I was a fly on the wall this morning at the General Assembly meeting the organizers of Occupy Dallas held. I edited together all the footage I shot here – it’s long takes but I think it gives a good sense of the sort of decisions being made by the organizers of the Dallas protest and how they are making them. It’s a Rorschach Test — some people will think it’s great and some people will wince. I
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Lee, excellent work. I have so much to say about the video that I don’t know where to begin.
First, let’s cover the ironic metaphors. How about the bull horns with someones clearly marked telephone numbers?
Second ironic metaphor- the bathroom. The entire general assembly is built around finding a place to occupy with easy and reliable bathroom access.
I don’t know. It all reminds me of when I used to follow the Dead. Except then we were perfectly content to piss wherever, and we never would have used a bull horn, especially with someone’s phone number on it.
Don’t they understand that these public or private restrooms that have entirely consumed their GA are the product of tax payer dollars which are the result of taxes which are the result of industry and ultimately, capitalism?
Secondly, Christ! Can’t a group of 50 people STFU long enough to hear proposals without using a bull horn? What the hell has happened to the modern liberal protestor that makes them so loud and ornery that their organizers need a bull horn? And the owner of the bull horn MUST GET HIS/HER BULL HORN BACK (as evident by the phone number). Fuck. I’m really confused.