Join the "Occupy Your Block" Sidewalk Chalk Campaign
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 8, 2011, 10:22 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
The Outreach Group of the NYC General Assembly has an idea inspired by this story of unity between strangers using the original social media: chalk. It's a creative, anonymous and exciting way for supporters of all ages to show support everywhere.
to join in:
Draw on your sidewalk a cool message about support for Occupy Wall Street, strength in the 99%, etc.
Leave chalk (maybe in a box) and write a note asking people to write on other parts of the sidewalk.
Take before and after pics, and send them to OccupyYourBlock@gmail.com
Outreach Group will make a music video montage of all the pics sent in, post it and share it widely on for the new Occupy Your Block coming up in one week.
Nothing is more raw, more visceral than using rock on rock to communicate. Chalk has helped us launch major leaps in human evolution, perhaps more than any other tool; from cave drawings, to symbols, to language. It's a fast, guttural, fun way to share your voice with everyone who passes, and there's something about sidewalk chalk that makes every passerby want to take a look.
In a time when your message is either being ignored, ridiculed or demonized by traditional media, #occupy sidewalk may do the trick... Social media is anything but new.
Here is something you might like, from the book 'Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Non-Violence' by the psychologist Erik Erikson, describing him as a youth;
"He used to... scatter the utensils of worship to 'write' on the floor. When his mother tried to forbid this, he 'strongly dissented' in what may have been the ontogeneric origin of the sit down." [quoted words orig. text.]
("sit down" = Occupy/Occupation?)
Beautiful idea. The chalk street writers, up to their usual tricks.
Fannie Mae's asking for $7 billion and you guys want to write on sidewalks? Are you protesters or the cast of Glee? Jesus.
I have to be honest I read a lot of these forums to try and get a since of where this movement is going and I think its going exactly the way the 1% wants it to. If we post 500 posts a day and each receives about 50 or 60 comments are we really discussing things or getting anywhere. I don't claim to know it all and that is the point. For a political party to go into office and believe that they know exactly how to better the economy is ridiculous. Yes they may have some great ideas, but why not consider what the general public has to say. Oh that's right because it doesn't matter what we think. I don't claim to know everything, but collectively I think WE can figure it out.
I am just suggesting that we narrow the posts down to general topics that people can discuss. For example, this could be used as a post on a forum under the category of Media Relations. We should have topics on economy, education, healthcare, etc. That way we can read 5000 or 6000 posts relating to one topic. If WE want to be taken seriously we have to narrow our focus and give tangible ideas. For example, We can have free healtcare if 5% of our taxes goes to provide utilities to run these hospitals. In return we can reduce the fed tax by 5%. I am just stating tangible examples, once again I am not claiming to know everything just giving my suggestions.
Let's have a good time first.
Naomi Klein "This is a young movement still in the process of determining just how powerful it is, and that power will determine what demands are possible. Small movements have to settle for small reforms: big ones have the freedom to dream."
I Agree. This movement is in it's youth. We are growing rapidly and we learn faster when we are happy and spontaneous. We will become more focused and "serious" as the movement gets older. I have to believe that the fun-ness and spontaneity will help discombobulate the 1%.
Your concerns are certainly valid; but I think the internet has proved itself too clumsy (i.e. vulnerable to trolls and idiots) to provide the kind of organizational clarity you're talking about, (that would otherwise seem easy to achieve). The place for real discussion is in the streets, at the occupations. If there isn't one in your area, then start some kind of discussion group. The change has to come from the bottom, locally, and that's where the real discussion has to take place as well.
On topic of news regarding the occupy movement I would like to see more of the bad news regarding the movement as well. Im in favor of the movement but there is a definite lack of whole picture news. For instance what happened in California with vendor out reach program or old women who was pushed down stairs in DC. We need to know the good and the bad of our movement to understand what works and what needs to be stopped.
There is plenty of bad news about what goes on. All of you try to come across as such peaceful protesters. Stories like these are well publicized:
The most serious incident was reported in downtown Portland last night -- cops responded to calls of a Molotov cocktail being set off near the city's World Trade Center. Authorities had received unconfirmed information a week earlier that people within the Occupy Portland encampment were constructing the crudely made bomb, which is normally fashioned from a glass bottle filled with gas and a soaked rag or cloth sticking out of the opening as a wick.
At the site of the Occupy San Diego camp, street cart vendors were forced to close up shop Monday when protesters, angry that they stopped receiving free food, ransacked and vandalized the carts.
The angry mob not only scrawled graffiti on the carts, they reportedly splattered them with blood and urine as well.
In addition, the vendors received death threats, according to local radio station KNX 1070.
