The Good, The Bad and The Wingnutty: #OccupySTL One Month On
The following is a personal account and analysis of the first month of OccupySTL. In hopes of depicting a more well-rounded picture of #OccupySTL, I’m going to try and quickly describe the last 2 or 3 weeks – warts and all. It seems initial excitement (and plain lack of time to describe more) might have […]
Carbondale: Personal Account of Strike from 11/7
The following is a personal account of Day 5 (Monday, November 7) of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Faculty strike. Today was a really amazing day on the SIUC campus. Some undergraduate students organized a rally in solidarity with the Faculty Strike — which has turned into something of an occupation, since the five members […]
State workers stage sick-out, OccupySTL responds
With the backdrop of Oakland’s extremely successful General Strike (not successful in that we destroyed state and capital, but that Oakland was fucking shut down: many banks and businesses shut down not in support of the occupy movement, but for fear of retaliation, not to mention the always militant longshoremen union shutting down the port), […]
Friday Night, Round Two
Friday night we once again took to the streets, and once again surpassed the initial goal of the march. 150-200 people left Occupied Kiener Plaza, and marched down to the Justice Center (downtown jail). We intended to hold a noise demo in solidarity with striking prisoners in California. Banners included “SOLIDARITY WITH PELICAN BAY AND […]
Friday’s Demonstrations in Images
The afternoon union-initiated march: The evening prisoner strike solidarity demonstration and more: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jgu2mPzQfQ&w=350&h=267]
Fifth and Sixth Official Statements from #OccupySTL
The fifth statement was written in response to racist graffiti found at the occupation. It could have been from anyone (someone wondering through the park, a participant,a provacateur, it’s an open public space and near impossible to stop something like that from happening.) When it was brought to the everyone’s attention, people were appalled and […]
New PDFs of flyers passed out
Here you go everyone: Two PDFs of flyers we have passed around the occupation. You are welcome to print them off (whether you are in St Louis or outside in another #Occupy) if you are tickled by the texts. The first one is meant to be printed double sided. The other, one sided. And by […]
Statement from #Occupy Boston
For OccupySTL and others to consider. The following is an official statement put out by #OccupyBoston. It’s an amazing stance that blows the violence/non-violence debate out of the water and instead replaces it with tactical conversations, an affirmation that they will trust each other and (most of all) not succumb to outsiders’ attempts to define […]
A demand and a half.
Our first official demand has been approved for publication. It’s not a whole lot, but it’s getting things going. It reads: We demand all charges brought against the occupation so far be dropped immediately. Public space should be public space 24 hours a day. Tonight’s General Assembly approved the following demand and hopefully the morning […]
Meet Me in Occupy#St.Louis
This text was originally an e-mail sent Wednesday, October 5 by someone participating in OccupySTL, to a friend in Europe who posted in on libcom.org and now it’s coming back here. Oh, the internet! The statement’s a raw, guttural take on things and, when written, didn’t necessarily know it was gonna end up in the public eye. (The author has OK’ed us […]