The Occupy Wall Street An-Archives!

Exhibiting the products of the event called #OccupyWallStreet, of the occupiers at Liberty Plaza, and of people from the Occupy movement in general.

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If “archives as we know them are built on an ideology of waste,” which comes from a history of centralization and control, then the Anarchives must derive from an alternate ethos, perhaps best expressed as “Sharing is Caring” (Bold 2012). As opposed to a monument to an essentialized past or future existence, the Anarchives are any open space in which history is allowed to take place.

#jez3Prez & Atchu, “On the Question of the Anarchives of Occupy Wall Street” (via lab-marginalia)

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Control your destiny 

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Revolutionary cats

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4 out of 5 Americans don't trust their gov't to do the right thing even half the time. Source: "What the New President Should Consider." Volcker, Paul. The New York Review of Books, Vol 59: No 19. December 6, 2012.

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Peru’s Congress approves 10-year GMO ban November 13, 2012

Peru’s Congress announced Friday it overwhelmingly approved a 10-year moratorium on imports of genetically modified organisms in order to safeguard the country’s biodiversity.

The measure bars GMOs — including seeds, livestock, and fish — from being imported for cultivation or to be raised locally.

Exceptions include the use of GMO products for research purposes in a closed environment, but those will be closely monitored, the legislature’s official news service said.

The bill, approved late Thursday, now goes to President Ollanta Humala to be signed into law. Humala, who has been in power since late July, has repeatedly said he opposes GM programs.

According to the Agriculture Ministry, Peru is one of the world’s leading exporters of organic food, including coffee and cocoa, with $3 billion a year in revenues and 40,000 certified producers.

Congress approved a similar 10-year moratorium in June, but outgoing president Alan Garcia, who was seen as being favorable to GM, did not ratify the ban.

There was friction over GM in the previous government’s ministries of agriculture and environment.

The head of Peru’s Consumer Agency, Jaime Delgado, said the moratorium is long enough to learn from scientific studies that will emerge on the effects of GMO products.

The country’s leading group representing farmers and ranchers, the National Agrarian Convention, said that by this measure Peru “defends its biodiversity, its agriculture, its gastronomy and its health.”

Source

Meanwhile in the US, GMO labeling alone has not even been enacted at the national, state or local levels. 

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The People’s Record Daily News Update - Whose news? Our news!

November 13, 2012 

Here are some stories you may not otherwise read about today:

All those who “incite public protests” or insult state rulers online can now face jail time in the Arab Emirates, alongside increased state monitoring and censorship. President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan signed the new decree mere hours after he was granted a seat on the UN Human Rights Council for the next three years.

In his first public talk since seeking asylum, Julian Assange is set to speak in a Q&A session via video chat with Cambridge University from the Ecuadorian embassy. The specific topic of his Q&A session has yet to be revealed. 

In Australia, two men and a woman have climbed on top of a roof and have stayed put for two days now to protest the woman and her husband’s impending deportation back to Fiji. 

The BBC is being rocked by a “fast-evolving” scandal that suggests a blatant disregard for basic journalistic standards. BBC director George Entwistle (in photograph above) has already resigned over the scandal, and more resignations are expected. 

The work to exhume the body of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has begun. Amid suspicion that he was poisoned by Israel, traces of polonium have been found on the late president’s body. Polonium is a highly toxic substance rarely found outside military and scientific circles, used to kill former Russian spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, for instance. French investigators expect to have more information in a few weeks-a month. 

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About 3,000 protesters flooded Naples yesterday to protest high youth unemployment rates that have plagued Italy in recent months. As demonstrators hurled bottles & rocks at riot police, forces fired back with tear gas & injured 23. 

Unemployment for 15-24-year olds climbed to 35.1 percent in September, up 4.7 percent from last year. 

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The Anarchivist recognizes art in everyday life, and must artfully archive the world in a way that inspires and does not alienate us from the history that is found .everywhere

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US National Archives blocks searches containing ‘WikiLeaks’

November 4, 2012

The public search engine for the US National Archives appears to be blocked for the term “WikiLeaks”. The whistleblower website has already lashed out at the move, saying the Archives has turned into “Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.”

An error message pops up every time a search is performed with the word “WikiLeaks”. 

