Gotta REVOLUTION!!

Jon Walker and Kevin Gosztola are down at Freedom Square in Washington DC right now, so with Brian in NY we’ve got reporters covering this in two cities.

It was so cool being down at Freedom Square today. We spoke with this guy who works with Tim DeChristopher. He said someone asked Tim if he wanted Obama to use his power to free him, and Tim said no, if Obama is going to use his power, use it to help everyone, not him.

That’s real courage and leadership.

Thanks for all your great work, Jane.

Just one thing–I believe it is TIM DeChristopher, not Tom.

They just announced, 10 min til Naomi Klein starts speaking.

Repeating my comment from post down below

… taking a break at the downtown library. I think the weather has kept some people away. The attendance has varied from a few hundred to about 5 or 6 hundred (people going to lunch etc …). Went on the march to B of A and Wells Fargo. Lots of police watching from motorcycles, bikes, horses, cars – not worried about any of them with attitudes, bc, they know ACLU and NLG is advising and watching

Cheers

More links

http://www.news10.net/news/article/157822/2/Occupy-Sacramento-rally-and-march-take-place

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/06/3963949/occupy-sacramento-rally-planned.html

On my way back out now

L8r

Yeah John! Please blog about this. And we want pictures!

Can FDL send you some pizzas?

I love the echo method of speech making.

Can’t hear her…….

Listen to the crowd. Marc Antony would have read Ceasar’s will this way.

Very hard to understand… hopefully some one was able to record or transcribe it.

The human microphone is way cool even if it’s not the best.

Jane will there be a transcript of her speech available?? I as many others have a hard time following the speech.. Oh and thanks for all you and the others Pups do for all of us!! ☺ ☺ ☺

This is their first time with this. Not too shabby. They’ll get better at it. OWS has it down.

Are those police copters overhead? And if so, what possible purpose could they have for hovering over the group for this extended amount of time. We can see from just watching that nothing ‘violent’ is taking place.

Yes, we’ll put a version of it up.

Except when the stream dies. *g*

One purpose would be to drown out speakers. You can bet yer bottom dollar they’re taking lots of pix.

Many thanks Jane.

this is great

thank you Brian!

as always :)

I just put up a diary about the methods the corporate powers will use to attempt to destroy the OccupyWallStreet movement.

There are some steps folks at home can take to help have the protesters’ backs. Check it out.

BTW, I was talking to some folk in SF for their Occupy movement the other day. Nice people.

and Brian has a great spot, the global revolution livestream is showing Naomi’s back

In my wicked little mind I can see Trotsky addressing the workers in Petrograd in 1917.

The 1% has no idea how to *dispose* of peaceful protest. it’s too revolutionary when the people take back THEIR streets and use them to discuss the issues that confront them… issues that the elite don’t want hear about and have no intention of doing anything about.

The national security state protects the 1% and their wealth… stolen from the 99%… that’s what capitalists do.. exploit workers – the 99%.

only 20% battery???? Shiza get him a replacement STAT!!

This happened on the fly, I just found out about the speech this afternoon and Brian just jumped in a cab. Hopefully it will last — I think i get about 2 hours on a battery, so it should unless she’s got a really long speech.

Lessons learned.

Keep extra battery packs with camera.

Dan Choi is here watching it with me — they have a hearing tomorrow on the Writ of Mandamus (just not enough happening around here…) He is watching this with me and said how powerful listening to this human amplification system was.

I read him your comment. We both thought it was totally awesome.

Lets hope.. Doing things on the fly can get very daunting…But a spare Battery??? Oh well next event will be better!!

Jesus, we’re pulling pennies out of the sofa just to get people to these events. I dream of the day we have the resources for stuff like extra batteries.

;)

Always have and always will…

John! Kewl!

500-600 is GREAT!!

Here’s a link from local TV, biggest Sac station!

SacOccupy Gets MSM Coverage!

See my new diary about SEIU and Daily Kos co opting Occupy!

This Devestates Me!

*G*

What’s a battery cost? Serious question.

I am sure that APEC is very happy that they are having their meeting on an Island ( Oahu ) where transportation of protesters and supporting area that they can draw from is limited.

They have learned from Seattle and Quebec keep these meeting isolated so opposing voices can’t be heard or seen.

That was just fuckin’ awesome. AWESOME!!

Well, hardly. It hasn’t gone that far and is not likely to. He really had no idea of the consequences back then.

Leon Trotsky, Chapter 7 of “1905″:

“. . .Only for its own purposes did the strike allow itself to break the vow of immobility. When it needed news bulletins of the revolution it opened a printing works; it used the telegraph to send out strike instructions; it let trains carrying strikers’ delegates pass.
Nothing else was exempt: the strike closed down industrial plants, chemists’ and grocers’ shops, courts of law, everything.