Last weekend, a man was walking through Zuccotti Park taking pictures of the Occupiers' camp when an unidentified man approached him and struck him in the face, leaving his victim with a laceration to the face, according to law enforcement reports.
Also in lower Manhattan, a business owner made claims that she has been terrorized and her well-being threatened by Occupiers after she prohibited them from using her store's restroom to bathe.
Stacey Tzortzatos, owner of Panini and Co., located across from Zuccotti Park, got fed up two weeks ago when demonstrators broke a bathroom sink causing flooding in the shop and leaving her with a bill of $3,000 in damages, according to the New York Post.
In Boston, homeless protesters were removed from Dewey Square after they were discovered to have knives and stashes of illegal drugs.
Even small business owners in the area are getting fed up with people expecting free stuff and services from them. There is talk they are asking the city to clear the group.
Sorry, survey results time and time show less than 35% of the population support the cause. That basically, the country is divided, just like the government. Approximately 30-35% support OWS, 20-30% support the Tea Party, the rest don't like either, are annoyed by them, or just plain do not care. Without a good majority, you will change nothing. Personally, I am against any type of Socialism, it has bankrupted many European countries like Greece and Italy. Especially this call for a "living wage" whether employed or not. There is not incentive for someone to get a job with that in place.
There is no such thing as a revolution or an evolution that went smoothly. To think that drifters and psychopaths will not be drawn to a people's movement is naive. Unfortunately, there will always be incidents and sad events taking place as this movement gains steam and attracts wrong elements and right elements. But to abandon it because there are hangers-on who see it as an opportunity to freeload or act out their aggressions would be to throw the baby out with the bath water... don't go there. We need to focus on how to prevent bad events and get good exposure for the good events and just accept that there will always be a fly in the ointment.
Yes, but I am in what you call the 99%, but don't agree with the movement. The problem is you say you represent the 99%, but not even 50% of the population support the movement. I think it pointless and runs the risk of making our economic problems worse. There are reports, particularly out West, of increased violence. Capitalism has it's problems, but I will take it over Socialism any day of the week.
We don't have Capitalism any more, we have Feudalism. I am a small business owner whose business is growing 60% a year and I have 30 years of perfect credit, but I can't get an SBA loan unless they essentially take over my business, or a line of credit unless they charge me a "high risk" rate. Entrepreneurs are the persecuted class in America at the moment, yet pols claim that small business will create jobs. I tried to make 4 new hires this year but I can't because the usual avenues of funding business expansion have been shut off. Loan sharks try to give me loans at 38%. This country is sick at the core and has lost the ability to generate jobs, train people and match them to available jobs, and structure unemployment benefits to encourage people to work part time legally without having their benefits cut. My wife works at a second job to get insurance because it is $17,000 per year for our family... that's working 40 hours a week to pay health insurance for a family of 4. The insanity is so deep that you are apparently blind to it. It's wrong and needs to change from the core. And where I live about 90% of the people I talk to support this (r)evolution.
Yes, and they may agree, but it is up North. You don't see any of this mess going on here in the South. That is because just like our government, our country is split on ideology. That is why Congress is at a deadlock. You have half the country (give or take) that sides with the Liberals\Progressives and half the country that that is more Conservative. Therefore, our government represents our population. That is why I say this whole thing is a waste of time. You don't have a majority, so you cannot change anything.
Thank you for the information regarding various incidents if possible could you site the rest of your sources I would like to look into them further. As to the your figures regarding the acceptance of OWS they are slightly flawed first the group polled was 1,000 people from a single area second the figures you showed are 2 weeks old which is important to note. They initial poll 2 weeks prior was only 25% which means in 2 weeks popularity grew by 10% which if the polling of these small groups can be considered accurate is a huge gain. To your last point OWS is not united on any one single point so to say they are a socialist movement would be incorrect some only want tax and policy reform to others wanting new government meaning there is no single descriptor for this movement. Thank you for your insights there is much to think about.
Also, small business owners in the area of protest are getting fed up and may start "fighting back" against the OWS:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/money/recession/occupy-wall-street-destroying-business-main-street
"Things were good before the protests began,” the manager of another local establishment said. “Now it’s going to be hard to pay the rent.”
“People have lost 40 percent, 50 percent, 60 percent of their sales,” said another"
"A business owner near the Occupy Wall Street encampment claims she has been repeatedly harassed and threatened with bodily harm by protesters after she and her employees refused to give in to their outlandish demands.
