The PA's Demands:
We demand that pizza delivery be available 24/7.
We demand that industrial hemp replace every current material, because it's vaguely associated with marijuana.
We demand that public intoxication be recognized as free speech under the first amendment.
We demand that Merriam-Webster broaden the definition of the word "revolution" to include whatever ineffectual bullshit we're doing.
We demand that "harshing one's mellow" be classified as a hate crime.
We demand that a hotbox be recognized an itinerant sovereignty, and not subject to federal, state, or local laws.
We demand that drum circles be mandated in public schools (though we're totally, like not oppressive, dude).
We demand that anyone speaking at any time must be holding a stick or crystal.
We demand the right to free expression (i.e. to babble tangentially to an audience at any public event).
(I'm being a dick, I know, but I'm just astonished at the type of shit that's holding us up.)
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both you and those you belittle are the reason i LEFT.
Submitted by helper on
Get over it all, you are doing NOTHING. Have fun starting your NEW WORLD ORDER, moron.
You have no idea what I'm
Submitted by cryptomnesiac on
You have no idea what I'm doing. And you already said you left... so, yeah.
I guess you can't confirm this because you quit and went home, but what I'm seeing are people that can't be arsed to leave their tents for any actions, but will suddenly emerge for Venice Beach sideshows, and to speak rambling platitudes on the open mic.
The only thing you're "helping" is to affirm my original impression of you.
Mike C.
Buffalo Beast - Twitter - Facebook
Oh, and by the way, I may be
Submitted by cryptomnesiac on
Oh, and by the way, I may be "belittling" something, but at least I didn't keep myself ignorant of committees and the GA, then take over the sole decision making process, by infantile tantrums and force (screaming, banging drums, shouting directly into the ear of the moderator), and try to totally replace it with this totally ineffectual hallucination of a meeting. At least I'm not driving people away by turning what might have been civilized meetings into absurd shouting matches, full of empty undergrad political rhetoric.
Make no mistake: you have no moral basis to whine.
Mike C.
Buffalo Beast - Twitter - Facebook
Its too hard, i wanna go home. wah wah wah.
Submitted by daniil on
@helper, clarification for you: YOU are doing nothing. Worse than nothing, actually. because now you are sitting on your ass insulting people who are doing something.
Hey wait, I actually agree
Submitted by lizsavage on
Hey wait, I actually agree with this one:
"We demand that "harshing one's mellow" be classified as a hate crime."
Can someone make that into a t-shirt for me? :)
My words represent myself and not Occupy Los Angeles. @lizsavage on Twitter
yes, you ARE being...hostile...
Submitted by johnoccupyself on
but i like the humor. Just go ahead and get it out of your system bro, and remember why you came here in the first place. It make take days, months, or years, but i believe the message will finally be the last thing standing.
i for one don't smoke pot or beat drums or hold crystals. i want to see the end of the currency based economy, forever, and if this movement is the only one trying to make that or something close to that happen, I'm with it.
I suddenly feel better after reading this post
Submitted by Francis on
There are some among us who thanks to the bullshit of the status quo have long tuned out to the realities that the Movement was directly established to butt heads against (AND YES, THAT IS WHAT THIS MOVEMENT IS SUPPOSED TO DO), and therefore cannot even begin to comprehend a strategy to do that. Many of us who are here to battle DIRECTLY with the status quo have taken YEARS and DECADES to educate ourselves on history and current events and have honed our minds in debate and philosophy are very frustrated with the tuned-out crowd who seem to think that everything is about being able to express yourself.
Expression is important for high schoolers to be able to explore themselves, but in the adult world, expression must be about action and acheiving goals because we are here to fight for everyone, not just people who have attached themselves to our Occupation to further separate themselves from reality.
By the way, I'm digging the trust-afarian photo. That's you isn't it?
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Hear! Hear!
Submitted by ctizzie on
Cosigned.
Leadership
Submitted by audiotruther on
will emerage within the Occuaption at some point, it's natural. Tribes, bands, etc all have a leader or leadership. And they will be chosen not selected by a commitee or reached by a consenus at a GA, they will come from people following the Leader (s). The GA/Commitee process is becoming a cluster f@#k and taking away indivual creativity and abilities and placing them on a initate process. We are not all equals in everything, I'm not equal to Kobe Bryant in playing basketball with the collective mentality , I would share playing time with Bryant despite an unequal ability to play basketball.
