Save the Troy Library “Adventures In Reverse Psychology”
Creative activism changed the topic to what was really at stake:
June 20th, 2012
Posts filed under 'Social Change'
Red Square Revolt in Quebec by Nate Lavey
May 30th, 2012
Music: Spencer Livingston — Occupy Wall Street
This is the video for the song ‘Occupy Wall Street’ written and performed by Spencer Livingston. Produced and engineered by Peter Malick.
‘Occupy Wall Street’ is available on itunes, amazon, and rhapsody.
All Proceeds from the sale of this song will be used to support the current ‘Occupy’ movement.
January 5th, 2012
Music: John L. Samuels Jr. — Occupy The Street Song
Performing Artist:
John L. Samuels Jr.-Esco (theescoexperience@gmail.com)
December 23rd, 2011
Occupy Boston acknowledges their mistake
December 18th, 2011
Music: Miley Cyrus Rock Mafia – It’s a Liberty Walk
This is Dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in.
Miley Cyrus
December 15th, 2011
Menino’s Day of Infamy
Boston’s Mayor Menino is proud of his police’s ability to use overwhelming force to crush nonviolent protesters at Occupy Boston. He crows about the ease with which they arrested 46, as if ease in crushing dissent is what matters.
After crushing the demonstrators, Menino criticized their “leadership”:
He said that the protesters who had camped out in Dewey Square since late September had the “wrong leadership.”
“The leadership changed every hour and twice on Sunday,” he said.
Presumably he, like most leaders, is completely unable to understand people’s self-organization.
Menino has returned Dewey Square to the use of the people, so that it can remain empty and largely unused as before.
One of the persistent criticisms of the Greenway is that people just don’t use it enough. Of course now the Occupiers may have used it too much.
Better to be unused than to be used by hundreds, when the hundreds oppose the powerful. Silence is preferable to free speech, as Mayors around the country have clarified.
Menino revealed the iron fist as he pledged to crush any future occupations:
Menino said that protesters, who have scheduled another general assembly at 7 p.m. this evening on the Boston Common to discuss next steps, will not be allowed to take over any city parks.
“They’re trespassing. Any park they go into now is trespassing. The Parks Department has strict rules and regulations about sleeping in the parks,” he said.
“It’s over,” he said. “We have got to figure out how to channel their energies to be positive … I feel like they have an opportunity.”
Occupy Boston was the most important thing to happen to Boston in decades. Mayor Menino has now crushed it. The city of Boston should be ashamed of its Mayor today, just at it should be proud of the occupiers who stood up for the 1%.
The Occupiers have issued a statement:
You cannot evict an idea whose time has come. Boston’s Occupiers will persist in rejecting a world created by and for the 1%. We might have been evicted, but we shall not be moved. We remain invested in the future of our movement. We will continue to challenge Wall Street’s occupation of our government.
The crushing of occupations around the country, often by “liberal” mayors shows once again that liberal politicians, with all too few exceptions, are agents of the powerful 1% as are their “conservative” opponents. Their liberalism means they will be liberal in their use of police power to crush dissent, from Oakland to Boston, from Portland and UC Davis to DC. Phil Ochs understood liberalism decades ago.
December 10th, 2011
Video of beating of American veteran Kayvan Sabehgi by Oakland police
Video has emerged of the brutal beating of three-term American veteran Kayvan Sabehgi by Oakland police, which ruptured his spleen.
November 20th, 2011
Video shows two cops pepper spraying nonviolent demonstrators
Due to the outrage, the Chancellor, who lauded their restrained actions earlier has now placed the two on leave. However, every cop who was there and stood by is complicit. And the Chancelor who called them in after seeing the violence by UC Berkeley police earlier had to know that such violence was a likely possibility. She is responsible. If she had ordered that violence not be used, the results might have been different. She must go as well as these brutal officers. The fish stinks from the top.
November 20th, 2011
Watch police calmly plan and execute the UC Davis
Another video shows the calm deliberation of the police as they plan the pepper spraying of UC Davis students. It is now clear that a large sector of the campus police force is dedicated not to protecting students but to brutalizing them. Any decent university would disband the entire force and start over with a force dedicated to preserving peace and the right to dissent:
I must say that UC Davis is giving its students an excellent education in the true nature of the modern “liberal” state, dedicated as it is to the preservation of privilege and power at all costs. as the first Mayor Daley expressed so beautifully after the police riot in 1968: “The police aren’t here to create disorder. They’re here to preserve it.“
November 20th, 2011