Posts tagged "ows"
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Notes: 14 / 5 months ago from momentofmooreAlan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask
…More than 100,000 of the £4-£7 masks sell every year, according to the manufacturers, with a cut always going to Time Warner. Does that irk Moore?
“I find it comical, watching Time Warner try to walk this precarious tightrope.” Through contacts in the comics industry, he explains, he has heard that boosted sales of the masks have become a troubling issue for the company. “It’s a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting from an anti-corporate protest. It’s not really anything that they want to be associated with. And yet they really don’t like turning down money – it goes against all of their instincts.” Moore chuckles. “I find it more funny than irksome.”(Source: momentofmoore)
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Notes: 12 / 5 months ago from williac
Goldman Sachs view on crooked banker protests (17Nov11) (by liarpoliticians) (via BoingBoing)
Here’s what I like about this interview: The former Goldman-Sachs guy looks like a banker. The woman from the BBC looks like a television host. The OWS-representing journalist Laurie Penny looks like she’s from the future.
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Notes: 43 / 5 months ago from tedcroland
This “Occupy” movement is coming to a point where its true function seems to be to reveal the underlying brutal hypocrisy of U.S. legal and social policy and consciousness. For my mind, nothing represents this more than that video posted from UC Davis on Friday (I have a few friends attending and a few other alumni). There is no police procedure that can possibly justify pepper-spraying immobile kids. None. I’ve heard the captain’s explanations and they are bullshit. Nothing more.
I present, now, the body of Warren Ellis’ monologue from Transmetropolitan #3, accompanied by a few of co-creator Darick Robertson’s pages. They are relevant.
“There’s a jungle rhythm beating out below me; the sound of truncheons hammering on riot shields, police tradition when the streets get nasty. I’m in Angels 8, above what will doubtless be called the Transient Riot. History’s only written by the winners, after all, and if the cops want it called the Transient Riot, then that’s how it’ll be. Because there’s going to be Transient blood all over this place. And you know something? It’s not their fault.
The Transients couldn’t have managed this on their own. They’re just big kids who thought it would be fun to live inside an alien body. A sane society would’ve tagged them for the waterheads they are and bought them a big playground. But no one even checked to see if their silly claim for secession was feasible. Civic Center just decided to stamp on them instead. They paid a few transients off to start some trouble, deliberately marring a non-violent demonstration.
Spontaneous violence, the only excuse Civic Center would have to send in the riot cops. These people are bleeding down there for a scam. It’s a show of power. How dare anybody ignore the authority of Civic Center? How dare a bunch of freaks try and think for themselves? So let’s go out and stomp on children, lunatics and incompetents, because by damn it makes our balls feel big. I can see a blatantly unarmed transient man with half his face hanging off, and three cops working him over anyway. One of them is groping his own erection.
I’m sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog’s cock about Truth, this wouldn’t be happening. I wouldn’t be seeing a Transient woman with blood on her face huddled in a porn-store doorway, clutching her belly. I wouldn’t be looking down at a dead body, thirteen if he’s a day, draped over the hood of a police wagon. No one’s eyes would be bleeding from incapacity sprays or nerve bomblets the cops are launching down Cranberry. I wouldn’t be surrounded up here by the people who have to live and work here, weeping openly.
Enjoying this? You like the way I describe disgusting shit happening to people probably walked past in the street last week? Good. You earned it. With your silence. You see, here’s how it works; Civic Center and the cops do what the fuck they like, and you sit still. You boss does what he likes. The asshole at the tollbooth, the bouncer at your local bar, the security guy who frisks you at the clinic, the papers and feedsites that lie to you for the hell of it. They do what they like. And what do you do? You pay them. This “riot” here, this terrible shit-rain visited upon a bunch of naive uppity fetishists; you paid for it. Lap it up.
You must like it when people in authority they never earned lie to you.”
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Notes: 48 / 6 months ago from warrenellis (originally from mollycrabapple)
Laurie Penny vs. Goldman Sachs banker on BBC Newsnight.
It gives me such a grin that she’s wearing my jacket
Shocking that the banker would try to blame everyone but bankers for the financial mess.
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Notes: 6397 / 6 months ago from floket (originally from seriouslyamerica)"I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall."-
Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica
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Notes: 92 / 6 months ago from mollycrabapple
People’s librarian, masked against teargas, poses with one of my posters.
