http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution <-- Link one http://www.livestream.com/occupyboston <-- Link two The park has been surrounded by 200+ cops, live feed from above of the situation. To my understanding, it's both state and local police involved in the operation.
Apparently there is another park that was being occupied in Boston that had significantly less problems. They were also dumping the belongings straight into garbage trucks.
Maybe you can share a cell with them after Teh Man rounds up all the faggots in your little corner of the protestfag universe.
If the purpose of the #Occupy movement was to raise awareness, they have succeeded admirably. Not even NPR can ignore it any longer, hah. That was funnny, "it's not big enough and there are no top shelf celebritards attached to it." Well, fuck the celebrities. It's too big to ignore now.
Local news reports suggest that the police are at fault here. There was not any effort to work with the demonstrators, despite their willingness. Women who stood by watching were being knocked down by groups of 4-5 police officers.
In case people here are interested: the majority of those arrested are already out. If they had no prior record it was a $50 fine, which has been covered by the very generous donations to the legal fund. Some members of Direct Action (the group that organizes actions like marches and whatnot) are being held indefinitely and may face more serious charges. The first camp (Dewey Square) is still up, the second camp (Dewey Square North) was dismantled and tents and other belongings were thrown in garbage trucks on scene and compacted.
That's a powerful statement by the authorities—I don't sympathize with it at all, but OWS and related actions are going to need to figure out strategy do deal with this in order to persist. And winter is coming.
Although #OWS is carved from a single massive block of pure, 24-carat fail, if the police act like this they they run the risk of truning it into gold.
Some people are upset about something and that upsets some other people who are paid to upset other people and so people get upset. Nice world, eh?
Needs more superglue. Also, you hold THE NEIGHBOURING PERSON'S HAND (NOT YOUR OWN) and you do it inside a length of metal drainpipe. Do these people know nothing?
The police are fuelling the fires of dissent. This really could be the big one folks. All we need is some well-timed leaks and the house of cards could collapse. Obama should stop fretting about Greece and check his own back yard. This is going to change things, and make the Tea Party look like the fat faggots they always were.
Occupy is fail. Bunch of hippies complaining and shit without a clear cause. Protesting for the shit of protesting.
So you don't think there is anything wrong at all with the way the global economy is working? Nothing at all?
Be very, very careful what you wish for. If we become Greece you have TWO possible outcomes: austerity like you've never seen will cost the least lives. Of course some people just want to watch the world burn, right?
This world isn't about to burn. The world will outlive any petty little economic dramas, save for some little GW Bush style idiot launching the warheads that make the biggest bangs. Humans, on the other hand...
Austerity like you've never seen is precisely what the rest of the planet bar Switzerland has put up with for a long time. The rest of the planet is pretty good at it too. Because of protests. Mass protests. Demanding a change with no compromise is how humankind betters itself. It is how things work.
this bullshit has already reached tokyo. and its probably the most disorganized fiasco the world has ever seen! it will go down in history as protestfags and hippie fags fall to the marshal law that comes after civil unrest. then communist china and korea invade because no one in the US wants to fight due to not getting paid "THEY TOOK ERR JOOBS!". yeah, i came up with that not too distant future. a little north of the US, canadafags are also failing hard. discussing a butterfly filled world, and passing comittees to have nursuries set up on the front lines. its going to be epic lulz. if this all does not fail, then it will definently be a historical epic fail.
Nah, I know how things work. Like, remember when those guys went to protest Scientology? What a bunch of faggots. I bet no one showed up at all and nothing happened. Just as I predicted.
well, guess it's time to throw my hat back in the ring. This answers a lot of questions for me as to what was going on back home, in reference to anon and OB. I already spotted one former anon/attention whore front and center in one of the pix, I think.....aaaaayup, that's her.
