In 1995, Stanley Rothman and Amy E. Black “partially replicated the earlier Rothman-Lichter” survey of the media elite. (See previous entry, The Media Elite.) “The sample of journalists mirrors that from the earlier study, including reporters and editors at major national newspapers, news magazines and wire services,” the authors wrote in a Spring 2001 article for the journal Public Interest.
They found the media elite held strongly liberal views on abortion, homosexuality, and a range of economic issues. “Despite the discrediting of centrally planned economies produced by the collapse of the Soviet Union and other Communist regimes, attitudes about government control of the economy have not changed very much since the 1980s,” the authors marveled.
KEY FINDINGS:
•More than three out of four “elite journalists,” 76 percent, reported voting for Michael Dukakis in 1988, compared to just 46 percent of the voting public. •An even larger percentage of top journalists, 91 percent, said they cast ballots for Bill Clinton in 1992. That same year, only 43 percent of voters picked Clinton, who nevertheless won a three-way race. •Nearly all of the media elite (97 percent) agreed that “it is a woman’s right to decide whether or not to have an abortion,” and five out of six (84 percent) agreed strongly. •Three out of four journalists (73 percent) agreed that “homosexuality is as acceptable a lifestyle as heterosexuality,” and 40 percent agreed strongly. •Seven out of ten journalists (71 percent) agreed that “government should work to ensure that everyone has a job,” and 30 percent said they strongly agreed with that statement. •Three-fourths (75 percent) agreed that “government should work to reduce the income gap between the rich and the poor,” and more than a third (34 percent) strongly agreed. •Relatively few journalists (39 percent) agreed that “less government regulation of business would be good for the economy,” and just five percent strongly agreed with this sentiment.
WOW!
An overwhelming majority of pro-Soviet, pro-central-planning ideological opinion among the media, even 20 years after the failure of the Soviet Union and other communist/central-planning governments.
A media that thinks the government should guarantee everyone a job.
I can't possibly imagine them selectively favoring the Occupy Wall Street agenda, which just happens to perfectly gel with theirs, and selectively omit any negative facts to fly cover for them!
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
BY John Doyle, Christina Boyle, Jennifer H. Cunningham & Larry Mcshane NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, November 17 2011, 11:33 AM
They didn't occupy Wall Street for long, shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, or win many new fans.
And by Thursday night, the thousands of protesters flooding lower Manhattan seemed to have worn out their welcome after tying the Financial District in knots.
Two days after losing their two-month-old encampment at Zuccotti Park, the day of demonstrations felt more like a final hurrah.
Their vow to get many more out in the streets fizzled, Mayor Bloomberg declared.
"Occupy Wall Street had predicted on their website that tens of thousands would be participating in today's protests, but there have been far fewer - and so far they have caused what can accurately be described as minimal disruptions to our city," he crowed.
Unless you were in the thick of it.
"Today they proved that they're able to piss off the 99% by stopping them from getting home," said City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens). "In my opinion, this is their last gasp.
"With silly stunts like this, they've angered people they're supposed to represent."
The protesters, still smarting over their defeat at Zuccotti in a city courtroom, took to the streets by the hundreds Thursday morning in an effort to show that the movement's anti-greed message endured.
Later, several thousand union members and college students joined late day marches in Union, and then Foley squares.
By the time marchers crossed the bridge into Brooklyn as night fell, there were nearly 300 protesters arrested - including a symbolic 99 busted on a bridge ramp hours after the protesters failed to delay the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Among those arrested in the evening protest were City Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), City Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverito (D-Manhattan) and health care workers union president George Gresham.
They all sported white T-shirts reading "99 Percent," and chanted "All day, all week, Occupy Wall Street" before police took them into custody.
"The rich don't care about us," said James Frazier, 52, a union organizer. "There's no more middle class. I work, and I'm poor."
The massive police presence during the protests only emphasized the cost to the city: An estimated $3 million a month on overtime.
DAY AND NIGHT
The protests began shortly after sunrise on the streets around the New York Stock Exchange, and continued into the early evening.
The crowd burst into cheers when one protester - armed with a projector - beamed the message "99 Percent" onto the wall of a downtown courthouse.
While there were minor skirmishes between police and protesters, no major battles erupted despite cheek-to-jowl proximity for most of the long day.
NYPD cops in riot gear seized control of Zuccotti Park after an officer's hand was badly gashed by a protester, setting off a ruckus inside the Occupy Wall Street outpost. Rookie cop Matthew Walters, 24, took 20 stitches to his left hand at Bellevue Medical Center after he was slashed with a star-shaped piece of glass taken from a protester's Captain America costume.
