#A9 Call for Global Day of Action - Chalkupy the World

Submitted by Lyssa Strata on

On July 12th, participants in OccupyLA met to raise awareness for unlawful arrests of activists that had been targeting a lobby group with a stranglehold on power over local and state politics. The activists handed out chalk and shared the story of unlawful arrests and police repression. The LAPD responded by amassing in riot gear and issuing a tactical alert effectively shutting down the Downtown LA art walk and trapping many patrons inside of local businesses as a response to chalk art being drawn on the sidewalk. The mainstream media misrepresented the sequence of events, blaming occupiers for the near riot in Downtown LA even though the police were responsible for escalation.

 

The public, frustrated by the absurdity of police violence over 'sidewalk chalk', filled the streets demanding that the police cease their intimidation over what many consider a fundamental right to free speech and assembly. The law enforcement arm of the state saw fit to intervene violently in a peaceful expression of free speech and 'do it yourself' art, on behalf of the private interests that control the downtown space. They shot the crowd with the near lethal force of rubber bullets and foam grenades inciting fear and panic so that their violent intervention appears justified. In light of recent police murders in Anaheim, it is important we show that crowd control tactics taken against any who dare protest are not acceptable uses of force by any police state. More than that, these acts of terror by the police state will not deter us from assembling and seeking justice for our communities.

 

The political and financial elite cannot bear to see us assemble, cannot bear for us to share ideas and strategies or grow our vision and movement into revolution. We know that this is not about chalk. It is about whose interests are affected by our message, whose interests are protected when so-called public servants protect lifeless sidewalks from the messages of a frustrated populace. It is about censorship, political freedom and the merger of corporation and state working to silence the voice of the people. It is about the extrajudicial authority of the national security apparatus for the mere purpose of intimidating the masses into silence.

 

On August 9th, Occupy Los Angeles calls for you to fill your squares and take your streets and sidewalks with chalk. Call to all people everywhere to show that dissent is as simple as writing your grievances on the sidewalk, as accessible as hopscotch in the streets- reclaiming public space and engaging in public dialogue and expression. Join us (if you're close enough) for a day of solidarity and fun to celebrate the human spirit and chalk for our collective liberation. Together we will remake the art of public life in our alley ways, on the doorsteps of banks whose only allegiance is to profit, and in the streets built by our labor.


In solidarity, regardless of all nations and borders, we will engage in willful public expression against political repression.

 

SUBMIT CHALK PHOTOS HERE: http://chalkitout.tumblr.com/

 

 

NOTE: Be aware that your actions make evoke a police response and it is important all participants are familiar with local private and public property laws so that they can assess their own level of risk and make informed decisions.

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16 Comments

Artwalk? Walk away, Occupy.

Submitted by Morgan Morgana on

You guys can create the reality where you have rubber bullets flying at you whenever and wherever you'd like, but, for the love of God, don't ruin Artwalk again this month. Its the biggest night of the month for many local artists. Artists who have supported you with art shows and auction donations and live art at protests, etc... and you thanked them by taking a dump on their collective chest last month. OccupyLA, your message is good, but you operate like schmucks.

It's becoming quite apparent the manipulators of this movement consider the provocation of brutality a mark of "success".  I watched the protest closely last month and your denial (see "lies") of the meriad disgusting chalk phrases that were, yes, plentiful, the outright rudeness among your ranks, as well as, yes, thrown objects at police! It completely disturbs me to have watched you lie through your teeth about these things. 

The whole world is watching.

-Former Supporter

PS: If you have to continue neglecting your intitial points and focus only on chalk (see your ENTIRE home page for nothing but chalk talk at the time of this posting), seriously, then just do a "Chalk-fil-a" protest. 

We did not ruin artwalk. Stop

Submitted by lizsavage on

We did not ruin artwalk. Stop believing lies of main stream media. LAPD ruined artwalk by attacking citizens of Los Angeles. In fact I have footage that shows most of occupy was long gone, and the few people who did stay, stayed out of concern for the tense situation that has arisen. LAPD had been assaulting people for hours on the sidewalk, pushing pedestrians with batons for no reason. People who werent occupy, who werent chalking, who just were walking down the sidewalk nowhere near where occupy staged. Only one occupier was arrested that evening for chalking, I watched as people listened to what was going on, listened to the story of the arrest that just happened, or watch the person before them get arrested, pick up a piece of chalk, and start chalking. Usually after stating, "thats fucked up" I watched at least 6 people get arrested in this fashion, knowing what they were doing. They were not occupiers.

Chalk is a expression of art, and the city has allowed corporate backed chalking to happen all over the city. It washes away with a light spray of water.

If you really think occupy caused this, you need to get your head out of the sand.

My words represent myself and not Occupy Los Angeles. @lizsavage on Twitter

Face in palm

Submitted by Morgan Morgana on

Look, Liz. You can't use "Dont believe the lies of the mainstream media" on someone who was a present witness to your folly. That s**t not only doesnt work, but its going to get you called out... by me.... right now.

