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| 1 | | "No war, but class war! Eat the rich, smash the state!"
| 1 | | "Occupying the Future, Starting at the Roots
On Earth Day—April 22, 2012—about 200 people, accompanied by children in strollers, dogs, rabbits, chickens, and carrying hundreds of pounds of compost and at least 10,000 seedlings entered a 14-acre piece of land containing the last Class I agricultural soil in the East Bay. Located on the Albany-Berkeley border in the Bay Area, the plot is owned by the University of California Berkeley. By the end of the day, they had weeded, tilled, and successfully cultivated about an acre of the land. By May 14, when 100 University of California riot police surrounded the tract and began arresting the farmers, Occupy the Farm had cultivated around five acres of the plot known as the Gill Tract.
… From the 1940s through the 1990s, research conducted at the Gill Tract laid the groundwork for successful, non-chemical and non-petroleum-based methods for controlling numerous major insect pests on several California crops, and for the integration of biological, chemical, and cultural methods of pest control.5 The innovative methods developed, shared, and refined at the International Center for Biological Control included intercropping6 and using bugs to control pests in addition to or in place of pesticides, and means to reduce overall chemical dependency and prevent the development of superbugs in industrial and community agriculture worldwide.“Farmland is for farming.”
—Gopal Dayaneni
The turning point came in 1998, when Novartis gave $25 million to the Plant and Microbial Biology department to conduct genetic research on the land. “They kicked off the local organic pest management project to do gene research,” says Ulan McKnight of the Albany Farm Alliance. “What was here before directly benefitted the people of California; now what they do here directly benefits biotechnology companies. Instead of doing things that can help people, they are doing things that benefit the one percent.”
Among the projects closed down at the time was a seed bank of rare heirloom varieties of many important food crops, and a state-of-the-art drip irrigation system from a student-run urban sustainable agriculture demonstration plot. Until the water was cut off at the Tract, the Occupy farmers were planning to start using those irrigation tubes again.
… David Naguib Pellow, another movement scholar-activist and a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, observes, “Every [public] university I’ve worked at, professors are encouraged to secure external funding for their research to alleviate state budget constraints. This often involves seeking resources from corporations and foundations that have little or no accountability to the public, which amounts to the privatization of ideas, knowledge, and the commons, and is a dangerous trend if we desire to live in a democratic society.”
http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-05-17/occupying-future-starting-roots
| 1 | | Brought to you by Occupy USA:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/fbi/fbi-informant-infiltrated-occupy-movement-758348
It’s not as if they were really planning on blowing things up or killing people.
Or is it?
| 1 | | An excellent treatise:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/8-reasons-why-todays-occupiers-are-tomorrows-tea-partiers/
| 1 | | I feel sorry for the law abiding citizens of Oakland. They’ll get stuck with the bill again for these protesters intent on destroying their city one more time. Oakland MayorJean Quan might have the distinction of being the worst mayor in the US, and that’s quite a distinction considering the competition. Good luck Tuesday to the citizens of Oakland, Portland, DC, and NYC. Stay safe, police officers.
| 0 | | May Day, May Day, May Day. All stations be on the look-out for the Ship of State, taking on water, and without rudder. May Day, May Day, May Day!
| 0 | | Let’s see if the following post remains up, or is lost somewhere in cyberspace.
Oakland police alters crowd-control policy due to Occupy protests
"A week before a scheduled May Day protest by Occupy movement demonstrators, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan on Monday announced what he said were major reforms in department crowd-control tactics after injuries and widespread use of tear gas last fall sparked international outrage and triggered hundreds of abuse complaints.
The announcement of the shifting approach – which largely involves improved training, the use of small groups of officers to isolate troublemakers and clearer dispersal orders before arrest - also comes as the monitors of a decade-long federal consent decree are expected to release a report on the department’s handling of Occupy protests.
