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The Water Cooler Title: Occupy Wall Street Updates: National Convention In the Works? More Occupy Songs and Clashes Overseas Occupy Wall Street and its sister occupations around the world continue to gain steam. At home, the protesters have directed the national dialogue away from "deficit" and towards distribution of wealth, a major win. Here are some updates from around the web. A new working group has formed to try to convene a national General Assembly to meet in Philadelphia just like the original Founding Fathers did--on July 4th, no less. The goal would be to petition congress with a list of grievances. It's quite a fascinating idea, and worth reading the proposal at length. UPDATE: However it should be noted that this is in no way an official plan nor is necessarily endorsed by the collective currently occupying Zuccotti Park. Meanwhile, within the occupations, efforts at incorporating voices of people of color and other marginalized communities continue to grow. A great new blog called "In Front and Center" has arived to combine solidarity with the 99% and criticism of the movement at the same time. Well worth bookmarking as the occupations spread and face inevitable stresses: The literary community has embraced Occupy Wall Street. In fact, so many people have been visiting occupywriters.com to see whether their favorite authors are standing with the 99% that the servers are crashing. But htat didn't stop Commentary magazine from running a diatribe against the site and declaring the writers (many of the nation's best, the writer said begrudgingly) who have signed on to be idiots who are betraying their calling. Or something. Signatory Salman Rushdie tweeted: "Hurray! I'm an Idiot Who Hates Freedom! You know what they say about bad publicity from Commentary... Meanwhile, away from potshots thrown by literary and journalistic elites, the movement continues worldwide. Here is the Guardian on the protests in London which are proceeding peacefully and in Greece, where a general strike has been called and clashes with police are occurring. Pictures of the action in Greece are here. Back home again, here's another hip-hope anthem for the protests, filmed on site and with very specific rhymes that address the protests quite eloquently. Have a listen! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
We need a poll tax ! It's really hard to get money out of these vegetables - weeds !
The dnc - neocom is the crips - bloods ! Pushing their street agenda to rob the public !
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