OccupyWallStreet

[Humberto Torofuerte]

I'm against picketing but I don't know how to show it.

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not a good sign for lasting, I will agree. Not like opposing a War or
> Wisconsin's union-busting....but,
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> Wall Street is like a literary symbol here, maybe, like the event in the
> future the Trespassers have come back to
> warn about; like the baloon, like one of Gatsby's parties, like the Wizard
> of Oz............
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> I'm hoping it will grow like Topsy, whatever that phrase means, grow like
> kudzu only faster, grow like
> the Tea Party did...................................................
>
> Quixote, wearing a spitoon for a helmet...........
> From: "malignd at aol.com" <malignd at aol.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: OccupyWallStreet
>
> 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.
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> <<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. ...
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> Is there anyone here who really think protesters here,
>  in Spain,
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> anywhere, even if their protest eventually fizzle to nothingness, have made
> the
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> world a worse place?>>
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> -----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
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>>There is also this: http://act.credoaction.com/pages/ca_ag/?rc=fb_share4
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>>Wake up! Act up!
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>>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
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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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