Occupy Holland #22 Internationale samenwerking

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 11:56 schreef sinterklaaskapoentje het volgende:
Hoe zit het nou met die 'comeback' van occupy? Moeten we wachten op Oktober?

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 12:18 schreef Lavenderr het volgende:

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Ja, wachten tot 15 okt, dan is het precies een jaar later. Kunnen we evalueren wat Occupy daadwerkelijk veranderd heeft in de wereld.

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 12:20 schreef sinterklaaskapoentje het volgende:

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Is dat echt waar? Op wallstreet zou toch een nog grootsere comback komen? Die waren eerder dan 15 Okt begonnen.

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 11:56 schreef sinterklaaskapoentje het volgende:
Hoe zit het nou met die 'comeback' van occupy? Moeten we wachten op Oktober?

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 12:43 schreef Lavenderr het volgende:

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Kennisje van me was een aantal weken geleden op Wallstreet, als er 30 mensen waren was het veel.
Ik denk niet dat we een doorstart krijgen.

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Op woensdag 30 mei 2012 14:38 schreef Bastard het volgende:

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Niet in NL.. helaas.
Maar ik was 2 weken terug in Barcelona, en daar stond het zwart van de mensen! Overigens krijg dagelijks beelden binnen van protesterende menigte.

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Op donderdag 31 mei 2012 12:41 schreef sinterklaaskapoentje het volgende:

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Sja dan kunnen we bij deze wel concluderen dat occupy nu definitief de geschiedenis in kan

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 19:52 schreef Lavenderr het volgende:
Tja, Griekenland zal zich toch moeten schikken. Wij moeten ook allemaal inleveren, wat verwachten de Grieken, dat ze door 'ons' geholpen worden zonder dat ze er een centje pijn van hebben? Dat kan toch niet?
We lijden allemaal onder de crisis, en er gaan miljarden naar Griekenland. En dat zal nog wel een keer moeten om ze uit de brand te helpen. Erg zuur voor de bevolking dat de tijd van de goudgerande pensioenen voorbij is , maar ja, heel Europa moet nu inleveren, dus de Grieken ook.

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Op donderdag 31 mei 2012 12:41 schreef sinterklaaskapoentje het volgende:

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Sja dan kunnen we bij deze wel concluderen dat occupy nu definitief de geschiedenis in kan

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2012 10:08 schreef Summers het volgende:

Americans are LOOSING IT. Evidence all around us! LOOK AT THIS!!

Eerder zijn verstand gevonden .

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2012 11:36 schreef Summers het volgende:

#Occupy Movement Being Labeled As "A Domestic Terror Organization" By FBI

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Op vrijdag 1 juni 2012 12:04 schreef Gertje-Plongers het volgende:
Zolang je geen geweld gebruikt of predikt ben je toch geen terrorist ? De doelen moeten zuiver en duidelijk blijven, anders ben je misschien later de kracht kwijt die het nu heeft. De bedoeling is toch informeren en steun vinden voor de misstanden die er zijn ?

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Flash encampments

Occupy morphs into a new model!

Our movement is living through a painful rebirth… “There has been a unfortunate consolidation of power in #OWS,” writes one founding Zuccotti. “This translates into ideological dominance and recurring lines of thought. We are facing a nauseating poverty of ideas.” Burned out, out of money, out of ideas… seduced by salaries, comfy offices, book deals, old lefty cash and minor celebrity status, some of the most prominent early heroes of our leaderless uprising are losing the edge that catalyzed last year’s one thousand encampments. Bit by bit, Occupy’s first generation is succumbing to an insidious institutionalization and ossification that could be fatal to our young spiritual insurrection unless we leap over it right now. Putting our movement back on track will take nothing short of a revolution within Occupy.

The new tone was set on Earth Day, April 22, in a suburb bordering Berkeley, California when a dozen occupiers quietly marched a small crowd to a tract of endangered urban agricultural land, cut through the locked fence and set up tents, kitchens and a people’s assembly. Acting autonomously under the banner of Occupy, without waiting for approval from any preexisting General Assembly, Occupy The Farm was notable for its sophisticated preplanning and careful execution — they even brought chickens — that offered a positive vision for the future and engendered broad community support. While encampments across the world were unable to re-establish themselves on May Day, this small cadre of farm occupiers boldly maintained their inspiring occupation for nearly four weeks.

In Minneapolis, a core of occupiers have launched an Occupy Homes campaign that is unique for its edgy tenacity. “What is unusual, in fact utterly unprecedented, is the level of aggression and defiance of the law by these activists,” a spokesperson for Freddie Mac, a U.S. corporation that trades in mortgages, told a local paper. “Over the past week … the city has tossed out protesters and boarded up the house, only to see the demonstrators peel back the boards and use chains, concrete-filled barrels and other obstacles to make it more difficult to carry them away,” the article reports. Last Friday, police were so desperate to prevent a re-occupation of the foreclosed home that they surrounded the house with “30 Minneapolis police officers with batons” and “over two dozen marked and undercover squad cars and a paddy wagon.” Occupiers responded by laughing and signing songs… joyous in their struggle to elevate the home into an symbol of democratic resistance to the banks.

In its own sweet way, our movement is now moving beyond the Zuccotti model and developing a tactical imperative of its own: Small groups of fired up second generation occupiers acting independently, swiftly and tenaciously pulling off myriad visceral local actions, disrupting capitalist business-as-usual across the globe.

The next big bang to capture the world’s imagination could come not from a thousand encampments but from a hundred thousand ephemeral jams… a global cascade of flash encampments may well be what this hot Summer will look like.

Meanwhile, tents are up once again in Tahrir Square and youth from Quebec to Auckland to Moscow to Oakland are rising up against a future that does not compute.

Stay loose, play jazz, keep the faith … Capitalism is crashing and our movement has just begun.

for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ

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The Elephant in the Room: The Police and the Occupy Movement

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I’ve heard a lot of hopeful talk about police joining the Occupy movement, but the truth is there is very little of that sort of thing happening, and where individual cops have offered their support it has mostly been in minor and symbolic ways.

That’s hardly surprising, since some of the organizational developments in policing over the course of the 20th century were deliberately calculated to divide the cops from the working class and to cement their loyalty to the police institution. That’s true of the development of the State Police, for example, and it’s also true of the development of police unions as distinct organizations apart from the main body of the labor movement.