1)the We are the 53% site is such a fascinating mix of privilege and internalized class oppression. Some sociologist out there should really delve into it
2)Rachel Maddow’s “Machine Against the Rage” headline is fucking brilliant; so’s the segment it came from: Conservatives in panicked hysteria over Occupy Wall Street
3)Most hilarious protest EVAR: Robin Hood in a kayak
4)The police really fucking hate OCW, don’t they. First, in NYC: the macing of peaceful protesters; the arrests of 700(!)protesters in NYC, and of course shit like this. Now, in Boston: police beat up (elderly) veterans, arrest 50-100 protesters
EDIT: I really should check TYTNetwork before making these posts: Cenk Uygur on “we are the 53%”
and in case some people still use IE, the links, in order:
http://the53.tumblr.com/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908#44853611
http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/11/340154/protesters-dressed-as-robin-hood-kayak-up-chicago-river-to-protest-mortgage-bankers-association/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA
http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/9/25/10/enhanced-buzz-16355-1316962458-4.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYVa0LdXTfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfEtywGAR0o
*hug* ^_^
I should spend an evening on all this. And I’ll look into Firefox 7. I promise :-)
“Machine against the rage” reminds me of Wutbürger.
Been to NYC (with onion girl, Muse, Sili & JackC), seen OCW. Except… no idea where Wall Street was; we only saw Liberty Square, which is really not very big at all. Lots of very general hippie-ish “let’s improve the world” stuff there. Police was represented by an empty mobile observation tower and 3 empty little vehicles.
Scientists join Occupy Baltimore.
You said you stay away from TET now :-( , so I have to post this here, too.