It’s not entirely clear when the US National Archives decided to block these searches.

However, WikiLeaks’ has already called the whole thing a “farce”.

“The US National Archives has literally turned into Orwell’s Ministry of Truth,”a message on the site’s Twitter account reads, adding “The US state is literally eating its own brain by censoring its own collective memories about WikiLeaks.”

The block is likely to be in line with the “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act,” a form of internet censorship the US adopted back in 2010.

It did not become law, but it prompted various US government agencies such as the White House Office of Management and Budget and the US Air Force to advise their employees not to read or access classified documents being made available by sites like WikiLeaks.

The Library of Congress went further by blocking access to WikiLeaks content from its server in 2010.

The American Library Association suggested this violated the First Amendment rights of internet users to receive information.

“The Library of Congress’s decision is a violation of the First Amendment and a violation of the American Library Association’s Bill of Rights. Moreover, it is a violation of the professional ethics of librarians to always provide free access to all information,” their statement said.

WikiLeaks exploded on to the global scene back in 2006, since then releasing hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables, including top secret documents from the US Department of Defense, and secret cables from the State Department.

Some of that classified information was seen as damaging the US government’s reputation in a number of incidents.

Recently it was revealed that the US government officially considers WikiLeaks’ and its founder Julian Assange to be enemies of the state.

Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents show that military personnel contacting WikiLeaks could face execution for “communicating with the enemy.”

The fact that WikiLeaks was treated as an enemy of state would have serious implications should Assange be extradited to the US, as he could face military detention.

Source

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Any traditional Archive is constructed to become a reality-defining institution that can arbitrarily decide to delete what it wants to hide. (cf. Orwell's Ministry of Truth) Thus, another impetus for the Anarchives.

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Is Occupy Wall Street outperforming the Red Cross in hurricane relief?

November 4, 2012

In Sunset Park, a predominantly Mexican and Chinese neighborhood in South Brooklyn, St. Jacobi’s Church was one of the go-to hubs for people who wanted to donate food, clothing, and warm blankets or volunteer help other New Yorkers who were still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  On Saturday, Ethan Murphy, one of the people heading the kitchen operation, estimated they would prepare and send out 10,000 meals to people in need. Thousands and thousands of pounds of clothes were being sorted, labeled, and distributed, and valuable supplies like heaters and generators were being loaded up in cars to be taken out to the Rockaways, Staten Island and other places in need.  However, this well-oiled operation wasn’t organized by the Red Cross, New York Cares, or some other well-established volunteer group. This massive effort was the handiwork of none other than Occupy Wall Street—the effort is known as Occupy Sandy.

The scene at St. Jacobis on Saturday was friendly, orderly chaos.  Unlike other shelters that had stopped collecting donations or were looking for volunteers with special skills such as medical training, Occupy Sandy was ready to take anyone willing to help. A wide range of people pitched in, including a few small children making peanut butter sandwiches, but most volunteers were in their 20s and 30s. A large basement rec room had become a hive of vegetable chopping and clothes bagging. They held orientations throughout the day for new volunteers. One of the orientation leaders, Ian Horst, who has been involved with a local group called Occupy Sunset Park for the past year, says he was “totally blown away by the response” and the sheer numbers of people who showed up and wanted to help. He estimated that he’d given an orientation to 200 people in the previous hour.

By midday, a line stretched all the way down the block of people who’d already attended orientation and were waiting for rides to be dispatched to volunteer. Kiley Edgley and Eric Schneider had been waiting about 20 minutes and were toward the front of the line. Like several people I spoke to, the fact that this effort was being organized by the occupy movement wasn’t a motivating factor—they found out about the opportunity to volunteer online and just wanted to help.

So how did an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, best known as a leaderless movement that brought international attention to issues of economic injustice through the occupation of Zucotti Park in the financial district last year, become a leader in local hurricane relief efforts?  Ethan Murphy, who was helping organize the food at St. Jacobis and had been cooking for the occupy movement over the past year, explained there wasn’t any kind of official decision or declaration that occupiers would now try to help with the hurricane aftermath.  “This is what we do already, “ he explained: Build community, help neighbors, and create a world without the help of finance.  Horst said, “We know capitalism is broken, so we have already been focused on organizing to take care of our own [community] needs.” He sees Occupy Sandy as political ideas executed on a practical level.