“I’ve been told, ‘Watch your back!’ 10 times,” Stacey Tzortzatos, owner of Panini & Co. Breads, located across from Zuccotti Park
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occupiers_terrorize_us_eatery_o4dKzxi3n03WyJWAJu4AhO#ixzz1dSTUO358
I view well known, scientific polling like Zogby, Harris, etc:
http://zogby.com/news/2011/10/18/ibope-zogby-poll-public-favor-split-occupy-wall-st-movement-60-say-demonstrators-lack-clear-goals/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/11/occupy-wall-street
Crimes: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/05/local/la-me-1105-occupy-crime-20111105
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/nyregion/at-occupy-wall-street-protest-rising-concern-about-crime.html
http://oaklandnorth.net/2011/11/10/man-shot-and-killed-near-occupy-oakland-encampment/
Very interesting with some valid points the poll information especially which seems support has grown slightly. The main point I took away from all the reading was the protest itself needs more organization and training. The other was the high percent that still have no idea what this movement is about which leads me to believe the movement needs more PR. The different incidents involving the business owners is regrettable but expected this is a large protest businesses will be affected still they should not need suffer threats and vandalism as well. Thank you for the information I hope to use this to strengthen the movement.
There are also reports that many of these small business owners in the area of the NY protest are going to start protesting and opposing the OWS movement. That is going to bring additional issues. This will be "main street", not Wall Street pushing the opposition. Also, reports that those in the general public are getting fed up with the "drumming" noise and other issues. Therefore, there are getting ready to be more PR problems.
Pushed down the stairs??? not a single OWS was nearby when she slipped and fell on her clumsy ass... Let's start with the TRUTH before we get into "good or bad" news.
That was the news story given to me if you have further details and if possible a sited source I would be very grateful. You seem to had a knee jerk reaction to my request I do like this movement but I also see a need to be aware of what this movement may turn into. I apologize if I caused you any confusion and thank you in advance for supplying me more information regarding the DC incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpSCpgnt4Q
If I can find the video being filmed from the other side I'll post that too. It clearly shows that the old lady was pushed over by her '1%' friend--the 'comb-over'--who starts swearing at the protesters as soon as he mows his way over the old lady.
You can see the kid in the white shirt filming on the other side at around 1:10-1:20.
As for the lady that actually fell down the stairs, the footage is inconclusive, but the general consensus is that there are no OWS nearby. And there was a 'ripple effect' as 'comb-over' forcefully pushed his way through people which caused her to fall.
Thank you this was quite informative and I think helps you understand my point. We need to look at the negative to find if it is true by doing so we either disprove or find something we need to correct. I appreciate your effort of bringing this article forward.
You're welcome, thank you equally. I personally think that OWS has no place in trying to 'lock-and-block' people at this point in the movement, whoever they may be (perhaps when the movement matures, these actions may be more appropriate.) But right now, There are so many more productive ways we can get our point across.
Agreed.
Write to your local main stream media outlet. There is NO bad news about OWS incidents like you cite in the MSM. They are not at all objective and want portray OWS to be the antithesis to the Tea Party, which it is not.
The stories I gave as an example are the stories placed in the news which does not mean they are 100% merely they are what is initially known of the situation. I don't like having one sided view positive or negative that is why I wanted some negative placed on the site so it can confronted and assessed. I apologize if you dislike confronting negative media but this is something that must be done if we want the movement to grow.
I have seen several forums that successfully operate in a functional, productive way. To say it isn't possible is wrong in my opinion. It may need more attention towards (hopefully fair) moderation, and the idea of sub-forums categorized would make it so much more streamlined for easier use.
If one were serious about doing it, it could be done. And with many occupations being evicted, why not invest in cultivating a good online base. After all, aren't they/we also part of the 99%?
My 2 cents.
This site is meant as a news site about OWS. It isn't the movement in and of itself. The movement is happening physically.
A news site???...You are kidding ...Right?...Look Sweetie…Call it what it really is…It is your own propaganda outlet…
I bet you don't troll the Tea Party web sites like you troll this one, and I bet you weren't pissed at all about their protests, were you?
Not at all...Matter of fact I am a member of the Tea Party...And I have attended many of the rallies....Funny thing is ...No Rapes, No Arrest, No violence, No crapping on Police cars, No Drugs, No Flag Desecrating, No Vandalism …I could keep going but it would fill the page.
Jeez.... that doesn't surprise me one bit!!!! Actually, Tea Party rallies HAVE HAD violence. And OWS protesters don't tote guns to their protests, and the OWS protests are much larger. They do, however, attack and beat up white people who don't agree with them and who counter-protest at their rallies.