Everyone does have an opinion but, that doesn't make everyone correct.
Sometimes You've Got To Laugh...
Submitted by PC on
...to keep from poking your own eyes out in frustration. And I thank you, Crypto, for providing this one. I think a lot of us needed it.
While it's disheartening to see how easily a democratic movement can be derailed by an ad hoc coalition of mental eight-year-olds and the truly clinically disturbed, I believe that OLA will rise above it by learning to work around it. I believe this because I've been attending committee meetings and I still find them to be attended, by and large, by sane and good-hearted adults who are cognizant of the work that needs to be done and are open-minded about discovering their own roles in turning to that work. If you're not already participating in these meetings, I urge you start showing up for them, even (maybe especially) if it's just to listen and learn. That, along with the actions out in the streets, is where the work of the 99% is being done while the self-indulgent and the unbalanced "express themselves."
Thanks for the Comic Relief AND....
Submitted by Rancho Larry on
... The thoughtful responses it has inspired. And as an active observer and passionate believer in the time for change has begun, I want to thank each and every committee member and serious occupier of the LA City Hall lawns, who believes like I do, that the American People have been duped, wronged and stolen from.
I thank them for their determination and courage to face this stuff head on and move it down the field on their backs and shoulders. I thank them for their persistence of presence and FAITH in the change that is coming. PLEASE Remember the history lessons of Valley Forge, THIS is a PIECE of cake, here in LA in the 21st century, compared to THAT one.
Hold On because personally I do not believe that OLA is in jeopardy of an eviction by force in the near term since the Federal Court in Nashville just ordered a temporary injunction staying any further eviction of the Occupiers there. The court ruled that it violated their First Amendment Rights of Free Speech. I also BELIEVE that many more Federal Courts around the country will soon find that the actions taken by so many of the cities around this country to suppress occupations have been ILEGAL and punishments will be forthcoming. Hold on to what you KNOW is RIGHT! Thank you from the bottom of my Third Generation Los Angelino All American Heart to everyone in Oakland, NY, Boston SF, San Diego, Long Beach, Chicago and especially Nashville who Peacefully Assembled to regress the government with their grievances and were abused by their small minded, bought and paid for fellow citizens in positions of power that they do not deserve. Thank you.
And THANKS to the Federal Judiciary who is the LAST LINE of defense for American Freedom. THIS is the job you folks have trained for all your professional lifes. Please do NOT let the American People DOWN (as well as yourselves).
I'm down for the Cause too.
We CAN win this because WE are right!
Rancho Larry
PS to the Jack Offs and Clowns JUST hanging out, GROW the F-up FAST or disappear from the lawns of LA City Hall, Liberty Park and everywhere else the Occupation struggles against the odds for YOUR FREEDOM. This IS Serious Shit Going Down! Don’t screw it up!
I FREEKING MEAN EVERY WORD!
Submitted by Rancho Larry on
Get DOWN with the Cause or Disappear PRONTO
This Ain’t No Party This Ain’t No Disco This Ain’t no Fooling Around..
Rancho Larry
Somebody HAD to say it...
Submitted by Rancho Larry on
.... Might as well be ME...
JUST POINT OUT WHERE I AM FREEKING-WRONG!
This Ain’t No Party This Ain’t No Disco This Ain’t no Fooling Around..
Rancho Larry
And Further More....
Submitted by Rancho Larry on
All you amimal rights people worried about the critters, do that after WE SAVE OUR OWN ASSES, OK? Get FOCUSED on saving OUR Freedoms, then DO something about the critters.
OK?
This Ain’t No Party This Ain’t No Disco This Ain’t no Fooling Around..
Rancho Larry
Somebody HAD to SAY that Too....
Occupants who don't march -
Submitted by nobody on
Occupants who don't march - message to you: I have donated money, equipment, a little food, and will probably donate more, but I want you all to fucking march on the banks. THAT'S WHY I'M DONATING MY MONEY, AND GOING TO WEEKEND EVENTS and the occasional evening event or GA! Holy fuck. Isn't this as plain as day?
I'm not donating it so you all can have a good time at rainbow tribe or whatever you want to call it.
The point is to grow and escalate. Grow and escalate as a political and social movement. It's important to have a good time - but it's 10x more important to build the movement.
(BTW, I don't particularly like the new age capitalists or the peter joseph stuff. So don't attribute my cash to them. Thanks. Bye.)
