Comments for Bob Plain

Comment on Santa Barbara: tailored to the 1 percent by Mitzumi

Mitzumi — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:45:36 +0000

Cristina SantosAWESOME!!! for the peploe who does’t knew that place. i grew up there and stayed there for 18 years and i can’t picture out where is the exact place in the picture, i’ve been there for last year, the sta. barbara heights is only starting. i knew the plce and very beautiful and wonderful but the picture show is not real. i think indi man ran siguro ang hatay-hatay sa blessing ikon sa cottage , panigurado nga indi man dan sa hole number 3 kang IGCCI and mas indi ran guro and imburnal . the picture is too much beautiful fir the place and i think it will be the future for the sta. barbara heights. Go mga ILONGO and GO mga Sta. Barbaranhon.

Comment on Occupy NOLA works vacant lot into community garden by Chen

Chen — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:49:26 +0000

Yeah, but my enexriepce served me in good stead when mingling with this mob. It took me about ten seconds to establish iron-clad bonafides. First, I was riding a bicycle, which automatically made me more attractive than the one percent in their limousines.Second, a quick power salute, along with a muttered Power to the people, was all the rest it took. Imagine. They’re still responding like Pavlov’s dogs to the signs and symbols that were current nearly fifty years ago. They seem to have added the fist bump to their repertoire, though.Semiotics as substitute for thought. It never fails.

Comment on Why Occupy: Zuccotti Park by LoneStarLaurel

LoneStarLaurel — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:35:57 +0000

@OREGON
You will be very interested in the doc film available via Netflix streaming which discusses H20. You will be shocked to see that in fact much of the planet’s H20 is already “owned” with plans to take over the rest of it. The countries and big cities that have ‘sold’ their water supplies are finding, to their dismay, that this doesn’t work out well. Some have taken their water back. And more.

Please, Everybody, arm yourself with this knowledge about the most fundamental and vital resource on our planet, current problems, projected problems, the consequences of unchanged policies and – Yipeee Skippee!! – what can be done to overcome and prevent these consequences – if we choose to do so.

Got popcorn?

Comment on A tale of two DC occupations by sallywesst

sallywesst — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:47:18 +0000

I have to correct a couple of inaccuracies. I was at the initial GAs for OccupyDC (McPherson) which was on October 1, 2011. Occupiers walked the park for about 4 days (and nights) before one occupier finally pitched a tent on October 4, 2011. By October 15, the information tent, a very small Occu-Library tent and several personal tents had been erected. My own went up on October 10, 2011

I think there was an inaccuracy with Freedom Plaza’s permit mention as well. From the first time I spoke to anyone there I was told that they had a 4 MONTH permit. McPherson Square has never had a permit and never will. Nor is one needed as long as there are less than 500 people there.

Be Well – Be Safe – and keep on reporting.

Comment on Occupy 2.0: Less protest, more community service by Eric Navickas

Eric Navickas — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:55:17 +0000

I find it sad to see Occupy morph further into a reformist mode of counter-revolutionary politics.
It is time for Occupy to realize that it is not only the homeless who suffer, but it is nearly every citizen who is enslaved through their debt to the banks for the basic human need of shelter. If Occupy wants revolution it is time to articulate clearly what is within our grasp; the upheaval of the minority who own America and the world, and the freedom from burden of property debt that enslaves us all.
Revolution is not some hollow cliche and homeless shelters are not the solution. We have the ability to bring down the banks and redistribute the wealth of this world, opening the door to a new renaissance where we are all free from the burdens of debt, the gross accumulation of wealth, and food and housing are guaranteed to all.
Reformist politics will leave us all on our knees pulling the yoke of our masters.

Comment on Occupy 2.0: Less protest, more community service by Peter S. Lopez

Peter S. Lopez — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:27:14 +0000

Great article. Shared on Facebook & Twitter. One of the best I have seen about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Thanks! @Peta_de_Aztlan

Comment on Occupy LA debates nonviolence vs. diversity of tactics by shreya

shreya — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:07:15 +0000

give some more information on non violence in against

Comment on Occupy NOLA works vacant lot into community garden by Mark Mayhew

Mark Mayhew — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:56:40 +0000

you got so many things wrong in you post that it’s hardly even worth talking about, i.e. the first Lot these idiots occupied was in the *Third*, not Second, Ward, and they got evicted because 1) they were on private property, and 2) it was a violent, out of control death trap.
Try to get at least *some* of your facts right next time?

Comment on Santa Barbara: tailored to the 1 percent by Dolinger

Dolinger — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:59:32 +0000

And so it goes. Santa Barbara was the birthplace of America’s New Age spiritual movement. It started in the 19th century with a rag tag group of what would much later be known as hippies. They settled in the verdant forest and wrote poems and songs and manifestos. They grew their hair long and ran around naked in their gardens. They opened America’s first health food store downtown. Soon to be world famous writers made the pilgrimage to this hitherto unknown oasis only to see if it was true. This spirit must still be somewhere in the ever renewing flowers on the hillside. Keep the faith, you few of the big perspective — inside the very decline is the seed of tomorrow’s promise.

Comment on Occupy NOLA works vacant lot into community garden by Lana Sheaffer

Lana Sheaffer — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:30:01 +0000

Bobbi Ann Lewis go back to your own neighborhood. Or, stop talking and listen. This could potentially benefit the Seventh Ward. Thanks for the update Bob on what’s happening with “Occupy” in my city.