A man was shot and killed Thursday just outside the Oakland encampment that anti-Wall Street protesters have occupied for the last month, but organizers said the attack was unrelated to their ongoing protest (You knew they would say that..Duh) of U.S. financial institutions and that some of their own were the first ones to administer first aid.
Police Chief Howard Jordan said a preliminary investigation suggests the shooting resulted from a fight between two groups of men at or near the Occupy Oakland camp on a plaza in front of City Hall. During the altercation, one of the men pulled out a gun and fired several rounds into a crowd on the plaza's edge,
Not only do OWS protesters tote them....They are using them...
And can you prove any of your claims? Let me see your sources
You must have missed the 1.4 million tea party people who were in d.c on sept.12, 2009
"Taxpayer March on Washington
Protesters walking towards the United States Capitol during the Taxpayer March on Washington, September 12, 2009.
Main article: Taxpayer March on Washington
On September 12, 2009, Tea Party protests were held in various cities around the nation. In Washington, D.C., Tea Party protests gathered to march from Freedom Plaza to the United States Capitol. Estimates of the number of attendees varied, from "tens of thousands"[6] to "in excess of 75,000".[119][120] A rally organizer asserted that one local ABC News station had reported attendance of over one million, but he retracted the statement after ABC News denied making any such report.[121]
Using the most generous counts of those in attendance, the march may have been the largest conservative protest ever held in Washington, D.C., as well as the largest demonstration against President Obama's administration to date.[122][123]"
1.4 million, huh???
It was 1.4 mil. you cite abc news. are they biased,...........of course not.
I didn't get it from ABC News. Of course you will refute anything that anyone says on here that goes against your biased beliefs.
I was there. I know what I saw.
Oh, so you can estimate 1.4 million people accurately?
It figures.... the ones on here who are most adamantly against OWS and who spew the most nonsense are Tea Partiers? Go figure!! I never would have guessed!
I said I was there. I did NOT say I was a tea party member. I know what I saw , I also spoke with the capitol police.
Quick question, are Tea Partiers part of the 1 % or 99 %? Seems OWS hates them and so do the 1 %, must be because they majority White, Conservative, Christian, don't like big government and don't like immigration. Yeah, about sums it up, oh and they "racist"! Just cause the left get to tag anyone they don't like or doesn't agree with them as "racist".
I don't think your being completely accurate many arguments put forth by the tea party are not all that different from OWS. Major tax reform anti-corruption, and power given to the common man to institute change. In a sense the Tea Party is very much apart of change OWS is trying to make. The fact OWS is not set on any single point makes the definition of who is OWS very debatable. Defining Tea Party on majority stereo types seems very unfair just like how many view OWS by stereotypes. In the future please be more fair in your judgments of others but I do thank you for your insight into the issue.
ILLEGAL "immigration"is what is not liked.
Ditto
I'll give you credit where credit is due. Spamming this thread, tactically, is effective in a certain way: you're not going to have any effect on OWS as a movement, but you've contributed to taking a common resource and making it unusable. My question is, given the virtually infinite number of other things you could be doing with your time, why bother? Why not go do something with the Tea Party? Why not take up a hobby? Do you view OWS as a threat? Are you just bored with a lot of spare time? Why not do something similar in your own community, like, say, shooting road signs with pellet guns or crapping in the public reservoir?
I am retired...Got lots of free time....Oh...And I never worked for a Union...I don't believe in your cause...And what you're advocating is anarchy. I have grand children and I fear for them having to live in a world with the likes of you…God help us if you are the future of America...
I apologize for others insulting you for merely stating your opinion that is unfortunate. Saying we are advocating anarchy is incorrect this movement is based on change in government and business. I hope you will still watch on to see how well we succeed in bettering the future.
Why are you here? Why are you wasting your time here? You like verbal masturbation is all. Go to Fox why not? Don't they have forums there? You are single handling going to take down OWS with weird little comments?
How much time do you spend here? Talk a bout loser...
Why not spend the time with your grandkids? Seriously.
I spend plenty of time with them when they come to visit....So why don't you do something with your life instead of wasting with these losers?
The tea party movement was so influential it was hijacked by Dick Armey, et al. I especially like G. Norquest who, single handedly usurped the tea party's beloved Constitution by hoodwinking Congresspeople into signing his "no tax increase" pledge. The tea party members in Congress got us the downgrade in bond ratings by using their power to practically put the country into default. You should be very proud of them.
It's a news site for the MOVEMENT, dimwit. Are you really THAT clueless?
Sorry babe....You know I am right...By the way...Did you watch the video?
Oh snap!
Just like any other B.M.
I bet you don't troll the Tea Party web sites like you troll this one, and I bet you weren't pissed at all about their protests, were you?
basic tactic, change the argument.
