| To: Retort From: LW Lee on the ground in Oakland notes, re the previous report on Occupy Oakland, that: "the OPD's defense of private property is every bit as insanely exaggerated as you might expect it to be. The day was a perfect corroboration of Graeber's analysis at City Lights bookstore 36 hours before: neoliberalism is in fact a political program whose primary purpose is not to create free markets but to demonstrate at any cost that there is no hope of creating an alternative. This is why hosting governments are willing to shut down IMF and G-8 summits in order to make sure that protestors can't shut them down. Likewise OPD, which "doesn't have the budget" to respond to burglaries of private homes (1), spends millions and is prepared to use live ammunition to stop us from entering an unused building for social purposes." and crediting Zunguzungu blog for the links, points to: "two reports on the pansy left, the cissexist left, ungendering, Zizek, Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, and our nation's first major trans hero": http://amapofthecountry.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/open-secrets-and-bad-feelings/ http://globalcomment.com/2011/why-does-the-media-still-refer-to-%E2%80%9Cbradley%E2%80%9D-manning-the-curious-silence-around-a-transgender-hero/ |