February 2012
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An unstable narcissist tries to bully a true...
Introduction: Who is Sue Basko? Since day one of Occupy LA, this unstable individual who claims to be a lawyer has assiduously tried to control the movement, at first through simply blogging on the Occupy LA site warning against civil disobedience (No Banner drops! Stay on the sidewalk! Don’t smoke in Solidarity Park! It’s illegal!) and then by targeting, harassing, cyber-stalking and...
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White OLA Fucks Up Local Communities
Background: Reformist members of OLA have been holding a picnic, without GA approval, and with the overt opposition of Radical OLA, in Macarthur Park. After Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC) politely told picnickers to be more cognizant and respectful of the local community, the picnickers were asked by Radical members of OLA to find an alternative location. They refused. On Sunday,...
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San Quentin's Dangerous Conversion Conditions
San Quentin’s Dangerous Conversion Conditions
Every California male sentenced to time in prison must first be processed at one of two Reception Centers (RCs). In Northern California, they are sent to San Quentin (SQ); in Southern California, the California Institution for Men in Chino (CIM). Until 2011, the RC at San Quentin occupied four units: Donner, Badger, Alpine and Carson. Now,...
Why Self-Help Actually Hurts the Movement
SELF HELP AND OCCUPY
Welcome to another excoriating edition of Occupy LA AntiSocial Media. The target today—self-help culture and the noxious influence of a mind-boggling array of bad books , talkshow TV, romantic comedies, and pop songs arguing from the same basic standpoint—how you feel right now is more important than civic virtue, duty, social justice, and one’s work (as...
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Solidarity Forever Alex
OLAASM mourns today the loss of a true comrade, Alex Weinschenker, who fell victim to the disease of addiction and the illegal war on drugs. Alex was a radical, an anarchist, a fearless warrior for the Occupy movement, and an incredibly talented artist. Even those who did not know Alex personally probably wore his artwork on bandanas, t-shirts and scarfs, saw his signs waved at protests. Alex...
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Fuck your "letter of intent" - Open Letter to...
From Occupy Congress:
Just to let everyone know, the antisocial occupy La media group has put an attack out on us… Here is the link. http://ola-asm.tumblr.com/post/18077424025/occupy-congress-a-festering-pile-of The price of transparency… just be ready for stuff like this. I wish they would comment on our listserv with their grievances instead of publicly attacking us… Does...
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Occupy Congress: A festering pile of...
The following text is floating around the “Occupy Congress” Listserv. Before reading, you might want to check out How to Cure Nausea: 24 steps - wikiHow:
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Hello!
If you are reading this right now, then you are probably wondering, “Who the hell is Occupy Congress?”
If not, I bet you are now.
First off, we are several of things:
We are an idea:
We...
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Building Something Better Than A Building
My involvement in the Battle Against the State of Oakland had its roots from the aftermath of the Regents meeting at University of California, Riverside. The day that followed was coincidentally an intensely emotional experience, as we sat in our tents on the lawn of UCR, recovering from the battle we waged with the Regents, UCR police, and Riverside Sheriffs.
That day we discussed how in...
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Making Topiaries Out of Hedges #trimhedges
Fascifists like Tina Dupuy from Crooks&Liars (and others immersed in the careerist, “liberal establishment”) have been falling over themselves to denounce, defame, and perhaps worst of all - propagate rumors and plain untruths - about the defensive tactics used by our comrades in Oakland to protect themselves from the militarized assault they endured on “Move In” Day....
What is Hegemony? And the Risks of Dissent
Today we revisit the basic issue at hand in every post on this site: dissent within the movement. What are the risks of dissent within a movement already predicated on dissent? If the goal of the movement is to galvanize common complaints and common goals among the 99%, how can dissent be productive?
OLAASM has already effectively decried OLA’s “Solidarity” march through MacArthur Park ten...
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COLONIZER: A Postcolonial reading of Chris Hedges
The sudden volte-face of famed Liberal destroyer Chris Hedges in his recent demonization of the Black Bloc, sinisterly entitled ‘The Cancer of Occupy’, is a wonderful introduction for North American activists to the field of Postcolonial Theory. Edward Said’s seminal text ‘Orientalism’ examines how Western study of ‘The Orient’ contributes to the functioning of colonial power. Representations of...
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The Media Issue
OLAASM was established in direct response to, and protest against, the undemocratic, extremely opaque and hierarchical structure of the OLA Media Team. There are, of course, other reasons why the site was established, which are outlined in our opening article. We would not like OLA Media to think they get all the credit for our ingenuity. However, we’d like to take the time now to recap upon...