Do you or don't you?
I don't go to their sites. I don't know their names, The media barely covered their rallies .
The media don't cover them because the Tea Party in not a freak show like OWS is..
Dude, did you see the GOP debates? Now I know you are just bored. Anyone who has been watching has been laughing at the "freak show" or did I miss something? Michele Bauchmann, Rick Perry, do I need to continue, or did I make my point?
The tea party doesn't play into the biased liberal left wing media agenda. They are either not covered or if they are it's to vilify them.
They play into the biased extremist conservative right wing media agenda.
ABCNBCCBCMSNBCCNN and of course the ny times. All left wing biased.
Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, etc..... all right wing biased.
the stations and the paper that i posted think they are un biased. limbaugh, hannity are conservaties and say so. Beck is a conservative too. O reilly is a buffoon.
Have you read, or looked at the "spokes" idea? It gives you a more narrow topic to hone in on. There are a variety of topics to choose from, you should check it out!
I think splitting the the main page up into segments would be a bad idea, as people would stop checking the media/press stuff, they might even not check for events as often. I'm not a local, so the events/press mean little to me, however I do keep tabs on the events so I can watch the news/media/streams. But if everything was seperate, I would likely, only check the main news feed. Someday Occupy will need hundreds of forums. But I do not feel that is the day for that.I've dealt with web design for years, and for the current given size of the operation, I would say that it has plenty of room to grow before the forums need split. I agree with what you say however, but the thing is, is it better to have one main blog, with comments, or a true forum, with 8000 sub forms, each with one post?
Entered offering full support, dismayed to find that issues are moot. Yeah well, maybe the anti-political political campaign will change things.
I hear what you are saying but I think that our generation doesn't have the luxury of limiting our battles like previous ones. We know too much, we have too much to do. Whether you want to admit it or not we have to take a multi-tasking approach to the problems that our generation faces because we have MULTIPLE issues threatening the future of our generation and future generations.
If you wanna pick one thing to fight then do it. But don't be surprised once you resolve that problem that there are 100 others just as paramount waiting for you.
I agree it seems things need to start getting focused...all seems so spread out, cluttered and diluted. I love the movement and want it to WORK, to make a difference :) I love the chalk idea though and will DO IT. Will start in front of my city councilwoman's office and the business council's office.
I agree Soros the Jew, controls OWS.
Your movement is dying out...Don't let these blind idiots fool you otherwise...
This may be what you're hoping for, but I wouldn't count on it anytime soon. You seem to be the only "blind idiot" posting here. If you don't like the movement, or are against it...........
please look up the word "indifferent"
What is your point?
Your statement...
Some of us came here to decide if we are for or against OWS, I came here wondering about it thinking it was only people who were of a socialist mindset, for the most part my mind had been made up and I was against it but I have shifted to indifferent.
If you were indifferent, you wouldn't be posting here. If you're suggesting indifference implies objectivity, see first sentence!
I am against it....So I am doing what you all are doing...I am Occupying Occupy Wall Street....I am protesting against you. I will vigorously oppose you every chance I get
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Hence the term movement, it goes a certain distance then stops. Occupy is over, media coverage is dropping off and the 'peaceful' guise of the movement is a beard.
Ron-Paul gets more media coverage then these clowns
Well nice to see this site censors and changes what we type, nice to see what OWS is really about.
I am on my 5th account...Keep booting me..Guess they really don't like free speech.
Free speech and speaking out of your ass are two different things. You have contributed nothing to this site, except for posting bullshit.
I hear you! If you disagree with the movement, then voice your opinion. When ones opinion is sarcastic sophomoric quips, this adds nothing minus the fact we now know how ignorant the poster is!
my my you are an angry girl....And such language for a lady...I am assuming you are a lady....
No, she's like an (*)itch that just won't go away, you know? I can tell you one thing, she don't like White Christian Males, that's for sure!
Correct .
Yes it is..
I wrote #occupywallstreet on the UC berkeley campus about a month ago =). Maybe #OWS would do.
Sidenote: it's popular in berkeley to spraypaint the stop signs to say "STOP DRIVING". Though I don't condone spraypainting.
great idea! this is one way we can show the "main stream media" how large the movement is.
It just occurred to me this morning that although many people support OWS not everyone can join you physically.
There should be a way to announce your support for OWS in a tangible way.
I suggest we all put hearts in our windows and our cars as a way of expressing that we agree with the movement.
I would love to be driving down the street and see hearts everywhere.
(I just made this comment on another forum. Draw hearts!)