As frustration grows around the city about the pace and effectiveness of the response from FEMA, and other government agencies and the Red Cross, I imagine both concerned New Yorkers and storm victims alike will remember who was out on the front lines.

Source

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And FUCK the Keystone - Tar Sands Pipeline. www.tarsandsblockade.org #NoKXL

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From the Goldman Sachs march, I believe. Matt Taibi appeared, I think. Didn't he write articles on Bank of America & Goldman?

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Anarchival direct action.

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We are the Ninety Nine  NYC Nov2011 

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This sign is archived!  Word.

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6 things you should know about student loan debt

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"Novad Notes on MIB #1"

[Creation date: Unknown, found in the OWS Anarchives, transcribed by Jez 2012.MAY.15]

Lessons from Movie History: the Men In Black (release date 1997.JUL.2)

Introduction

In the days before the whole world changed, when Tall Towers still stood in the Nation of Money, the Earth was an intergalactic savoir.  And New York City, was one of its major hubs!  

It stood as a refuge for all those "aliens" without a planet, all the kind and wonderful people who have no home.  Everyone was invited to come, COME! Come be a part of the Nation of Money!

And those aliens came.  Not the "aliens" who get stopped by those officers of The Law at the borders between the nation of money.  No!  These were Real Aliens, people who could not claim to be a part of OUR home, the Home of the Human Race's, which would willingly accept and tolerate these outsiders out of the kindness of their hearts.

But not everybody knew it at the time...in fact, this dude Detective Lowry finds out only after he is racing down the street trying to catch up with a white guy, not for any violent reasons it seems, maybe a thief or something, but the other 2 cracker cops can't hack it, being a little pudgy around the midsection, but this black guy, Lowry, he is lean, ripped, and clever too, even while he's running after him down the street!  he says, "Freeze!  I said FREEZE! ...freeze means stop you idiot!"  Hahaha, well he's chasing this guy down the street when the guy jumps up, jumps OFF of! the top of an overpass to a road 50 feet below!

AND Lowry keeps chasing!  He jumps off the bridge, onto a moving tour bus passing below, and then just gets up, dusts himself off, and says, "In New York, it just be raining black people."  The tourists all snap their cameras in delight...

Lowry catches the back of a New York Post delivery van and catches up to the thief cracker.  The guy almost pulls a strange gun on him that evaporates when Lowry knocks it to the ground.   The cracker runs off and Lowry loses sight of him...until he leaps out of the bushes and crawls up the side of the Guggenheim!  Lowry's starting to see his self-consciousness now, but gets all worked up and shoots a hole through the doors.  He races up the elliptical stairwell, spiralling wider and wider until he arrives at the roof door where he catches the "thief".  

PostCrypt

After the matter, no one questioned why he had run after the suspect.  No one questioned why he decided to break into the Guggenheim to go catch him.  Mostly, the superior officers just laughed at him as he tried to explain what had happened to him, that aliens existed.  I guess they just don't care why the guy eventually jumped off the building, or bother to take an autopsy on the body's eyes.  

-Nah, don't worry about it- you'll say, -the people probably just flashy-thinged them.  This is just how cops ARE.-

Why does it seem like people just accept that every time a cop does something illegal in a movie, he's actually justified in enforcing The Law.  Maybe because in most cop movies and TV shows, the Cops are the Heroes...

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Humans don't need to know - people are dumb panicky dangerous animals!...Imagine what you'll know tmoro (cf. K's speech on human reality)

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Lowry gets an opportunity at the modern man's dream: to never exist anywhere, Ever! - As K says,"it's only worth it, if you're strong enough!"

N.B. NYPD is the COOOLEST out of all the recruits from our nations Armed Forces...yes, the NYPD is more badass than all of them.  Does it seem at all strange that it's a black guy who is the NYPD's recruit?

