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Apparently, filming a police line gets you shot with a “non-lethal projectile” in Oakland.  Keep this kind of stuff in mind when they tell you “the protesters started it!”

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jcfitzner:

And here’s the actual commercial that the previous .gifs were drawn from. 

I stand in solidarity with everyone participating in these protests, and wish I lived somewhere where I could join in. 

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kriscartoon:

One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin. If you like what you see please share the video any way you can and pass the message on.

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“Dear Occupy Wall Street Protesters”

newsweek:

Stay leaderless and anonymous. It appeared at first that not having a leader, a single face people could relate to, would be your fatal flaw. Now it seems to be the mark of your collective genius. The media would pounce on a leader, or leaders, and reduce your entire movement to a life story, a personality. Now they have nothing to grasp but your ideas, and your outrage. Then, too, leaders can be flattered, rewarded, ego-gratified and tamed. Once someone who speaks for you appears (gulp) on the cover of a national magazine, you’re done for.

Don’t give them any kind of story. They’re waiting for it. They’re waiting for the guy who throws the rock, the girl who overdoses, the person who dies suddenly, mysteriously while camping out. Stay controlled. If the unfortunate or tragic thing happens, move on quickly with something dramatic and serious.

Be inclusive. Protest the government’s indifference to the physical and mental health problems and the often-vulnerable financial circumstances of returning veterans. Cry out against the callousness toward the first responders to the Twin Towers on 9/11. Embrace everyone hurt by the greedheads and their political enablers.

Keep your nature mercurial. Drop leaflets off the top of Trump Tower. March (I love you for wanting to do this) on the millionaires’ (billionaires is more like it) homes. Have some real people with real stories—perhaps their faces covered with black hoods as though they were in government custody; you get the idea—tell their heartbreaking tales of losing their homes, their jobs, their uninsured loved ones to illness. Go faster than the nanosecond news cycle. You will drive the News Brain insane.

Come up with a slogan a day. Something like (forgive my forwardness) “No representation without taxation.” Increase and diversify the velocity of your messages to a maddening pace.

- That’s Lee Siegel, writing on the Beast, with a handful of advice for how Occupy Wall Street can avoid cooptation. 

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This is why we are protesting: One of the best things about these protests ...

youthiswasted:

One of the best parts about the protests is that they seem to be forcing people to confront certain truths about the structures around them that would have otherwise gone unnoticed or overlooked.

It’s forcing them to confront the truth about police brutality. That some cops pepper-spray innocent…

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theweekmagazine: The Occupiers of Wall Street have been portrayed as everything from hippies to “hot chicks,” from everyday people with friendly dogs to violent anarchists. Now, two surveys offer some actual data about the demonstrators and their sympathizers. Here, a look at the movement’s demographics: 15 Percent of the demonstrators who are unemployed 53Percent of demonstrators who say they have previously participated in a political movement, according to Schoen’s survey 98 Percent who say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their aims31 Percent who say they would support violence8Percent who say they are unsure of what they would like to see the movement accomplish More numbers here Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

theweekmagazine:

The Occupiers of Wall Street have been portrayed as everything from hippies to “hot chicks,” from everyday people with friendly dogs to violent anarchists. Now, two surveys offer some actual data about the demonstrators and their sympathizers. Here, a look at the movement’s demographics:

15 
Percent of the demonstrators who are unemployed

53
Percent of demonstrators who say they have previously participated in a political movement, according to Schoen’s survey

98
Percent who say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their aims

31 
Percent who say they would support violence

8
Percent who say they are unsure of what they would like to see the movement accomplish

More numbers here

Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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The Tea Party had its origins in 2008 (that’s right, before Obama was elected) with blogger Karl Denninger and a woman named Stephanie (I don’t know her last name). They were protesting the bank bailouts and Denninger suggested that people mail tea bags to their representatives. It didn’t get much attention at the time.

The movement really caught fire with Rick Santelli’s famous rant on CNBC in early 2009. So it had a genuine grassroots beginning, but since then national organizations like Tea Party Patriots and Tea Party Express have tried to claim leadership. The Republican Party establishment has been trying to co-opt and/or neuter the grassroots efforts.

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