There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.~ kornbluth/the-police-riot-at-berkel_b_1091208.html
It’s easy being pro-life…
The Rage Against the Machine guitarist went on to perform a four-song set for hundreds of onlookers, including a poignant, protester-fueled rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.” (via Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street: ‘Take It Easy, but Take It’ | Music News | Rolling Stone)
Live streaming at La Defense, Paris: police charged the crowd and destroyed every single tent. At least one person has been badly hurt and evacuated. People yelling “we’ll be there tomorrow!” and “we’re pacifists!”.
Demonstrators hold up signs showing solidarity with “Occupy Oakland,” urging President Barack Obama to intervene on behalf of the people, and echoing the generation-old meme, “Fuck the police.” (via Egyptians march in solidarity with ‘Occupy Oakland’ | The Raw Story)
Occupy Oakland was raided by police officers using gas, rubber bullets, mass arrests and yet there was no resistance by the protesters. Nothing strange here, nothing at all. (via Nothing Strange here, Nothing at all.)
The Occupy Jakarta group comprises university lecturers, non-government organisation activists and people working in the arts. They expressed the view that Indonesia has unknowingly been coopted by capitalist economic ideas like the US. According to the protesters, capitalism has derailed the course of national development as mandated by the 1945 Constitution and has created sharp disparities between owners of capital and the working class or the majority of ordinary people.~ [Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières] Occupy Indonesia has started and continues
Occupy Wall Street: “They don’t really seem to know why they are protesting.”
“Wall Street has the real weapons of mass destruction.”
Occupy Wall Street (par mar is sea Y)
“I think outside my box!”
Occupy Wall Street (par mar is sea Y)
Vous vous êtes engagés à la non-violence. Vous avez refusé de donner aux médias ces images de fenêtres cassées ou de batailles de rue qu’ils attendent si désespérément. Et cette prodigieuse discipline signifie que, toujours, l’histoire retiendra la brutalité policière scandaleuse et injustifiée. Une brutalité que nous n’avons pas seulement vu la nuit dernière. Pendant ce temps, le soutien au mouvement grandit de plus en plus. Plus de sagesse.~ Naomi Klein : « Le mouvement Occupons Wall Street est actuellement la chose la plus importante au monde » - Mobilisations - Basta !
Soldiers occupy Wall Street.