The Occupy protesters in London, Ontario were not just evicted by the police last night. They were evicted by the church that promised them sanctuary because the church realized they might be held financially responsible.
Read about the betrayal here:
www.josephcouture.com
Attention all OWS please go to liveleak.com and watch video of violent protest in Oakland. By occupying you give opportunities for these idiots to blend in with you and act like asses. I am not sure what, if anything you can do about it, but these idiots definitely hurt your cause. Do what you can to keep these dumbasses away from you.
Stop using credit cards, debt cards, etc, Just use cash if you can, Boycott Banks, The banks will feel it, right in their pockets!!!!!!!
Top of the morning news cbc radio reports that occupy london ontario was completely dismantled at about 1 this morning by an orchestrated task force of police and city workers. It went down without violence peacefully.
Great...Always nice to hear good news first thing in the morning.
It's nice to feel like you're doing something. Writing on the sidewalk is like wearing those awareness ribbons, or placing one of those support magnets on your car. People can feel good but nothing actually gets done. The moment to recruit candidates for office and actually make a change is slipping by while we write cute messages about being the 99% on the sidewalk.
Good idea, something creative, cheap, accesible to every person, and often funny. Good luck. A Spaniard in Alicante.
You'd better transform this site in a place where every day explode thousand of highly creative ideas followed by other ideas, as a chain without an end. The more we think and communicate and socialize the more our need of action will increase. Italian TV reports at least ten times a day the success of OccupyWallStr.
Here is a thought....Go Occupy Italy
Come here soon. We'll be happy to realize that somebody in the world is ready to help us. If this will be a World Revolution, nobody we'll be able to stop it.
I'm an artist, I think it's a great idea.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this idea. The sidewalk chalk sharing is the perfect idea for the suburbs. Here on Long Island, we are having some trouble getting lots of folks A. Out in the street together and B. To all come visit from town to town. Allowing people to take a walk out their door, or a stroll to the park, and express their support of the 99% is excellent! And, fun! Thanks!
worth an effort let's see how it goes.
You know what makes it possible Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.'s non-violent protests to work? Well...it was the fact they would walk straight up to a line of troops/police and take a beating in front of witnesses and the media.
Watching people who are being beaten for being non-violent, well that outraged people. But apparently people are willing to accept people being pepper sprayed and tear gassed if they don't obey.
Is it surprising that people are turning to violence during their protests. Have you seen the brutal response police made in Oakland and most places to people refusing to move.
Protesters experienced something akin to torture (pain until compliance) and you say they are asses... they're in the wrong.
Apparently non-violent protests don't work anymore because the silent majority feels pepper spray is an acceptable response when people refuse a police officers order.....
sidewalk chalking is not permitted in NYC - it would be cause for police interaction/intervention
http://quartzsitearizona.blogspot.com/2011/09/two-quartzsite-chalk-taggers-arrested.html
I love it!
We all need to make an effort an start using only Cash if all possible. The banking institutions will feel it. These institutions will see that we are serious about utilizing their services, they have taken advantage of way too many people over the years,something has to be done, We can demand the stop foreclosures on millions of families, cut back on their high paying corporate jobs, the same would go to Washington politicians, and across the board, themoneywould be better spent on education
It's not like we have many other means of communicating with our neighbors. Our society is so disconnected. Sidewalk chalk is a perfectly functional means of spreading the message.
And it is NOT vandalism. It washes off easily. If chalk is vandalism then so would be arranging leaves into letters on the ground. It does no damage, so it's not vandalism.
Previous elections nationwide have been met with weak turnouts for years. With almost half of the voting-age population not even voting as such was the turnout in the 2008 presidential election.
I challenge you, the 99%, to Occupy Voting Booths.
If your goal is "returning the US back into the hands of its individual citizens", make sure the people that the 99% is voting into office isn't against those things. Otherwise, things get kind of counter-productive.
Occupy Voting Booths! Get organized and get the right people into office.
Please see mytimetovote.com for a breakdown of important election dates and other important information.
If you want to take back our country, take back our government!
Not at all a viable replacement. Candidate pools are fairly well chosen for us, and elections are rigged and in need of many, many reforms. First we have to get the money infection out, then we can heal that and get it working.
reminds me of the couple leaving postcards in nazi germany. revolution begins within. within the movement. by seeing how we have been brutalised with ideas and the PC brigade so we cannot deal with the enemy within, identify then eject them. the ENEMY is the ruling fascist elite. they control this psychopathic brutal society through fascist ALL MALE hierarchies. we see these male hierarchies sending agents among us to fragment and destroy the movement. freemasons and christian churches are controlled by male-only hierarchies. anyone who says "jesus" is such a subversive agent among us.
