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You are here: Home / Organizing & Resistance / #OWS / #OWS Bat Signal: “It’s the Beginning of the Beginning”

#OWS Bat Signal: “It’s the Beginning of the Beginning”

by Anne Laurie|  November 18, 201110:35 am| 34 Comments

This post is in: #OWS, Don't Mourn, Organize, KULCHA!

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Very cool. Via NYMag, Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has an interview with the creator of the #OWS “bat signal“.

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  1. 1.

    13th Generation

    November 18, 2011 at 11:08 am

    I was literally choked up when I saw that on the feed last night, and that is an incredible story about the women who let him do it from her apartment.

  2. 2.

    geg6

    November 18, 2011 at 11:13 am

    I’m still a little leery of what OWS is trying to do (or not do or whatever) other than get the media to pay attention (which may be enough, I’m not sure). But the Bat Signal is too fucking cool.

  3. 3.

    Trinity

    November 18, 2011 at 11:14 am

    THIS.

    /Also, too.

  4. 4.

    Nutella

    November 18, 2011 at 11:15 am

    An interesting part of the symbolism is that the fairly grim public housing where they set up the projector is so close to the Verizon tower.

  5. 5.

    Tone In DC

    November 18, 2011 at 11:16 am

    I {heart} Denise V.
    Very cool.

  6. 6.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 11:20 am

    anybody see the Rove meltdown in front of protesters (few days ago)? gonna check into it after i get off work.

    Rove: “who gave you the right to occupy America?”

  7. 7.

    Cat Lady

    November 18, 2011 at 11:26 am

    This is the beginning of the beginning. The 99% toothpaste is out of the tube, and once something has been accurately identified and catchily named, the game changes. OWS is just taking its path, like water.

  8. 8.

    Chris

    November 18, 2011 at 11:27 am

    @harlana:

    Rove: “who gave you the right to occupy America?”

    LOL. Who gave him and his entire party the right to sell it?

  9. 9.

    jayboat

    November 18, 2011 at 11:27 am

    Very, very cool.

  10. 10.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 11:28 am

    @Chris: really, a very telling response!

    Also, seeing Karl Rove have a temper tantrum in public is just a thing of beauty.

  11. 11.

    handsmile

    November 18, 2011 at 11:32 am

    @13th Generation: (#1)

    The loudest and most sustained roar during last night’s march over the Brooklyn Bridge arose when those images appeared on the Verizon and other nearby buildings. That response to the images brought tears and hugs among the fellow protesters/strangers with whom I was walking.

    @harlana: (#6)

    Yes, do view the clip. Seems something must be working.

  12. 12.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 11:35 am

    @handsmile: i can’t wait! also can’t wait to check out the bat signal vids.

  13. 13.

    13th Generation

    November 18, 2011 at 11:36 am

    @handsmile:

    I know from your comments that you’ve been active in the OWS.

    I truly hope that this is just the “beginning of the beginning.” Nothing happens overnight and nothing good ever comes easy.

  14. 14.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    November 18, 2011 at 11:41 am

    @Chris: and Iraq is still waiting for their answer.

  15. 15.

    catpal

    November 18, 2011 at 11:49 am

    @13th Generation: I was choked up too. This is so great and the story of who did it and the woman and her family who let them use her apartment – they are awesome!

    “I can’t charge you money, this is for the people,” she said.

  16. 16.

    singfoom

    November 18, 2011 at 11:51 am

    @handsmile: Cross thread post, but you asked me about Occupy Chicago in the other OWS thread.

    I have been to a couple GAs and marched several times. Unfortunately, my job has consumed my free time recently and I haven’t been in over a week. We don’t have nearly the number of people involved as there are involved in NYC and the space they’ve chosen to picket (Lasalle & Jackson) is an intersection in the financial district with not a lot of foot traffic.

    Personally, at some of the GAs I’ve been to, I think people are concentrating on feel-good minutae instead of practical actions, but that’s direct democracy for you, slow and messy. I’m trying to shore up my lack of ability to be down there much with material support until my schedule changes…

  17. 17.

    Maude

    November 18, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    @Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937:
    And Iraq can just wait…wingnut logic.

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    November 18, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    OWS-related, the cops may have erred macing the 84-year old lady.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016792324_rainey18m.html

  19. 19.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    @trollhattan: she sounds like a real scrapper

  20. 20.

    celticdragonchick

    November 18, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    For your listening pleasure, Folk/Celtic singer Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops singing “The Bottom 99 percent” song at Occupy Wall Street.

    Check out the other stuff from Rhiannon and the CCD’s. One of the best bands in North Carolina, specializing in rediscovering African American and Scots-Irish folk music traditions from the late 19th Century.

  21. 21.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    @singfoom: i’m sure you saw lots of people pooping in the streets and on each other, as per Fox News. they, and Rush, seem to be a bit obsessed with this topic.

    all i have to say is, considering there are cameras everywhere, where’s the video(s) of people pooping in the streets? if such tapes existed, they would be running day and nite on Fox with the poops pixillated out.

  22. 22.

    Bill in Section 147

    November 18, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    @harlana: Rush is reviewing those tapes in the VIP Room.

  23. 23.

    TooManyJens

    November 18, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    @harlana:

    if such tapes existed, they would be running day and nite on Fox with the poops pixillated out enhanced.

    FTFY

  24. 24.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    @Bill in Section 147: with Hannity peeping thru the keyhole

  25. 25.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    also, apparently, people are having sex in the streets, willy-nilly

    where do i sign up? ;)

  26. 26.

    harlana

    November 18, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Eat it, King.

    You’re talking about a small number of people — you could probably get more people in a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday than you’ve got in Zuccotti Park.

  27. 27.

    singfoom

    November 18, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    @harlana: Yeah, no pooping observed in Chicago. One drunk asshole who started yelling and disrupted the GA a lot, cops got in his face because he was screaming obscenities…

    Otherwise, just normal marching and chanting and then discussion in the GAs.

  28. 28.

    celticdragonchick

    November 18, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    @Bill in Section 147:

    Rush is reviewing energetically fapping to those tapes in the VIP Room.

    There ya go.

  29. 29.

    Yutsano

    November 18, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    @celticdragonchick: Brain bleach. Now please and thank you.

  30. 30.

    Linda Featheringill

    November 18, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    Demands:

    http://ninedemands.com/petitions/dailykos

    9 demands of the 99%.

    These demands represent reform of the present economic system to give a little slack to the 99%. If the Powers That Be were smart, they would try to meet these demands.

    If these Powers are stupid, they won’t give in to these demands and will help set up conditions ripe for something more radical than reform.

  31. 31.

    celticdragonchick

    November 18, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    I still have a comment in moderation. Can somebody please release it?

  32. 32.

    gocart mozart

    November 18, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    @trollhattan:
    Read the comments. Most of them say that the old lady had it coming to her. “Conservatives” disgust me.

  33. 33.

    singfoom

    November 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    @gocart mozart: Yeah, that shit is fucked up.

    “You get into the street, you deserve to be pepper sprayed.”

    I mean, if you plan on civil disobedience and you break low level laws, you should be ready to be arrested. That doesn’t mean that if you’re peaceful that you deserve to be pepper sprayed. That’s just awful.

  34. 34.

    The Raven

    November 19, 2011 at 12:13 am

    @celticdragonchick: have you heard Talis Kimberley’s The Steps of St. Paul’s.

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