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Notes: 1061 / 6 months ago from inothernews (originally from spiers)At 2.43am, the New York Observer reported that photographers with credentials were barred from Liberty Square. Seconds later the director of editorial operations at Gawker reported that a CBS news chopper were ordered out of the sky by the NYPD. New York Times journalist Jarid Malsin went to jail in zipties. And 20 minutes later, we heard the NYPD was cutting down trees in Liberty Square, and from our office space we could hear the deployment of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), a sound cannon. To be certain, we could see and feel that this operation had been planned carefully to exclude all media coverage, sending out a loud message about how dissent will be treated in this democracy.
Holy fuck. Hello, Rabbit Hole.
Maybe everyone in America should read this?
Oh dear.
HAHAHAHA, Bloomburg is a fucking tool.
Members of the media had Mayor Bloomberg and police commissioner Kelly in the Blue Room at City Hall. How many of them brought up that the media was essentially shut out of Zuccotti Park and the immediate area? How many times can Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne cover up the NYPD’s obvious attempts at a media blackout? How many New York Post reporters need to be subjected to “deliberate violence” before the New York Post covers the police brutality that’s occurred?
Members of the mainstream media, you are here on Tumblr and in your newsrooms. Ask your news directors and managing editors and your investigative journalists why the NYPD is getting away with its own insidious form of censorship. Read your press passes and ask why you’re suddenly being barred from crossing police and fire lines to cover stories.
The pen is mightier than the sword. Now is the time to wield it.
(Source: spiers)
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Notes: 188 / 6 months ago from inothernews
This is an NYPD whiteshirt.
See the anger in his face?
See the cocked arm, ready to strike?
See the forward motion as he lunges at a peaceful protester?
The NYPD surrounded the park, out of the blue, around 1 A.M. this morning, most protesters caught unaware.
Most of them left peacefully, after being ordered to by cops using bullhorns and wearing riot gear.
The one who didn’t stayed behind, formed human chains and staying behind makeshift barricades.
They were forcibly removed, helpless, powerless against the machine.
And yet, this whiteshirt.
Full of anger; full of hate.
Ready to strike.
To hurt.
Why?
Officer Roidrage is ragey.
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Notes: 1 / 6 months ago from capnswing
The Adventures of Dan Turkette, Freelance Meter Maid
I can only imagine Sandy Kennedy’s exasperation at having this flake pester her about a parking violation just long enough to make a smear post about it.
It takes time for these things to enter the system. Sometimes as much as five working days. I don’t think the system’s broken just yet.
You’re a loose cannon, Turkette! Pretend-ticket book and freelance meter maid badge on my desk now! You’re outta here!
I have to admit, this is pretty funny.
“Those occupiers are takin’ up space in my town. Parking space.”
Frank Miller needs to get on illustrating this one. Dan could be the Marv/Fixer of freelance meter maids. (It could be even bigger than Holy Terror…)
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Notes: 101 / 6 months ago from capnswing (originally from inothernews)"
Mark Schatzker, a Canadian satirist, told The Lede on Wednesday that it was “a huge surprise” to him to learn that opponents of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States, including Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, have been using this quote, from a 38-year-old protester named Jeremy puzzled by the habits of bankers on Bay Street, in Toronto’s financial district, as evidence that that the protesters are lazy:
“It’s weird protesting on Bay Street. You get there at 9 a.m. and the rich bankers who you want to hurl insults at and change their worldview have been at work for two hours already. And then when it’s time to go, they’re still there. I guess that’s why they call them the one per cent. I mean, who wants to work those kinds of hours? That’s the power of greed.” - Jeremy, 38
Mr. Schatzker was surprised because Jeremy is a fictional character he invented recently for his weekly humor column published in Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper.
As the Web site Mediate reported this week, opponents of the protest movement were apparently so pleased to read the quote Mr. Schatzker attributed to Jeremy — a 38-year-old protester puzzled by the habits of bankers on Bay Street, in Toronto’s financial district — that they failed to notice that the column was clearly labelled “Satire” at the very top before copying the text and sharing it by on Facebook, in e-mails, on blogs and even in outraged YouTube videos.
The fake quote was so widely cited that it even ended up being repeated on Tuesday by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, at a campaign event.
"-The New York Times, “Satirist Surprised His ‘Occupy’ Fiction Was Cited as Fact.”
LOL Republicans.
Alternative headline: “People With Common Sense Not Surprised Conservatives Cited ‘Occupy’ Fiction As Fact.”
(via inothernews)
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