You tell me OWS is dead....

[Dragonfli]

19. Your sons an American hero in my eyes, all the young people in the movement are.

I can barely walk these days but will have to get out there with them again when they regroup.

In Buffalo we had made some progress until being evicted from Niagara Square. Councilmember "Dickhead" Richard Fontana made it his mission, spoke to radio and newspaper reporters about alleged violations of various city ordinances and codes on top of unaccountability concerning the group finances. As a result, there was some animosity within City Hall towards Occupy Buffalo, a fact that contributed to the group getting booted. He brags about it.

Before that however Occupy's relations with the city were friendly. The occupiers and the City had a contract that allowed them to encamp in Niagara Square, occupiers marched from the Niagara Square to various police and Sheriff's Office buildings to show their appreciation for the Buffalo Police. During December 2011, the city allowed the installation of a 20-foot geodesic dome on the southwest portion of Niagara Square!

In May, 2012 the City Comptroller announced the City of Buffalo withdrew $45 million from JPMorgan Chase and depositing the money with First Niagara Financial Group following concerns about JPMorgan Chase raised with the Common Council by members of the Occupy Buffalo movement they asked the city to withdraw its deposits and invest the money in a local bank. JPMorgan Chase had a $2 billion loss earlier that month, and its Main Place Tower office downtown was the site of multiple demonstrations, I was at a few hospitalized for others.

Michael Moore came around but I was laid up during that.

Last summer, after rallying in front of City Hall Medea Benjamin, members of Occupy Buffalo and the Western New York Peace Center presented legislation to Buffalo Common Council to keep drones out of the skies in Buffalo stating, “Armed drones and surveillance drones present an unreasonable an unacceptable threat to the rights of individual privacy, freedom of association and assembly, equal protection and judicial due process in the City of Buffalo.” I was there for that and very happy about it, it was cool.

That is where I met Medea, and honestly, if anyone so intent on bad mouthing her met her and talked to her as I did they would realize they are being assholes, she is no way a libertarian as slandered here! She didn't blow off anyone, was available like just another one of us for a large part of it, answered anything you wanted to ask her, was with, and not above, any of us and sincere as hell. She has hated drones and gitmo since long before they were adopted by our party. She actually spoke well of Obama but was saying he was getting way too comfortable with the drone crap and Bush crap and was concerned but had not given up on him yet. People here that talk out their rears and claim she is a libertarian Obama hater are idiots or shit stirrers and should apologize, or contact her, she is open to dialogue, you can find out what she supports instead of making up her views for her and then lying about her SID.

Her views have not changed. She voiced clear hatred of Bush drone, torture, and Detention policies and it makes sense to me she hates Brennan still, and Gitmo still and drones still.

I hope the occupiers regroup this year somehow, Fontana is fighting it pre-emptively and trying to "prepare" local LEO to "deal" with any occupy "vandalism". My guess is round two, they will start busting heads and stop with being friendly. I think some power people got real pissed about the bank withdrawal thing and don't want more of that.

We'll see. There are young men like your son here too, potential heros, I hope they don't get beaten for their principles, but as I said, money and Fontana are pissed now.