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If they can occupy Wall Street, why not State Street?
By adamg on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:49pm
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Yeah, good luck
finding parking.
Boston Radicals?
Please in Boston our radicals have evolved from the Boston Tea Party to the Hempfest where the only thing they shut down is the Red Line when they fall on the tracks from being stoned.
Actually
They moved to Northhampton.
But, they unfortunately gave up their cars.
The LaRouchies are Already There
They're way ahead of everybody. They've been bothering the financial district for over a year now. Maybe they'll have some more credible company now for their bull-horn truck and leaflet-laden loudmouths blocking every corner.
OcBo?
Since every fly in from somewhere else twit in this city seems to want to copy what happens in NYC, may we call it OcBo?
What are they going to do sit in front of 100 Federal? If you want to send a message to BOA, go to Charlotte.
It would be great if they tried to march on Fidelity. I give Ned Johnson full permission to pour hot oil out from the windows of 82 Devonshire.
Straight from their smashing
Straight from their smashing success fighting Whole Foods in Jamaica Plain, we bring you Occupy Boston!
Our next move comrades, is to organize a general assembly, for all of us to come together and begin this movement!!
Workers of the world, unite and stand around on a work day. And then let's get burritos.
square in the nuts
I'd ridicule you but that last sentence is just too eerily close to the reality. You nailed it. ...sigh....
Disagree
Actually, I automatically discredit any comment that suggests that people who aren't at work during M-F 9-5 hours are playing hooky, don't have jobs, etc.
Anyone who actually stops to think about the plight of working-class folks is quite aware that a good portion of lower-paid work takes place during other shifts. (Restaurants, hospitals, stores, buses, etc. are in operation far more hours than what white-collar folks consider "business hours.")
Agree
Yeah, you're right about work hours, but I think it's the burrito part that got me. There are a number of people who are upset with how things are working in terms of the economic system, I just wish that it was better articulated in words by the people who are currently getting arrested and beaten on Wall Street (not that you'd know it by watching the news). The people who are going out into the street are the people who not only do not work those 9-5 hours but frequently are at a point in their lives where they have the luxury of doing these things and still going off for a burrito. The Whole Foods fiasco highlighted a very real problem for working people, gentrification, and then muddied everything up with cheezy theatrics and cynical opportunism (for organizations, for future activist careers or both). In the end it's impossible to remove yourself completely from the system you're criticizing and/or fighting against, but if your ability to fight the system is in part supported by the system, it strikes me as sad. Like going out for burritos after a rally.
feeling as crotchety as NotWhitey...