Occupy CLE OH Sat Oct 1 2011

[BillORightsMan]

Hi all!

I found out late this evening that there was an "Occupy Cleveland" action at the famous "Free" Stamp on Saturday where we CLE OH activists frequently gather for protests like our "Peace Show" every Labor Day for the last ten years to protest the "War Show" going by the moniker "Cleveland Air Show" (this year's pics at link)

I suspect all the usual suspects showed up at 3 PM but I highly doubt anyone actually "occupied" Willard Park and camped out. When we do the Peace Show we have to raise serious $$$$ for permits for putting up a stage, selling food, having a sound system and so forth and the city inspectors stop by in the AM to check if everything is legit, pissed off they have to "work" on a holiday. My guess is if anyone TRIED to camp out they would have been arrested PRONTO by the CPD blue-shirts who incidentally are also under attack from Guvnor Kasich and his own brand of ALEC-led Brown-Shirt policies. We now have TWO ballot issues, one AGAINST SB 5 that attacks union collective bargaining and another against HB 194 that attacks voting rights, BOTH ALEC-written-and-composed legislation. So we're doing SOMETHING against Kasichstan and his Brown Shirts! :applause:
More details in this week's
Brick TeeVee WAR ON WALL STREET CONTINUES!


I think we can all agree the system we have now (capital-ism) is not working. At all. That radical anarchist ABRAHAM LINCOLN once said,

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

I think that's about right.

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[BillORightsMan]

1. OccupyCleveland.com UPDATE! THURSDAY!

Go here!
THURSDAY October 6, 2012, 12:00 PM
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/Cleveland-OH/380712/
LOCATION
Meet at Willard Park & march to camp (by City Hall, near the Free stamp)

Website
www.occupycleveland.com

Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=269897553033825

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/OccupyCleveland/19481890059...

Twitter
twitter.com/#!/OccupyCleveland

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[BillORightsMan]

2. OCCUPY CLE OH UPDATE Sunday 10-9-11

Occupy Cleveland Protesters Love the Cops
By: OhioGringo Sunday October 9, 2011 11:28 am @ FDL

As I said in an earlier post today, my wife and I delivered 80 bottles of Gatorade (OK, it was Infuse, from Aldi’s) and a few wet wipes containers to the Occupy Cleveland protesters. They were overjoyed and gave us quite the reception. When we insisted they were doing far more than we, they all said “Oh, no! Oh, no! We are all in this together.” They said people had been dropping off food and supplies on a regular basis.

When we were there, there were only a couple of dozen of them (though there were several hundred signs on the steps) so it was easy to talk to them. Most were 20-somethings but definitely not all. They were playing music and hackey-sack in front of Tower City, just across the street from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Two policemen sat on horseback. Protesters were petting the horses, who seemed to approve.

All of the protesters said the Cleveland Police had been great, and that they felt they were on their side. One young woman said she had held a sign up saying “We Are Fighting for Your Pensions” and a couple of the cops had come up to her and said, “We know.” We were only there for a couple of hours, but during that time several cars pulled up right behind a police car, parked in a No Parking zone behind it, and dropped off supplies. We must have been there for at least half an hour chatting with the protesters while the old Saturn flashed its hazard lights, and the police didn’t so much as give us a “move along.”

Music played by protesters blasted forth from amplifiers and speakers (no loudspeaker ban in Cleveland, thank you very much), and then one speaker came up and said, “Uh, we’re going to have a march at three o’clock. Uh, we’re not sure where yet, but we’ll tell you when we know. ”

Oh, and Green Cleveland, a sort of public-private hybrid promoting a “green city on a blue lake,” provided port-a-potties. The protesters said their biggest needs right now were blankets and maybe old couch cushions. We said we’d see what we could do.

Then we got hugs all round, and left to deal with domestic duties. All in all, I have to say the atmosphere for Occupy Cleveland was downright friendly and laid back. Those there today said they planned to stay 24-7 for at least a week, and would see where things stood then. OK, so it wasn’t as much as New York and DC and Philly, but it’s a start.

And in the comments:

OhioGringo: You’re right. This country has a veritable plethora of good people who are willing to put themselves on the line for others. These people I met in downtown Cleveland today are definitely in that category. The 22-year old with a BS in Zoology who can’t find a job. The grizzled veteran holding up a sign that said simply, “STOP WAR FUNDING.” The young man named Liberty who hugged us in gratitude for gatorade and spoke of the importance of community. And the police who protect them from wackjob free marketeers.

As for the last sentence, one of the protesters told me that a couple of people, “maybe Teabagger types, I don’t know,” he said, showed up and started screaming insults. A Cleveland cop came over and asked them, politely, to depart. One of them said, “But we’re on YOUR side.” The cop replied, “No you’re not. THEY(pointing to the Occupy Cleveland protesters) are.”

:applause: :woohoo: :toast:

OCCUPY CLEVELAND!

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[Kolesar]

3. 20-somethings: The new workers who cannot find work in this era

It's not just intellectuals and "the usual" antiwar types.