Friday, December 2, 2011

December 2, 2011 - Daily Blog (#OWS)

Occupy Wall Street Sign of the Day




12:02 AM: Top GOP pollster scared of OWS.

12:08 AM: Nurse's union and OWS keep pressure on for financial transaction tax.

1:15 AM: Syria...



1:19 AM: Legal pretext for crackdowns....

12:29 PM: Naomi Wolf's response to Joshua Holland's take down. And Joshua Holland's reply.

12:33 PM: Need to break for a couple of hours, but will be posting about 2PM...

2:30 PM: Elliot Spitzer: 5 Ways to Make Banks Pay.

2:31 PM: I have a couple of interviews - be back around 6:00 PM.

3:19 PM: Allison Kilkenny responds to David Atkins' (Hullaballoo) advice that Occupy should Occupy the Democratic Party (Atkins instincts on Occupy have not been the greatest).

The main takeaway beyond all our handwringing should be an understanding that the whole reason Occupy has been such a exciting, revolutionary movement is precisely because it doesn't ask for permission -- not from city officials when members camp outside or occupy abandoned buildings, not in order to wage some of its marches, and certainly not from the Democratic Party. It doesn't seem like the group is going to ask for permission when it breaks into foreclosed houses to reintroduce homeless families to them on Monday, either.

3:59 PM: Capitalism vs. the Future.

4:01 PM: Comfortably Numb, from the Burning Platform.

4:14 PM: Yasha Levine reporting on treatment of Occupy LA detainees.

8:57 PM: The Frozen Zone.

8 comments:

  1. Hi,
    You should add "The burning platform" to the Blog Roll. It has the "I support the occupy movement" banner. The author of the blog is Jim Quinn. He is a guest poster at ZeroHedge and Naked Capitalism.

    His recent piece "Comfortably numb" is a must read. It's a defense of OWS and a lucid analysis of the current situation in the US.

    http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=25234

  2. Thanks - done. :)

  3. "Comfortably Numb"? Really? Have you read the Ron Paul screed from this writer? http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=21641

    A pro libertarian screed likening Paul to Hemingway, and oversimplifying and aggrandizing Paul's political history along the way.

    Thanks, but no thanks. Ugh. Do some research first.

    Nothing personal Taryn, but if you post this libertarian but not me?

    Thanks for nothing.

  4. Well, he hadn't written the Ron Paul piece at the time. But you're right - I forget to blog roll blogs I follow like you and Sean at Casa Cogito. But it's updated.