I implore those that CAN NOT Camp or march....
Submitted by Rancho Larry on
...PLEASE do not JUST sit on the sidelines. Thank you. Go ahead Click Here to Donate cash. Gather up those things around your house (or storage unit) that OLA NEEDS and take it downtown. You know like tents, sleeping bags, tarps, blankets, pillows, WINTER COATS, older laptops gathering dust (ones that are WIFI capable please), heavy duty extension chords, power strips, and flashlights. AND the next time you are at COSTCO or Sam's Club, pick up an extra case or two of water, or some big boxes of Granola/Energy bars, pudding cups, bags of jerky, boxes of individual serving snacks chips cookies or anything that can sustain people and feed their hungers and thirsts take THAT downtown too. Take it ALL down to the FIRST Street side of City Hall just south of Spring St, where the DONATIONS tent is located. Whoever you are, the odds are pretty good you have been duped, wronged and stolen from by the 1% and YOU are part of the 99% too. How can you tell?
Well, do you feel you have been duped, wronged and stolen from by SOMEBODY? DID YOU, a good friend, or a loved one LOSE YOUR JOB after 5, 10, or 20 years of working there? Did you have a 401K that is now a .101K? Did you or a friend or a family member lose their house to the predatory lending of the big banks? Did you buy your house at the wrong moment and now find yourself struggling to make the payments when the market value is about one third to one half of what you paid for it? Did any of the bail out money the US Treasury shelled out find its way to you? Got It?
I understand if you (like ME) cannot Occupy or even march now and then. These may not be your gigs because of your life style and circumstances. But be assured that there IS SOMETHING you can do to support the Occupiers and Marchers who are FIGHTING for your freedoms too. Those who are doing the heavy lifting REQUIRE ALL OUR SUPPORT, to the extent that we can muster. Do get down to City Hall. Make the personal investment of talking to the people camping there. If you find someone who IS dedicated, who IS doing the heavy lifting for you, kinda adopt them. Find out and then bring THEM what they need, and IF it is a case of water and granola bars, or your old winter coat or that old lap top, so be it. Just Do It! Thanks..
This Ain’t No Party This Ain’t No Disco This Ain’t no Fooling Around..
Rancho Larry
Your Amazingly correct Rancho Larry
Submitted by alhs06 on
To answer your question Rancho Larry, your amazingly correct R L.
37 years total in the Construction Industry
24 years as a PM & Superintendent almost exclusively on Public Work's project's.
3 years community college courses, several other courses on safety & Leed Construction (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Training.
A Nevada State GC License, the only state worse off than us, pmsl, currently inactive, can't afford the bond/insurance/annual license fee. I pulled it so my Dad & brother could stay busy while living outside of Las Vegas, Dad, @73 is currently driving a truck for min wage, brother is MIA.
No more 401k, bye bye in 08, cashed out after losing 85% of it.
Unemployed for 2 years & 3 weeks, a member of the 99'rs club.
Over 1500 application's & resumes sent out, no interviews but a lot of Good Luck wishes.
Glad you asked Rancho Larry, thanks'
Don't know about you, but I'm just about out of time, actually well past it, currently living on borrowed time, & it's time to collect on the interest. So I may be saying ciao soon & good luck with the cause. What a shit life this turned out to be aye? lmfao
Hang in there
Submitted by Yvonne de la Vega on
Just read you response to Rancho Larry... please hang in there. I have read some of your responses and posts. The movement needs more like you. Believe that this is too huge to fail. It's only a matter of time before we get there.
Sincerely,
yvonne
"The Revolution will not be televised, it will be on Youtube." -Yvonne de la Vega
Thanks' hun, thank you Yvonne
Submitted by alhs06 on
My wife & I are clinging to the life raft, & until the lights flicker & go out & the surge pulls us under, we will continue to stand united in this cause. A bit to Dramatic? Well maybe, but after all this is the "Movie Capital of The World". Not to mention this is by far one of the top 3 or 4 movement's in our Countries History, No One could convince me otherwise. So it deserves the Dramatization, out of respect.
I hope & pray we prevail over the cynicism & the "Greed".
...hang in there
Submitted by ultrarad on
The movement needs people like you. Never underestimate what a strong sense of purpose can do for one's ability to survive.
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Radical also means staying critical and not drinking anyone's kool-aid.
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