I happen to live downtown and have attended nearly every Artwalk for almost six years. This is the first time the police "attacked the citizens of LA" Why? Because the citizens of LA we're speaking about were YOU, and because YOU are douchebags that don't know how to behave in public. Are you trying to tell me they were just targeting random citizens with no provocation? Of course not! It was YOUR actions that ATTRACTED the police violence, not the "citizens of LA" ... as always.

Yes, this NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED without your participation.  EVER.

It is a genuine tragedy to watch Occupy flounder and dwell on the distraction of this stupid chalk subplot, that has so very little to do with the initial vision of the Occupy movement. This whole chapter of the Occupy story is an embarrassment and is wasting valuable time you should be spending on YOUR REAL MISSION. Did you forget that the "whole world is watching"? Do you know what you look like to the whole world? No, you only know what you look like to your hollier than thou supporters who continue to blow smoke up your ass, "in solidarity".

Get some perspective: Yes, you did, in fact, ruin artwalk last month, and if you follow the posts on the subject of returning August 9 in social media, you'll find rather quickly that patrons fear going to artwalk when they hear you might be there. So you're already well on your way to ruining it again and you havent even arrived! BRAVO!!

Seriously, don't ask me to get my "head out of the sand", stop "believing the lies of mainstream media", etc. AS I STATED BEFORE: I am a present witness. Very close all along. I know you're used to covering your ass by blaming the media, but it won't work on me, Liz. I know what a flying bottle looks like.

So: Do you have the human decency to stay away from artwalk or not? 

 

 

 

You call Occupy "douchebags"

Submitted by OccuMikey on

You call Occupy "douchebags" and expect us to belive anything you say?  You have registered here to slam Occupy at Artwalk.  The cops committed the violence, not Occupy.  I highly doubt you ever "supported" Occupy or set foot near the Artwalk...unless it was on patrol.

Cops made the choice to hurt

Submitted by OccuMikey on

Cops made the choice to hurt people.  Occupy does not beg the cops to beat our asses, they do it gladly & without provocation.  Tell your freinds at the CCA to hire better trolls...you aren't earning your paycheck with this weak stuff.

We have the right to protest.

Submitted by OccuMikey on

We have the right to protest. By PEACEFULLY protesting we are not deserving of beatings, pepper spray, and rubber bullets. I have been to many Occupy protests & seen the brutality for myself. I doubt that you were anywhere near Occupy that night. Hell, I doubt you have ever participated in any Occupy function. If you have, you wouldn't be obtuse about the "goals" of Occupy.

So is everyone just going to

Submitted by Morgan Morgana on

So is everyone just going to ignore my point and keep coughing up this bogus crap like I'm defending the police?

Of course you have the right to protest. You also have the right to recognize and learn from your mistakes. Maybe take note of the fact that things went wrong at artwalk and, perhaps not do it there. Or , since you're blaming drunk artwalkers instead of the people who came out to express dissent, for the... um... expressed dissent, come up with some way to solve that problem. Is free-for-all your plan again?

It would be wise to ask yourselves, what do you EXPECT to come of this? I have a fair idea you don't even expect it to go peacefully, so why take it to artwalk? There's no good reason except to syphon publicity from the artists and scare off their patrons with the threat of more of the same. Which is the other thing, I've obviously been defending the artists and artwalk, NOT the police. The police and yourselves are both playing unsavory roles in this performance in my opinion. You guys are so one track minded, you have neglected to address my main issue this whole time:

Why take it to artwalk when you already know that's what will happen?

There is no good answer.

You are trying to divide the

Submitted by OccuMikey on

You are trying to divide the artists at Artwalk and Occupy.  It is clear that you blame Occupy for the violence at Artwalk.  Nothing we did that night made the cops turn violent...do you get that?  Let me repeat...nothing we did that night made that cops turn violent.  Hell a third time, nothing we did that night made the cops turn violent.  DO YOU GET IT YET?!?  Cops did this to intimidate Occupy AND Artwalk from showing solidarity.  It scares the PTB that we are not going away...I'm sure it bugs you as well.

 

Occupy constantly evaluates & re-evaluates strategy.  You would know that if you had EVER been involved in Occupy.  Instead you pretend to care about the Artwalk while attacking a bad stereotype of an Occupier and calling us "douchebags"...fail!!!

 

I find it funny that you think those artists are going to hate on Occupy with your little rant.  Artists are generally more aware than your average troll (I'm talking about YOU).

You obviously don't know what

Submitted by lizsavage on

You obviously don't know what occupiers look like. I doubt you were ever a part of OLA. If you were its clear you werent very active because when things went insane, you would have been able to clearly point out the few occupiers left in the crowd.  No bottles were thrown by "occupiers" the phrases you say you saw, can you prove they were written by occupiers? You are aware boxes of chalk were left along spring street at one point before artwalk began? You are aware random people grabbed chalk out of a bucket that said next to it, you WILL get arrested for chalking? If you were really ever involved in OLA, you would have been able to point out the occupiers trying to get people to leave 5th and spring when tensions were rising. The few of us out there were explaining what had gone on. The few of us there were all people who started last October. Many were medics. Others were streaming, taking video or photos. Some were just trying to de-escalate the situation, but there was NOTHING we could do to de-escalate the police, as even though Occupy had left long before the police didnt care. They watched us leave. Captain Frank was STANDING THERE when the large contingent left to go to our Legal committee fundraiser. Why dont you go to F-Square and talk to Fernando about what the police did in front of his store? He didnt blame us, he left us go to the bathroom!

