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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReminder- Rose Parade with 70-foot Occupy octupus float coming up today.
8:45 Octopus in the Garden: Rose Parade in Pasadena coming up--complete with the 70-foot octopus Occupy float. Stay tuned. I'll be posting livesteams.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/165375/occupyusa-blog-special-holiday-weekend-edition
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Assembling of Occupy the Parade activists: 9AM Central
Formal Rose Parade start: 10AM Central
Occupy folks begin to march to the parade procession area: 11:30AM Central
(If looking for local Pasadena organizing schedules scroll down or go here.)
For decades I have looked on with a mix of fascination and disgust at the Rose Parade of Pasadena California or just ignored it entirely. This year I took a closer look at the event because I heard there would be a 70 ft. octopus at the end of it. Unlike the floats covered in fresh flowers, this octopus will be made of recycled plastic bags and carried aloft by at least 40 occupy activists.
This news is all it took for me to commit. I expected 1 octopus, 43 flower floats, 21 bands, and 400 horses. (No Budweiser Clydesdales this year, however.)
But the more I read about the Occupation of The Rose Parade the more I realized that the spectacle of the occupation will be much larger to include
a 250 ft. long We the people constitution followed by a 70 ft. long We the corporations copy of the document.
a Goldie Sachs Wheel of Fortune
the octopus representing the strangle hold of Wall Street and other corporations on our democracy
float #99: 99 people holding 1 person up on a throne, representing the 1%
Not only that, throughout the floats youll see people wearing person-sized tents emblazoned with political statements.
Occupy the Rose Parade organizers expect from 300 1,000 activists to show for the event.
The parade usually runs 2 hours long. The occupy participants will be at the end of the parade, so they will likely appear on network television at 11:30AM Central or 12PM Central if they show up on corporate TV at all.
Even if corporate media fails you, youll be able to witness the occupation of the parade through livestream broadcasts from within the parade and the sidelines this year. Livestreams are expected to feed from occupy participant @OakFoSho A.K.A. Spencer Mills and others.
If youd like to follow on twitter, try the hashtags #OccupyTheRoseParade or #OTRP and see what these folks re tweeting:
@OccupyLA
@occupyrose2012
@oakFOsho
@TsuyoshiOrihasi
@ashleycarey and
@PeggySue_6
@occupyfreedomLA
@dro_manski
Live Rose Parade Channels Ordered from most independent to most conventional
Occupy Oakland Live from @OakfoSho
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http://www.bluecheddar.net/2012/01/02/watch-the-rose-parade-occupation-online-monday-jan-2nd/
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photos! courtesy OakFoSho...
OakFoSho 13 mins 39 secs ago Twitter
OccuPus practicing yfrog.com/mgdaoivj #OTRP #OLA #OccupyLA #OO #OSF #OccupySF #OPDX #OPHX #OccupySeattle #OccupyDenver #OWS #p21
Stuff the Ballot Box 1%!
Peace Keepers
We the (Corporate) People?
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Parade begins with B2 bomber flyover!
Warpy
(111,230 posts)to the Do Dah Parade, although I've long wished the media would cover that one, too. The attache case drill team alone is worth it.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)They do not fake it.
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immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
zbdent
(35,392 posts)Mabus
(14,352 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Excuse the Inconvenience...
barbtries
(28,787 posts)thank you.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)SpiralHawk
(32,944 posts)...and away we go...
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Mabus
(14,352 posts)I guess the annual purge of the refrigerator will begin earlier than planned on today's agenda. I was going to run some errands and get them out of the way before I started cleaning. Now I'm going to hang out at the house and watch the parade live.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)OakFoSho Spencer: For Hire
I'll be LIVE from #OTRP in 15 mins! #OLA #OccupyLA #OO #OccupyOakland #OSF #OccupySF #OPDX #OPHX #OccupySeattle #OccupyDenver #OWS #p21
2 minutes ago
http://www.OakFoSho.com/
Huey P. Long
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Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)in case of arrest. Cuffed, you're not going to be able to dig through your own pockets, which is part of the tactics of police domination.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Pirate Media: Because you don't need a Press Pass when you have a Jolly Roger.
bigtree
(85,986 posts)coolness!
