Yep, they claimed it as "our property". But you'll still have people say they aren't against private property/rights.
One of the founding principles of communism is the abolition of private property. Connect the damn dots.
If you'd have said that there wasn't very much damage and the police chief radically and unfairly overestimated the damage i'd have agreed with you, but the building looks like it's in good enough physical shape to be reopened some time in the future when they find tenants.
lets hope this militant liberalism keeps going right up to election day. Let the voters know who the obama's base really is. Squatters at best.
Idiotic post.
Yes, let's just get rid of the middle class and have all billionares and poor. Good plan.
The sad fact is that I brought up Kalle Lasn and his colleagues' roles VERY early in this thread, yet folks like airdata never even bothered to look him up or fully understand the movement.
I'm looking forward to his response to the New Yorker article, but only if he bothers to read the entire thing...
So today's the day they shut down the ports on the west coast. Will there be violence from the protesters? It could get ugly as it turns out even the Longshoreman union are not associating with their shutdown.
When your biggest supporters, unions, start distancing themselves from you maybe you should evaluate if attempting to shut down commerce and affect people's jobs is a good idea.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...ccupyports4thldwritethru.html?syndication=rss
"Kari Koch, organizer with Shut Down the Ports Working Group of Occupy Portland, said by shutting down the port, Wall Street will be unable to create profit.
"We will not stand for corporate profits at the expense of working people, we will not stand for attacks on workers, and we will not allow our schools to be closed, social services slashed, and families to be impoverished by your greed!" Koch said Monday in statement.
Organizers hope to draw thousands to stand in solidarity with longshoremen and port truckers they say are being exploited.
"Taking on and blocking the 1 percent at the port is also taking on the global issue of exploitation by capitalism," said Occupy Oakland blockade organizer Barucha Peller.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents many thousands of longshoremen up and down the West Coast, has distanced itself from the shutdown effort. The union's president suggested in a letter to members that protesters were attempting to co-opt the union's cause to advance their own agenda"
So today's the day they shut down the ports on the west coast. Will there be violence from the protesters? It could get ugly as it turns out even the Longshoreman union are not associating with their shutdown.
When your biggest supporters, unions, start distancing themselves from you maybe you should evaluate if attempting to shut down commerce and affect people's jobs is a good idea.
Dear Mom and Dad,
We had a very important day today. We blocked a major port for two hours. That'll show those evil Wall Street capitalists! I hope you understand now why I can't buy you Christmas presents. It isn't that I don't love you, it's just that capitalism is evil and it would betray my anarchist beliefs. Oh, and while we were celebrating our defeat of capitalism with a big dooby and some non-gender specific sex, someone stole my iphone and MacBook again, so you'll need to replace them.
Love in Marx,
your son and/or daughter (haven't decided yet)
But, but, but, you had OWS supporters here clamoring it was NOT an anti-capitalist movement?
Remember, one of the founding principles of communism is to end capitalism.
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So the "progressives" here still can't explain why they are using a Goldman Sachs company to protest Goldman Sachs.
Is this regarding your previous statement about Facebook?
This is the same as the whole " They're using an iphone to call a samsung phone, they're wearing clothes !!" argument, which is just dumb.
Plus alot of people using facebook probably have no idea. It's simply a tool. Other protesters have used twitter and facebook to organize. If you expect them to not utilize the most powerful tools they can and instead use smoke signals, you're just ignorant.
I'm not here to defend the actions of random people I don't know.. Just to point out that you guys are the ones keeping this thread rolling. You are the 99%.
I'm still waiting to hear your thoughts on the New Yorker article that thoroughly profiled the OWS puppet masters; as well as the revelation (for you) that Anonymous had nothing to do with creating it.Is this regarding your previous statement about Facebook?
This is the same as the whole " They're using an iphone to call a samsung phone, they're wearing clothes !!" argument, which is just dumb.
Plus alot of people using facebook probably have no idea. It's simply a tool. Other protesters have used twitter and facebook to organize. If you expect them to not utilize the most powerful tools they can and instead use smoke signals, you're just ignorant.
I'm not here to defend the actions of random people I don't know.. Just to point out that you guys are the ones keeping this thread rolling. You are the 99%.