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MALCOLM HARRIS AND THE OCCUPY SWINDLE » The “vanguard” of the Occupy movement charges $5000 an hour to lecture on the evils of capitalism

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you know who else made kids line up to eat? Hitler.

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Great article well worth reading. I saw these tweets by Harris last week and honestly I was just glad that starting a new job would limit my time enough that I would be less tempted to engage with these cretinous arguments. I had no idea about his hilarious $5,000 speaking fee and the rest of his nonsense.

It’s a real shame that the first anniversary of the Occupy movement has seen a big return of all the stupidest parts of the movement (self-absorption, lifestyleism, confused rhetoric about the 99%, focus on homeowners struggles, the fucking people’s mic, etc.) and little or none of the most exciting elements of it (i.e. signs of a fighting social movement directed towards the multinational working class and against the state which we saw in Oakland and some other places).

I think Advance the Struggle’s statement in the wake of May Day still provides a good understanding of what to take away from the Occupy movement. Lots of positive lessons (at least here in Oakland) as well as negative ones; now we should make use of the networks developed during its course and consolidate people who came up in the struggle, rather than trying to artificially prolong it.

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Livestream here. Oakland cops are filling downtown with tear gas instead of letting us hold a peaceful protest in a public park. This is Jean Quan’s Oakland, and Barack Obama’s America!

alittlemascara:

Occupy Wall Street was AMAZING today! I can barely see straight I’m so exhausted but tomorrow I’ll talk more about it.

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

New York City: NYU student walk-out en route to Occupy Wall Street, Oct. 5, 2011.

Photos by redguard

Love the sign!!! (Wish you could see it a little better.)

How you doing my UAW brothers and sisters!

Ho ho ho. Ok. Anyway, I was asked to round up some of the best links about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Now you, my beloved dozen readers on tumblr, get to enjoy the fruits of my labor! (Also please send me any good stuff I missed! This is a work in progress.)

• Theory, tactics and practice: In So Real It Hurts: Notes on Occupy Wall Street, Manissa Maharawal writes about her experiences at the Occupy Wall Street general assembly. McKenzie Wark writes about challenges and opportunities for OWS in How To Occupy An Abstraction and Earl McCabe writes about tactics and goals at the blog Permanent Crisis. A piece by “SKS” discusses the politico-military dimension of Occupy Wall Street’s “leaderless resistance”.
• Occupy/unoccupy: Many people have written about the contradictions of a movement calling for “occupations” on land which was stolen from its inhabitants — and is still being occupied by the descendants and beneficiaries of that theft. Michelle Merrill writes about it in Occupied Lands, and “Tequila Sovereign” writes more about the history of Manhattan and the Lenape who were its original inhabitants in her post Manna-hatta. Another challenge to the perceived whiteness of Occupy Wall Street comes from Occupy The Hood, as Julianne Escobedo Shepherd writes at AlterNet.
• International solidarity: As Occupy Wall Street was inspired by the wave of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa and movements against austerity in Europe, so in turn it has inspired solidarity actions across the globe. The Maoist website Utopia reports on a gathering in Zhengzhou, China, where protestors called for “Determined Support for the American People’s Great ‘Wall Street Revolution!’” (Summary in English here, original full report in Chinese here.) Participants in the movement of the indignados in Spain have linked their struggle to that in the US and called for a global day of action on October 15.
• Politics and prospects: Many arguments about this movement center on the “demandlessness” of the occupiers. Should they have a list of specific demands? What should they be? This leads to even bigger questions: where is the movement going? What should it strive for and what can it achieve? Vijay Prashad offers some analysis of the movement and its place in the politics and society of the US in Zombie Capitalism and the Post-Obama Left. Matt Sledge writes about occupiers resisting co-optation in a piece for the Huffington Post. At Fire on the Mountain, Jimmy Higgins admits he was wrong about Occupy Wall Street and looks to the bigger picture.
• Stray thoughts: Sarah Jaffe discusses the class implications of the call for protestors to ‘know your history.’ Time collects 50 of the best photos from Occupy Wall Street. At The Nation, Richard Kim says We Are All Human Microphones Now.

octobersurpriserevolution:

Protestors gather in Zhengzhou, some wearing bands reading “Determinedly support the great Occupy Wall Street movement”

(via Chinese pensioners join Occupy Wall Street protests | Asian Correspondent more photos at the link) via Trainspotters

“星星之火可以燎原”-“星星之火正在燎原” Hell yes! This is seriously some inspiring stuff. “Although Mao is gone, the internationalism he taught us still is still present.”

Also, I will pay a king’s ransom for one of those armbands, in case anyone in Zhengzhou is reading this.

stfuconservatives:

pantslessprogressive:

Occupy Wall Street News Roundup, Sept. 24-25

Police Brutality:

Police pen up and mace female protesters [Raw Story]

Young man arrested simply for walking down the street [laurasthinkingwithportals]

Protester thrown over barricade by police [evanfleischer]

Protester shouts, “Is this what you’re about?”, gets cuffed [@LibertyPlazaRev]

Officer pushes sitting protester, man stands up, cops arrest him [@LilKing420s]

Cops Tackle, Mace Wall St. Protesters for No Obvious Reason [Gawker]

In the News: 

Occupy Wall Street makes the Sunday cover of NY Daily News [@DhaniBagels]

NYPD Silent On Pepper Spraying Of Downtown Protesters [NY1]

Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during ‘inequality’ march [NY Daily News]

80 Arrested as Financial District Protest Moves North [NY Times]

Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim [NY Times]

Arrests at New York anti-Wall Street protest [Al Jazeera]

Protesters march in Manhattan, criticizing Wall Street [Reuters]

Police crack down on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests [Guardian]

80 arrested as ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest of bank bailouts, mortgage crisis marches in NYC [Washington Post/AP]

Protesters march in Manhattan, criticizing Wall Street, getting arrested [MSNBC]

Dozens arrested in 8th day of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests [CNN]

Police Arrest 80 During ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest [Fox News]

80 ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Arrested [WSJ]

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women [ABC]

Wall St protests: Police harsh, media silent? [RT]

Occupy Wall Street Calm So Far in Ninth Day [Village Voice]

Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense [Amy Goodman]

Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination [David Graeber]

Occupy Wall Street’s Leaderless Democracy [The Indypendent]

11 Things You Can Do to Help the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement [Alternet]

Must Watch: 9/11 first responder occupies Wall Street [evanfleischer]

Check out Occupy Together, a new site listing occupation movements across the country.

Email NY-based journalists and urge them to cover the protest [inothernews]

Watch the Global Revolution livestream.

Follow Evan Fleischer for a steady stream of news from the Occupy Wall Street movement.

[Photo: Alex Fradkin]

Solid digest.

FTP also if I haven’t mentioned that lately.

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