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)11:45 Occupying the Rose Parade about to start, here is livestream (also see items, video, below):
Greg Mitchell
http://www.thenation.com/blog/165375/occupyusa-blog-special-holiday-weekend-edition
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Wow Christian right Jesus freaks are pushing the occupy marchers!
Occupier shouting back WWJD?!
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)OccupyUmd Occupy UMD
Militant Christian protesters push and attempt to block the #occupy The Rose Parade #OTRP march. Misguided hate can't stop #love and #the99
1 minute ago
cyglet
(529 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)cyglet
(529 posts)it was the one with the big bible in the middle of it.
ETA: "Lutheran Hour Ministries"
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Occupy the Rose Parade's Octopus Float Is 70 Feet of Awesome (PHOTOS)
We're talking about Occupy Octopus (yes, that's his name; yes, he'd make an amazing beanie baby), a 70-foot-long crowd puppet made entirely of recycled plastic bags. The giant sea creature will hover over a band of occupiers for their Occupy the Rose Parade march this coming Monday. And though he's just going viral as of this morning, it appears the octopus was born over a month ago...
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/12/occupy_the_rose_parade_octopus_float.php
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)neongreen78 Nicole
HGTV cut away before #OTRP float came on. Occupy does not exist, move along, move along, nothing to see here
1 minute ago
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jwirr
(39,215 posts)did many of the parade watchers, other than the fundies, stay to watch the Occupiers? That is what is important.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)sandyd921
(1,547 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)They were swarming to the exit. Even with, or because, one-half of the country falling into poverty, they turn a blind eye.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)Since that was the only channel that I could watch it on in Georgia, it pissed me off. Glad to see it was up on live stream. Think we should drop them an e-mail regarding this.
Spazito
(50,253 posts)and the links to watch. This is great, love the signs, the octopus, all of it!
Recommend.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: Occupying the Rose Parade with a Giant Octopus Float
By: Kevin Gosztola Monday January 2, 2012 10:49 am
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/01/02/live-blog-for-occupy-movement-occupying-the-rose-parade-with-a-giant-octopus-float/?utm_source=twitterfeed
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)SD Occupy Press stream-
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupysandiego
We are the SD Occupy Press, an independent press team covering Occupy San Diego and other Occupations to bring forth truth, unity, and enlightenment to the Occupy Movement.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)MsButterfly27 Ms Butterfly
Police are apparently jamming livestream feeds. All four streams down/choppy audio/video. #otrp #ows #occupy #occupyseattle #occupyla
6 minutes ago
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GoodJobsLA #GoodJobsLA
ABC trying to wrap their coverage of the parade...it's not over...http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iwilloccupy #OTRP
2 minutes ago
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Corporate TOOLS!
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)neongreen78 Nicole
KTLA just signed off, no mention of Occupy the Rose Parade... #OWS #OTRP
3 minutes ago
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)OWSLosAngeles #OccupyLA
Occupiers have gathered at City Hall in Pasadena. The Parade was awesome! #OTRP @occupyLA
3 minutes ago
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)However, I'm not surprised the media has blocked you guys out. Just keep posting on alternate websites like this one and get any videos you have to Thom Hartmann and Keith Olbermann. I'm sure they will air them on their shows this week. Better late than never.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Occupy Rose Parade protesters march in Pasadena
The 2012 Tournament of Roses made its spectacular way down Colorado Boulevard on Monday, but the floral-decked floats and gleaming marching bands were shadowed literally by anger at the nation's political and financial woes.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the sidewalks at the 123rd annual event while in a nearby park, several hundreds anti-Wall Street protesters put the finishing touches on an unofficial float a 70-foot-wide octopus representing the demonstrators' view that greedy banks and corporations have a stranglehold on the government.
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http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/01/02/30617/slideshow-occupy-rose-parade-protesters-poised-mar/
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Thanks to Goldman Sachs are Financial Terrorists! on Facebook
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Parade sponsored by Wells Fargo...all that taxpayer bailout money, that could have gone into keeping people in their homes...
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)POST Occupy Rose Parade: http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland #OTRP #OO #Occupy2012| ALL DAY EVENT
http://www.ustream.tv/occupyoakland