What happened to Riverdaughter?

For several months Riverdaughter at The Confluence was a vocal advocate of Occupy Wall Street. Yesterday was the long-advertised reboot of OWS, with demonstrations planned across the country. So where was Riverdaughter? She didn’t do any posts promoting yesterday’s activities. She didn’t travel to Zuccotti Park to live-blog the events. She didn’t even mention OWS. [...]

They’re ba-ack!

Daily Beast: It’s mere days from what Occupy Wall Street organizers say will be one of their biggest protests yet, and the people down in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s Financial District are hopping mad. Well, at least they’re hopping. On the afternoon of April 27 in the park, one Occupier called out a signal, and [...]

Eat the rich

Angry about inequality? Don’t blame the rich. There is no doubt that incomes are unequal in the United States — far more so than in most European nations. This fact is part of the impulse behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members claim to represent the 99 percent of us against the wealthiest 1 [...]

Occupy this guy

Glenzilla: The new WH Chief of Staff and Citigroup Yesterday, the White House announced Daley’s departure — he will now co-chair Obama’s re-election campaign, which basically means raising huge amounts of money from his Wall Street friends — and unveiled his replacement as Chief of Staff: Jacob Lew. In 2010, Lew became head of the [...]

Occupy Iowa

Occupy Iowa: We aren’t trying to disrupt caucuses The headquarters for the Occupy Iowa Caucuses movement is a spacious, coffee-shop like warehouse on one of the main streets of downtown Des Moines, where laid-back protesters mingle amid signs reading “Mitt – get bank $ out of elections” and “Give us liberty from corporate greed!” On [...]

Wall Street Occupies The White House

Kevin D. Williamson: Not far from Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street was fragrantly encamped, I noticed a young man wandering into a store to buy a pack of cigarettes on a bright Saturday morning, wearing blue jeans, a T-shirt, and a $237,000 Vacheron-Constantin watch. In a world of $600,000 cars (consult your local Maybach [...]

Occupy Christmas song

I am not moving out of this basement until I get an iPhone and a car! This is an open thread.

Infidels and heretics

GOP senator says Tea Party challenges ‘killed off’ efforts at Republican majority Sen. Dick Lugar (Ind.) facing a primary contest from the right in his reelection bid said past Tea Party-backed challenges had “killed off” Republican efforts to take the Senate in the past and could undermine a GOP majority again in 2012. “A Republican [...]

Freak-a-leek

John W. Smart: THE FREAK SHOW [...] It also helps Obama that the GOP primary race induces one cringe after another. I do not remember a contested race on either side which produced so many embarrassing candidates. Does anyone? Every cycle brings us nonsense and joke candidates. But this year the GOP seems hell-bent on [...]

Newt Gingrich should hire these guys

Occupy protesters heckle Newt Gingrich at Iowa event In an ornate room of the golden-domed Iowa Capitol building this morning, Newt Gingrich stepped before cameras to thank two state House speakers for their endorsements. Kraig Paulsen of Iowa and William O’Brien of New Hampshire had just given their blessings to his quest for the Republican [...]

OWS & Crony Capitalists – A love story

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Inside the mind of an Obot turned OWSer

From christofpierson at Tragic Farce: Middle of the Road Rage I’m really, really not interested in the “Who’s better/more progressive/more electable/ more presidential: Hillary or Barack?” debate. From my perspective, this is irrelevant to present realities, no matter how endlessly fascinating the question may be for some. It honestly never was a useful discussion for [...]

True colors

President Obama goes on fundraising blitz through Manhattan President Obama went on a buckraking blitz through the city Wednesday, tapping wealthy donors at three coffer-boosting fundraisers. Obama told raucous supporters he needed another term to fulfill the promise of his 2008 campaign–and to put Americans back to work. “It’s time for us to refocus and [...]

The Final Occupation

Looks like Occupy La La Land is over: Occupy L.A.: Police begin dismantling encampment Hundreds of Los Angeles Police Department officers have deployed onto downtown streets to clear out the Occupy L.A. camp on the lawn of City Hall. Columns of officers were seen swarming from several direction around City Hall and began to remove [...]

Occupy boring

I was looking through the latest stories about the Occupiers and I came to the realization that they are no longer newsworthy. In fact, they’re boring. The Occupations that remain are essentially homeless encampments and the occasional small protests would not even be local news if it weren’t for the “Occupy” name. Mocking them is [...]

Occupy Anarchy

Ever wonder about the insistence that OWS has no leaders, agenda or goals? Matthew Continetti: But they might as well be talking to rocks. Both left and right have made the error of thinking that the forces behind Occupy Wall Street are interested in democratic politics and problem solving. The left mistakenly believes that the [...]

DeOccupyXmas

Demonstrators Plan to Occupy Retailers on Black Friday Some demonstrators are planning to occupy retailers on Black Friday to protest “the business that are in the pockets of Wall Street.” Organizers are encouraging consumers to either occupy or boycott retailers that are publicly traded, according to the Stop Black Friday website. Verum Serum: Good idea. [...]

Occupy Long March

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 [...]

Killing the Golden Goose

Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12 Proposal for a Coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown, Passed With Unanimous Consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly 11/18/2012: In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation: Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption [...]

Occupy Post-Mortem

I keep seeing people making statements like this one from Katrina vanden Heuvel: But Occupy is a protest movement — one that has transformed the landscape of politics, by forcing the country to face the reality of entrenched inequality and power and address what should be done about it. Seriously? I guess that’s not as [...]