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Protesters have been arrested in Grand Central Station for the grievous crime of… protesting indefinite detention without charges in a public place. What do you want to bet that they’re going to be detained indefinitely without charges?
Posts Tagged ‘occupy wall street’
OWS: Grand Central Station arrests
January 7th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Politics, Privilege 
Tags: Grand Central Station, indefinite detention, occupy wall street, ows 
9 Comments »Casual Pepper-spray Cop and the Christmas Miracle
December 7th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via Copyranter, possibly the only Christmas sweater I’d ever consider buying and wearing.
Posted in Humour, Memes, Privilege Tags: casual pepper-spraying cop, memes, occupy wall street, ows 4 Comments »The casual pepper-spraying cop meme
November 22nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault Dana linked a picture of a campus cop by the name of John Pike casually spraying a line of seated Occupy Wall Street protesters with pepper-spray. This video went viral. Then, like most viral things do once they reach a certain level of critical mass, it mutated. In some cases rather drastically. Here’s some pictures [...]
Posted in Asshats, Memes, Politics, Privilege Tags: memes, occupy wall street, ows, police brutality 12 Comments »An anthem for the minority
November 14th, 2011 Jason Thibeault We keep forgetting, in the Occupy Wall Street movement, the minority’s rights. Kris Kitko wrote them an anthem of their own.
Teachers and Students Occupy Wall Street
November 11th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Don’t mind the repeating — it’s not ritualistic chanting, it’s a technique to allow the people at the back to hear the speaker. It’s completely necessary in these protests because megaphones or speakers or other volume amplification techniques require city permits. Heh. That last guy doesn’t know how to work this crowd-based megaphone very well, [...]
One new OWS photo meme that broke my heart
October 28th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Those other OWS memes can’t hold a candle to this one. A US Marine posted this picture on Reddit describing his metaphorical brother-in-arms. The tear in this man’s eye choked me up. Click to zoom. For context, see this video.
Police in Oakland disperse crowd using a flashbang while they try to rescue Iraq vet
October 26th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Way to go, you jackbooted thugs, you fascist assholes. I hope you feel really big now. These people were trying to rescue the 24 year old two-tour Iraq War veteran you just shot in the face with a tear gas canister — fracturing his damned skull, by the way — and you have the gall [...]
Posted in Current Events, Privilege Tags: iraq war, occupy wall street, ows, police brutality, social causes 6 Comments »Hot Chicks of OWS dude: “rape jokes are legitimate!”
October 25th, 2011 Jason Thibeault I paraphrase only slightly. Via Feministe, it seems Stephen Greenstreet, the one-man brain-trust behind the Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street tumblr (no link this time — not even a nofollow), thinks he’s contributing to the movement by attracting dudes with erections. Erections that legitimize rape. To protect the privacy of people who are Steven’s [...]
Posted in Asshats, Blogosphere, Gender Tags: feminism, misogyny, occupy wall street, rape, Stephen Greenstreet 10 Comments »Occupy Wall Street photo memes
October 22nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault A number of great photos from or about the Occupy Wall Street protests have gone viral. Figured you’d like to see some of them. Below the fold, obviously.
On the Role of the Middle Class in Occupy Wall Street
October 22nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault I’ve been involved in a conversation with Juniper Shoemaker these past few days about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the worry that the middle class will eventually co-opt it, and that the concerns of the less-privileged will be subsumed into returning the middle class to the status quo. It’s also been a conversation largely about [...]
Posted in Politics, Privilege Tags: civil rights, corporatocracy, education, grassroots, hippies, occupy wall street, ows, privilege, social causes 16 Comments »
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