Someone is on a feminazi kick, stop pretending like there isn't any women in power and try ranting about getting raped by the government, you know the men and women that screw over everybody.
Females shouldn't be allowed to post when they're on the rag.
And trolls like you shouldn't be allowed to post anywhere!!!!
Who lit the fuse on your tampon?
Nice :-)
Your respect of the female sex is quite touching...your mother must be proud of you. I hope you do not have any daughters. Try using cool-headed logic and factual arguments without resorting to adolescent rhetoric. Have a good day.
Read her post, it is a bit eccentric.
But you are correct, I should not have resorted to the same level,
no we must have equality. it is patriarchy that hides the enemy. the queen of england is female but she is the whore of babylon of the book of revelations. the figurehead of the fascist tyranny who is the ENEMY. that enemy's agents are among us but owe allegiance to the church or the lodge or whatever secret society they serve. anyone who owes allegiance to a male-only hierarchy is our enemy. it is the male-only hierarchies like the freemasons and the christians that control the present society. we are the 99% and we want DEMOCRACY males and females equal, safe and free.
She had the audacity to ask the government for fuel assistance for Buckingham Palace last winter... you can look it up online. Disgusting.
the prophecy of revelations will be fulfilled. the days of the whore of babylon are numbered. there shall be no more curse means mass unemployment. cannabis is for the healing of the nations.
LMAO....No they shouldn't....And Missy is always on the rag.
So u tink yer antichalk i take it carnegie. I know yer workin hard amassing yer stacks so thanks for sharing. Merry xmas
I'm sorry, but what is the percentage of the so called 99% that aren't doing anything to better themselves? 99%! You people sit and yell and chant while your bills pile up, possessions get taken away, and suffer malnutrition. Why? Because you don't have a dime in your pockets. Big corporations and entrepreneurship drive this country. Hard work drives this country. Hard work in school and our professions drive us. You think that you can just get handouts. That jobs are going to waiting for you after school. Sometimes they're not, but you have to be smart enough and inventive enough to seek out financial success. There's 99% complaining and 0% creativeness.
What do you suggest, we all go home and call it a day? Seems like those who are the most critical know the least about the movement.
agreed
Such anger, Probass25. Some of the 99% are just damn tired of getting compensated @ 60% of the value of their hard work while much of the remaining 40% gets transferred upwards on the wealth ladder. Yes, I'm talking about taxes being used for bank bailouts and all the rest. I'm also talking about exponential pay scales within organizations (CEO pay and bonuses).
Yes, big corporations drive this country... crazy, and other countries even crazier.
OWS Don't kill the goose and get the golden egg, reelection is what we need from the government. By the way OWS if 1% of wall street people is who we should blame, then every one in USA should trash their IPhone, IPAD, PDA etc. and stop paying their phone bill. In US At&t and Verizon are the 1 %, by paying your bill on time then they make more money every month. Let's do just that and show wall street who is the boss here!
Frankly, I can't believe their tiny, fµcked-up little minds can keep two lungs and a heart working simultaneously.
That happens subconsciously, Einstein.
Lucky for you guys
Not to change the subjuct but how about this?
'Occupy Oakland' Smashes Wells Fargo Windows, Then Makes $20K Deposit
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/09/occupy-oakland-makes-20k-deposit-at-wells-fargo-less-than-a-week-after-protesters-smashed-windows-at-same-bank/
Thats rich...LOL
Well LoneStar... this reminds me of the criticism of Environmentalist.... "If you want a carbon tax and want to save the environment and stop climate change, WHY DO YOU HAVE A CAR???!!!!" Which is just silly!
This blog is a cherry picking garbage writer. When you follow it to the source you learn how misguided such criticism is. (At least I hope you agree!!)
"According to meeting minutes posted on a Facebook page for the “Oakland General Assembly,” the group’s lawyer, Tim Fong, will temporarily keep a $20,000 donation from Occupy Wall Street in a Wells Fargo account, until he can finalize paperwork needed to open a credit union account for the group. The move is necessary to expedite the money’s availability for bailing out jailed protesters, the minutes said."
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/occupy-oakland-makes-20k-deposit-wells-fargo#ixzz1eeiunKW6
Surprise, surprise, it is easier to get a deregulated bank account from one of the big banks, rather than from a smaller credit union.
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Yes spend hours, making beautiful sidewalk chalk art...and then I'll hose it off in 10 seconds. Never to be seen again.
Will OWs pay for the chalk? they just agreed to spend 29k to go to Egypt, so they gotta be flush with cash. Will there be cash payouts to the best drawing?
