“Civil disobedience will not be tolerated,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told the local Fox News affiliate in an interview early Tuesday.
Photo: Occupy Boston protestors stand on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts October 11, 2011. (Adam Hunger/Reuters)
For weeks now, mainstream media outlets, and some in the movement itself, have struggled with one pervading question about the Occupy Wall Street protesters who began gathering in Zuccotti Square on September 17: What do they want?
It’s very clear, after all, what they don’t want: That is, they don’t want the economic or social status quo to continue unabated.
But now, there may be something approaching consensus emerging, at least via the movement’s Tumblr blog and guerrilla PR team.
On Sunday, prolific ecofinance blogger and Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal, akaRortybomb, posted an eye-opening analysis of the movement’s ideology based entirely on the wording of protesters’ signs that appear in the Tumblr blog’s photos.
Konczal explained his methdology as follows:
“I created a script designed to read all of the pages and parse out the html text on the site. It doesn’t read the images (can anyone in the audience automate calls to an OCR?), just the html text. After collecting all the text on all the pages, the code then goes through it to try to find interesting points.”Read more click above link
In South Korea, the movie ‘Crucible’ has brought a long-forgotten rape case to light. It is based on the true story of disabled children who were continuously raped by school officials for five years; the offenders however, walked away from the courtroom nearly unscathed.
As MoJo’s Nick Baumann puts it: “Brown’s comment might seem hilarious to your average bro, but elections aren’t won by bros alone.” And thank goodness for that.
The 419Positive Project invites Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to “Say Something Positive” in an ambitious search for four hundred and nineteen positive attributes of Nigerians and Nigeria.
1. Where are all these people being held?
2. Those who are still in lockup will be there until Monday, as there are no arraignments in NYC on Sundays.
3. I wish they found a protester to quote who isn’t at an Ivy League graduate school. She chose to go there.
Yeah. Regarding 1: according to the NYT reporter who was arrested earlier today, “I got let go. After hours on police bus. Most ppl still handcuffed on buses. Trying to find space for us in precincts.”
According to AP, NYPD gave citations for disorderly conduct and let go a majority of protesters.
(Source: brooklynmutt)
1. Where are all these people being held?
2. Those who are still in lockup will be there until Monday, as there are no arraignments in NYC on Sundays.
3. I wish they found a protester to quote who isn’t at an Ivy League graduate school. She chose to go there.
Yeah. Regarding 1: according to the NYT reporter who was arrested earlier today — and posted this an hour ago — “I got let go. After hours on police bus. Most ppl still handcuffed on buses. Trying to find space for us in precincts.”
(Source: brooklynmutt)
“Excuse me,” she said to a man in a tan raincoat. “Would you like a copy of The Occupied Wall Street Journal?”
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WSJ:
NEW YORK—Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. bank by assets, plans to charge customers a $5 monthly fee for making debit-card purchases starting early next year, according to an internal memo sent to bank executives Thursday. [more]
I’m speechless.
Seem to remember rumblings of a similar fee elsewhere. No matter. This is a bad idea for many reasons.
