3 Responses to “General Assembly”

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   Flickr: lucky_dog, on August 21st, 2011 at 2:11 am Said:

   hope you had a long lens. read on another blog these bunch of clowns objected to photographers citing "privacy". neithermorenorless.blogspot.com/2011/08/general-assembly….

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   Flickr: GammaBlog, on August 21st, 2011 at 2:50 am Said:

   I actually met that blogger in the park tonight and am planning on linking to that post. Yeah, pretty wack, why hold a public meeting if you don’t want publicity. But no one objected to my photography tonight.

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   Flickr: lucky_dog, on August 21st, 2011 at 8:48 am Said:

   I looked on the occupywallst.org site, it’s a campaign by adbusters calling for 20,000 ppl to flood into wall street on Sept 17 and (possibly) occupy the place for months. while a rally may happen, occupation definitely will not. I just wonder how many groups out there are heeding the call to rally under the adbusters flag to go to wall street on sept 17. what kind of logistics do they have, do they even have legal support? etc.

   Not to be negative, but there will be a massive police presence. I’ve observed many big protests, and the police response just gets bigger and more over the top year after year. the response during the anti-rnc was simply over the top, bundling massive amts of ppl in orange construction fencing and leaving them in bus depots probably knowing–but not caring–about the legal consequences. they even cut off the live feed from online traffic cameras the night bush came into town so they covered all the bases.

   Here’s a labor rally that tried to gather on wall street this past may 2011. https://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2264 The police simply blocked off wall street and prevented a rally from taking place. It seemed the protesters got off easy that day. maybe because the protesters were people with jobs, blue collar jobs similar to the police; so the police treated them ok. However, when it comes to young people, poor people, the "disenfranchised", etc. the police don’t pull no punches.

   I just saw this one provocative tweet fly by: "AlexLFz RT @EmergentCulture: RT @lucorico: If YOU are a person of thunder, we need you. Help us #occupywallstreet. Let’s make it a party. A party with tear gas." ………….i don’t think that’s remotely funny.

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