A Athènes, les mêmes slogans que sous la dictature Pour la première fois hier lors de manifestations à Athènes, les plus âgés étaient nombreux dans les cortèges pour exprimer leur désespoir. Avec les plus jeunes, ils ont repris le slogan du temps de la dictature des colonels: "Pain, éducation, liberté". Prochaine épreuve de force: la grève générale du 19 octobre. Une fois encore, les Grecs sont redescendus hier dans la rue. Puis le gros de la troupe, formé des syndicats du public mais aussi ceux des grandes entreprises, l’eau, l’électricité, le gaz, …, toutes les sociétés privatisables dans les semaines à venir. Mais ce sont les autres que l’on remarque : ceux qui sont là pour la première fois, ou alors il y a si longtemps, du temps de leur jeunesse. Cela suffit. Et prenant courage, à l’unisson des autres, quand les forces de l’ordre font mine d’avancer, bien abritées derrière leurs boucliers, ils les houspillent et les sifflent : Valets des pourris, robots sans âme au service des puissants". "Il me reste ma dignité"
#OccupyWallStreet – How to Occupy an Abstraction “What’s good for Goldman Sachs is none of your f**king business.” The occupation isn’t actually on Wall Street, of course. And while there is actually a street called Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, “Wall Street” is more of a concept, an abstraction. So what the occupation is doing is taking over a little (quasi) public square in the general vicinity of Wall Street in the financial district and turning it into something like an allegory. Against the abstraction of Wall Street, it proposes another, perhaps no less abstract story. The abstraction that is Wall Street already has a double aspect. This rentier class is an oligopoly that makes French aristocrats of the 18th century look like serious, well organized administrators. The abstraction that is Wall Street also stands for something else, for an inhuman kind of power, which one can imagine running beneath one’s feet throughout the financial district. A refusal to make demands How can you occupy an abstraction? Keep On Forwarding!
A message from a white-collar worker | OccupyWallSt.org Forum Posted 2 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 5:33 p.m. EST by vamptvo (5) This content is user submitted and not an official statement I recently spoke with a conservative family friend about the #OWS movement. He does IT for a financial company, and told me that he doesn't see a reason to support you guys because when he sees unions for teachers, firefighters, etc. marching, he wonders why no one is supporting him. He asked: "Who's fighting for me?" I ask you that question, #OWS. I told him to go down to Liberty Square and tell his story to somebody, but I know he probably won't do it. Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won't Come From the Ballot Box This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Ana Tijoux, "Shock," just out this week from Chile. It’s about the student protests there, inspired in part by The Shock Doctrine, the book by our next guest, Naomi Klein. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, among the thousands at last night’s Occupy Wall Street protests here in New York was award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein. AMY GOODMAN: Last month, Naomi was in Washington, D.C., where she was arrested along with more than 1,200 other people in a two-week campaign of civil disobedience outside the White House against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada’s tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries. But, Naomi, you came here to New York to Occupy Wall Street, so tell us about what you found. NAOMI KLEIN: Well, it’s just been extraordinary. NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah, yeah. NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah. What do you do for a living? DAN: Yes.
Occupy Wall Street March Gets Massive Turnout; 28 Arrested in Police Crackdown This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: Labor unions and students joined the growing Occupy Wall Street movement on Wednesday in the largest march since the protest began 20 days ago here in New York City. Tens of thousands marched from Foley Square to Liberty Plaza, the site of the protest encampment where hundreds have been sleeping since September 17th. The march was peaceful, but police later beat a handful of protesters with batons after they toppled a police barricade in an attempt to march down Wall Street. Police say a total of 28 people were arrested on Wednesday. AMY GOODMAN: Early this morning, police raided the Occupy San Francisco encampment less than a day after some thousand protesters marched through the city’s financial district. POLICE OFFICER: Well, you better get up. PROTESTER: Let go of him. POLICE OFFICER: Bring her off to the side. AMY GOODMAN: Back here in New York, Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: What happened? WOMAN: Yes.
1000 Protesters Storm Wall St Barricade Occupy Wall Street movement gains support from unions, student groups and community organizers - Bio A beacon in the global alternative media movement, Free Speech Radio News brings independent news, analysis, and commentary to more than 100 affiliate stations across the United States. Transcript JAISAL NOOR, FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS: New York police again mass-arrested protesters with the group Occupy Wall Street [on] Wednesday. End of Transcript DISCLAIMER: Please note that transcripts for The Real News Network are typed from a recording of the program. Comments Our automatic spam filter blocks comments with multiple links and multiple users using the same IP address.
Confronting the Malefactors There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people. When the Occupy Wall Street protests began three weeks ago, most news organizations were derisive if they deigned to mention the events at all. For example, nine days into the protests, National Public Radio had provided no coverage whatsoever. It is, therefore, a testament to the passion of those involved that the protests not only continued but grew, eventually becoming too big to ignore. With unions and a growing number of Democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters, Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point. What can we say about the protests? A weary cynicism, a belief that justice will never get served, has taken over much of our political debate — and, yes, I myself have sometimes succumbed.
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now Published in The Nation. I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. “the human microphone”), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech. I love you. And I didn’t just say that so that hundreds of you would shout “I love you” back, though that is obviously a bonus feature of the human microphone. Yesterday, one of the speakers at the labor rally said: “We found each other.” If there is one thing I know, it is that the 1 percent loves a crisis. And there is only one thing that can block this tactic, and fortunately, it’s a very big thing: the 99 percent. That slogan began in Italy in 2008. “Why are they protesting?” But there are important differences too. Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, has chosen a fixed target. - What we wear.