Uma cerveja em um segundo.
Só no Japão…
O quão irônica não é essa cena?
Ela aconteceu de verdade, em 2009.
“Não dá para expulsar uma idéia que já está aí” é o título (traduzido coxalmente) do comunicado que os despejados do Zuccotti Park lançaram nessa terça. Segue a íntegra, em inglês:
A massive police force is presently evicting Liberty Square, home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world
The raid started just after 1:00am. Supporters and allies are mobilizing throughout the city, presently converging at Foley Square. Supporters are also planning public actions for the coming days, including occupation actions.
You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.Two months ago a few hundred New Yorkers set up an encampment at the doorstep of Wall Street. Since then, Occupy Wall Street has become a national and even international symbol — with similarly styled occupations popping up in cities and towns across America and around the world. A growing popular movement has significantly altered the national narrative about our economy, our democracy, and our future.
Americans are talking about the consolidation of wealth and power in our society, and the stranglehold that the top 1% have over our political system. More and more Americans are seeing the crises of our economy and our democracy as systemic problems, that require collective action to remedy. More and more Americans are identifying as part of the 99%, and saying “enough!”
This burgeoning movement is more than a protest, more than an occupation, and more than any tactic. The “us” in the movement is far broader than those who are able to participate in physical occupation. The movement is everyone who sends supplies, everyone who talks to their friends and families about the underlying issues, everyone who takes some form of action to get involved in this civic process.
This moment is nothing short of America rediscovering the strength we hold when we come together as citizens to take action to address crises that impact us all.
Such a movement cannot be evicted. Some politicians may physically remove us from public spaces — our spaces — and, physically, they may succeed. But we are engaged in a battle over ideas. Our idea is that our political structures should serve us, the people — all of us, not just those who have amassed great wealth and power. We believe that is a highly popular idea, and that is why so many people have come so quickly to identify with Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement.
You cannot evict an idea whose time has come.
Mais uma dos 2ManyDJs.
Parece pouca coisa, mas o princípio pra invisibilidade já está aí, desenvolvido por dois cientistas do Texas. Agora é só aperfeiçoar.
Falando nisso, que tal esses retratos psicodélicos de cientistas famosos, feitos pelo ilustrador australiano Simon Bent?
Não sou chegado nesse Horrors, mas como essa música é muito foda, aumenta o som…
Imagine só:
If I were president the first thing I would do is probably get sat down by the Pentagon and the powers that be who would say, “No, you’re probably not going to get done the things that you—we saw your one sheet and you’re not going to get it.”
I think a lot of presidents go in with a big to-do list and someone sits them down and says “That’s really not how the game is played, son. You’re going to have to learn: this is the beltway. We do things a certain way. You had high hopes and you’ll get a few of these things done, watered down, neutered and relatively meaningless by the time they crawl through the Senate, but as it is now these big burly strong changes, no.” So I would probably be told that because my first day in office I would have lost Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. I would have reestablished Glass-Steagall. I would have demanded that the Bush tax cuts—they would have sun-setted, they would have gone away. There would have been some pain. The middleclass would have been hard up against it, but we would be in a much different position than we are now.
So I would have gone in reacting to eight years of George W. Bush, two useless wars that make America hemorrhage life and treasure. I would immediately start repairing the perception of America in the world, like our president did by speaking out in Cairo to basically Islam. So I would do things like that, realizing my first four years in office would be to repair and somehow neutralize the eight years that came before me, so maybe in my next term I could go slowly up field to a noticeable degree, and that would be my legacy. The first four years, clean up the storm, clean up the wreckage, make nice with the world, demilitarize as far as American military presence in the world. I would get my military force out of the, like, 141 countries that we’re in plus all the black bases we have off the record. I would bring these people home.
Via Big Think.
