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The Sun allowed a protestor

Donal — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:50:53 +0000

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The Sun allowed a protestor to, well, protest their article:

Well, it’s finally happened. Occupy Baltimore, the 100-person occupation fighting valiantly to stay above water, has made the national news. (In your face, D.C.) We're all over the blogosphere and the countrywide radar … for creating a sexual offense policy that doesn't recommend reporting assault to the police.

The problem is, it's not true. The policy in question was drafted by an ad hoc security committee during the beginning of our occupation in McKeldin Square, and that team has been almost entirely replaced in the weeks since. It was barely even discussed, and never ratified, by our General Assembly. In fact, it was basically forgotten until a right-wing blogger came around to dig through our trash, looking for a juicy weakness to exploit.

... while this policy wasn't an official policy, it was still a problem. Just like the blasé dismissal of media critiques as "trolling," it's indicative of the larger dynamics at play in McKeldin Square. Dominant, mostly male voices are calling constantly for an end to discussion of "gender-specific issues" in order to focus on the nebulous call for economic reform, which has defined the Occupy protests across the nation. Complaints of sexual harassment at the site are belittled as "personal problems," as though it's somehow possible to affect change as a divided and internally oppressive community.

A week ago, this really upset me. I was ready to walk out of the General Assembly; I stormed to everyone who would listen that I hadn't come here to fight the same old fight against male privilege. But something -- habit? exhaustion? demented hope? -- convinced me to linger. I drank herbal tea with my new friends, conspired for a better world, and realized that there's no way I'm going anywhere.

Full blog here.

From what I saw on Day 18, though, OB security still has a bugaboo about people calling the po-lice.

Interesting. Dumbart tends to

Richard Day — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:51:50 +0000

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Interesting. Dumbart tends to get on my nerves.

He has no historical depth or philisophical gravitas so I become less enraged than when I read Buchanan or Newt.

He is just a straight out liar; always has been and always will.

O'Donnel just reamed him a new one lately and it was hilarious!

Fox and its cohorts have been on this anti-semetic rant; which is also interesting with rush chiming in that the Jews make-up 1% of the population and everyone knows that the Jews are the bankers. hahahahaa

This is to be expected. I mean the right will infiltrate 'the movement' and spin and twist and do anything they can to disrupt it.

Stewart has been doing the best job of demonstrating the hypocrisy of all of this by simply publishing the videos of the fascists arguing for free speech and for the right of assembly--in 2009 of course.

Again, thanks for the on the street report.

The Sun hasn't been worth

rmrd0000 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:31:14 +0000

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The Sun hasn't been worth reading for years. The new firewall will only result in even fewer readers.