Watching the revolution go live!
The Boston and Atlanta OWS protests got hit late tonight. How handy for it all to go down at midnight while the rest of the nation is asleep. All the better to keep it off of live TV my dear.
I watched Boston go down on a live stream. It started with a link on Reddit to a twitter entry.
There are a lot of veterans involved with the OWS movement. Which is kinda funny considering how the Republicans are aggressively trashing anyone involved with OWS. I guess we know how they REALLY feel about our troops after all.
I’m sure they’ll be jumping with joy over the news that they got a beat-down at the hands of the riot police last night.
So then I found another link to the live feed.
By the time everyone was cleared out, anything left behind in the chaos was being tossed into trash trucks, never to be seen again.
For a recapped timeline of how it went down and who got beat, check this out.
Imagine how many cameras, phones, laptops, and textbooks got lost. That type of stuff isn’t easily replaced by 99%’ers. I guess the best way to shut down poor people is to hit them in their pocketbooks. It’s worked so far.
The sad thing is, the protesters in Boston had their protest O.K’ed. This should have never happened.
So far tonight, I’ve seen they’ve shut down protests in Boston, St. Louis, and Atlanta. I’ve seen mention of a possible raid in San Francisco tonight. As I write this, they’re trying to figure out if they’re actually going to raid the park in Seattle.
I’ve seen a lot of these show up on live feeds tonight.
Something tells me, the more they shut these protests down, the more new protesters will be joining the cause.
Every corporate shill this side of the pond is frothing mad at the OWS movement. But for every one of them, it’s looking like there are more than a handful of OWS supporters. Even Fox News is shaking in it’s boots over this.
It’s clear now that OWS isn’t going to be another town hall meeting that can be shouted into submission. The 99% will not go lightly into that good night.
To quote Mr. Universe: “You can’t stop the signal!”
My news comes on in 30 minutes. Democracy now/Amy Goodman will cover this I am certain. Mostly i don’t try to keep informed about it online. Mostly videos which I can’t watch.
The reaction to the Police violence at OWS was more people came out and it spread. I’m sure the same will happen in these places.
No arrests here in Seattle last night, but i am appalled by what I saw there in Boston. Here, the police made threats, letting the people know tht they “could” be arrested. See, the mayor keeps insisting that we move the protests to a different part of Downtown, to City Hall Plaza, about a mile away. That would pretty much go against the whole point of “occupying”… Occupy where they tell us it’s okay? Why not just make it “occupy your couch!”.