Posts tagged ows
“Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job done! The power of reason is no match for Defense Technology’s superior repression power. When I reach for my can of Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray, I know that even the mighty First Amendment doesn’t stand a chance against its many scoville units of civil rights suppression.
When I feel threatened by students, no matter how unarmed, peaceful and seated they may be, I know that Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray has got my back as I casually spray away at point blank range. It really is the Cadillac of citizen repression technology. Buy a whole case!”
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions, and her prayers. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and by the benignant sympathy of her example.
—John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821.
Police arrest about 70 protesters in a nighttime raid of Zuccotti Park. Hundreds of police, some in riot gear, cleared the park over the span of three hours. Protesters will apparently be allowed to return, but with no tents, and I’m assuming no intention of mass encampment.
Above are photos of an officer clashing with a few protesters. Many of the protesters resisted the raid, some chaining themselves to trees. All photos taken by Don Emmert/AFP/Getty.
There is little in the current cinematic landscape that matches or evokes the anger and the sense of injustice that have galvanized the protesters at Occupy Wall Street and its proliferating offshoots. You know things are bleak when people are positioning the financial-crisis indie thriller “Margin Call” as a movie of the moment.
Perhaps it will take time, but while we’re waiting, class warriors and curious bystanders alike might want to check out Travis Wilkerson’s “An Injury to One,” one of American independent cinema’s great achievements of the past decade, just issued on DVD by Icarus Films.
Jeff Mangum at Occupy Wall Street. Amazing.
on the morning of the first eviction
they carried out the wishes of the landlord and his son
furniture’s out on the sidewalk next to the family
that little piggie went to market
so they’re kicking out everyone
talking about process and desmissal
forced removal of the people on the corner shelter and location
everybody wants somewhere
the elected are such willing partners
look who’s buying all their tickets to the game
development wants, development gets
it’s official
development wants this neighborhood gone
so the city just wants the same
talking about process and dismissal
forced removal of the people on the corner shelter and location
everybody wants somewhere
Damn straight.
