OccupyWallStreet

[malignd at aol.com]

I'm down there every day and, while it's amusing, your words are just the descriptors I would use: creaky, incompetent, and incoherent.  What a waste of energy.  No one has any but the vaguest clue what they're protesting against other than Wall Street, whatever that means.


<<I'm proud of the earnest organizers and participants in this occupation.  Eventually, they'll use their creaky, incompetent, consensual decision-making    process to come up with a list of coherent demands. ... 
Is there anyone here who really think protesters here, in Spain, 
anywhere, even if their protest eventually fizzle to nothingness, have made the 

world a worse place?>> 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 1, 2011 3:06 PM
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: OccupyWallStreet
>
>There is also this: http://act.credoaction.com/pages/ca_ag/?rc=fb_share4
>
>Wake up! Act up!
>
>On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>> First, I offer up a little Patti Smith for the masses:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8C9U7pMvmc
>>
>> Then, I'll offer up that at least one of my young acquaintances is
>> involved with Occupy California, an offspring, I guess of the Wall
>> Street movement. Here's their facebook page:
>> https://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/OccupyCalifornia Maybe there are
>> other Occupy groups in your area. Don't just admire the splinter in
>> the thumb, rub salt in behind it.
>>
>> I have hope with these under 30s. There are a number of wide-awake
>> people among them. With the backing of a few of their elders, they are
>> becoming more outspoken and bolder as time goes on. I laud and support
>> them whole-heartedly, and I will soon be back in the world where I can
>> be a part of the action, so I can put my mug in the line, too. The
>> time for talk is nearly at an end. We have to act if we are going to
>> get our government involved in the change that must happen if we are
>> to regain (or establish) any dignity as a people. The Capitalist
>> Revolution of the 18th Century has run its course and its impetus must
>> be redirected. We can be a part of how that impetus gets directed. We
>> are not too old to act. So shut up, print your banners, and hit the
>> streets, and then speak up. Loudly.
>>
>> The protests of the 60s and 70s were organized to a point and then
>> more people joined. T RebelCapitalist

>>> As Movement Grows, Thousands In Boston Protest Against Bank Of America’s
>>> Greed http://j.mp/qvEPT8 #occupytogether
>>
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>> --
>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
>> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
>> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
>> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>>
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he same has been true through the Arab Spring. It
>> was a minority that showed up with full cognizance of the importance
>> of being there, but without that minority, the majority would never
>> have dared it.

>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Did BofA pick the wrong week to raise the price of crack? So to speak....
>>>
>>> @RebelCapitalist >-- 
>"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
>trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
>of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
>than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant





 
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