"Into your life it will creep..."
More and more reports are surfacing of censorship and internet interference in Occupy Wall Street and related efforts in New York and around the country. I'm trying to assemble a list of incidents, and any that anyone can share with me would be appreciated.
At the Liberty Plaza (Park/Square) site in New York, there have been frequent reports of downed communications and WiFi hotspots going dead. Anyone who's tried to follow the events in New York on Livestream knows they've had a terrible time staying online, far worse it seems than the demonstrators in Egypt had during the height of the revolution in Cairo when the Mubarak government was actively jamming the internet.
"It starts when you're always afraid..."
The narrative of the Brooklyn Bridge Incident is now widely accepted among the demonstrators and their sympathizers as a matter of deliberate police entrapment (myself, I think it was more spur of the moment panic).
"You step out of line, the man come..."
Strange "notices" keep cropping up about rules and violations and demands; nobody really knows where they come from.
"...the man come, and take you away."
So far, I haven't seen any reports of "disappeared" activists, but with so many occupations going on in so many places, there will undoubtedly be missing people as this action continues.
One of the hot button issues that's got people all riled up right now is the planned "Occupation Art Exhibit" at the JPMorgan Building on Wall Street. Uh. Oh. Sell outs!!!!
All I would say is that the building has not housed JPMorgan for years, and it is operating now as a private art gallery. From what I can recall, this exhibit started planning early in the Occupation and has been announced at Working Group and GA meetings repeatedly.
Just a little from the Occupy Wall St. Facebook page about it:
Occupy Wall St.
Hey friends of the 99% we need our artists out in NYC in force for the upcoming event on the 8Th of October. We have access to the J.P. morgan building across from the exchange to do an art show! Anyone from the tagging or printing or any artistic background should contact Robert Grodt (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1171303463) to try and secure a place in this historic show.... and who could really pick a better canvass than Wall St. for a bit of graffiti?.... repost as needed
Robert Grodt
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Monica Dyer "Don't forget who you are as the illusions are thrown at you. Corporatists are masters of illusions. That's the most powerful weapon they have. That's how they sell products you don't need and convince you to justify accepting atrocities for the sake of products Don't fall for it. Otherwise, your cause will be lost. Be wary of large donations from special interest groups or non-profit corporations that were not involved this movement from the inception. Special interests groups are not your allies. Non-profit corporations are still corporations, and unfortunately, too many of them care more about donations than doing the right thing. Killing a movement with kindness is easy." http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Foccupywallstreet%2Fcomments%2Fkyjo2%2Fan_open_letter_and_warning_from_a_former_tea%2F&h=OAQD8ErbvAQAPrMQmjUceux5yIgv41Ksbw-JiuzIVUK0A9g
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Monica Dyer in other words, DON'T TAKE CANDY FROM STRANGERS!
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Derek CrabLegs Baxter I have a solution, if you don't like where the show is being held DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
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Jennifer Mcculloch my idea for a sign: a cop with a billy club, dragging a protester, in silhouette, with a red ring and slash thru it. Meaning no police beattings. And the words "If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em.
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Amanda Drewniak @Kevin you are missing the point. That is the problem
in this country. We can't step left or right with out being coporately involved. We need to show these people we want small businesses! We want the truth and absolute freedom. Taking hand outs on a scale like this is a joke.
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Chris King This "we are the 99%" is annoying as hell. You people do not speak for myself and many other people who aren't necessarily rich, but also don't ascribe to the socialist principles that have become the "demands" of these protests.
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Monica Dyer JP Morgan will use this. Please don't give them the opportunity. WHO NEEDS A GALLERY, ANYWAY! Street art belongs on the STREET!
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Derek CrabLegs Baxter Where the 99% but 30% of that are cynical assholes :(
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Braeden Vincent Kelley I've been doing graffiti for almost 5 years now! I will definitely be doing this!
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Jon Laing I have to agree that the use of JP Morgan's space seems kind of antithetical to the message of the movement. Not trying to tell you what to do, but wouldn't make more sense to hold a guerilla art show in public space, the people's space? Just sayin...
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One of the things I noticed watching some of the videos shot from within the crowd on the Brooklyn Bridge when the march was stopped and the police began to arrest the demonstrators was how passive they were. They didn't know what was going on, and they didn't panic. For the most part, they didn't do anything. When it came time for each one to be caught and taken away as it were, they went, quietly. And this behavior started making me very nervous. Many analogies come to mind...
