{"id":14217,"date":"2011-10-03T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14217"},"modified":"2011-10-03T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:20:53","slug":"occupy-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14217","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now people are camping out on the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall, and many other sites across the country, in solidarity with the Wall Street occupation (go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occupytogether.org\">http:\/\/occupytogether.org<\/a> to find one in your city). \u00a0The privilege I&#8217;ve seen in the movement so far worries me&#8211;yesterday I sat in on a planning session in which a white man,\u00a0supposedly to demonstrate the effectiveness of a silent action he was proposing, managed\u00a0to drown out every non-white-male speaker without even saying a word&#8211;but I still think it&#8217;s important that this gather steam, and stories like the ones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2011\/10\/03\/so-real-it-hurts-notes-on-occupy-wall-street\/\">Manissa McCleave Maharawal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2011\/10\/03\/brown-power-at-occupy-wall-street-92911\/\">Hena Ashraf<\/a> have posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\">Racialicious<\/a> give me hope. \u00a0The Los Angeles occupation has events planned for the entire week; their calendar is at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occupylosangeles.org\">http:\/\/occupylosangeles.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a lengthy post on the topic, though, I&#8217;m giving you pictures! \u00a0Unfortunately, I could only get a couple into the post before the image inserter stopped working for me forever, but you can view the full set on my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wingedthing\/sets\/72157627804382602\/with\/6205961966\/\">Flickr<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wingedthing\/6205948306\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Tent with sign\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6180\/6205948306_08e72e0244.jpg\" alt=\"Image description: A tent with a gigantic cardboard sign leaning against it.  Sign text: THEY TOOK AWAY UR JOB UR RIGHTS UR HOME UR COUNTRY UR SAVINGS, WHERE R U?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wingedthing\/6205434261\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Revolution sign\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6147\/6205434261_8f2d5b93be.jpg\" alt=\"A white sign on the grass surrounded by cardboard signs.  Although the text on the other signs is obscured, the words &quot;we the people&quot; and &quot;tax... is a...&quot; are visible, along with a heart.  Text: It's not a crisis it's a SCAM  Let's stop being SLAVES to the $$  This is a REVOLUTION (&quot;evol&quot; is written in backwards letters to create the word &quot;love&quot;)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Note, in the above picture, the problematic use of the word &#8220;slaves.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now people are camping out on the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall, and many other sites across the country, in solidarity with the Wall Street occupation (go to\u00a0http:\/\/occupytogether.org to find one in your city). \u00a0The privilege I&#8217;ve seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14236,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions\/14236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}