Re: nettime Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

2012-01-04 Thread Newmedia
JH: Best to walk away, scatter, make a new life elsewhere, and let the police fall flat on their faces as they push their phalanx around the urban centers, alone. Of course! This is what is already happening. All but for the few who haven't made it to the 21st century yet. C'mon

Re: nettime Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

2012-01-04 Thread Newmedia
Jodi: This post from Mark Stahlman is the most naive, misinformed, self-deceived, and deceptive piece of writing I've ever seen on this list. Thanks (but you must be new to the list g)! Have you ever actually tried to *do* in anything in Washington? I have -- many times. The US

Re: nettime Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

2012-01-04 Thread Brian Holmes
On 01/04/2012 07:46 AM, newme...@aol.com wrote: OCCUPY your own *life*!! The ONE-PERCENT is a statistical account of wealth distribution -- NOT a useful description of *power* distribution. I agree with Jodi, this is idiotic. What's happening in the world right now is the perilous breakup

Re: nettime Portland Occupation's tactical innovation

2012-01-04 Thread John Hopkins
hei tim -- The process you're talking about is called demobilization, and it has a social history. An important part of that history is how returning soldiers, and what exactly they're returning from, are mythologized. At one extreme there's _Dolchstosslegende_ nonsense and its US