Not a surprise in a society where we’re expected to “curate” our Facebook pages, but still entertaining. The WSJ labels #OWS “highly collectible“: More than a half-dozen major museums and organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by the Occupy movement. __ Staffers have been sent …
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Open Thread: Occupy Christmas
__ Subvert the Dominant Paradigm… these guys actually got about 30 seconds on the local tv news last night, but the clip’s not online. Jeremy C. Fox, at Boston.com: Around 20 members of Occupy Boston returned to Dewey Square Park for a holiday-themed protest today, the first day the park reopened to the public following …
Why Shut Down the Ports
This doesn’t seem very productive to me: Police in several U.S. cities Monday confronted Occupy protests aimed and shutting down port facilities. Arrests were made, while ports reported only minor hindrances. Police in Houston arrested 20 protesters after dozens of police on foot and on horseback confronted a somewhat larger group of Occupy protesters, who …
Back To The Middle And Around Again
As the Occupy movement struggles to stay in place with winter and multiple pepper spray fronts lashing the countryside, the Right screams that the dirty, criminal hippies deserve to be kicked out of “private property” unlike the law-abiding owners of Zuccotti Park. Oh wait. It turns out that the owners of Zuccotti Park — the …
Occupy Boston, Humming Along
Perhaps because Boston has a historical memory of how well overzealous security crackdowns don’t work IRL (/snark), Occupy Boston is still in tenuous possession of a public-private patch of land. Quinn Norton, at Wired‘s Threat Level blog, has a thoughtful scene-of-the-story article on “Defying Police Blockade, Boston’s Occupy Builds a City“: Between the 19th and …
Naomi Wolf’s “Rebuttal” is Pure Nonsense
The sound of journalistic credibility gasping its last breath. Naomi Wolf’s rebuttal to the criticism she has garnered in response to her rant in the Guardian last week is non-responsive, and frankly, bizarre. She writes specifically in response to Josh Holland of Alternet, but Holland’s criticism mirrors my criticism, as well as karoli (Crooks and …
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Apparently The Cause Of Income Inequality Is Poor People Existing
That’s this week’s Occupy message from the LA Times, as the “Let’s get the Dirty Effing Hippies” counter-movement rolls on in cities like LA and elsewhere across the country. AEI Junior Randian, Third Class Nick Schulz explains why America’s massive income inequality is reality, and it’s because of you bloody poor people. The reason is …
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