Thursday, October 20, 2011
News Palling around with occupiers
Posted by Mark Bergen on 10.20.11 at 04:30 PM
Last Saturday, Occupy Chicago had a monumental day—the evening march clocked in at over a thousand, 175 of which ended the night in police custody. Now the group is considering what's next—no one knows what they'll ask for, or where they'll go. Although its size and influence has grown, many members still see their nascent movement shunned by politicians and vilified by the media.
Naturally, they brought in someone familiar with both experiences.
Yesterday afternoon, Bill Ayers, the retired UIC professor and onetime household name, led a "teach-in" with the protesters. He detailed the tactics and history of the Civil Rights movement, drawing analogies to the group before him. "You created power where there was none," the famed agitator said.
Over at the Awl, Abe Sauer documents how Ayers's recent appearance at Occupy Milwaukee stoked the culture war flames:
Bill Ayers is the human wormhole linking those mythical dirty, un-American hippies of the 1960s to the Obama administration to the also-dirty socialists of the rising #occupy movement.
But in his hometown, the "human wormhole" didn't stir a single counter-protester. With a cold, steady rain downtown, yesterday marked the first serious test of what's in store for the Chicago Occupiers. A dozen lingered at their normal spot, but the "teach-in" had mercifully moved to a sheltered walkway across the street, beside the Chicago Board of Trade. And the group abandoned the echoing "people's mic," allowing Ayers to speak naturally to the crowd of 40, who sat in rapture, registering their approval by lifting silent fingers.
"It's critical that you maintain your independence," Ayers told the crowd. He warned them about being co-opted by a larger party, like labor unions or the Democrats. History, he explained, shows his preferred approach to political power. "Martin Luther King didn't go begging for a meeting with Lyndon Johnson," Ayers said. "Lyndon Johnson begged for a meeting with Martin Luther King."
In a way, the protesters have already followed his advice. According to the Tribune, the group turned down Mayor Emanuel's proposition for a meeting, demanding the misdemeanor charges from Saturday's arrest be dropped first.
Thirty minutes in, Ayers's talk hit a snag. A Board of Trade employee, flanked by three security guards, pulled an organizer aside. If the group didn't leave in 15 minutes, he would call the cops. The organizer, Brit Schulte, told me a security officer had allowed them to gather there the day before. "They changed their story," she said. (I asked the Board of Trade guy why they were booted: "This is private property." I asked for his name: "That's not important.")
So the group moved further south, settling in a corner of the Metra station at One Financial Plaza. There, Ayers fielded questions about the Tea Party (he's writing a book on his interactions with their members) and his advice to the movement ("talk to strangers"). Twenty minutes passed, and another security guard showed up. Private property again. Ayers got in a few more words, then the group disbanded.
As we moved between the locations, I ran into Dorothy Conway, a protester I had met three weeks ago. She said the protesting was going smoothly, but with one major annoyance, "We spend a lot of time," she said, "shuffling around to look for a place to peacefully assemble."
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Maybe if Occupy Chicago didn't take a stand of pissing off everyone in their surroundings with incessant banging on buckets, they might not have such a hard time finding a place to assemble.
Great. Maybe this piece of human excrement can teach people how to build bombs to kill cops or soldiers. You supplicant losers will follow anyone, won't you?
OBAMA'S minion! Left-of-left, commie AYERS! Sol Alinsky's soul mates, Obama and Ayers with Van Jones as the sidekick! WE have an evil villan in the White House, out to destroy the base fabric of our GREAT CONSTITUTION! If he's allowed to continue on his warpath to destroy AMERICA, WE, the PEOPLE must rise up and insure HIS DEFEAT!
It's great to see the leftist 'anti-establishment' attacking the left 'establishment', meaning the OWS useful idiots rioting while the 'global socialists' i.e., Obama admin, are in the White House!
The so-called 'progressive' left will eats its own young if it doesn't abort them first.