Furthermore, the city in December hired an independent expert to review the department’s Occupy response. And a federal lawsuit is pending over its use of projectiles and mass arrest tactics in the weeks after the City Hall Occupy encampment was razed last fall."
| 1 | | EDITOR:
Some of my posts appear to be missing; i.e., many peakoil thread posts, and a recent OWS post that Invictus just replied to.
Maybe I’m blind.
| 1 | | Childofsol — you mean that those pro-business conservatives did all that without staging riots, occupations, rapes, drug-ins, crap-outs, hollering at the locals, and vandalism? They didn’t even use drums?
Awesome.
| 1 | | The St. Louis Tea Party will be holding a candlelight vigil for all the rape, assault, and murder victims of the recent occupy performances.
Bring your own candle (don’t demand the gov’t and 1% provide one for you) and clean up after yourself (don’t leave it to the locals to deal with yer crap).
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This might smell better and not leave their life changing protest for Spring Break!
| 1 | | They are just expressing their "constitutional" right to dump crap and piss…..
| 0 | | As the following author states, this legislation should alarm anyone concerned about the further erosion of 1st Amendment rights, regardless of party affiliation.
This is thinly-veiled anti-OWS legislation. If Obama signs it into law, he’ll lose a significant portion of his support base.
| 1 | | In some ways, the occupy movement and tea party are two sides of the same middle/working class coin.
Kudos to Occupy Nashville for "getting" that.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/30/9097482-tale-of-a-southern-occupy-nashville-aims-to-bridge-political-divides#.T06x02lQjWM.email
| 1 | | Those of us who bothered to research the roots and instigators of the OWSing movements understood early on that this was really a gigantic prank…. pulled on the participants. In practical application, it served as cover for a nationwide crime wave of idiot vandals and thieves.
The prank worked beautifully in its epic failure.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/oakland-occupiers-charged-in-robbery-hate-crime.php
| 0 | | | 1 | | On second view of the video, the surrounding crowd appears to be pro-life supporters. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the NPS is using different sets of rules for different sets of protesters. They have no problem with $60-a-day-paid-for-protesters smokin’ pot and harassing other citizens, but watch out for those dangerous folks on their knees praying.
Maybe these protesters would have gotten a pass if they had brought prayer rugs and faced Mecca.
| 0 | | This video disgusts me. This video is as indicative of any that I’ve seen about the hypocrisy of the legal reaction to Occupiers. In DC, the National Park Service has hemmed and hawed for months about removing Occupy camps that have been destroying public parks, disturbing neighborhoods, and disrupting conservative political gatherings. In the end, the NPS has done nothing at all, except to relocate an infestation of rats across the state line, into Virginia.
Here is a video of a couple of pro-life protesters getting arrested for praying at the White House gate. They are surrounded by a crowd of suddenly docile Occupy protesters.
| 0 | | I love that guy! He’s a sharp slap of reality.
| 1 | | Social Democracy…..it sounds good in theory, but look at the result. Greece burns with massive benifit cuts, angry mobs and freedom lost. Open your eyes America. The me, me , me mentality finally bit them in the ass. Now Greece stands in grave danger, people bowing to officials not even elected, but rather appointed by other governments. This couldn’t possibly happen to us, could it?
What lengths will Greeks go to in order to feel safe and secure? I am willing to bet that they will sacrifice all of their freedom, just as I stated in previous posts.
Just today, Al Gore along with David Blood, senior partner of ‘green’ fund firm Generation Investment Management announced that they are working on ways to change capitalism. Sustainable capitalism is the stated goal (what the hell is that). These guys are so open about what they are trying to do to the world, and yet most just can’t believe it. Our Global Neighborhood, that is the goal. If you think that it will never happen here, think again, it already is starting. OWS are nothing more than the village idiots unknowingly doing the bidding of these Greenie Power Mongers. Poor misguided youth driven by idealistic academics. Neither group has much experience in the "Real World".
WAKE UP AMERICA.