The scuffle led to a tense lockdown of the park as cops searched for a suspect in the bloody assault. The fracas came shortly after the demonstrators ended their morning march aimed at cutting off access to Wall Street. The officer was one of seven wounded during the day, said NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Scores of cops already at the scene flooded the park after the incident. No one was allowed in or out, and police were seen taking one protester, Brandon Watts, 20 - his face covered in blood - out of Zuccotti after the scary incident.
Cops said Watts, of Philadelphia, Pa., climbed on a wall inside the park and beganwas tossing objects at police, including a AAA battery. Watts - who has been arrested four times since protests started in Sept. - then charged a group of officers, swiped a hat off a deputy inspector's head and ran off, police said.
As cops tackled him to the ground, he struck his head, cops said. He was treated at Bellevue Hospital before he was charged with assault and grand larceny.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Aside from the crimes committed, and that the Occupy movement is more and more acting like re-runs of Reclaim the streets, the Attac-movement, and the demonstrations against the G-8 meetings... My main issue is that while the various members of the Occupy movement (left to right - remember that there are libertarian and even conservative supporters of it) have presented a problem (the big banks gets the benefits of socialism but not the burden of it, which is laid on the citizens instead), but no solution whatsoever.
Do they want to end corporate welfare?
Do they want to nationalize (failed) banks?
Do they want to create some kind of anarko-syndicalist or anarko-capialist utopia?
What. Do. They. Want?
Say what you want about the Popular Fronts in the 1930's, but at least they identified a common threat - Fascism and Nazism - and fought against it... Until Stalin's greed and paranoia destroyed everything.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
Critics of Occupy Wall Street have a transparent objective: They want to persuade blue collar whites and ordinary middle class Americans to turn on the movement for cultural reasons — because its optics offend these voters’ cultural instincts — even if they broadly agree with its general principles and critique of what’s gone wrong.
“The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the ‘other’ that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face.”
When Occupy marched in downtown Seattle on Tuesday night, a priest, a pregnant teenager and an 84-year-old community activist were doused in pepper spray. Although there have been many striking images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments, and many faces of the movement, none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey, taken by Joshua Trujillo.
Rainey’s direct gaze at the camera as her face drips with pepper spray is a haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety. Dashiell Bennett of the Atlantic has speculated that this image may become the defining one of Occupy unrest.
Rainey, a community activist since the ’60s, decided to walk by the protest on her way to a transportation meeting in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle. As she told the Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly paper, “Cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd . . . If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled.”
When Philip Kennicott wrote in 2005 about the lack of iconic images from the Iraq war, he spoke to the qualities that make a photograph emblematic of a movement or era in history. Until now, many of the photos of Occupy focused on the signs carried by protesters, rather than the clashes with police. This is partially due to access — by many accounts, press were shut out from Monday night’s eviction of protesters from Zucottti Park. Yet, even though Occupy Wall Street and its branches across the country are not analogous to the war, the visual language of iconic imagery is the same.
Too often, Kennicott writes, photographers of conflict focus on objects — a sign, a tent, a mangled car — as a stand-in for people: “The sum total of these substitutions feels, at times, like a theater without actors, a set of props and costumes and extras milling about, without hint of what the real drama is meant to be.”
Rainey has now been unwittingly thrust into that starring role. Protest images that become iconic show us faces in anguish, such as John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning image of the shooting at Kent State. Thankfully, no image or incident quite as violent has emerged from Occupy. Nevertheless, wrote one commenter on the Stranger, “This is exactly the sort of picture that changes things.”
Anyone who thinks attacking citizens like this is justifiable is, literally, a traitor to the United States of America. And, in my opinion, human scum whose passing, while I would not celebrate, I would neither mourn...
Hate-speech is alive and well with David, the Wonder Traitor. Tell me David, how are you going to twist and spin where unarmed, peaceful military vets are scum and deserved to be shot in the head with tear gas canisters? What about 84-year-old women sprayed directly in the face with pepper-spray?
Oh, that's right. It's all a sham and everyone involved is a Marxist tool of The Secret Socialist League, right?
Anyone who attacks unarmed American citizens exercising their right to protest under the Constitution is a traitor to America, and human scum. I don't care what fascistic uniform a person puts on in the morning. The Police are harming their own citizens without cause. They are contradicting legal court-orders to fulfill the will of their Corporate Masters. So, fuck them and fuck you if you support the illegal attacks on American citizens. You automatically prove you don't support the United States of America, just your Corporations. Enjoy the revolution to come.
You're an ignorant fool. Good luck. As time passes, your irrelevance increases....
