Hope...has two beautiful daughters...

[nashville_brook]

Anger and Courage.

Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. -- St. Augustine



_________________________


That's the problem with hope, it doesn't come alone. Hope brings it's family along. When hope is raised, so are expectations.

We expected change.



Instead they came for our homes, our jobs and our money.


We expected that a new regime would fight for us. Instead, we're finding power in our voice.




We expected that the obvious source of our nation's pain would be brought to account. Instead our accounts were emptied into theirs.




We expected all these things because Hope was exploited.




And so now it's up to Hope's still small children.

Anger.





And Courage.





Our only hope is ourselves.


___________________________________________________________

inspired by this column by Chris Hedges: Calling All Rebels
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/08-2

[gateley]

1. Amazing photos. Thank you. Rec. nt

[DirkGently]

8. That last picture ... the camera on the ground. A journalist. THIS is who gets thrown down; hogtied?

[gateley]

18. I'm sputtering with indignation - seriously. I feel helpless and impotent -

this should NOT be happening in our country, much less a savvy city like NYC! This is the type of crap you're expect from red neck small town cops, not New York's Finest.

[DirkGently]

19. A lot of that going around. Righteous indignation has been co-opted by nutwads. We need ours BACK.

[nashville_brook]

21. i'm right there with you.

[libmom74]

81. Check to see if there is

an Occupy event in your local area http://www.facebook.com/OccupyTogether?ref=ts. I'm attendin one in Seattle today.

[gkhouston]

31. Apparently, protesting the status quo is now more threatening than a weapon. n/t

[nashville_brook]

33. always has been.

[rgbecker]

41. Is this the reason the protest is not being reported?

Cops out of control, throwing people to the ground, spraying mace. Dangerous for reporters?

America, where are you now? Don't you care about your sons and daughters?

[roguevalley]

46. I love them all. Fear in the eyes but courage in the heart. God

bless them all.

[seabeyond]

2. you did good... nt

[Autumn]

3. Recommended. And I would do it a million times if I could.

Those pictures show everything that is wrong with this whole sorry sad situation.

[nashville_brook]

9. we are digging in. it's only beginning.

[DirkGently]

15. STILL looking for the mainstream coverage on this. MSNBC has it buried on the financial page.

for Pete's sake.

[nashville_brook]

17. foreign political protest...earth shattering. domestic protests...not so much

[DirkGently]

20. Two Tea Partiers in lawn chairs waving gimme flags = "Concerned Americans!"

Thousands of angry, articulate, disenfranchised protestors addressing the heart of America's biggest problems = a footnote about who was arrested.

In other words, anything smacking vaguely of the left is Just Another Protest by Those Hippie People, Tying Up Traffic The Way They Do, Until We Start Gassing Them.

Insane, racist, ignoramuses issuing veiled threats of armed insurrection, babbling nonsensically about their taxes being too high, however, qualify as Regular People Fed Up With The System.

It's just completely nuts.

[nashville_brook]

34. Wear a mask to a peaceful protest get arrested - bring gun 2 tea party rally & get interviewed.

[DirkGently]

52. Seriously, I wonder how long this will be determinedly ignored. Already farcical.

[DirkGently]

4. Right on, St. A. Hope's a bit too passive, it turns out. Meet the kids.

Great post.

[nashville_brook]

5. it always falls on the kids.

[chill_wind]

6. Outstanding pics

and post. K & R!

[nashville_brook]

11. outstanding people -- :)

[chill_wind]

13. +1000

[snagglepuss]

7. e expected that the obvious source of our nation's pain would be brought to account.

Instead our accounts were emptied into theirs. "


Spot on.


k & r

[bread_and_roses]

10. K&R (n/t)

[malaise]

12. Nice post

Rec

[lunatica]

14. I see hope and determination to change things in these photos

There's a nice twosome. Hope and determination.

[bengalherder]

16. Breathtaking. K&R! n/t

[leftstreet]

22. K&R

[WorseBeforeBetter]

23. "PEOPLE NEED JOBS!" Meanwhile, in NC: "State may need to borrow money for jobless benefits"

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/4455218/

The insanity has *got* to stop.

[butterfly77]

24. Kick,kick,kick &recommended!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[sabrina 1]

25. Excellent OP!

They arrested a CBS reporter and held him for nine hours, btw. I do not know if the man in the photo is from the Occupywallstreet media team, or the CBS reporter.

Disgraceful behavior on the part of a police force clearly on the side of Wall St. At least their leadership is. Ray Kelly and Bloomberg.

[nashville_brook]

26. i think we're at a point where police brutality is par for the course

and could easily increase the resolve of the protesters. i hope so, at least.

[Control-Z]

27. Totally off subject,

but I swear I thought that was backwards B girl in the 3rd pic from the bottom.

[nashville_brook]

28. heh heh -- ashley todd

[sce56]

43. Only if she dyed her hair red!

I really doubt it!

[inna]

29. kr; outstanding

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. rec

[Kind of Blue]

32. KnR. Thanks! n/t

[provis99]

35. and fascist pigs among NYPD's "Finest" protecting the rich.

[AllyCat]

36. This is amazing. Thank you! And thanks to all the courageous and angry Americans

there fighting for all of us. Well, all but 1% of us.