“From time to time its attention wearied and its vigilance slackened, now here, now there. Sometimes a reckless train would break through the strike barrier: then the strike would set off in pursuit of it. The guilty train, like a criminal on the run, raced through dark and empty stations, unannounced by the telegraph, leaving a wake of fear and uncertainty behind it. But in the end the strike would catch up with the train, stop the engine, immobilize the driver, let off the steam.

“It used every possible means. It appealed, convinced, implored; it begged on its knees—that is what a woman orator did at the Kursky Station in Moscow—it threatened, terrorized, threw stones, finally fired off its Brownings. It wanted to achieve its aim at whatever cost. It staked too much: the blood of fathers, the bread of children, the reputation of its own strength. An entire class obeyed it; and when a negligible fraction of that class, corrupted by the very forces it was fighting, stood in its path, it is scarcely surprising that the strike roughly kicked the obstacle aside. . .”

More at

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/quotes.htm

X100000000000000000 and then some. Just maybe maybe we CAN get our country back from the 1%!!!!

Have marched on the Winter palace yet :)?

1917 involved greater masses than 1905 did. This type of gathering was common during the 1917 revolution. See Trotsky’s 3 volume History of the Russian Revolution.

*g*

O/T Check your diary on Jansch. I posted 2 links re Billy Connolly.

I have read a lot of Trotsky.

My favorite is his description of the revolutionary moment. The soldier is ordered to fire on his fellow class of citizens and refuses to do so.

Mahalo Nui Loa, Jane, for all your endeavors…!

Please let Lt. Choi know that I truly admire his leadership, and he brings great credit upon our seriously tarnished Uniforms…! *g*

Dang looks like the battery ran out….Big thanks for everything today Brian & of course the rest of the crew!!!

Just got here…………did I miss it or are we just off air for a minute?

It was wonderful to be there from here

battery just died :(

Great going, Jane, Kevin, Brian. Did a marvelous job today. I’m really proud of you.

Greetings, LT Choi. You’re quite the role model for these people.

I’m aware of that. It’s my understanding this reference in “1905″ is actually about 1917.

thx, El

Hmmm, I have the 1971 Random House edition of 1905 and the chapters aren’t numbered, they’re titled, so I can’t look it up.

On edit: there are sections and chapters fall under the sections. I’d have to know what section.

Did Lt. Choi speak? He must have had quite an ovation, if so.

Have not read all the comments, but you have more than 2 people covering OWS plus other cities. Lisa’s been doing a great job at covering LA’s gathering. You want to ‘hold’ an event?, do it in LA.

Listening now have not heard it all but she is blaming capitalism. We do not have capitalism, we have a corrupt rigged system that supports the MIC.

Right! We have a CRONY Capitalist system now. Russia has something even more extreme where the gangs and the old KGB rule now.

Try “The Strike in October.” Rereading there I do indeed see 1905, and suppose you were correct about that. My bad.

Before I had read this as part of a revised later edition of the same work from after 1917, and thought it referred to 1917.

It’s horrific stuff, kind of like suddenly finding yourself confined in a barrell about to go over the falls and not knowing how you got there. Nightmare or reality?

Disaster capitalism. Milton Friedman’s wet dream.

It sure is! Thank you Jane for all your work. You folks here @ FDL have been laying the ground work for this for a very long time.

I was thinking since a lot of the materials at marxistarchive are the original English translations from either the Moscow Institute or International Publishers, revised editions would have corrected many of the translation/typo errors.

Yeh and if we are not careful this movement will be led down the garden path, think capitalism is the problem, and russia on steroids is what we will get. Honestly, I think that is what PTB want……neofuedalism, and getting the masses to do the heavy lifting, and then swoop in offering utopia for all…….translated as total slavery

Got that, and thanks!

Will try to do a blog tomorrow. Not sure if they need food but here’s contact info http://occupysac.com/?page_id=35

Just got news from a lawyer with the NLG that the city managers office in Sac is going to order the police to arrest people occupying Caesar Chavez park at 11:00 PM

The city manager has the ability to wave the anti camping ordinance but they don’t want to ‘make an exception’

City Managers office # (916) 808-7213

Police Chief’s # (916) 808-0800

Please call to urge them to make an exception

*heh* The home of the Golden Dome ain’t as accommodating as L.A…? ;-)

Btw, with SFPD and Oakland PD already cracking skulls what’s up with NorCal these daze…? ;-)

First to post a Youtube of the Naomi Klein talk wins a cookie. I missed it.

Meanwhile, back on the hill, some less sexy business took place Thursday that us 99 percenters needn’t be concerned with.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/06/bipartisan-proposal-for-tax-holiday-introduced-in-senate/