This video shows actual footage of the strange and elusive Occupy Melbourne tent monster.
I love the ever-living crap out of these guys :) All Occupies should start doing this :)
Ladies - just make sure you’re decently attired underneath. Guys - wear nothing. It’ll serve them right ;)
(Source: citizen-earth)
OWS - I Love That You’re Doing Stuff
I love reading the posts about Occupy re-taking houses that were illegally foreclosed upon. I love hearing that Occupy helped prevent an illegal foreclosure.
I love that, despite all the setbacks and prohibitions rising up against it, the People’s Library is still going strong.
I love that people are sharing ideas to get their communities pointed in one direction against a common foe.
But, as I always tell myself [and others] when cleaning up a big mess - there’s always more.
The 1% stopped you from feeding and sheltering the homeless, but you can still feed them. You can still work together with them to take over foreclosed homes and use them for shelter.
You can still band together and shout, “Show me the mortgage!” in the yards of homes that are about to be foreclosed upon.
You can (probably) walk amiably up to Mayor Bloomburg’s(?) house and then whip out the castanets and start making noise.
You can hang out in the public areas of City Hall.
You could possibly file a complaint against the city while you’re there.
You can occupy the lobbies of every last evil corporation in your area and stay there until you’re seen by the people in charge. And always - remember to be polite and civil when voicing your grievances. Remember to point out that being evil is just sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Be logical and coherent. And if you’re afraid you’re not either, hand them a copy of How and Economy Grows and Why it Crashes with a sincere, “You really need to read this book. It’s important. Your life and livelihood depends on it.”
And if they agree with you - ask them what they’re doing to solve the problem. Ask them how they think it’s going to work. Share the results.
I love OWS. It’s doing something to solve the problem it sees. Even if it’s not enough, it’s better than the nothing that was being done previously.
Do occupy wall street protests represent your views economy?
They allow you to reload and re-vote.
Re-vote often. I think that’s how the right wing has their view in the lead.
Please sign! It's still important.
The world - especially the Fox-News-ignorant world - needs to see that military grade pepper spray is not as harmless as this brainless bint would have you believe.
A Poem - not mine.
Australia
When the shearing sheds are silent and the stock camps fallen quiet
When the gidgee coals no longer glow across the outback night
And the bush is forced to hang a sign, ‘Gone broke and won’t be back’
And spirits fear to find a way beyond the beaten track
When harvesters stand derelict upon the wind swept plains
And brave hearts pin their hopes no more on chance of loving rains
When a hundred outback settlements are ghost towns overnight
When we’ve lost the drive and heart we had to once more see us right
When 'Pioneer’ means a stereo and 'Digger’ some backhoe
And the 'Outback’ is behind the house. there’s nowhere else to go
And 'Anzac’ is a biscuit brand and probably foreign owned
And education really means brainwashed and neatly cloned
When you have to bake a loaf of bread to make a decent crust
And our heritage once enshrined in gold is crumbling to dust
And old folk pay their camping fees on land for which they fought
And fishing is a great escape; this is until you’re caught
When you see our kids with Yankee caps and resentment in their eyes
And the soaring crime and hopeless hearts are no longer a surprise
When the name of RM Williams is a yuppie clothing brand
Not a product of our heritage that grew off the land
When offering a hand makes people think you’ll amputate
And two dogs meeting in the street is what you call a 'Mate’
When 'Political Correctness’ has replaced all common sense
When you’re forced to see it their way, there’s no sitting on the fence
Yes one day you might find yourself an outcast in this land
Perhaps your heart will tell you then, 'I should have made a stand’
Just go and ask the farmers that should remove all doubt
Then join the swelling ranks who say, “Don’t Sell Australia Out!”
Author unknown
—Miles Vorkosigan | Cryoburn | Lois McMaster Bujold.
Sometimes, I Dispair.
There are times when the human race amazes me. There are also times, like this morning, when I just want to leave the race and sit on the sidelines until all this unholy malarkey is good and over with.
People elected Obama in the hopes that he would be able to fix things. Then the people woke up and realised every last politician has been sold to corporations. Now we expect a politician [sold to the highest bidder] to fix things? Um. He can’t. Sorry. He’s legally owned by the corporations who paid for his campaign. He has to do what they tell him to.
Especially when that means not saying a word or doing a thing about the actual problem - the corporations who bought him.
Is anyone getting the irony that corporate greed essentially put a slave into the white house? And they’ve been doing it for years, not just with Obama. Black, white, brindle, male or female… whoever the POTUS is, if they are funded into office by corporations, they are a slave to corporations.
You are bought and sold, America.
You should be angry.
Right-wingers should be angry at the establishment because corporate-endorsed bully-boys have abused at least one pregnant woman and caused the baby to miscarry. According to your own abortion-is-wrong gospel, those police officers are as good -or bad- as murderers. You should also be angry because corporations are the worst kinds of welfare cheats. They own most of the country, they earn most of the wealth, yet they pay no taxes and get massive handouts from the government teat! That’s got to be worse than thousands of welfare mothers. Come on!
Left-wingers who somehow don’t support the occupy movement [statistically, they must exist] should be angry because the very rights America was founded on are being routinely ground into the dirt. They destroyed books in those camp raids. They deliberately smashed computers in a vain attempt to silence the people. You have a right to be as mad as hell! Stand up!
Anyone who is not rich and somehow believes this is not their problem because they’re “getting along okay” is only doing so because it’s just a matter of time before some company decides to fuck them over. If you don’t do something now, the corporations will have bought the right to do so. If you honestly believe that playing by the rules gets you ahead, then why are you not as wealthy as your corporate overlords? Blame yourself? Why not? That’s what the corporations keep telling you to do.
Gotta do what Massuh tells you.
Yes, I just did the race card. Yes, I just called you a slave. No, I don’t care what colour you are. No, I don’t care how you worked your ass off to fulfil your American Dream.
The people who own your rights are changing the rules of the game. They are cheating. They are buying your voice and freedoms and stealing justice from all around you and you apparently don’t give a shit because you’re “doing okay”.
Wow.
The only thing America can really do at this stage in the game is this:
Stop. Feeding. The Beast.
Don’t use your credit card. Hell, pay off your credit card and leave a little extra in there. That really annoys them. Move your money to a credit union. Make gifts for this Yule season. Spend your time. Use your love. Make an effort.
It’s the last thing they expect from you.
It’s the last thing they want.
Starve the Beast.
Stop giving them your hard-earned money and start valuing yourself.
Perhaps, together, America can buy its freedom back.
It’s my only hope.
Slogans From My Back-Brain
I keep thinking of things to chant, even though I’m currently unable to participate.
Stuff like this:
All day! All night! Occupy our rights!
We want (clap clap) us free (clap clap) to build a better e-con-o-me!
You had your fun! You got your bonus! Now pay us back! The banks owe us!
Yeah, the last one’s a little complicated for chanting and marching. It’s more of a last minute thing. I’ll doubtless think of more, long about 1AM…
I should share more when they’re ready.