Re: vacillating between empathy and annoyance
yalanand
10/4/2011 3:20:04 AM
thnk it's partly due to the lack of any clear objective, and partly due to a thought that these folks are just out for a long walk in the park with the dog.
@PredictableChaos its wrong to crticise the protestors like that. Lack of clear objective doesn't mean there is no problem. May be it will take some time for the protestors to identify their objectives.
Re : Inside Occupy Wall Street: People Are Angry
yalanand
10/4/2011 2:59:52 AM
Unlike protests against the Vietnam War or in support of Civil Rights, Occupy Wall Street has no clear objective.
@Noreen, thanks for the post. Eventually what do you think will happen ? Will this protest slowly fizzles out or will we see these protests spreading to the other part of the nation ? And how do you think the government should handle this crisis ? Should it constitue some institutional body to address the issues that protestors are raising ?
Re: The protest may end up BIG
yalanand
10/4/2011 2:54:09 AM
I would have thought this might have fizzled out by now, but like Noreen pointed out, when the police crack down, nothing good is going to happen.
@TelecomFreq this is usually what happens when there is police cracks down happens. Police crackdown increases public anger and thus small protests turn into big mass protests. This is what happened in India where big anti-corruption rallies started once police arrested anti-corruption activitsts.
Re: words to think about
Tenacious
10/3/2011 9:04:38 PM
Great quote. And I just want to say--great post.
David Simon, executive producer of HBO's critically-acclaimed show THE WIRE, said this in a 2009 interview with Bill Moyers:
You show me anything that depicts institutional progress in America, school test scores, crime stats, arrest reports, arrest stats, anything that a politician can run on, anything that somebody can get a promotion on. And as soon as you invent that statistical category, 50 people in that institution will be at work trying to figure out a way to make it look as if progress is actually occurring when actually no progress is.
And this comes down to Wall Street. I mean, our entire economic structure fell behind the idea that these mortgage-based securities were actually valuable. And they had absolutely no value. They were toxic. And yet, they were being traded and being hurled about, because somebody could make some short-term profit.
In the same way that a police commissioner or a deputy commissioner can get promoted, and a major can become a colonel, and an assistant school superintendent can become a school superintendent, if they make it look like the kids are learning, and that they're solving crime. And that was a front row seat for me as a reporter. Getting to figure out how the crime stats actually didn't represent anything, once they got done with them.
Re: Sense of Injustice
Broadway
10/3/2011 6:16:54 PM
Persist in NYC and spread to other cities. I think that's the plan. I live in philadelphia, and there's talk and organizing going on here for a satellite group.
Re: Sense of Injustice
Bargain Bin
10/3/2011 3:49:02 PM
That's how i was raised, but I guess when you're trying to prove a point it doesn't hurt to get run over. Everyone loves a martyr!
Re: Sense of Injustice
TelecomFreq
10/3/2011 3:46:01 PM
I try to avoid playing in traffic whenever I can, but to each their own.
Re: Sense of Injustice
Bargain Bin
10/3/2011 3:34:21 PM
Well, I don't know why they ever thought that blocking the flow of traffic on the brooklyn bridge would have been a good idea.....
Re: Sense of Injustice
TelecomFreq
10/3/2011 3:07:14 PM
Looking back at the whole melt down it can be frustating just to think about it. It will be interesting of they get orginized and prolong the protests.
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