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Occupy Wall Street, Day 17

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Submitted by danps on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 10:39pm
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University of Puerto Rico Strike Leaders Solidarity with Wall St. Occupation

LA gearing up.

Detroit gearing up.

Set up your own People's Mic

The theory

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From the UK, a report on yesterday's arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge.

"The over-reaction clearly shows that the authorities feel quite vulnerable"

At the risk of being presumptuous or immodest, if organizers are looking for policy prescriptions down the road I know a site that's put together a really punchy 12 Word Platform just waiting to be stolen and used.

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Submitted by JuliaWilliams on

More than one occupation going on here (yay!). Am being overwhelmed with FB postings, but the GA meeting for Detroit is next Monday-I'll be there :-). Will keep ya'll updated as I can-don't "tweet" yet, may have to learn how :-)

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Submitted by lambert on

Tweeting is easy once you get a twitter account. Once you have one, you can also tweet posts from here with the tweet button

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Submitted by coyotecreek on

I'm reading "liberal/progressive" blogs that are still screaming "Message, Message. What are their demands?"

Personally I think the message is quite clear in the name: "Occupy Wall Street" - Why is it necessary to break "Wall Street" down into smaller pieces to fit someones notion of a "demand"? Maybe so the powers that be can then pick it apart?

At the heart of evil is greed. That's Wall Street.

And BTW - not everyone supporting this are 18 to 25 college students. This 65 year old and her older-than-that husband, sister and BIL will be Occupying Tucson on the 15th. Just couldn't get our old asses up to NYC.

But if there is ever a worthy DC march we will be there, too (shades of the 80's Pro-Choice marches.)

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Submitted by lambert on

Me too, on that date, though I don't know where...

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Submitted by coyotecreek on

(As you know...) My sentiments exactly.

Thank you.

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Submitted by DCblogger on

that so many occupy sites have sprung up, not just in the US, but across the world, is an indication of how the message of Occupy Wall Street has resonated. There is zero promo budget, this is simply and idea whose time has come. It is like 1848, only lets hope that this time we succeed in bringing down the tyrants.

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Submitted by Cujo359 on

In essence, the "creative class" want to act as consultants. A fairly consistent marketing technique of consultants is to first say "Boy, you guys are doing it all wrong. Here, let me help for a reasonable fee."

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Submitted by coyotecreek on

On my way home a little while ago I was listening to the radio and landed on Sirius "Patriot (a right-winger station). They were talking about Occupy Wall Street (their take on it is "nobody can be allowed to get rich anymore").

Anyway, a caller mentioned that (OMG!) there is one of these things planned for Tulsa (I muttered "everywhere else, too" to the radio) and they dress up like Zombies....whereupon the host (Wilkow?) said, "Isn't Oklahoma a 'carry' state? Well, you know how we get rid of Zombies, right?" And then said something about how terms like "double-tap" (and some other killing term) might become very popular out there.

This idiot just incited someone to consider killing an Occupy participant.

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Submitted by Cujo359 on

What strikes me as most disturbing is that this will be treated as free speech, which it is, yet we as a country seem to see nothing wrong with killing someone who exercised a similar kind of free speech.

Submitted by cg.eye on

-- but it does play into eliminationist rhetoric by the other side. I wondered when Wall Street would own that meme, in calling for the elimination of the rabble, but then I remembered reading about the OWS folk letting occupiers dress up....

Unless OWS gets in front of the meme, and quick -- using suits to place zombies as the 1% eating us alive -- it's going to be too easy for the right to own it, with bad results.

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Submitted by DCblogger on

http://twitter.com/crankyyellow/status/121078335769018368

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Submitted by DCblogger on

http://twitter.com/kennethlipp/status/121346432656617472

http://twitter.com/OccupySanJose/status/121346216347975680

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Submitted by coyotecreek on

A perfect 12 world platform: Developed by Corrente (correntewire.com)

1. Medicare for All

2. End the Wars

3. Tax the Rich

4. A Jobs Guarantee

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Submitted by danps on

Spread the word!