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Schrodinger's Democracy: Why Isn't Anyone Doing Anything?

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:01:36 +0000

And in the end, it’s impossible to convince people that it’s worth throwing away whatever we have left in this life on an abstract idea of “doing something” when the very leaders whose business is telling us how very serious this is, how awful the fascistic future is going to be, how deeply in danger we all are, won’t risk even a sliver of their comfort to do much of anything but continue talking about how brave they are to talk about how brave they are.

Tags: #grim #politics #protest #uspolitics

Hong Kong's Democracy Protesters Are Doing What No Other Demonstrators Have - Mic

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:14:22 +0000

Although the organizers have threatened to kick things up a notch if the government doesn't address their concerns, all you have to do is take a look at their "Manual of Disobedience" to see why things have been mostly smooth.

Tags: #democracy #hongkong #imported:pinboard #politics #protest

Show me what a police state looks like! (Graphic! Dial-up warning!) - Democratic Underground

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:40:37 +0000

Dear MSM: OWS does not "clash with the police" we are unarmed, peaceful protesters who are savagely attacked by the police. #MSM #noNATO

Tags: #cops #imported:pinboard #occupy #police #politics #protest #to:fb

The Infamous Brad - Sometimes, When "All the Facts are In," It's Worse: The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:32:15 +0000

This is not better than the initial media reports. This is worse. This is an epic textbook in official-violence failure.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #occupy #pepperspray #police #protest #to:fb #ucdavis #violence

Why Occupy? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:15:21 +0000

Let me float that the encampments are fundamentally about using government power against itself. By staking out a little ground and saying, "No, the government does not rule this space," it gets the mayors and police chiefs worked up. They deploy their increasingly militarized police officers to say, "Yes, the government does rule that space." Then, the protesters link arms and chant, and the riot cops come in with pepper spray and batons.

Tags: #occupy #ows #police #protest

Pepper Spray’s Fallout, From Crowd Control to Mocking Images - NYTimes.com

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:48:23 +0000

To some, pepper spray is a mild, temporary irritant and its use has been justified as cities and universities have sought to regain control of their streets, parks and campuses. After the video at Davis went viral, Megyn Kelly on Fox News dismissed pepper spray as “a food product, essentially.” To the American Civil Liberties Union, its use as a crowd-control device, particularly when those crowds are nonthreatening, is an excessive and unconstitutional use of force and violates the right to peaceably assemble.

Tags: #freedom #occupy #pepperspray #protest #ucdavis

The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Salon.com

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:22:24 +0000

The genius of this approach is how insidious its effects are: because the rights continue to be offered on paper, the citizenry continues to believe it is free. They believe that they are free to do everything they choose to do, because they have been “persuaded” — through fear and intimidation — to passively accept the status quo. As Rosa Luxemburg so perfectly put it: “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” Someone who sits at home and never protests or effectively challenges power factions will not realize that their rights of speech and assembly have been effectively eroded because they never seek to exercise those rights; it’s only when we see steadfast, courageous resistance from the likes of these UC-Davis students is this erosion of rights manifest.

Tags: #freedom #occupy #owd #pepperspray #protest #ucdavis

John Boehner’s Lobbyists Plan A Massive Hit Job On Occupy Wall Street

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:50:42 +0000

In short, they are going to run a smear campaign that would use the same Fox News talking points that haven’t worked so far. They are going to claim that George Soros is funding Occupy Wall Street, and that the movement is being run by the Democratic Party. Most troubling is their plan to carry surveillance on social media. They are going to monitor the social media used by OWS and what they intend to do that the memo didn’t directly state was spam social media with anti-Occupy Wall Street propaganda.

Tags: #boehner #occupy #ows #protest #republicans

Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD's Lost and Found | Motherboard

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:58:11 +0000

it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “Dude, all the laptops are in a row," he tells us, baffled and raking his shock of brown hair. "They’ve all been smashed with bats.” When asked about the mangled property, LiPani admits that, inevitably, certain items could’ve been damaged in the shuffle: “I’m not surprised,” he says, to hear of damaged laptops. He adds that the DSNY is providing clearance forms to those occupiers concerned their property may’ve been mishandled or misplaced.

Tags: #laptops #nypd #occupy #ows #protest

Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis - YouTube

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:21:54 +0000

Favorite: Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis, by terrydatiger Title says all. During peacefully Occupy Movement, police came in to tear down tents and proceeded to arrest students who stood in their way. Once students peacefully demanded the release of the arrested, a polic...

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Daily Kos: Confirmed: Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) coordinating Occupy raids

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:19:43 +0000

Many of us have been wondering why the raids on Occupy camps across the country have had such a coordinated feel. If only the official response to real social ills could have been as timely and widespread as the crackdown on peaceful demonstrators expressing their freedom of speech, assembly, and the press covering their protest. An article at Examiner.com was understandably derided as being under-sourced for a charge as serious as a national DHS crackdown on non-violent protests. However, we have now received confirmation via Amy Goodman's interview on the 11/17 episode of Democracy Now! with PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler that this private NGO coordinated high-level conference calls amongst 40 police chiefs, distinct from the mayoral "therapy session" referred to by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, in order to broadcast advice and documentation about cracking down on the Occupy social movement.

Tags: #occupypolice #ows #politics #protest

Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:03:02 +0000

I call for your resignation because you are unfit to do your job. You are unfit to ensure the safety of students at UC Davis. In fact: you are the primary threat to the safety of students at UC Davis. As such, I call upon you to resign immediately.

Tags: #california #occupy #ows #police #protest #ucdavis

Yes of course pepper spray is a torture device - Hullabaloo

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:01:38 +0000

In 1997, environmentalists were staging a sit-in against the cutting of old forest in Humboldt county. The police sprayed pepper spray directly into the protesters eyes in similar fashion to what happened in UC yesterday and then used liquified pepper spray and applied it directly to the protesters eyes with q-tips. I'm not kidding. There's video:

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carton rouge

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:25:29 +0000

“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”

Tags: #freedom #ows #politics #protest

Scott Olsen injuries prompt review as Occupy Oakland protests continue | World news | guardian.co.uk

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:31:21 +0000

Tags: #occupy #occupyoakland #occupywallstreet #ows #politics #protest