I had not realized that we were staying only two blocks away from the Zucatti Park, the scene of the violence last night. It was all blocked off with very few people anywhere near the park. Instead, the whole block was ringed by police cars, perhaps fearing that a lone protester might dare to climb over the metal railings placed to make the park inaccessible.
We walked down to Wall Street. Again, an enormous number of police guarding the heart of capitalism.
25 – The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression
30 – Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society
Class Warfare in the Information Age
Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation
The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment
Those cars have been parked there since late September 2011.
Thanks for straightening me out. Our police state in California is less advanced than yours. I had not realized how extreme things are here in NY.
having recently returned from portland, or i can assure you that the police state is alive and well there as well.
in need of a toilet i tried “gentlemen’s park” the more northerly of the two park blocks used in the “occupy portland” movement.
both blocks were fenced off so that moss could grow in the areas between the sidewalks(perhaps the parks dept can’t afford lime).
the men’s room was fenced off as well.
i had to go through “airport type” security to get to the “public” toilet in the county “justice” center, including shoe removal and wanding.
the “occupy” movement is also still going strong in PDX, i went to their HQ and met some people and was able to attend a showing of a documentary about how after the collapse of the ussr the cubans were forced to find better ways to feed themselves and the methods they were using to accomplish this.
it turns out small scale organic farming saved the day.