Day of FAIL: Nationwide anti-capitalist revolution flops
September 18, 2011 - 3:06 pm - by Zombie
September 17 was supposed to be the Day of Rage, the starting point of an anti-capitalist revolution that (in theory) was going to sweep the country coast-to-coast. As I noted yesterday, “The plan is to protest in state capitals and major cities across the nation, but the focus of the revolution will be in New York, where a hoped-for 20,000 anti-capitalists will ‘occupy’ Wall Street.”
I dutifully sent my operatives out to cover what were to be three of the largest Day of Rage protests — in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles — so humanity would have a full record of this pivotal moment in history.
Really, I should have learned my lesson by now: The bigger the build-up to a protest, and the more grandiose the promises, the louder the sound of the bellyflop onto the dustbin of irrelevancy.
In other words: “Day of Rage” was a massive FAIL.
This photo essay includes photos from all three protest sites (NY, SF and LA) integrated together, to give you the feel of the fizzled revolution as a whole.
The photographs in this essay are by: Urban Infidel (New York); Ringo (Los Angeles); and Chicken Kiev, juklux, and zombie (San Francisco). All credit goes to them.
There are way too many pictures to post here so just click on the link....
pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2...on-flops/?singlepage=true
