" I was then told something that made my jaw drop, and still confounds me to this day: “It was decided that we are a movement of autonomous individuals, and as such, no one has the right to require that anyone do anything.”

" “Well, if that’s the case, then the “zero tolerance” policy concerning illegal drugs and alcohol is meaningless,” I said.

" Much to my astonishment, my statement was greeted with nods and smiles. I was told that Occupy Maine considered itself to be an absolutely open and free community, in which people were to be trusted to do the right thing.

" Other occupations in cities all across the country had instituted loose rules and codes of conduct. These other occupations had rightly come to the conclusion that without some regulation through consensus things would soon fall apart. The camp was already experiencing incidents that proved that trusting everyone to do the right thing was just foolish. "

" Dozens of Occupy members moved into the building after its owner, an Occupier who changed his name to Sr. Paz (Mr. Peace), donated some of the vacant apartments to Occupiers rent-free. But recent postings suggest a rift between those living at the apartment building and other Occupy Miami members, and the last Twitter update from a main Occupy Miami account says it has been "hijacked by a small, non-consensus group of radical members." "

" Because so many people at Occupy Oakland buy into an impossible and non-fact-based ideology of leaderlessness, they are unable to acknowledge or check the very real systems of power that have come into existence. It is absurd to say that people like Leo Ritz-Barr, Barucha Peller, Omar Jaime Yassin and Jasper Bernays are not influential in the planning and execution of GA business and the overall tenor of the movement. Yet these same people routinely disclaim responsibility for their actions. And their actions have alienated community support — yet no proposals were forthcoming from the Anti-Repression Committee to sanction the Move In Day Committee in the least. I don’t accept this ridiculous nonsense about “well that’s because the police were there.” That’s like assaulting a hill under fire and then, after getting all your troops killed, claiming that it’s not your fault, it’s because there were people shooting at you. No kidding. Your job is to get around those shooters, not whine about them. "

" With Occupy protesters gearing up for a spring resurgence, Salisbury spells out just what activists will be up against — think unmanned drones, tanks, and super-sophisticated surveillance systems from New York City to Scottsbluff, Nebraska — in the months ahead. "

" But when Greenfield explained to the occupiers assembled in the sanctuary of the West Park Presbyterian Church how little control they would have over the funds his group was raising, their mood quickly turned from supportive to hostile. "

Occupy Toronto: no room for any actual working class participation

Might spur a movement, but more likely it'll remain a coalition or social movement organization. #OWS

" For everyone to have the opportunity to be involved in a given group and to participate in its activities the structure must be explicit, not implicit. The rules of decision-making must be open and available to everyone, and this can happen only if they are formalized. This is not to say that formalization of a structure of a group will destroy the informal structure. It usually doesn't. But it does hinder the informal structure from having predominant control and make available some means of attacking it if the people involved are not at least responsible to the needs of the group at large. "Structurelessness" is organizationally impossible. We cannot decide whether to have a structured or structureless group, only whether or not to have a formally structured one. Therefore the word will not be used any longer except to refer to the idea it represents. Unstructured will refer to those groups which have not been deliberately structured in a particular manner. Structured will refer to those which have. A Structured group always has formal structure, and may also have an informal, or covert, structure. It is this informal structure, particularly in Unstructured groups, which forms the basis for elites. "

" The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashear’s office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.

" “Not even crackheads messed with that,” he said.

" The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church. "

Vicious oh-so-humanities condemnation of Occupy Wall Street for co-opting 2009 Occupy UC & having lousy class analysis

" Meanwhile, the family that OWS claimed to be putting into the vacant house has not yet permanently moved in. And it turns out the family is not a random victim of the foreclosure crisis, but cast for the part, thanks to their connection to the OWS movement.

" OWS last week said it has spent $9,500 breaking into the house and setting it up for the homeless Carrasquillo family. A photo of the smiling family covers a window, under the slogan, “A place to call home.”

" The head of the family, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 28, is an organizer for VOCAL-NY, a group that works with OWS. His Facebook page shows him in a “99 Percent” T-shirt at an OWS protest in November.

" The Post visited the Vermont Street home last week — six weeks after OWS announced that the Carrasquillos were moving in — and the family was nowhere to be found.

" In fact, the only people occupying the house were occupiers themselves. "

" Common law courts are only an important aspect of the Patriot movement. These vigilante courts use many tactics to make their presence known and to attempt to disrupt the traditional legal system. These tactics are collectively known as "paper terrorism." Typically, common law court members issue judgments against people and file liens against property in an attempt to enforce the judgments. Sometimes, these bogus liens are little more than a nuisance. Other times, the liens wreak havoc on their victims by clouding title to property, and it is often expensive to have these bogus liens removed. Members of the Patriot movement also set up shadow governments with their own officers and officials as a form of revolt against the federal government. For example, the freemen of Montana formed "Justus Township" and appointed their own "public" officials. Patriots who attempt to print their own currency and pass bogus checks feel that their own government is legitimate and that they can back their currency by their own faith and credit in the same manner as does the United States government. "

" This is what the Occupy encampment has become: A band of homeless protesters with no place to go. Amid accusations of drug use and sporadic theft, they've been sleeping on church pews for weeks, consuming at least $20,000 of the funds that Occupy Wall Street still has in its coffers. Their existence is being hotly debated at Occupy meetings: Are these people truly "Occupiers" who deserve free food and a roof over their heads? "