AGAIN: it's not "right wing racist inbred haters" who are breaking up these protests. It's the most liberal mayors in America. Who initially supported the OWS protesters for two months, and were finally forced to rein these scumbags in because of their crimes and unacceptable uncivil behavior.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Hate-speech is alive and well with David, the Wonder Traitor. Tell me David, how are you going to twist and spin where unarmed, peaceful military vets are scum and deserved to be shot in the head with tear gas canisters? What about 84-year-old women sprayed directly in the face with pepper-spray?
Oh, that's right. It's all a sham and everyone involved is a Marxist tool of The Secret Socialist League, right?
Anyone who attacks unarmed American citizens exercising their right to protest under the Constitution is a traitor to America, and human scum. I don't care what fascistic uniform a person puts on in the morning. The Police are harming their own citizens without cause. They are contradicting legal court-orders to fulfill the will of their Corporate Masters. So, fuck them and fuck you if you support the illegal attacks on American citizens. You automatically prove you don't support the United States of America, just your Corporations. Enjoy the revolution to come.
You're an ignorant fool. Good luck. As time passes, your irrelevance increases....
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
The Police are harming their own citizens without cause...
The OWS scumbags were warned for 2 months to behave in a civil way and rein in the crimes and bad behavior among their ranks. When OWS in Zuccoti Park failed to comply with law and civility, New York mayor Bloomberg warned them to disburse. Some obeyed the law and left. The police then warned them to disburse. Some obeyed the law and left. The police warned them again to disburse. Some more left, many ATTACKED THE POLICE. Seven officers were injured by protestors in New York City yesterday alone. The police did not "harm" these people (unlike the harm done to the police by protestors) they drove them away with non-lethal pepper spray, and arrested those who either would not leave or openly attacked the police. The protestors now or in the future are not denied the right to protest, so long as they protest in a civil way that does not break any laws, and that does not violate the rights and freedoms of others.
In summary: all the things you just alleged are blatant lies.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Originally Posted By: Wonder Traitor (as slanderously scripted by Pro, because paraphrasing me to sound crazy is the only way he can bypass the facts I present)
Hate-speech is alive and well with David, the Wonder Traitor. Tell me David, how are you going to twist and spin where unarmed, peaceful military vets are scum and deserved to be shot in the head with tear gas canisters? What about 84-year-old women sprayed directly in the face with pepper-spray?
Oh, that's right. It's all a sham and everyone involved is a Marxist tool of The Secret Socialist League, right?
Anyone who attacks unarmed American citizens exercising their right to protest under the Constitution is a traitor to America, and human scum. I don't care what fascistic uniform a person puts on in the morning. The Police are harming their own citizens without cause. They are contradicting legal court-orders to fulfill the will of their Corporate Masters. So, fuck them and fuck you if you support the illegal attacks on American citizens. You automatically prove you don't support the United States of America, just your Corporations. Enjoy the revolution to come.
You're an ignorant fool. Good luck. As time passes, your irrelevance increases....
Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
Quote:
Exhibit 1-8: The Media Elite Revisited
In 1995, Stanley Rothman and Amy E. Black “partially replicated the earlier Rothman-Lichter” survey of the media elite. (See previous entry, The Media Elite.) “The sample of journalists mirrors that from the earlier study, including reporters and editors at major national newspapers, news magazines and wire services,” the authors wrote in a Spring 2001 article for the journal Public Interest.
They found the media elite held strongly liberal views on abortion, homosexuality, and a range of economic issues. “Despite the discrediting of centrally planned economies produced by the collapse of the Soviet Union and other Communist regimes, attitudes about government control of the economy have not changed very much since the 1980s,” the authors marveled.
KEY FINDINGS:
•More than three out of four “elite journalists,” 76 percent, reported voting for Michael Dukakis in 1988, compared to just 46 percent of the voting public. •An even larger percentage of top journalists, 91 percent, said they cast ballots for Bill Clinton in 1992. That same year, only 43 percent of voters picked Clinton, who nevertheless won a three-way race. •Nearly all of the media elite (97 percent) agreed that “it is a woman’s right to decide whether or not to have an abortion,” and five out of six (84 percent) agreed strongly. •Three out of four journalists (73 percent) agreed that “homosexuality is as acceptable a lifestyle as heterosexuality,” and 40 percent agreed strongly. •Seven out of ten journalists (71 percent) agreed that “government should work to ensure that everyone has a job,” and 30 percent said they strongly agreed with that statement. •Three-fourths (75 percent) agreed that “government should work to reduce the income gap between the rich and the poor,” and more than a third (34 percent) strongly agreed. •Relatively few journalists (39 percent) agreed that “less government regulation of business would be good for the economy,” and just five percent strongly agreed with this sentiment.
