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by Project Willow » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:10 pm
by eyeno » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:11 pm
Apparently, the Los Angeles City Council just passed a resolution in support of the movement! This could be huge, people!
by Project Willow » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:20 pm
by eyeno » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:22 pm
by MacCruiskeen » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:24 pm
by Aurataur » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:35 pm
eyeno wrote:Apparently, the Los Angeles City Council just passed a resolution in support of the movement! This could be huge, people!
If this sort of action catches on it will indeed add some huge to the movement.
by MacCruiskeen » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:39 pm
by vanlose kid » Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:43 pm
by MacCruiskeen » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:30 pm
by Elvis » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:41 pm
by nathan28 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:42 pm
MacCruiskeen wrote:Thanks to Aurataur and to practically everyone else in this thread.
And to hell with all the chin-rubbing, nose-picking, ball-scratching, Theory-emitting, nervously smartypants, would-be-authoritarian, pseudo-leftist MANAGERIAL* arseholes who are finding (or rather desperately inventing) reasons to disdain and undermine the very thing they affect to desire: grass-roots action, working-class solidarity and sustained physical movement for real social change.
*the root of all evil. (And Lenin - fuck you.)
by Project Willow » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:51 pm
by Plutonia » Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:57 pm
MacCruiskeen wrote:Good luck to you, Aurataur, and to all of you, from somnolent Germany.
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by Project Willow » Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:00 pm
Wall Street Media
By Janet Thomas
October 5, 2011
The supercilious crap-mongers of mainstream media are once again perpetrating their peculiar sound-byte stupidity onto the rest of us as they “report” the news of the activists on Wall Street. As usual, the media is minimizing and ridiculing the demonstrators and ignoring the issues—which are complex, profound, deeply rooted in the past and totally threatening to the future. It is a very big story and the mainstream media doesn’t do very big stories. They do personality first of all, and they perform for one another most of all. The idea that journalism is responsible to the depths of issues is inconvenient. So is the commitment to a thoughtful, mature, and discerning public. Mainstream media is addicted to its own disposable cleverness. It needs to get into a recovery program.
This is a long-standing opinion on my part. But it is founded on facts. In 1999, I was on the streets of WTO Seattle and a living, breathing, thinking witness to the immense issues represented. My experience became a book: “The Battle in Seattle—The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations,” but more important was the way it changed my life. I lost my global virginity; I grew up to the immensity of the abuse being perpetrated on the planet and its people by a sociopathic corporate culture that has all the rights of personhood and none of the responsibilities. The streets and living rooms and classrooms and stadiums of WTO Seattle were full of scholarly dialogue, impassioned human rights discussions, economic analysis, environmental concern, and the voices of educators, airline pilots, farmers, steelworkers, students, religious leaders, concerned parents and visionary artists and writers from all over the world. And every one of them had a story, a reason for being in Seattle that went far beyond the label of “demonstrator” or “activist.” They were there representing their lives, the lives of their loved ones and the life of humanity. They were there for the big reasons. The media represented it all with images of one burning garbage can and a couple of broken windows—over and over ad nauseum until they literally created an obscenity of perception and a travesty of the truth. This is what they do best—through short-sighted, self-serving, gratuitous and sensation-greedy “reporting,” they create a false, shallow and callow version of reality that is so far from the truth that it becomes its own lie. It stinks of irresponsibility.
And here they are at it again on the streets of New York and all the other cities in which ordinary folks with extraordinary dreams, commitments, values and vision are showing up to speak up for nothing short of a global future. The demonstrators aren’t yearning for fame and fortune, for their ten minutes of tabloid attention; they are there because the globalized corporate system is taking down the planet. They want to shake the shackles of greed that are—in ways large and small—depriving humanity of its humanness and the earth of its life. They are there for moral reasons. For reasons of principle and human dignity, for the well-being of the future. They are sick and tired of watching self-serving politicians, CEO’s, stock market minions and media morons twist the life out of life.
Personally, I am ashamed at the ways in which my generation, the “baby-boomers,” has been co-opted by this media version of “reality.” We should all get off our self-serving, self-satisfied and too-toned butts and get out on the streets with those who give a damn. These are issues of life and death, of extinction and survival, of meaning and meaninglessness. It’s time to give this media clap-trap circus a mirror and send them off to media masturbation purgatory where they can entertain each other and get out of the way so the rest of the population can get down to the business of healing the wounds and the wounded and preserving the heart and soul of what it means to be alive on this planet.
If the mainstream media had paid attention to WTO Seattle , we might not be in the global mess that we are in now. Back then, it was all about jobs, loss of benefits and wages, destruction of the environment, unfair and disreputable banking practices, global economic and social justice and corporate disease. It still is. If Thomas Friedman and his ilk had done some thoughtful reporting about WTO Seattle, who knows where we might be? At the time, Friedman wrote a piece titled “Senseless in Seattle” in which he wrote of “a Noah’s ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960s fix…” How ironic that few years later he wrote, “The Earth is Flat.” In 1999, Friedman wrote his careless WTO piece as a way of getting his own “fix.” That’s what the media does. They gotta get their fix, no matter what the price to the rest of the planet and its inhabitants. As I said, time to check in to a recovery program. Get a grip. Get a life. Get responsible.
by wintler2 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:06 pm
Mike Moore vs. CNN:
..CNN: "She wants you to go on live tomorrow night with her."
Michael Moore: "No. I think she should come down here and talk to the people here. I am not the voice of this thing. I am a citizen and a participant in this. I am an equal with everyone here and she should come down here and talk individually to different people and hear their stories -- hear their stories about what it's like to live with no health insurance. She has health insurance. She has a secure job. She's not facing foreclosure. It's very easy for her to sit there in Columbus Circle and come after innocent people who are struggling to survive. So she should come down here ... and spend some time and meet with people and talk to them. But I'm not the spokesperson for this movement. There are millions of spokespeople for this movement. They live in every neighborhood in America. ... And I am just one voice at this meeting and I'm proud to be one voice."
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