Potent News Update – Occupy Nova Scotia [video included]
Amir Alwani
Potent News
October 20, 2011
My experience, on the ground, is that this is one of the most leaderfull “leaderless” movements I’ve ever seen. Also noteworthy, one of these guys just came from Tahrir Square and the other from Wall Street.
Activist Post‘s description of the video is spot-on:
Contributor Amir Alwani was back at Occupy Nova Scotia to document some of the speakers and protesters. He made some interesting discoveries. In the first segment, a protester voices his concern over the structure of the General Assembly within the overall movement. He illustrates the irony that people have taken to the streets as the 99% fed up with the rule by the 1%, yet many congregate in choir fashion around one speaker, often chanting the message of the “leader.” He is quick to point out that this does not invalidate the entire movement, but it is something we certainly should be mindful of as activists.In the second segment a man comments about a tent labeled “media centre” that, according to him, was behaving in a secretive way. Amir heads over to the tent and listens to two representatives, James Green and Miles Howe, speak about their mission. James has arrived from the Occupy Wall Street media team, and Miles has experience in “revolutionary squares,” including Tahrir Square in Egypt. This combination should cause some healthy skepticism of their views, as both locations have been focal points for political operatives.
In fact, they are creating a “media co-op” at Occupy Nova Scotia where citizen journalists are encouraged to submit their videos and printed material. However, there is a strange choice of language as they discuss how important it is that their group be the only one to disseminate the information to the world, stressing the need to “shape the message.” This is the exact top-down approach that corporate media uses. It seems oddly out of place to those who are protesting against the power that the few have over the many. Again, we urge activists to be mindful of giving away our power to any centralized source.
The following is an excerpt from an interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley on PressTV (Oct. 12):
“Press TV: This thing about silencing John Lewis, if we have a member of the Congress there being silenced, then what does show in terms of what is going to happen to the protesters out on the streets? How would the one percent want to use any tactics to silence? What kind of tactics would they use to silence the Americans and the protesters out on the streets?
Tarpley: With what they are using. They are using a bunch of anarchists and this Adbusters comes from the Situationist International. Situationist International was cooked up by NATO and the CIA back in the 1950s and 60s to overthrow General [Charles] de Gaulle of France who was the target at that time.
This whole apparatus of the General Assembly, the facilitators, the consensus, the voting, the human microphone; the leaderless group is a brainwashing technique; the human microphone is a brainwashing technique.”
http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/204427.html
http://tarpley.net/2011/10/12/unchain-the-mass-strike/
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Oct. 18 http://blip.tv/play/AYLZjk0C.html
Oct. 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-CYRKt5mU
Oct. 12 http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/204427.html
Oct. 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVEVmxMsEg
Oct. 7 http://tarpley.net/2011/10/07/occupy-wall-street-who-wants-to-hijack-the-movement/
Oct. 5 http://tarpley.net/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-needs-a-fighting-program-to-save-the-nation-not-endless-groupthink/
Sept. 20 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21110
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UPDATE from June 6, 2013: I have to admit that after having met Miles Howe a couple times and having spoken to a couple people who’ve known him for years, I am now admittedly less suspicious of Miles Howe. That said, the other guy, James Green, definitely made a reputation for himself at this event and in the end, there seemed to be consensus among the community that James Green was definitely a shady character. For one thing, James had gone out of his way to tell mainstream media that if they wanted to interview members of the Occupy NS movement they had to come to the square to do it. He told this to mainstream media on behalf of everyone in the movement while consulting few, if any, people in the movement. At the beginning of this whole thing he referred to himself as the “media liaison” for the group and when I was present at a couple of the meetings that happened prior to the actual initial event, it was clear that James was trying to dominate and steer the debate into a discussion about administrative matters such as food, toilets, tents, blankets, etc. People swallowed this shit up as they disregarded the fact that nobody there seemed to prioritize coming to a consensus about why we were actually there and what our demands were. To call this movement synthetic is an understatement, in my opinion.
The Facilitators Are the Counter-Revolution — Real Mass Leaders Must Organize a Coup to Kick Them Out and Pass a Fighting Program of Class-Based Demands
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph. D.
PressTV
October 18, 2011
Nearly a Third of ‘Occupy’ Protesters Advocate Violence
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 18, 2011
Research conducted by polling firm PSB reveals that almost one third of the Occupy Wall Street protesters support using violence to enforce their ideas, which is somewhat disconcerting given the fact that many of the demonstrators also support concentrating that force into the hands of government to oversee a program of radical wealth redistribution at gunpoint.
“On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York’s Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion,” writes pollster Douglas Schoen in the Wall Street Journal today.
The interviews with the demonstrators revealed that “nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.”
Occupy NS – Jesse Keane Sheds Light On Harper’s Crimes, TSA Molestation And The American Soviet State
Amir Alwani
Potent News
October 17, 2011
Here’s a protestor at Halifax`s Occupy Nova Scotia. I am very glad that somebody mentioned the sexual molestation…
I am sorry about the video quality… I was trying to conserve as much battery power as possible but now I know that’s not worth it. Sorry about the cut in the middle too – the camera, for some reason, automatically turns off after 3 minutes when in “compact mode” (I didn’t know that). I don’t think too much was lost, though. The next video will be more professional.
Nazis and Communists Throw Their Support Behind Occupy Wall Street Movements
Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
October 16, 2011
Wow. Just wow.
US using thugs to silence people
PressTV
October 13, 2011
The “Occupy Wall Street”(OWS) movement emerged on September 17, when a group of people began rallying in New York’s financial district to protest at ‘corporate greed’ and top-level corruption in the country.
The campaign has now spread to nearly 70 major cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Boston, as well as more than 600 communities across the nation. It is reportedly being supported through ‘Occupy’ events in close to 1,600 cities across the globe.
Press TV has conducted an interview with author and historian Webster Griffin Tarpley from Washington to further talk over the issue and get an analytical view point from him.
What follows is the script of the interview:
Webster Tarpley and Michel Chossudovsky on Occupy Wall St. Protests
YouTube – Press TV
October 10, 2011
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