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Occupy Wall Street Livestream.
I feel strange for reblogging so much about Steve Jobs’ death, and then going straight back into Occupy Wall Street…which is, you know, protesting corporate domination of the universe? And Apple is…a corporation dominating the universe?
But then I remember the iPod and all my feelings of duplicity disappear.
(Source: inothernews)
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Protesters begin to gather for 'Occupy Baltimore' event || Baltimore Sun
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun
On Monday, more than 800 people had signed up to participate in a planned protest in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. But shortly after noon Tuesday, when the protest was scheduled to begin, only a handful of people had shown up.
A copycat of the Occupy Wall Street protest – a sit-in smack in the middle of Manhattan’s financial district – the Occupy Baltimore event is being held at McKeldin Square, with some participants planning to stay overnight for days.
The dozen or so protesters who were present around noon stood huddled around each other, holding fliers. About 15 minutes later, their numbers swelled to about three dozen people, representing a wide variety of groups. Some protesters held sheets with slogans painted on them, including one that reads “Baltimore Occupied – we want change.”
Baltimore City police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Monday it wasn’t clear if the protesters needed a permit, and that police are only concerned that the protesters stay organized and don’t disrupt traffic.
He declined to say how many officers would be deployed to the scene. “We will make sure we have resources in place so that it doesn’t become a distraction.”
Only two officers appeared to be present Tuesday. Police Major Anthony Brown, head of the tactical squad, met with one of the group’s organizers, Mike McGuire, to exchange in a pleasant conversation.
“We’re here to make it safe,” Brown said. “Safety is our number one concern. And whatever we can do to help you, we will do.”
McGuire said, “If the police do what they just said, we’re going to have a wonderful event.”
He added that he was not concerned about what appeared to be a low turnout so far, saying he expects protesters to trickle in all day. -
White House on Occupy Wall Street: "We Understand."
(Source: evanfleischer)
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"The American people will find it hard as I do to accept a situation where a tiny handful of steel executives — whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility — can show such utter contempt for the interests of 185 million Americans."
- John F. Kennedy (as quoted in Clint Reilly’s HuffPost article on #OccupyWallStreet) -
"The rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure and have abdicated… they have no vision and where there is no vision the people perish. The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (as quoted in Clint Reilly’s HuffPost article on #OccupyWallStreet) -
High ResolutionA Trends map of trending twitter hashtags shows #OccupyWallStreet tweets surging in nations around the entire world, except in the United States, while Google Trends shows a corporate media blackout.
TrendsMap Proves Scary Twitter Censorship Of #OccupyWallStreet From Trending Topics @ Alexander Higgins Blog
Your “liberal” media, ladies and gentlemen. — Ryking
Most media outlets on Tumblr are covering it intensely, which is skewing my view of how much attention #OccupyWallStreet really is getting. I’m shocked when I mention it to friends and family and I get blank looks in return.
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Please reblog this, Tumblr.
My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.
Holy God. This is not okay. This is not okay and anyone who thinks it is needs to meet me after school behind the playground so I can whoop them.
(via inothernews)
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I don’t know if you guys can see that well but those are the red marks on my wrists for being handcuffed for three straight hours today, with my hands twisted unnaturally behind my back.
I decided to go to the wall street occupation in NYC and…
-was maced in the face while standing on a public sidewalk calmly asking an officer if I could continue walking.
-was forcefully arrested (arms pulled behind my back by two police officers then lifted off the ground and dragged to a nearby wall) while being treated for the mace on my skin
-had my requests for information (whether I was being arrested or simply detained, why I was being arrested, whether they could read me my rights) greeted with silence by a wall of policemen standing with their nets, watching us sit there handcuffed.
-was bused, as the cuffs got tighter and tighter, to police headquarters (along with about 80 other peaceful protesters) and made to wait in the van outside headquarters for another two and a half hours
-was detained inside a prison cell for about another 6 hours, again with barely any information about why I was arrested and for how long
-was told I could have a phone call but only if it was to a New York number, and then was subsequently ignored when I asked if I could use a phone book
-was finally released with a charge of disorderly conduct and a court date nov 3
Right now I’m overwhelmed and exhausted. I missed the last train back to sarah lawrence because of being in fucking jail, so I’m staying at my friend’s dorm at parsons. I had just about every right I “have” violated tonight and it makes me really angry. when the police feel the need to use the amount of force they did on me - i’m 93 lbs and 4 ft - you know something’s off. when they’re detaining the “granny peace brigade” along with me, you know there’s really something off. this isn’t right, this isn’t democracy. that’s all I can say right now because I’m so fucking tired and I need to just go to bed. perhaps I’ll have some more coherent thoughts tomorrow, but again, right now I’m just totally overwhelmed.
I hope this opens some people’s eyes to the reality of the situation - to how close it is, to how human it is, to how vulnerable and powerless we are, to how unjustly powerful the police are. God. This makes me so angry.
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do i dare disturb the universe?
