The Wall Street Occupation Part 2

[Skwink]

Block traffic, get another couple minutes of airtime.

 

[Akkon888]

And maybe they're not gone yet...

Seattle police used "flash bang" percussion grenades to disperse protesters who blocked an entrance to a Port of Seattle facility. Police said "multiple" people have been arrested.

Occupy Seattle protesters had started setting up wooden crates and aluminum in front of the entrance to Terminal 5 when police moved in to clear the area. Earlier, police reported "multiple" arrests at nearby Terminal 18 after about 100 occupy protesters stopped traffic for about 20 minutes.

The protests were part of a national effort to disrupt West Coast port traffic. The Seattle activity snarled nearby traffic during the Monday evening commute and caused several bus routes to be rerouted or delayed.

About 100 protesters blocked railroad tracks near downtown Bellingham. Some were seen lying down, bound together by bicycle locks around their necks.

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TL;DR version: Occupy Protestors and Union workers tried to occupy the Port of Seattle, and several other ports on the West Coast. Some of them were arrested.

Head-chaining? Bicycle locks? Oh, wait. They did that in protest.

Well, as for Seattle, it's an unfavorable area for OWS protesters. Yes, we're left, but we also have lower unemployment than most major cities.

Anyway, It's pretty amazing that a movement, one that denounces elitist decision-making, has defied the antithetical alternative of forming some primitive "government."

Complicated causal movements like OWS won't end quickly or easily--they may take many different forms, they can be called different names, but until the poisonous environment is treated, the spores will keep growing.

 

[choxorn]

Well, as for Seattle, it's an unfavorable area for OWS protesters. Yes, we're left, but we also have lower unemployment than most major cities.

Well, for the general population, yes, but the unemployment rate for the 20-somethings that make up most of OWS is one of the highest in the country.

 

[Patroklos]

Forcibly taking over ports now, how non violent!

 

[Traitorfish]

Forcibly taking over ports now, how non violent!

I'm just gong to have to keep pointing that out, aren't I?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Yeah, we're all like, totally the Founding Fathers man. It's not like we're making an argument to have the right to buy guns to kill government officials, I mean, defend ourselves against the looming tyranny our government is sure to turn into.

 

[Traitorfish]

Yeah, we're all like, totally the Founding Fathers man.

Because if there's two things that are virtually interchangeable, it's militant trade unionists and stereotypical 1980s surfer dudes.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Both are stoners

 

[Traitorfish]

Trade unionists are stoners?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

No wait, I zigged there. Should have zagged. Was talking about the FF.

 

[GenMarshall]

I'm just gong to have to keep pointing that out, aren't I?

If I had the room, I'd quote you . But yeah, its going to go on ad infidium.