Words fail. You really have to listen to this guy explain how the OWS drummers think.
Gothamist:
Drummers At Occupy Wall Street Demand $8,000 At General Assembly
Last night’s General Assembly meeting in Zuccotti Park was “one of most contentious ever,” in large part due to a heated debate over whether the drummers at Occupy Wall Street should be given $8,000 from the movement’s coffers to buy more drums and equipment. It seems some of the drums were stolen or vandalized, and the drummers asked the General Assembly to help them regroup. “We have worked for you! Appreciate us,” one drummer told the crowd, but the appeal was denied, and the Huff Post’s Craig Kanalley tweeted, “Drummer who didn’t get money from GA tonight now yelling, cursing at members of GA.” Meanwhile, another member of the drum corps was lashing out at the Community Board meeting.
“I am an occupier, I am a drummer, and, despite what they say, I am also a human being,” Ashley Love, a young member of the OWS People of Color Working Group, told the packed Community Board meeting last night. Mother Jones reports that Love was met with booing when she informed the locals, “It’s primarily a commercial area; not too many people live there. The majority of the drummers are people of color with low-income or no-income backgrounds, and Wall Street was built by slaves when they brought the Africans over here. The council people back then prohibited drumming because it was a way of protesting. It was a way of communication. And I just think you guys are scapegoating us.”
Hmmmm. Something seems to be missing. What could it be?
The Crawdad Hole 
Did he just use consensus as a verb? “Consensed?”
Consense we much?
It is technically a word, but I just find their fascination with their shiny new lingo completely hilarious.
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Why don’t they just play drum sounds from their ubiquitous iPods?
Input from the neighbors?
Good sense and courtesy, perhaps?
Enough already with these fucking assholes.
Che cazzo!
Hot Air:
Exactly. Wonder when (if?) the occupiers will figure that out?
What Love needs is a good lobbyist to work the assembly and get that money for drums. Thats how its done.
He could get more than just the money. Love can get the drumming regulations written to suit his and his buddies’ schedules, and screw and penalize any competing drummers who are not part of their “drummers group”, if he knows who on the committee to grease.
7 images that make the occupiers cry
http://pajamasmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/10/21/seven-images-that-will-make-the-occupiers-cry/?singlepage=true
“Something seems to be missing. What could it be?”
Teleprompters? If they all had teleprompters then they’d know what they stand for.
And these guys wonder why people don’t take them seriously.
They are already operating just about as efficiently as the U.S. congress.
I don’t think they grasp the problem. They are the problem.
Yes, some mean well, but they have no understanding of strategy or effective tactics.
djmm