Global Socialists... i.e., Gazis, are the new Nazis.... and the old Nazis seem to be on the side of the OWS jerks! Sure, these people (on both sides) really know what they are doing. NOT!!!
Bentley_the_Cat
Oh look, it's wingnut teabagger moron apologists for Wall Street morons. Anyone ever told you that the John Birchers were against Wall Street--or do you just regurgitate everything your idols Rush Vicodin, Loofah Felafel, Sean Insanity, Donny Wad, Crybaby Beck and Michael Savage Weenie Burger spew out without thinking for yourself?
Say teabaggers--what's your opinion of African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, non-submissive women, gays and lesbians--as if we didn't already know? And how big is your shrine to your idol ADOLF HITLER?
Hello Democracy Now,
Exactly what connection is there between citizens working hard to be self sufficent (capitalism) and assuming that African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, non-submissive women, gays and lesbians aren't able to benefit from working hard to be self sufficient? I represent several of those categories and have been able to be successful. I'm harding working and relatively smart but I'm not exceptional so why have I been able to be successful when others haven't? Luck? Maybe but there's a lot of long term thinking and hard work in there too. I don't think multimillionaires have made their money at my expense. Why do you?
This guy and his equally unctuous wife should have rotted in jail. Instead, they are hired by Big 10 colleges to spew their anti-American screed. The fact these two terrorists are teaching anyone, let alone young skulls full of mush at colleges, is a disgrace.
To All OWS supporters:
Read: Guess Who's Still Raking In Wall Street Campaign Cash? - Guy Benson
"Once the GOP nominee is unleashed and Wall Street money starts stampeding into the RNC, Democrats will segue effortlessly from months of quietly raking in as much finance cash as they can muster to months of demagoging the GOP as “the party of Wall Street” for having outraised them. Neat trick, that."
"Yup. And guess who will happily promulgate that meme? Well, you know who. So that's your mid-morning shot: President Obama is still swimming in money from the very "fat cats" and "banksters" that his base wants arrested. "
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/201…
They should be in front of the White House, duh......
In Soviet Russia, Wall Street occupies you!
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmein…
You'll be loving it when we TAKE BACK AMERICA and you're on the witness stand at your TREASON TRIAL being interrogated by ATTORNEY GENERAL AND CHIEF PROSECUTOR ANN COULTER before you head to your EXECUTION LIVE ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL, Communist homosexual! So why don't you accept JESUS CHRIST as your PERSONAL SAVIOUR and become part of the WHITE MALE CHRISTIAN PATRIOT MAJORITY NOW? Or even better, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY AMERICA NOW AND GO SEE YOUR BUDDY HUGO IN CARACAS!
In the future, Whenever an American citizen is involved with an attempt to Bomb the buildings of our government. He should be put to DEATH. George Washington would have shot this man himself on the capitol steps. Here he is again agitating.
Just what America needs, another lesson in Communism from a criminal and traitor.
Ayers
http://zombietime.com/prairie_fire/
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Prairie-fire.pdf
Action Required: Evidence + Warning
“OCCUPY Wall Street” is ARAB SPRING in America
http://www.divine-way.com/occupy_wall_stre…
YOUTH ARE DECEIVED AND USED FOR GOVERNMENT OVERTHROW LIKE IN EGYPT, LIBYA, ETC.
Union sign in California parade says:
"From Wisconsin to Libya, Workers of the World Unite, Fight for Communism."
See http://www.divine-way.com/45_communist_goa…
read into Congress in 1963:
#17-19, 42, 36, 37 control of political parties, schools, students, unions, and big business.
Lifelong employment is not freedom; it is glorified slavery.
A garden paradise lifestyle is freedom and healing for man, land, and spirit.
Jesus said, Occupy till I come. IF that is a prophecy, OCCUPY can turn their energy to God's goal of a garden paradise lifestyle that solves the problems we create with lifelong enslavement. They will find a leader and they will succeed.
We will not need to wait for 2012 elections. The whole mindset of America, and the world will change; and God will establish His leader according to His written word in the Bible. That is our eternal security.
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