Update: Spent most of the night watching eviction of Occupy LA on live stream (@OakFoSho and @OccupyFreedomLA). One thing that must be said, LAPD was highly professional - little to no violence. Be clear: It's still official suppression of - in my opinion - constitutionally protected activity. But this shows the brutality witnessed in other cities was completely unnecessary. The LA media, on the other hand...(more on that later). Approximately 200 arrests. There are still 3 people in a tree house - they have a megaphone and they're hilarious. Occupy Philly also cleared.
Update 2: Watching LAPD bring down the tree housers. Getting reports of two rubber bullet shots. Looks like there were actually 4 people in the tree house. Just heard third shot fired into tree house (not sure if they're bean bags or rubber bullets being fired). Now 5:38 AM. Occupy LA is no more.
12:02 AM: Piece on Scott Olsen (You Tube video of Scott Olsen was posted yesterday).
12:18 AM: David Graeber on Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots:
But one thing overwhelming numbers of Americans do feel is that something is terribly wrong with their country, that its key institutions are controlled by an arrogant elite, that radical change of some kind is long since overdue. They're right. It's hard to imagine a political system so systematically corrupt - one where bribery, on every level, has not only been made legal, but soliciting and dispensing bribes has become the full-time occupation of every American politician. The outrage is appropriate. The problem is that up until September 17, the only side of the spectrum willing to propose radical solutions of any sort was the Right.
As the history of the past movements all make clear, nothing terrifies those running the US more than the danger of democracy breaking out. The immediate response to even a modest spark of democratically organised civil disobedience is a panicked combination of concessions and brutality. How else can one explain the recent national mobilisation of thousands of riot cops, the beatings, chemical attacks, and mass arrests, of citizens engaged in precisely the kind of democratic assemblies the Bill of Rights was designed to protect, and whose only crime - if any - was the violation of local camping regulations?
1:05 AM: Unwinding the Magna Carta....
1:08 AM: Pepper spray creator on UC Davis incident...
1:18 AM: Debt strikes are all the rage (make sure to see my interview with Sarah Jaffe):
1:25 AM: Occupy has opened a long-overdue debate about inequality.
1:28 AM: Go England!
1:35 PM: NY Fed Brownshirt urges police to crack skulls of OWS.
1:42 AM: Occupy This: Crazy Tom the FBI Provacateur.
1:50 AM: The Best of Barney Frank:
6:20 AM: Central Banks getting ready for bailout of the world (to be paid for by mass austerity, no doubt).
10:15 AM: Piece on Occupy LA.
10:50 AM: Imagine if cities sent social services, not militarized police.
3:38 PM: Scott Olsen on th Ed Show ...
3:44 PM: Call to Action by friend of the blog and student advocate Cryn Johansen - Why are Occupy LA protesters being held on $5K bail? Good question - go help out (Cryn did all the work so, it takes 1 minute).
Re Central Banks bailing out the world through mass austerity. My first reaction was, like yours, no doubt--the tool will be mass austerity. It's always been like that. Those that have wealth don't share it; they just want more. Unless. . . unless, they're dragged to another alternative. Our one hope, and their only cause for hesitation, is that the more austerity, the more they'll piss the already aroused world off. Like your sign of the day says, Wake up! We're all a lot more awake now than we were 2 months ago, and that's a global thing.
Still, mass austerity has all the momentum. A day or so ago, Digby remarked that we keep thinking our overlords do what they do for some rational reason, that their ideas arise from their understanding of what's good for them. Digby challenged that, however, remarking that perhaps they act like assholes simply because they are assholes. And I've got to admit that attributing rationality and intelligence to them is way generous. In fact, it's their story of themselves, and if I hadn't heard it so much I don't think rationality and intelligence would be the first idea that would pop into my mind to understand their behavior. Asshole-ism--that fits much, much better.
@Raenelle - I agree, it fits much better :)
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