On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Roberts < nicholas at themediasociety.org> wrote:
> does Occupy Oakland really exist as a movement anymore?
>
> it seems the Occupy Oakland coalition (the 40 000 people) that did the
> general strike where alienated by the property damage, fake militancy and
> loose behavior of the black bloc Black Bloc... the predictable police
> repression on that night even had a near fatality, *Kayvan Sabeghi*
> *
> *
> *then the arrogance of the inner circle of Occupy Oaklands favorite
> "anarchists" and the poor planning and research on the port shut down
> brought out a couple of thousand (pretty big drop from 40000) and alienated
> the labor movement, one of the only social unions left in the US*
> *
> *
> *then, at the Commonwealth Club, the "anarchists" gave the soft progressive
> mayor the proverbial finger and alienated the remaining liberals and anyone
> who believes in the possibility of representational democracy*
> *
> *
> *now, what is Occupy Oakland ? its nothing but a sickly activist organ that
> is weak and slow enough for the slow anatomical murder of any academic
> specimen *
> *
> *
> *I guess it will be pickled and put in a jar up at John Yoo University (UC
> Berkeley) and we can all bicker or praise as one sees fit*
> *
> *
> *and then, there is reality, not a media spectacle, but real democracy,
> real power, real institutions*
> *
> *
> *not a media sensation, but hard and soft power of everyday things*
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> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:52 AM, <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:
>
> > 4. activistist boots riley channels comrade cox (shag carpet bomb)
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