Thread: Occupy Dreamviews

Originally Posted by knight31

I'm impressed they manage to build anything with that tin material. I even see windows. How did they know that when they didn't go to school or anything, and where did they get the tin from? Pretty resourceful.

Necessity is the other of invention. And yes it is depressing. Their literally living in the rich people's rubbish.
I watched a documentary a while ago where this Brazillian artist was working with the poor people in Rio doing portraits.
These people work in the tips, separating rubbish from recyclable materials. Instead of just having recycling bins, they have poor people do it.
They actually find food in the rubbish and cook up meals with it. They say sometimes they find babies thrown out and stuff like that.
They make jokes about the rich people being civilised.

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Are you saying that you'd rather be paying 5 figure tuitions towards a degree that is essential in the job market? Is that reasonable, fair?

What....?

Not even Harvard is a 5 figure tuition
Harvard College Admissions § Financial Aid: Cost of Attendance

Check your facts.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

What....?

Not even Harvard is a 5 figure tuition
Harvard College Admissions § Financial Aid: Cost of Attendance

Check your facts.

You just linked me to a page that clearly shows a five figure tuition ($36,305)...

Originally Posted by Spartiate

You just linked me to a page that clearly shows a five figure tuition ($36,305)...

Derp, I thought you meant 6 figures. My mistake.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

I thought you meant 6 figures.

How did you mistake 5 for 6 when you quoted "5 figures," and then typed it out again...

Originally Posted by GavinGill

How did you mistake 5 for 6 when you quoted "5 figures," and then typed it out again...

And anyway, there are many courses which cost over $100,000. Or if you want to include courses where you would need more than one degree to even have a chance at a job in that field, there are even more.

I think the riot police are jealous because they just wanna chill >:/

lol seriously wtf? Are they honestly arresting them for meditating?

The guy on the right looks exactly like my ninth grade Social Studies teacher. ._.

So, any updates, thoughts from you guys? I hear the police are "cracking down" and getting even more aggressive... where do you think this is heading? Also, congress is killing more jobs and not listening to the demands of the movement at all, which pisses me off. The good news I guess is that lots of people are pissed and calling NYPD to express their outrage about the raids.

I'm not sure about everywhere else, but the Occupy here in Melbourne has pretty much dwindled to a small group of people. Probably only 20 or so max, from what I've seen.

How's it goin' for your area? (Directed to anyone who wishes to answer).

Thankfully we have a relatively unbiased news station here and they had some person on saying that they interviewed people from Occupy Melbourne and found that "they pretty much all have very clear and concise views on what they're protesting about, despite how they're being portrayed in the media", and that "most of them are not school/college kids or typical anti-establishment types".

Found this good video, RussiaToday is the best!
Apparently major things planned for the 17th

I was in San Francisco and there were about 30 or 40 tents in two seperate locations. In oakland there looked to be 50 or more tents. There were a lot of people there that night because there had been a shooting in the area and the cops were using it as an excuse to intimidate the encampment; there were about 15 cops cars, 2 or 3 hovering helicopters and 2 circling planes. The number of people who participated in the general assembly looked to be about 30 or a little more but some were just people who came because of all of the police activity. I haven't been down to the San Diego encampment yet but I'm going to check it out maybe today or tomorrow.

In New York, the occupiers were granted a restraining order against the police and the city so that they can return to the park after they were forcefully evicted by riot cops and bulldozers at 1am tuesday morning.

this video I think sums it all up

Even better
5 minutes 30 just.... MASSIVE facepalm....

Well it is Batman

I just hope the there are enough people who can keep everyone together, make them realize that the occupations are not a movement, but signify the START of a movement.

The occupy movement has thus far created an effective framework for getting people together for organized action, it has had enough impact to become a common term on most mainstream media outlets, and it has brought together a large number of people. The occupations themselves are bound to end. From here, we now need to use them as a springboard for a total political movement, to get as many people as possible behind the primary goals of the occupy movement, because only with a sufficiently large group moving together can we hope to rework our government and our ideas thereof in the ways that are necessary to protect our own best interests.

This movement must be modeled in a way that it can grow and continue indefinitely.

Pretty good video

Since when was there police brutality at the UK protests?

There's only 50 or so people there anyway, that's why they don't receive much media coverage, though there are things on the BBC website quite often and it's been in the papers plenty.

I wasn't talking about the riots, I was talking about the current protests. I thought you meant the situation was going from one extreme to the other in the UK.

The UC Davis info has been finally leaked.


Don't bother calling him, his voicemail is already full, I tried I wanted to ask him if he could recite the first amendment

Lol yeah his dox got all over facebook last week

Didn't even hear about that one. Video somewhere?

Warning: Disturbing Brutality

Whoever that was a while ago in another police brutality thread... still think cops shouldn't have some education on law?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It's not even an obscure low, it's the first amendment. A cop who knew the law, wouldn't have done that and his job/pension wouldn't be in jeopardy (I think he should loose both.) The school has called for a review of police action on their campus due to it. The president of the university claimed that it was called for because linking arms is not peaceful protesting