[nashville_brook]

37. they've got the guns, but we've got the numbers

:)

[tpsbmam]

38. Oh n_b, what an exquisite post. Thank you! K& RRRRRRR!

:cry: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[chill_wind]

40. It is.

Beautifully and powerfully done.

:kick:

[nashville_brook]

47. :) shucks.

[Little Star]

39. Nice post & pictures. Those young people give me hope. n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

42. K&R

This still gets a sidebar on my local newspaper (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, A-7)...

Guess nobody's interested but those damned by what was never fixed in 2008.

[Riley18]

44. Great pictures

[Riley18]

45. Great pictures

[mod mom]

48. K&R

[Dystopian]

49. KandR

Truth.


Thank you.



peace~

[Iwillnevergiveup]

50. Powerful, powerful

Pictures and words. Thanks for posting.

K&R

[myrna minx]

51. K&R n/t

[UrbScotty]

53. Shame that these protests (and 'police' treatment) are being used to try to turn us against Obama.

Obama = President of the United States (i.e. federal government).

NYPD = part of local government.

Presidents do not have dictatorial powers over local police units.

Thankfully, the vast majority of us liberal Democrats approve of the job he is doing. Polls show that Obama's approval rating rises as you go more and more liberal in demographics.

I am proud to stand with these protestors and with our President!

[nashville_brook]

70. this is the single CRAZIEST conspiracy theory i've ever seen on DU.

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

54. ...

:applause::applause::applause:

[aquart]

55. Anger, Courage, Core, Heart, Family

Libis is a Sumerian word meaning Anger, Courage, Core, Heart, Family. That is the ROOT of liberal.

[nashville_brook]

64. that's very cool! i did not know this.

[NWLib]

56. Absolutely amazing.................

I am really starting to believe that maybe, just maybe, we're reaching a tipping point. Once that happens and the people really rise up there will be no turning back.

[BeHereNow]

57. HUGE K&R- The commentary you made:

along with the sequence of photos is brilliant-
I SO wish I had the money to be there shoulder to shoulder with
these TRUE PATRIOTS.

BHN:grouphug: :applause: :applause: :applause: :kick: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[nashville_brook]

63. me too.

[Alameda]

58. Fantastic photos, the girl in the yellow and the photographer in

particular. Where did you find the photos, did you take them? What an inspiration.

[seerlei]

59. support

Our only hope is ourselves.

[jimlup]

60. rec x1000

thanks!

[Enthusiast]

61. Kicked and recommended! nt

[Dokkie]

62. K & R

[treestar]

65. Unrec

Oh the drama! This is just OTT.

[nashville_brook]

68. "oh the drama" -- yeah, actually it is dramatic when people make a stand for what's right.

[DirkGently]

71. Guess you should have checked with Obama Central to see if this topic made the approved reading list

... guess not. Even though it doesn't particularly have anything to do with him. What's the theory, I wonder? Protests reflect America has problems, and America does NOT have problems, while Obama is in office?


:rofl:

What a bizarre, fucked up lens some people view the world with.

Pathetic.

[treestar]

88. It has nothing to do with him?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It is OTT pathetic.

[treestar]

86. Well this doesn't make a stand for what's right

It is exaggerated, OTT and it undermines any serious cause.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

73. Is this what you would suggest?

Why should we resist at all? Why not give in to cynicism and despair? Why not carve out as comfortable a niche as possible within the embrace of the corporate state and spend our lives attempting to satiate our private needs? The power elite, including most of those who graduate from our top universities and our liberal and intellectual classes, have sold out for personal comfort. Why not us?

You did not read the link did you?

[nashville_brook]

80. it's too bad he's not going to answer this, b/c these are very good questions

thanks for reading the link...that's one hell of a powerful piece!

[siligut]

85. Sellouts, exactly. nt

[treestar]

87. I read the OP and it was sickeningly OTT.

Resistance is all you want to do. Tear down and never build up.

[boomerbust]

66. The most telling thing about this post

Is the absense of replies by you know, the usual suspects.

[nashville_brook]

69. heheh -- you spoke but a moment too soon ^^^

:evilgrin:

[Highway61]

67. Great photos..thanks for posting

Bless each and everyone who is participating in this protest.

[uponit7771]

72. Obama: "....WE ARE THE CHANGE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR...."

I never heaped all my hopes on the back of one person expecting him to do everything

[DirkGently]

74. Precisely. And yet if apparently offends a few that Americans would take direct action themselves.

[SammyWinstonJack]

75. K&R!!!!

:thumbsup: :applause:

[bertman]

76. REC. Very powerful, brook. Thanks for posting this. nt

[Hotler]

77. k&r n/t

[bvar22]

78. Artfully Done. K&R

"The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that nation states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated."
----Bolivian Reform President Evo Morales

You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[nashville_brook]

79. the problem with US-style (Chicago) capitalism is that we never thought

it would be used against us the same way we used it against the rest of the world. now we see that's not true. the Shock Doctrine has come home...and it actually could be too late to stop the bleeding.

[BetsysGhost]

82. if these pictures were from

a foreign nation who we (they) disagree with because the nation state doesn't do our (their) bidding, we would be hearing our Secretary of State telling the world that this is unacceptable.

irony.

[nashville_brook]

83. yes -- you hit the nail on the head. there's no State Dept on our side on this.

[DirkGently]

84. Correct. Nothing to see here, No one being oppressed by the tyranny of socialism.

[Fire Walk With Me]

89. Kick!