Showing posts with label Brooklyn Bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooklyn Bridge. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Occupy Zuccotti: The Eviction

Day 31 Occupy Wall Street October 16 2011 Shan...Image by david_shankbone via Flickr(1) I am not alarmed.
(2) The operation was well done, well executed.
(3) It was the wrong thing to do.
(4) New York City should take pride in the fact that something that started in a small park in this city has spread across the world. Liverpool takes pride in The Beatles.
(5) There will be a regrouping.
(6) The eviction was top news on Google News for an entire day. It probably still is. The Occupy people could not have thought of a better way to spread their message around the country, around the world. An operationally well executed plan was a political defeat, if the purpose was to calm down the Occupy movement.
(7) The movement has to rethink, regroup, and do one better.

(8) It is not within this or any other mayor's power to address the concerns of the movement. The mayor does not have a political solution. The movement is above the mayor's pay scale. The movement is not asking the mayor for the solution. No city official can address.
(9) This movement is out of the box thinking. It is stepping out. It is saying the entire system is dysfunctional. Something fundamental is not working.
(10) The movement can sleep outdoors if it wants to. Why not? The right to peaceful assembly does not end when the sun sets.

(11) The movement has to go through some introspection.
(12) Public acts are important. 200 people in 200 basements hammering away on social media sites could not have had one millionth the impact. Of course Zuccotti Park mattered. That 24/7 character has to be brought back. (Occupy Wall Street Could Legitimately Go Indoors)
(13) Nonviolence is the only option.
(14) My favorite part of the movement so far has been individuals writing out on placards explaining what makes them part of the 99%. That has to be magnified.

(15) Mass actions like literally shutting down Wall Street and crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in ways that disrupt traffic might be great ways to get old media attention and magnify the message, but they go beyond my personal comfort level for now.
(16) But then financial bad behavior on Wall Street over the past decade was not exactly within your comfort level either.
(17) I wish the movement worked harder to achieve more sophisticated levels of organization.
(18) Isolated incidents of possible criminal behavior, or in one case suicide, would be a lame excuse to shut down the movement. There are murders taking place in New York City every day. Should the city be shut down?

(19) Message.
(20) Organization.
(21) The movement will take a few months to take both of those to the next level. The mayor wants debates. There will be debates.

The Occupy movement is not a mirror image of the Tea Party. To say it is to suggest Charlie Rangel is a modern day MLK. The Occupy movement competes with acts by MLK. It is a modern day movement, completely crowd sourced.

Occupy The World
Occupy Wall Street Could Legitimately Go Indoors
Occupy
The Conversation Is The Revolution
Tahrir Square In America
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Barack Obama Just Endorsed Reshma Saujani

Sep 15 - Oct 31: Obama-Reshma Should Crisscross The Country
September 14 Will Birth The New Woman
Reshma's Is Top Primary Race To Watch In America: BusinessWeek In May
Reshma Saujani Is The Second Stimulus Bill This Country Needs
Reshma's Integrity On Ground Zero Mosque And Wall Street
Reshma: Obama's Number One Weapon For November 2010
Reshma, Obama And The Ground Zero Mosque
Extrapolations To Reshma 2016

Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama...Image via Wikipedia
Gothamist: Obama To Support 9/11 Health Bill: "The president looks forward to signing the 9/11 health bill into law, once it passes both houses of Congress, to help the first responders whose health and livelihood were devastated by the events of September 11th."
Carolyn Maloney was running up and down the street a few months ago trying to take credit for the credit card bill. After being in Congress for so long and making Wall Street bad behavior possible, after being the enabler supreme, Maloney was now going to get a facelift and present herself as the person of the people.

Carolyn Maloney's Newest Lie

The credit for that credit card bill goes to Barack Obama, the man in charge. Maloney should stop taking credit for the Brooklyn Bridge, (And I'd Like To Take Credit For The Brooklyn Bridge) Maloney should stop taking credit for a non existent Second Avenue subway line, (Carolyn Maloney's Work On The Second Avenue Subway Line) and Maloney should stop taking credit for the credit card bill. (Obama Has No Business Kissing Maloney)

Now this 9/11 health bill has a great chance of passing, and thanks to presidential support. The credit will go to Barack Obama.

The president letting Maloney fail with the 9/11 health bill is a president saying this was not the person behind the credit card bill either.

Al Hagan, Carolyn Maloney: Did They Apologize Yet?
Al Hagan: Capable Of A Hate Crime
Nadler Should Vacate The Maloney Sinking Ship
Hard Fact For Al Hagan: Maloney Failed To Pass 9/11 Health Bill
Organized Labor Bosses Backing Maloney Are Acting Blind And Stupid

The New York congressional delegation needs to pick the right black guy to stand behind.

Charlie Rangel: The Bear Stearns Of US Congress
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

And I'd Like To Take Credit For The Brooklyn Bridge

The view of Brooklyn Bridge from ManhattanImage via WikipediaAt least the Brooklyn Bridge exists. The Second Avenue subway line, have you been riding it? It does not exist. How ridiculous of Maloney to try and take credit for a non existent Second Avenue subway line that has been worked upon on and off since 1920?

Carolyn Maloney's Work On The Second Avenue Subway Line

Going by her record, I also expect her to take credit for having earned the right to vote on behalf of women.

Maloney Wrote A Book Saying Her Best Is Not Good Enough
Carolyn Maloney: The Al Sharpton Of Gender Relations
Carolyn Maloney: The Alan Keyes Of District 14

Sorry, but I have absolutely no respect for Carolyn Maloney, and I can't pretend otherwise. She is a lying, exaggerating politician. She is a mediocrity.
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