Occupy Iowa

OFF THE INTERNET AND INTO THE STREETS!

Anti-cop Anaheim solidarity march happening tomorrow in Des Moines. If you’re in the area, meet at Nollen Plaza at 8 PM. Link directs to FB event page.

The YouTube corporation and CBS have now censored the original video of Anaheim cops shooting at children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST4RhWdlMQ

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS.”

Spread links to the mirrors. Keep firing.

Despicable police action in Anaheim last night: After shooting an unarmed man in handcuffs through the back of his head, the cops turned on the outraged neighbors, shooting women and children with rubber bullets and unleashing an attack dog into the crowd who lunged at a woman holding a baby. We stand in solidarity with the residents who were victims of this brutal and indefensible attack by the police.

Vote Republicrat 2012

The false dichotomy of conservative vs liberal is one of the most effective illusions Americans have bought into. We are divided along the meaningless and artificial social cleavage of Repub vs Dem when the only division that has any meaning is between the few hundred power elite and the rest of us. Or, in Occupy terms, the 1% vs the 99%. Don’t let them define your reality anymore!

Anarchism is not synonymous with violence. Capitalism is.

Democracy don’t rule the world
You’d better get that in your head
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that’s better left unsaid
- Bod Dylan

Occupy the Alternatives

If you ignore the annoying Audioslave song at the end, this is a thought provoking blog entry by David DeGraw.

I have always felt that Occupy should embrace a strategy employing a trifecta of tactics to inform its actions: 1) direct confrontation with power, 2) education, and 3) creation of alternative institutions.

Occupy Wall Street exploded last Fall with direct confrontation against the quintessential icon of power and corruption, Wall Street. This confrontation had the added benefit of giving the American public a brief and cursory education on the nature of power and capitalism.

With no physical encampments left to speak of and the Occupy movement now occupying nothing but a fuzzy blurb in the distant memory of the mass media, is it now time to focus on the third leg, that of creating alternative institutions that will “starve the beast”?

If so, what will it look like?

daviddegraw:

Despite the mainstream media eulogies / lack of coverage, the Occupy movement is still very active. The organizing activity currently happening is a thousand times more than it was one year ago. Every day people are engaging in protest. Decentralized guerilla armies are confronting the corrupt and…

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Citizens United…is anyone really surprised?

As we call ourselves the 99% and demand our “rights”, we must constantly keep in mind that we are the 1% of the world. Most of us are white, middle class, European decedents living comfortably and in relatively good health on land that our genocidal ancestors stole.

Modern Uncertainty: Welcome to the Occupations

modernuncertainty:

“Still, Žižek was right. If the cops are being polite and the politicians are eager to make the protesters comfortable, it’s not because they’re nice. It’s because they’re not feeling sufficiently threatened. When several hundred protesters left the City Hall campsite last week, marched to a Bank…