" Wertheim's entire thesis in this article is that we shouldn't dismiss cranks like Carter (and, I infer, Simoncini, Clark, Young, and Milgrom) because:

- There are quite a lot of them (argumentum ad populum)
- Math is really hard.
- Learning the necessary background knowledge to do modern science is also really hard.
- Science is complicated; so there must be something wrong with it
- Science is a religion that should be available to all, just as Martin Luther wanted Christianity to be available to all through his translation of the Bible.
- Outsider scientists feel "alienated" by scientific explanations and science as practiced. "

" This is an open, shared space for distributed research focused around OccupyWallStreet / OccupyTogether. We are sharing ideas, research questions, research methods, tools, datasets, and later working to gather, analyze, discuss, write, code, and otherwise develop the theory and practice of occupy research together. "

" Thorin Caristo is not a part of the Livestream media team of Occupy Wall Street. We, the Livestream media team, a sub-group of the Occupy Wall Street Media Team and our allied Livestream channels have long ago cut ties with Caristo and his Livestream channel:
http://www.livestream.com/occupywallstnyc "

" The American public agrees with “concerns” raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement but strongly disapproves of tactics used by the protesters, according to a new national Pew Research poll. "

Scientology trying to recruit by using Occupy Wall Street themes?

Pepper-sprayed UCD protesters were blocking in police & literally asking for it.

" The almost nine-minute video shows that the UC Davis campus police were encircled by the demonstrators, who tell the police to free some of their arrested comrades. “If you let them go,” the protesters say, “we will let you leave.” Later, the protesters can be heard chanting, “F— the police.” "

" "I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death," said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation's foremost experts on crafting the perfect political message. "They're having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism."

" Luntz offered tips on how Republicans could discuss the grievances of the Occupiers, and help the governors better handle all these new questions from constituents about "income inequality" and "paying your fair share." "

You can't dox an idea: Pepper spraying cop is a policing model, not a bad apple.

Mildly interesting: the phrase "animals and the earth" in Occupy statements.

RT @revmagdalen: #OccupySeattle protester's miscarriage claim questioned, several inconsistencies emerge

Bad life choice: protesting police line next to asshole charging barricades & brandishing guitar

" Only 33% now say that they are supportive of its goals, compared to 45% who say they oppose them. That represents an 11 point shift in the wrong direction for the movement's support compared to a month ago when 35% of voters said they supported it and 36% were opposed. Most notably independents have gone from supporting Occupy Wall Street's goals 39/34, to opposing them 34/42. "

" “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

" A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

" Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area. "

" One male protester, in an army helmet and no shirt, cried out as shoving matches erupted between several groups of men. The young man who was leading the informal group yelled: "This is the People’s Forum! There are no committees, there are no rules, everyone gets to speak. Get in a circle! GET IN A CIRCLE!" A majority of the crowd abided, although they were openly chastised when the circle took on non-circle shapes.

" A facilitator from the General Assembly tried one last time to get the group's attention through a call-and-response tactic. He was shouted down by two men, one of whom was shouting directly in his ear. Then it was announced that there would be two minutes of drumming. The loud thumping gave way to spastic dancing and eventually some primal bellowing. "

" They do not understand, as they never have, they are not the majority and do not represent it. Most Americans will not let their limbs go slack and shake their hair at the outburst of a drum circle. They will not be cheered by Noam Chomsky’s appearance at Occupy Boston. They are not inspired by sex in sleeping bags in public parks, and past a certain point, the perpetual, pointless mass expropriation of public spaces against local ordinances and in contest with municipal governing authorities will turn against them. Roving demonstrations through city streets, looking like roving mobs – especially when there is any violence at all, with antagonistic relationships to police – will turn a supportive population away, and make it easier for their foes, the Bourbons and the Romanovs, to demonize them. "

" Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association of the NYPD and a 30-year veteran of the force, finds the mixed messages from above frustrating. "At times we don't have to - or they don't want us to - do things, and at times they do want us to do things. There's no real clear message as to what right and wrong is," he said. "In many ways we are almost the pawns in this situation." "

" Last night the drumming was near continuous until 10:30 PM at night. Today it began again at 11 AM. The drummers are fighting among themselves, there is no cohesive group. There is one assemblage called Pulse that organized most of the drummers into a group and went to GA for formal recognition and with a proposal. "

" Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in -- but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protesters is fraying tempers.

" Some drummers -- incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday -- are threatening to splinter off. "

" The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late. "

" Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.

" Generation X wasn’t surprised. Generation X kind of expected it. "

" Though we do not encourage the involvement of the police in our community, the survivor has every right, and the support of Occupy Baltimore, to report the abuse to the appropriate law enforcement. "

" A Police Department program that allows officers to moonlight in uniform — providing security for stores, neighborhood associations and even private citizens - has skyrocketed in popularity.

" Nearly half the NYPD's 22,272 street cops have registered with the paid detail unit, which pays off-duty officers $30 an hour for shifts that can range from four to 12 hours. "

" After smashing the living fuck out of the Walgreens window in a blatant attack on capitalism, several attendees of Occupy Chicago not only tried to kick me out of the march but actually chased me down and attempted to make a citizens arrest. They told me I did not represent them and tried to grab me, screaming for the police. I managed to throw them off as a few comrades in support delivered some street justice to the faces of the disgusting protectors of property. "