It amazes me to hear someone attack us like this, who obviously is out of touch with what happened. OVER CHALK? The response from LAPD is to shoot people over chalk now? You are aware not one charge has been filed in court against ANY of the chalkers?

You are aware that the police said over their scanners, AFTER occupiers had left that they intended to shut down artwalk at 10PM? It was LAPD's desision. (about 9:15ish based on my stream, after as I said above Cpt Frank watched the OLA contingent leave.

And to say that LAPD has never done this before is so laughable, and shows you live a very privledged life, as they do this kind of shit on a regula basis. They attacked kings fans after they won the cup. The police were on high alert all week, and a few days before had attacked us on a side street downtown for no reason.They attack people on skid row on a weekly, sometimes even daily basis.

It seems you rather bash us, then actually take the consideration to know what actually happened. I bet your also a person who claims occupy is dead at one time, then say a huge angry mob is us? You cant have it both ways. I also can bet you have not come to one meeting or done any outreach within this community to find out what happened.

I watched the cops beat up people all night long, far from where any chalking was going on. People who never had anything to do with occupy. People who were not protesting. They were extremely forceful, using batons against people, and this was after only one arrest. After our one occupier got arrested for chalking we backed down, kept a clearing on the sidewalk and handed out flyers to people explaining what had been going on in LA with chalk arrests. (did you even see one of those) the OLA crowd who dispersed steadily between 8-9pm spent much of its time education the crowd about recent arrests, the central city association, and other happening in DTLA.

The police mobilized at 9:45, which made the growing crowd of spectators, some which had suffered abuse by them already that evening amass and run into the street. I am sure you also heard the patrons of Artwalk calling their friends and telling them to "get down here its fucking crazy" as well right?

You spoke to all the people who stayed specifically to fight with cops that night, who never had anything to do with occupy right? And those apartments that had the bottles flying out of their windows, with parties on the balcony were occupiers? Get your facts straight. It is more than clear you have little or no attachment to the actual occupy community and are coming here to cause problems and troll. Otherwise you wouldnt hide behind a fake screen name, and a email address that ties back to nothing. I speak as myself. I am easily reached, and people know who I am. When I have an issue, I don't cower behind a fake identity to express it.

Obviously Morgana has something to hide.

And she needs to face the reality that LAPD attacked artwalk. Occupy did not. LAPD shot and teargassed, tazed and beat people, Occupy did not.

My words represent myself and not Occupy Los Angeles. @lizsavage on Twitter

Of course s/h/e doesn't "get

Submitted by PC on

Of course s/h/e doesn't "get that" the police willingly and deliberately started the violence that evening, or that they committed the overwhelming majority of it.  S/he isn't here to "get" anything, s/he's here to protect her cash cow. 

As another poster (a downtown resident and artist) here pointed out a few weeks ago, Artwalk was ruined a long time ago and it sure as hell wasn't ruined by Occupy.  Artwalk under the "leadership" of the coalition of downtown business interests that make up the 501(c)3 Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk has become something of a pathetic consumerist zoo, nominally about art but mostly about filling seats in bars and restaurants and drawing eyes to corporate advertising.  As the LA Weekly recently reported, the money-grubbing has gotten so bad in recent years that there's now a battle between DLAA and the food truck interests, culminating in DLAA pulling strings with the City to ban food trucks from certain parking lots during Artwalk despite having no legal authority to do so--and despite ample evidence that the food trucks are at least as much of a draw as the art these days.

Artwalk has become a joke.  The best thing that could happen to it, frankly, would be for it to become a monthly sidewalk chaliking festival; at least then, people would be showing up to create something or enjoy other people's creations.  And anybody who would create an account on OLA's website just to scold Occupy for "ruining" it has pretty obviously got to have a vested interest in keeping it a corporate joke.

Thank you PC

Submitted by lizsavage on

The orginal founders of Art Walk are on our side, many of the business owners attended a town hall we held for them. We have put this months planning notes up as transparently as possible. We intend on confining our art show to Pershing Sq this month. We will have people handing out flyers, however if residents choose to chalk on their own this month, there is nothing we can do to stop them.

As someone who has spent the past 10 months roaming DTLA with Occupy, it is VERY clear to me that the LAPD "leaders" that evening had a plan to blame it on Occupy, as one of the leaders moved his men away from where the few occupiers were still standing, and instead had them attacking pedestrians, and mobilizing on 5th street.

They can spin the story however they want, the uncut footage doesnt lie.

My words represent myself and not Occupy Los Angeles. @lizsavage on Twitter

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