December 2011
42 posts
#ALLOCCUPYEVERYTHING: WePay the Revolutionaries? →
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Word. Keep up the good work @DiceyTroop. And may the $20 I just contributed provide you another couple minutes of tweet time. :)
After being up til 4 AM last night watching and tweeting about the evictions of Occupy LA and Occupy Philly, and then getting up at 5 AM to cover this morning’s actions, I woke up from an offset half-night’s sleep this afternoon to find that Rosie Gray had blogged my WePay page for the…
November 2011
68 posts
Last night while watching the #OccupyPhilly and #OccupyLA feeds, I got to thinking about the law, methods of oppression and of fear-mongering. And how we as individuals react and thrive.
While I am impassioned/opinionated, I am more interested in the pursuit of knowledge. Of variance. With no dogma.
Anyhoo, it quickly led me to the following series of tweets, which I’m pasting here (in chronologic order):
“Focus on the fear in the eyes of those who (seek to) repress.
They are afraid, so they fan brute force. Well, brute, meet non-violence. We are many, we are growing, and we outnumber you.
A set of beliefs, centered around an awakening that a raw deal has been pushed onto us. This awareness IS the revolt. And it will persist.
It will persist because you cannot evict an idea. You cannot relocate the already dispossessed. WE will persist.
We will persist, and march, and occupy, and stand virtually and physically in solidarity. Not because it is convenient, but bc it is just.
For every attempt to limit our speech, we will persist.
For every additional riot helmet added to the encroaching, fear-based and fear-mongering line, we will persist.
We will persist.”
On Friday...
Buy nothing, though maybe preferable, is just as unsustainable/impractical as freak-out shop-crazy. Awareness and moderation should reign.
For example, *how* does what you’re buying effect the world? Environmentally, socially/culturally, economically?
…And this is not just a question for hippies and liberals any more.
Ok, apparently I’m buying a soap box today. ;)
"[Pepper Spray is] a Food Product, Essentially"
Megyn Kelly on fire hoses: “It’s a sports beverage, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on police dogs: “It’s a family pet, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on tasers: “It’s static cling, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on rubber bullets: “It’s a pencil eraser, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on hand grenades: “It’s a Fourth of July firework, essentially! God bless America.”
Lulz.
As seen on Gawker:
http://m.gawker.com/5861688/its-a-food-product-essentially-fox-news-starts-spinning-pepper-spray-cops
(via @JeremySapienza)
“Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt. Pay your loans. Be thankful for the scraps we toss. Chant back to us our phrases about democracy, greatness and freedom. Vote in our rigged political theater. Send your young men and women to fight and die in useless, unwinnable wars that provide corporations with huge profits. Stand by mutely as our bipartisan congressional super committee, either through consensus or cynical dysfunction, plunges you into a society without basic social services including unemployment benefits. Pay for the crimes of Wall Street.”
—Chris Hedges (via azspot)
That.
