ense if Taibbi's right.
'....This is why the occupations springing up across North America, Spain, Greece and the Middle East are a genuine game changer: these predominantly young activists have seen the same storm clouds on the horizon that trouble the dreams of the one per cent, and have caught on to the heist they are perpetrating. The occupiers realize that for them, cynicism is a luxury they can't afford, and they won't surrender their future without a fight.
As rabble.ca blogger Aalya Ahmad so pithily put it, "Let's carpe fucking diem on this one, eh? The way this world is going, many of us may not get another chance." With the cliff we're careening towards in full view, hundreds of thousands are now in the streets and collectively reaching for the emergency brake.
Canadian company backs down from plans to 'cleanse' Occupy Wall Street -- an on-the-ground report | rabble.ca
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Occupy Montreal: Like New York, but with bilingual flavour
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L'Occupation de Montréal aura besoin de vous! Vêtements chauds, bouffe,
génératrices, équipement audio-video, walkie-talkies, tentes, batteries,
chargeurs solaires, trousses de premiers soins, équipement d'entretien
(balais, poubelles, sac à ordures, toilettes chimiques, etc). Apportez TOUT
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2011/10/first-we-take-manhattan-what-occupy-wall-street-could-mean
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and last but not least
this long quote
from Lenin's tomb
Wall Street's famously chaste, humble bearing may not be the secret of its charm. When you ask what is, you begin to realise what the Right has accomplished. It has plausibly retailed something as banal as markets, and all the variations and derivatives thereof, as a libidinised field of popular (competitive) participation, the final source of all wealth/value (stock markets delivering oodles of the stuff like ducks farting out golden eggs), and, if this isn't a tautology, a genre of erotica. The insurance company as an aphrodisiac. Yet it had to occur to someone to give Goldman Sachs and allies something to worry about, a something from which they have thus far been protected. Under the Obama administration, which treats the quack orthodoxies of investment bankers as technocratic panaceas, the politically dominant fraction within the US ruling class has rarely seemed more powerful and at ease. In their home city, the banks and traders have colonised the political system to the extent that one of their own sons, Michael Bloomberg, can take office and actually run the city as a favour to them. (Bloomberg declines remuneration for his services.) This is 21st Century philanthropy.
On that very subject, it must be a felicitous coincidence that JP Morgan Chase donated $4.6m to the New York Police Department on the same day that the same department engaged in a mass arrest of hundreds of#OccupyWallStreet activists marooned on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Occupy Wall Street protests have now spread to some 800 cities. It’s spreading like a fire on a strong wind over a dry field. The heat is likely to keep on building.
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A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street
Source: TomDispatch.comFriday, October 14, 2011
Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since spread like wildfire to cities around the country, may be a game-changer. If so, it couldn’t be more appropriate or more in the American grain that, when the game changed, Wall Street was directly in the sights of the protesters.The fact is that the end of the world as we’ve known it has been taking place all around us for some time. Until recently, however, thickets of political verbiage about cutting this and taxing that, about the glories of “job creators” and the need to preserve “the American dream,” have obscured what was hiding in plain sight -- that street of streets, known to generations of our ancestors as “the street of torments.”After an absence of well over half a century, Wall Street is back, center stage, -------------------------------
First we take Manhattan: What Occupy Wall Street could mean
This is not the stuff of usual protests. Over the past month, a little idea from a Vancouver outfit has mushroomed into a cross-continent movement.
Occupy Wall Street, kicked off by Adbusters in July and coming to Toronto this weekend, has already spread to 70 American cities and is going global as protesters challenge society to rethink how the economy and the government operates, and for whom.
It's an awakening -- a populist call for that "adult conversation" many thought would take place after the global economic calamity of 2008. It didn't then. But it may now, thanks to Occupy Wall Street, in a city near you.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2011/10/first-we-take-manhattan-what-occupy-wall-street-could-mean
list of Occupy links
at rabble
and last but not least
this long quote
from Lenin's tomb
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2011
First we take Manhattan posted by lenin
On that very subject, it must be a felicitous coincidence that JP Morgan Chase donated $4.6m to the New York Police Department on the same day that the same department engaged in a mass arrest of hundreds of#OccupyWallStreet activists marooned on the Brooklyn Bridge.
"The whole world is watching," the protesters chant. No doubt. The question is whether any of those watching will take this as a cue to join the occupation in solidarity.
Admittedly it is already an over-worked reference, but there are compelling, if distant, echoes of Tahrir Square in New York (and now, I understand, financial districts in Boston, Miami, Detroit, San Francisco, etc.), in the sense of a nascent attempt to find a new model commune. What the occupiers seek to create is both a rallying point for oppositional forces, and a model of participatory democracy that, if replicated, would give popular constituencies the ability and authority to solve their problems. We'll come back to the model of self-government being debated in Zuccotti Park, but as far as rallying opposition forces and pricking the mediasphere goes, the occupation has been having some success. The critical moment has been the participation of the organised labour movement, with the direct involvement of transport and steel workers, and the solidarity ofTahrir Square protesters. (A mass strike by transport workers in Egypt has just won a major victory, gaining a 200% pay rise, just months after the army outlawed strikes). The context of which it partakes is a germinalrevival of class struggle in the United States. Doug Henwood, who initially expressed reservations about the (lack of) politics of the initiative, describes the situation as "inspiring". This is why the initiative has been greeted with the predictable sequence of tactful silence from officials, followed by open hostility, police brutality, threatening murmurs from Bloomberg and, finally, last night's mass arrest - which I would imagine follows orders from the mayor's office. Bloomberg, you'll be relieved to know, is not exercised on behalf of multi-billionaires like himself, but those Wall Street traders on a measly $40-50k, inconvenienced by anticapitalist wildlife.
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-we-take-manhattan.html
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-we-take-manhattan.html