WOW!
An overwhelming majority of pro-Soviet, pro-central-planning ideological opinion among the media, even 20 years after the failure of the Soviet Union and other communist/central-planning governments.
A media that thinks the government should guarantee everyone a job.
I can't possibly imagine them selectively favoring the Occupy Wall Street agenda, which just happens to perfectly gel with theirs, and selectively omit any negative facts to fly cover for them!
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Critics of Occupy Wall Street have a transparent objective: They want to persuade blue collar whites and ordinary middle class Americans to turn on the movement for cultural reasons — because its optics offend these voters’ cultural instincts — even if they broadly agree with its general principles and critique of what’s gone wrong.
“The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the ‘other’ that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face.”
When Occupy marched in downtown Seattle on Tuesday night, a priest, a pregnant teenager and an 84-year-old community activist were doused in pepper spray. Although there have been many striking images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments, and many faces of the movement, none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey, taken by Joshua Trujillo.
Rainey’s direct gaze at the camera as her face drips with pepper spray is a haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety. Dashiell Bennett of the Atlantic has speculated that this image may become the defining one of Occupy unrest.
Rainey, a community activist since the ’60s, decided to walk by the protest on her way to a transportation meeting in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle. As she told the Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly paper, “Cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd . . . If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled.”
When Philip Kennicott wrote in 2005 about the lack of iconic images from the Iraq war, he spoke to the qualities that make a photograph emblematic of a movement or era in history. Until now, many of the photos of Occupy focused on the signs carried by protesters, rather than the clashes with police. This is partially due to access — by many accounts, press were shut out from Monday night’s eviction of protesters from Zucottti Park. Yet, even though Occupy Wall Street and its branches across the country are not analogous to the war, the visual language of iconic imagery is the same.
Too often, Kennicott writes, photographers of conflict focus on objects — a sign, a tent, a mangled car — as a stand-in for people: “The sum total of these substitutions feels, at times, like a theater without actors, a set of props and costumes and extras milling about, without hint of what the real drama is meant to be.”
Rainey has now been unwittingly thrust into that starring role. Protest images that become iconic show us faces in anguish, such as John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning image of the shooting at Kent State. Thankfully, no image or incident quite as violent has emerged from Occupy. Nevertheless, wrote one commenter on the Stranger, “This is exactly the sort of picture that changes things.”
Anyone who thinks attacking citizens like this is justifiable is, literally, a traitor to the United States of America. And, in my opinion, human scum whose passing, while I would not celebrate, I would neither mourn...
Hate-speech is alive and well with David, the Wonder Traitor. Tell me David, how are you going to twist and spin where unarmed, peaceful military vets are scum and deserved to be shot in the head with tear gas canisters? What about 84-year-old women sprayed directly in the face with pepper-spray?
Oh, that's right. It's all a sham and everyone involved is a Marxist tool of The Secret Socialist League, right?
Anyone who attacks unarmed American citizens exercising their right to protest under the Constitution is a traitor to America, and human scum. I don't care what fascistic uniform a person puts on in the morning. The Police are harming their own citizens without cause. They are contradicting legal court-orders to fulfill the will of their Corporate Masters. So, fuck them and fuck you if you support the illegal attacks on American citizens. You automatically prove you don't support the United States of America, just your Corporations. Enjoy the revolution to come.
You're an ignorant fool. Good luck. As time passes, your irrelevance increases....
Ah yes, Fascism alive and well in America. American citizens...forced to pay taxes...aren't allowed Freedom of Speech or Freedom to Protest. This is not America. It's a Police State run by corruption and controlled by the worst of humanity. I look forward to the revolution.
Originally Posted By: Prometheus
NYC authorities clearly feel OWS eviction is just and reasonable. That's why they are doing it at 2am and barring all press........
Originally Posted By: Prometheus
Quote:
BREAKING: Bloomberg served with temporary restraining order requiring reopening of Zuccotti Park to protesters at 7:50 a.m. | At 6:30 a.m. this morning, following a midnight police raid evicting protesters from Zuccotti Park, Justice Lucy Billings issued an order requiring the protesters to be readmitted to Zuccotti Park with their tents. ThinkProgress just spoke to one of the plantiff’s attorney’s, Gideon Orion Oliver, who confirmed that the order was served on Mayor Bloomberg and the other defendants via fax at 7:50 a.m. During his 8 a.m. press conference, Mayor Bloomberg seemed to acknowledge he was familiar with the temporary restraining order, but claimed he had not been served and was keeping the park closed. As of this writing, Zuccotti Park remains closed to protesters in direct contradiction of Justice Billing’s order.