Wow Rob, way to demean the battle Egyptians are facing to stop the continuation of an oppressive military rule.
And to think, I just retired from education after many years of teaching children that unless they were playing hopscotch is was wrong to write on sidewalks, fences, buildings, walls, houses, stores, alleys, toilet stalls, rock formations, stop signs, the sign in front of the school, the car of the teacher you didn't like, the mirror in the bathroom, etc, etc, etc.
Go ahead mature adults, I can only say, it really is a cultural issue isn't it. Write all over the sidewalks, but don't point any fingers at the gang members who mark your car, your house, your fense, your business, your school bleachers, etc,etc. you are their example.
Yeh graffiti in front of my own house sounds great. Sound like more of a tool to indoctrinate children to some crazy idealism.
OWS is controlled by the Jewish 1%.
And OWS is helping to further the Protocols of Zion.
And this is because OWS is funded by Soros the Jew. Soros always do things that are beneficial to his tribe.
Gay and Lesbian is a minority, yet they have more rights than the MAJORITY.
Is that fair?
soros is self hating Jew. during WWII he helped the nazis. the protocols of the elders of zion is fraudulent.
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Yes this is a brilliant idea. Tell the public to spread the message through graffiti and vandalism. This will surely win over the public. Oh what's that? It's just chalk on the sidewalk.... You didn't say to vandalize or tag buildings.... Silly rabbit that doesn't matter.
Black PR has a handful of simple, easy guidelines on how to ruin a movement. One of the big ones is: You only need a little truth. See all it takes is someone to go write death threats on a mayors house, or tag a corporations building or a bank for the press to go into a feeding frenzy. When the press then reports it they'll say that so-and-so quoted OWS as telling them to go and do it and then they'll cut to this website and use excerpts from it.
Sure in actuality you said use chalk on the sidewalk but all that's needed is a little truth remember. You said go out and spread the message by writing it. I give it a week before this happens.
Keep shooting yourselves in the foot guys. A+ stuff.
So let’s go ahead and add even more graffiti and to top it off…In front of people’s houses…Now there is a good idea……Who are the idiots thinking this crap up?
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You mean you work for an evil company?.. Say it ain't so
oh. my. freakin. gosh.
Fuck, if that video is not contrived.......
LOL! It is so funny that you say it is contrived. I do realize someone has a good video camera. But, the way the woman said um at the beginning, and her starry eyed enthusiasm reminded me so much of myself I was a little frightened. Maybe this is a communication disconnect between people of different styles, or suburbanites vs. city folks or something. This woman talks and thinks just like me! - Kimberly from Lawngisland
I'll tell her u said so!
You don't need to worry if it was contrived, because it wasn't. It was my friend Kiai's real story.
You noticed that too?....This site is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the blind sheep that follow this ludicrous movement….The same stuff that they accuse others of doing.
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...where do you live? That is not the USA I want to live in. For goodness' sake, it'll erase with the first rain!
I couldn't agree with you more! Nothing is more reprehensible than vandalism in the form of hopscotch squares and rainbows drawn in sidewalk chalk Those kids are setting such a bad example for each other. HA HA HA HA HA!
LOLOLOL! What a cranky or disruptive statement. The law where is against sidewalk chalk? Is that a legal opinion, because I don't think everyone that reads this lives in the same jurisdiction. Also, you assumed that folks will not clean it up. Maybe people will draw it, keep it a few hours, and then clean it up impeccably. Then, are they good people in your eyes? ;)
Thinking7, Are you seriously trying to convince us that it will be cleaned up afterwards? Calling yourself "Thinking7" is something that you might want to revaluate.
by the way I did not mention anything about chalk writing, just trying to point out how I like my hood look clean, in case NEW YORK city sanitation gets an excuse giving out fines.
That is for New York city only and if we do have a rain before the city inspectors comes every hour or so.
I would tell you to lighten up before you risk a coronary, if you weren'et such an obvious, and oblivious, troll.
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You people are killing me! Yeah, this will make the country take you seriously!
U take illegitimate cronyism seriously youll take 99% seriously
I like the BIGBOY words
MSVN, have you noticed how they all click dislike on any comments that contain common sense?
Unfortunately you are right.
exactly.
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That’s the secret to success; let’s act like gang members and graffiti everything. Stupid
Is it really graffiti if it represents a just purpose? If you have a different or better idea, you could speak it instead of criticizing others.
Call whatever you want....But it is still graffiti
graffiti: Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.
illicit: Forbidden by law, rules, or custom
"A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk."
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ea1_1192624393
Completely stupid idea, that will work against your cause. Think people.............Think before you act.