to move up and down
Pulp Poetry
Scraps of fascination are the building blocks of an interesting life.
General strike. Occupy your city. Occupy your home. Occupy your heart.
Let Us Build A New Nation
“Let’s build a government that serves the interest of property owners. We’ll fight on their behalf against their oppressors, for promises of trinkets, fine speeches, and honest work. One that keeps all women, all non-whites, and poor whites outside the power structure as much as possible….”
Bank of America’s ATM (Automated Truth Machine)
Bank of America Automated Truth Machine Prank in San Francisco
A protester and a cop, just talking about issues. Human connections, fuck yeah!
Occupy talks with Oakland PD about NDAA
This is amazing stuff. The sergeant seems genuinely surprised that NDAA passed. He also seems genuinely surprised when the protestors tell him what some of his officers had done not an hour earlier. Maybe there is hope.
This is exactly how interactions between any protester and police officers should be held. Even the Sergeant was worried when these people saw the riot cops moving in, the officer reassured them that they were having a civil conversation (“Hehehe I’m talking with ya!”) Awesome video.
To do all that, in the complex conditions of control in the United States, would require combining the energy of all previous movements in American history—of labor insurgents, black rebels, Native Americans, women, young people—along with the new energy of an angry middle class. People would need to begin to transform their immediate environments—the workplace, the family, the school, the community—by a series of struggles against absentee authority, to give control of these places to the people who live and work there.
These struggles would involve all the tactics used at various times in the past by people’s movements: demonstrations, marches, civil disobedience; strikes and boycotts and general strikes; direct action to redistribute wealth, to reconstruct institutions, to revamp relationships; creating—in music, literature, drama, all the arts, and all the areas of work and play in everyday life—a new culture of sharing, of respect, a new joy in the collaboration of people to help themselves and one another.
There would be many defeats. But when such a movement took hold in hundreds of thousands of places all over the country, it would be impossible to suppress because the very guards the system depends on to crush such a movement would be among the rebels. It would be a new kind of revolution, the only kind that could happen, I believe, in a country like the United States. It would take enormous energy, sacrifice, commitment, patience. But because it would be a process over time, starting without delay, there would be the immediate satisfactions that people have always found in the affectionate ties of groups striving together for a common goal.
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You Have Left Home. Welcome to Life.
OccupyCompassion
Violence starts in the heart. It starts in fear and hate. People are afraid of what we are doing. We are breaking the system as they know it. That is terrifying. Many will fight us out of that fear.
