#OCCUPYWALLSTREET campaign - September 17

[crikkett]

One of the cops last night being interviewed basically just admitted they haven't a clue as to how to deal with the homeless of los angeles

elfismiles, downtown LA really is very scary. Post-apocalypse zombie horde scary.

Nordic, wasn't there a scandal a couple of years ago about hospitals dumping insane and homeless patients on skid row?

[Jeff]

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Bloomberg, last night

[vanlose kid]

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Bloomberg, last night

The Jolly Banker
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

My name is Tom Cranker and I'm a jolly banker,
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
I safeguard the farmers and widows and orphans,
Singin' I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

When dust storms are sailing, and crops they are failing,
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
I check up your shortage and bring down your mortgage,
Singin' I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

When money you're needing, and mouths you are feeding,
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
I'll plaster your home with a furniture loan,
Singin' I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

If you show me you need it, I'll let you have credit,
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
Just bring me back two for the one I lend you,
Singin' I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

When your car you're losin', and sadly your cruisin',
I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
I'll come and forclose, get your car and your clothes,
Singin' I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

When the bugs get your cotton, the times they are rotten,
I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
I'll come down and help you, I'll rake you and scalp you,
Singin' I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

When the landlords abuse you, or sadly misuse you,
I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.
I'll send down the police chief to keep you from mischief,
Singin' I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.



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[NeonLX]

My 17-year-old shared this with me last night. It's apparently making the rounds with her high school buds (yay!).

[Jeff]

Street Sweeper Social Club, The New Fuck You

[American Dream]

[Plutonia]

Coming up!



Poster and flyer pdf's at link: http://westcoastportshutdown.org/content/posters-flyers

[Jeff]

Top GOP Strategist Admits He’s ‘Scared’ Of Occupy Wall Street Because It’s ‘Having An Impact’

By Zaid Jilani on Dec 1, 2011 at 10:15 am

The Republican Governor’s Association met in Florida this week and featured pollster Frank Luntz, who offered a coaching session for attendees about how they should communicate to the public. Yahoo! News’ Chris Moody was there, and captured some of Luntz’s comments on Occupy Wall Street.

Luntz told attendees that he’s “scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death.” The pollster warned that the movement is “having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.” So the pollster offered some advice for them about how to fight back. Here’s a few snippets of what he said, according to Moody:

– Don’t Mention Capitalism: Luntz said that his polling research found that “The public…still prefers capitalism to socialism, but they think capitalism is immoral. And if we’re seen as defenders of quote, Wall Street, end quote, we’ve got a problem.”

...

– Don’t Mention The Middle Class Because Americans Don’t Trust Republicans To Defend It: “They cannot win if the fight is on hardworking taxpayers,” Luntz instructed the audience. “We can say we defend the ‘middle class’ and the public will say, I’m not sure about that. But defending ‘hardworking taxpayers’ and Republicans have the advantage.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/1 ... ll-street/

[Jeff]

Fox: Holiday Cards Featuring Guns Are "A Reminder" To "Occupy Wall Streeters" That "The Other Side Is Better Armed"

[Nordic]

Luntz should be scared of jailtime and possibly a rope. He's a propagandist for war criminals, war profiteers, and enemies of the people. Hitler's propagandist was considered just as guilty as any other Nazi; why should luntz be any different?

[NeonLX]

Luntz should be scared of jailtime and possibly a rope. He's a propagandist for war criminals, war profiteers, and enemies of the people. Hitler's propagandist was considered just as guilty as any other Nazi; why should luntz be any different?

Well, yeah...but who's gonna find him (and the rest of the b@st@rds) guilty?

[dada]

"As Tent Cities Fade, Occupy Turns to Specifics" By AMY WESTFELDT Associated Press
NEW YORK December 1, 2011 (AP)

They fade! They don't get raided, harassed, maligned, infiltrated, gassed, trampled, bullied, blasted, beaten down, crushed... no, they just fade, like an old shirt.

[Allegro]

.
In this Blip written by Swans’ Editor, Gilles d’Aymery, are three short essays on that many topics. The first is an overview of already well RI-documented Occupy Movement; then, quickened, descriptive narratives acknowledging psychological results of sodomy; and, the third topic wrt to the Eurozone crisis.

Excerpt from Blips #118
by Gilles d’Aymery | Swans dot com | Nov 21, 2011
— first paragraph only

IT HAPPENED. It was not a matter of if but of when. Occupy encampments are being methodically and forcefully dismantled by over-weaponized police agencies in cities all over the country. From Portland, OR, to Atlanta, GA; from Salt Lake City, UT, to Denver, CO; from Oakland and Berkeley, CA, to St. Louis, MI and Burlington, VT, to New York City. In Berkeley, the spectacle was particularly violent. There, at Sproul Plaza, at the door of the university campus, the police armed with rifles viciously attacked a couple of hundred people who were protesting non-violently the almost doubling of tuition proposed by the university. A woman was pulled by her hair, thrown to the ground, and repeatedly beaten with a baton in her ribs. She is a university professor -- a woman, for heaven's sake. The person who ordered the raid in the name of law and order, health and safety, was no one else but the chancellor of the university, Robert J. Birgeneau, who makes over $500,000 a year (plus perks). In NYC, the decision to evict the Zuccotti Park protesters who were denouncing inequities, wealth disparities, Wall Street and corporate greed, unemployment, etc., was taken by the city's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a multi-billionaire (he is ranked 12th on the Forbes 400 richest people list, with an estimated worth of close to $20 billion). All over the U.S. the 1% talked to each other, mayors, and policy makers, and decided that dissent would not be tolerated, freedom of assembly ignored, peaceful political protests crushed—in less than two months.

[RESUME.]

Gilles d’Aymery was born in 1950 in France. Educated at the Universities of Economics & Law of Toulouse and Paris, and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, he’s traveled extensively and speaks several languages. Aymery has worked in the international oil & gas industry, moved to the U.S. in 1982, eventually changed course to become a computer consultant to small US businesses, and created Swans in 1996. He has been dedicating his time to the project since January 2001.

A contrarian, Aymery is a long-time advocate of policies that promote cooperation (in opposition to competition), equal allocation and sharing of created wealth entailing redistribution of revenues, collective decision-making on the control of resources (both input and output), and “underconsumptionism” to mitigate growing human-made ecological mayhem. As a contrarian by nature and a secular humanist by affinity, he has never been a member of, or affiliated to a political party, and as a nonreligious person never embraced any ideological chapel… [RESUME.]

[Aurataur]

I just launched http://www.occupytheports.com to help raise awareness for the upcoming December 12 action to shut down the ports of the west coast. I will be adding a lot more content over the next couple of days. Please take a look, give me your feedback, and if you like it help spread the word!

Here's my first flyer:

[Jeff]

I just launched http://www.occupytheports.com to help raise awareness for the upcoming December 12 action to shut down the ports of the west coast. I will be adding a lot more content over the next couple of days. Please take a look, give me your feedback, and if you like it help spread the word!

It looks great, Aurataur, and it's a wonderful initiative. Consider the word spread.