuse to bring in the heavy hitters and mop it up. The protesters are onto that and refuse to play that game. If anything, it just makes *the police and government* look bad.

*Note: Certain sorts of LEO's, and select government salaried and/or hourly employees.

[Blaze]

that's scumbag steve's hat on the country (it's put on anything that's identified as acting like a scumbag)

Who is Steve?

[Dr. Love]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-steve

[Blaze]

Thanks for the info. Too complicated.

[Satan]

[FORD]

11/17/2011
The Rude Pundit
This Is Not Your Fucking Movement; This Is Our Fucking Movement:

Let's be honest here: the march this morning to shut down Wall Street was useless if its goal was to, well, shut down Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange is, more or less, a show. Multi-million dollar financial transactions are not done by crazy, sweaty guys on a loud, chaotic floor. They're done digitally. So whether or not the secretaries and junior fuckbag executives and janitors got into work didn't stop a single transfer of funds from one rich asshole to another. It pissed off some people and got the cops more overtime.

But, as ever, as ever, since it's started, everyone, from The Daily Show to Diane Rehm, right, left, and middle, has insisted that Occupy Wall Street conform to some readily defined paradigm of what a protest movement needs to be. Essentially, they are echoing something that Karl Rove drooled out the other day when he asked protesters at a speech he giving at Johns Hopkins University, "Who gave you the right to occupy America?" The real question is "Who took that right away?"

We are just two months into this. Two fucking months after sucking up the shit given to us from the right for years. Two fucking months after being part of the movement that propelled Obama into the presidency, only to see that movement dissolved and dissipated. Two fucking months after watching two years of Tea Party bullshit being flaunted in our faces as if it represented anything but the height of corporate and conservative cynicism and manipulation.

We are two months into this and everyone in the media is clamoring for closure. It took years for the civil rights movement to get laws changed. It took years for the anti-Vietnam War movement to get through the thick skulls of the majority of Americans. This is just starting. Welcome to the real occupation.

Right now, the whole Occupy Wall Street narrative arc is following a well-worn script: defiance of authority followed by a crackdown by the agents of the authority. The corrupt, illegal power of the police and the governments of New York, Oakland, and elsewhere has been on display, with the raid on Zuccotti Park and on encampments around the country, as well as attacks on media members from the right, left, and middle.

The march this morning wasn't going to do anything, despite the hopeful rumors that the stock market opening bell had been delayed (it wasn't). No, the point was, like the rallies for Obama before them, that there is power in numbers. And that power needs to be exhibited and enacted.

When the Supreme Court, in the Citizens United decision, said that corporations are people with First Amendment rights and affirmed that money is the equivalent of speech, it essentially was saying that some people have more speech than others. The wealthy and the corporations can never be matched in terms of the speech effect of their dollars. But they can be matched and overcome by the sheer volume of people. That's why we say we are the 99%.

// posted by Rude One @ 1:54 PM

[Blaze]

This graphic is more telling.

[Blaze]

Cause this story unfolded so fast and I do not know where to start. I am just going to put it all out.
So, little seems to be written about it.

[Blaze]

ray-lewis-occupy


Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis occupying Zuccotti Park last night

Update: Mr. Lewis has been arrested, according to multiple reports.
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis was in Zuccotti Park last night with the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Mr. Lewis showed up in uniform carrying signs a pair of signs imploring New York City cops to join the protests. “NYPD Don’t Be Wall Street Mercenaries,” one read. Mr. Lewis was interviewed on one of the Occupy Wall Street livestreams at about two this morning. He was sharply critical of the NYPD’s conduct during their raid on the protest encampment Tuesday. “This bullrush–what happened last night is totally uncalled for,” Mr. Lewis said.


A Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson confirmed to the Observer that Mr. Lewis was a captain prior to retiring in 2004. He was photographed at the protests yesterday afternoon as demonstrators ringed Zuccotti Park in the wake of their eviction.

In his late night interview with the livestreamers, Lewis said police in New York City should have dealt with Occupy Wall Street through negotiation rather than forcefully removing protesters from the park.

“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured OK? If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation–continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that,” Mr Lewis said. “This bullrush–what happened last night is totally uncalled for when they did not use negotiation long enough.”

Mayor Bloomberg has stated the raid was necessary because the protest encampment carried with it a risk of crime, fire and health hazards. Mr. Lewis called that rationale “a farce.”

“They complained about the park being dirty. Here they are worrying about dirty parks when people are starving to death, where people are freezing, where people are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting,” Mr. Lewis said.

Mr. Lewis said the police want to get rid of him, but he vowed to keep coming back to the protests.

“They’re trying to get me arrested and I may disappear OK?” Mr. Lewis said. “As soon as I’m let out of jail, I’ll be right back here and they’ll have to arrest me again.”

Mr. Lewis thinks some officers might appreciate his presence, but not top brass.

“I’m their worst enemy, especially with the white shirts, the bosses OK? Some of the fellow cops they might be thinking, you know, ‘That guy, he’s got a point,’ but the bosses, i’m their number one enemy,” Mr. Lewis said.

Mr. Lewis clearly doesn’t think the NYPD likes him, but he told the protesters he doesn’t think cops are their enemy.

“All the cops are, they’re just workers for the one percent and they don’t even realize they’re being exploited,” Mr. Lewis said.

Viewers who watched Mr. Lewis’ interview told us he spoke on camera for more than 40 minutes. We’ll try to get our hands on a full clip, but for now, you can watch an excerpt of Mr. Lewis’ livestream appearance below.

http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-joins-with-occupy-wall-street-protesters-video/