Occupy Long March

Posted on November 22, 2011 by myiq2xu (D)

Washington Post:

The protesters embarked on the 231-mile-trek with a $3,000 check from Occupy Wall Street. But the marchers soon found they didn’t need the money, as they received donations of food and cash, cigarettes and deodorant from local residents and passersby. Occupy movements also sprang up or grew larger in their wake in places such as New Brunswick and Trenton, N.J.

While some of the original 21 marchers dropped out because of missing toenails, shin splints or fevers, new marchers have since joined, so that more than twice as many protesters will arrive in Washington Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the Occupiers intend to hold a “day of action,” to shut down part of the city in protest of the failure by 12 lawmakers to reach a deal that would ease the tax burden on the “99 percent.”

How many dropped out, how many joined, and where did they join?

But wait! There’s more!

Oops..wrong time to Occupy the super committee

A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters have spent the last two weeks marching 230 miles from New York City to the nation’s capitol. A blast “action alert” emailed this morning describes their plans upon arrival in Washington, DC:

Together we will march to McPherson Square where they will hold a press conference at noon, followed by a General Assembly afterwards to discuss the planned actions. Shortly after, they will march to the Capitol to bring the message of the 99% directly to the Super Committee.

One small problem — the “super committee” has already declared failure and gone home. And the House and Senate adjourned last Friday.

For $3000 they could have chartered a bus, rode in comfort, and arrived in time to harass mic check the super committee.

All is not lost. They can spend Thanksgiving shining the batsignal on the Washington Monument. That’ll show Congress!

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42 Responses

  1. Rocky Hussein Squirrel, on November 22, 2011 at 11:37 am said:

    21?

    I only see 10 in that picture.

  2. DeniseVB, on November 22, 2011 at 11:42 am said:

    Obama got heckled in NH….

    http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=105978

    Link has the video, but be sure to read the whole article at The Hill.
    It almost sounded staged, as BO was too quick on his feet. This man never addresses unfriendly crowds.

    • Lola-at-Large, on November 22, 2011 at 12:37 pm said:

      Oh, for fucks sake, The Hill is so stupid. They said it was unclear what the protesters said, but if you listen to the video, they very clearly said:

      “Mic check!” they shouted. “Mr. President, over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our First Amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.”

      About time.

  3. crawdad, on November 22, 2011 at 11:49 am said:

    Occupy 7-11:

  5. HELENK, on November 22, 2011 at 12:05 pm said:

    why is it that the owies seem to have been a day late and dollar short right from the beginning?
    the economic problems they are supposed to be protesting happened three years ago.
    Now the march to DC and are a day late.

    not really up on things are they?

  7. DeniseVB, on November 22, 2011 at 12:14 pm said:

    The WaPo photo-journal is a hoot and must read, here’s a snip:

    Dylan Bozlee, of Hilo, Hawaii, has his foot taped by volunteer EMT David McClintock of Philadelphia at the Occupy Philadelphia encampment at City Hall on Nov. 15. Bozlee dropped out of college at the University of Hawaii to join Occupy, and says he’d rather travel across America than get a job. “Do I want to work? Only if I wanted a home, wife, kids and a dog. If not, I think you’re ruining your life,” he said. Before the march, Bozlee was a member of the Class Warfare camp at Zuccotti Park in New York, where he says he joined other anarchists in teaching passersby about the concept of warfare of the lower classes against the upper class. His inspiration? “When I saw the pepper spraying by Toni Baloney,” or Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, whose spray hit penned-in female protesters.

  8. Lola-at-Large, on November 22, 2011 at 12:28 pm said:

    I dunno, I actually liked this idea. The history of walking campaigns in America is pretty deep, and at least they were heading to the right place for once. I give them props for this one, even if the supercommittee did totally cop out before the deadline.

  9. Bull J. Moose, on November 22, 2011 at 12:28 pm said:

    Damn they’re even stupider than I thought.

  10. HELENK, on November 22, 2011 at 12:30 pm said:

    off topic

    this should be interesting
    Hank Greenberg of AIG is suing the government and the Federal Reserve over the bailout

    http://theulstermanreport.com/2011/11/22/powerful-wall-street-executive-takes-u-s-government-and-federal-reserve-to-court/

    • Lola-at-Large, on November 22, 2011 at 12:32 pm said:

      WTF? Now THAT I can muster some outrage over. That is just fucked up ten ways from Sunday.

  11. HELENK, on November 22, 2011 at 1:12 pm said:

    BREAKING: House panel calls Jon Corzine to testify at MF Global hearing $MF

  12. DeniseVB, on November 22, 2011 at 1:52 pm said:

    Here’s the Fallon sandbags Bachmann story on Hot Air:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/22/video-fallon-sandbags-bachmann-with-lyin-ass-bitch-intro-music/

    I’m not a fan of Bachmann, but this was just mean. It was only recently that booing the First Lady was the end of days……..

  13. votermom, on November 22, 2011 at 2:18 pm said:

    OT: There is another GOP debate tonight. CNN I think.
    I hear it will be Newt vs Wolf Blitzer. :roll:

  14. propertius, on November 22, 2011 at 2:22 pm said:

    Really, myiq, what do you expect from a group that marched all the way from Zuccotti Park to Jamie Dimon’s house and forgot to bring the rope?

  15. Lola-at-Large, on November 22, 2011 at 4:00 pm said:

    Turns out there’s more to the story (on both sides) on that UC Davis thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WO4406KJQMc#!

  16. DandyTiger, on November 22, 2011 at 4:44 pm said:

    Apparently there’s a debate tonight. I think I have to wash my hair. Otherwise I’d love to watch. :)

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