Seems Bloomberg needs to be brought up on criminal charges. Court Orders aren't optional, even for the corrupt Corporate puppets...
When Occupy marched in downtown Seattle on Tuesday night, a priest, a pregnant teenager and an 84-year-old community activist were doused in pepper spray. Although there have been many striking images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments, and many faces of the movement, none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey, taken by Joshua Trujillo.
Rainey’s direct gaze at the camera as her face drips with pepper spray is a haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety. Dashiell Bennett of the Atlantic has speculated that this image may become the defining one of Occupy unrest.
Rainey, a community activist since the ’60s, decided to walk by the protest on her way to a transportation meeting in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle. As she told the Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly paper, “Cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd . . . If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled.”
When Philip Kennicott wrote in 2005 about the lack of iconic images from the Iraq war, he spoke to the qualities that make a photograph emblematic of a movement or era in history. Until now, many of the photos of Occupy focused on the signs carried by protesters, rather than the clashes with police. This is partially due to access — by many accounts, press were shut out from Monday night’s eviction of protesters from Zucottti Park. Yet, even though Occupy Wall Street and its branches across the country are not analogous to the war, the visual language of iconic imagery is the same.
Too often, Kennicott writes, photographers of conflict focus on objects — a sign, a tent, a mangled car — as a stand-in for people: “The sum total of these substitutions feels, at times, like a theater without actors, a set of props and costumes and extras milling about, without hint of what the real drama is meant to be.”
Rainey has now been unwittingly thrust into that starring role. Protest images that become iconic show us faces in anguish, such as John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning image of the shooting at Kent State. Thankfully, no image or incident quite as violent has emerged from Occupy. Nevertheless, wrote one commenter on the Stranger, “This is exactly the sort of picture that changes things.”
Anyone who thinks attacking citizens like this is justifiable is, literally, a traitor to the United States of America. And, in my opinion, human scum whose passing, while I would not celebrate, I would neither mourn...
Critics of Occupy Wall Street have a transparent objective: They want to persuade blue collar whites and ordinary middle class Americans to turn on the movement for cultural reasons — because its optics offend these voters’ cultural instincts — even if they broadly agree with its general principles and critique of what’s gone wrong.
“The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the ‘other’ that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face.”
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When Occupy marched in downtown Seattle on Tuesday night, a priest, a pregnant teenager and an 84-year-old community activist were doused in pepper spray. Although there have been many striking images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments, and many faces of the movement, none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey, taken by Joshua Trujillo.
Rainey’s direct gaze at the camera as her face drips with pepper spray is a haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety. Dashiell Bennett of the Atlantic has speculated that this image may become the defining one of Occupy unrest.
Rainey, a community activist since the ’60s, decided to walk by the protest on her way to a transportation meeting in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle. As she told the Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly paper, “Cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd . . . If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled.”
When Philip Kennicott wrote in 2005 about the lack of iconic images from the Iraq war, he spoke to the qualities that make a photograph emblematic of a movement or era in history. Until now, many of the photos of Occupy focused on the signs carried by protesters, rather than the clashes with police. This is partially due to access — by many accounts, press were shut out from Monday night’s eviction of protesters from Zucottti Park. Yet, even though Occupy Wall Street and its branches across the country are not analogous to the war, the visual language of iconic imagery is the same.
Too often, Kennicott writes, photographers of conflict focus on objects — a sign, a tent, a mangled car — as a stand-in for people: “The sum total of these substitutions feels, at times, like a theater without actors, a set of props and costumes and extras milling about, without hint of what the real drama is meant to be.”
Rainey has now been unwittingly thrust into that starring role. Protest images that become iconic show us faces in anguish, such as John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning image of the shooting at Kent State. Thankfully, no image or incident quite as violent has emerged from Occupy. Nevertheless, wrote one commenter on the Stranger, “This is exactly the sort of picture that changes things.”
Anyone who thinks attacking citizens like this is justifiable is, literally, a traitor to the United States of America. And, in my opinion, human scum whose passing, while I would not celebrate, I would neither mourn...
Critics of Occupy Wall Street have a transparent objective: They want to persuade blue collar whites and ordinary middle class Americans to turn on the movement for cultural reasons — because its optics offend these voters’ cultural instincts — even if they broadly agree with its general principles and critique of what’s gone wrong.
“The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the ‘other’ that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face.”
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