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It's a fuckin airport!  The Earth is a fucking intergalactic airport!  People just want to see our World!  But shush we don't want anything to do with them...   MIB is the Earth's "customs" police.  Who knows what kind of extortion they do at our borders?  No one watches the Men in Black...except at the movies, of course!  Everything they do there is exciting, makes us feel like we're part of the ones in the know, also doesn't mention all of the bureacratic handiwork that most governments and extortion rings exist on.

The MIB do not report to the government (They ask too many questions...oh really?  well, wouldn't you know it!)  They own a few patents on items that we confiscated from out-of-state visitors: Velcro, microwave ovens, liposuction...

WARNING: Universal Translator -- the MIB not supposed to have this!  In part because English is looked upon as a language so disgusting that it's an infectious disease.  But it kind of makes you proud, doesn't it?

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The MIB Promise

We make sure to put ALL OF THE LEGAL ALIENS UNDER SURVEILLANCE!  24 hours a day!  We promise!

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MIB Policy/Mantra

Give up all of your identifying features, Do everything that we tell you, and then and only THEN: we will let you to be the most powerful person in the entire world. You are No longer part of the system.  You are above the system.  Over.  Beyond it. We are Them.  We are They.  We are the Men In Black.

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And wouldn't you know it, the black guy looks better than the old white fart in the MIB suit!

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Resident alien cards in the Future:

The MIB don't feel weird about interrupting the birth of a couple's child to question the man about why he is leaving his designated area.

The MIB control the past and the future - they regularly erase our memories to keep us from possessing our own knowledge. They keep us in a perpetual present by preventing our acknowledgement that aliens exist, humans are not the greatest thing in the univere, and thereby fundamentally altering the present order of the planet.  They are the Status Quo Police (SQP).  

The greatest danger to the Earth, at this moment, is the Bugs.  Not the Archillians who will ultimately threaten this planet.  They infest and live off the dead and dying flesh of whatever place they inhabit.  Definitely strange.  Perhaps even too strange...don't they also call those kinds of things capitalists?

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The pretty young coroner, who has just received two alien bodies, expresses an attraction to Lowry.  She says, "You have pretty eyes," while they dig their hands into the stomach cavity of one of the alien-looking humans.  "Well, thank you ma'am," J says.  They look deeper into the cavity...and turn to look into each other's eyes.  "Have we met before?" she interrupts her explanation of the strange alien body, "I'm having one of the strangest feelings of deja vu." "Yeah me too," Lowry replies.  They stare briefly at each other, but they quickly jump back to the strange bodies. (J and the coroner have actually met before...she raced through his life just before he left the Force, and the MIB erased all their memories.)

She continues exploring the dead body with her hand.  Noticing the discomfort of J, she turns and asks, "Is this freaking you out?"  "No!  Naw, girl you..." J stumbles through his words...[apparently this girls likes to get FREAKY]  "You know what I like to do when it's really late?" she asks suggestively.  "Uh, no what?" J stammers...

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Would you stop that, it's going to give her brain cancer or something.

It never hurt her before.

How many times have you done that to her?

Eh, a couple.

Have you ever flashy-thinged me?  

No.

Hey, how many times have you flashy-thinged me?

And no one will ever know for sure...

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Agent K zooms into the backyard of his wife's house using some pre-modern version of Google Street View.  They say, "Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all..." but K hasn't really lost her yet...though he has lost himself.

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We do not discharge our weapons in view of the public!

There's an alien battle cruiser reader to blow up the planet, We don't have time for this cover up bull!

There is always an alien battle cruiser, or intergalactic plague, or whatever, ready to wipe out life on this miserable little planet and the only reason these people get on with their happy little lives is because they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT.  (And They aim to keep it that way.)

The MIB come out as the Galaxy Defenders (returning the galaxy of extreme subatomic energy to the Archillians [cute little creatures that walk around nicely in human bodies], and murdering the Bug and his 78 million brothers and sisters (commies...).   

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UNDERSTANDING RELATI7VITY

Even after the Archillians are ready to destroy all of humanity because they happened to lose an EXPENSIVE & POWERFUL object on the Earth.  They hold the entire human race hostage to get the MIB to return the galaxy to them and prevent the Bugs from attacking them.  So who are the most threatening people here?  The Archillians, by my estimation.  Also, see the following notes on MIB time units:

galactic standard week = 1 hr

centuarian day = 37 hrs

a galaxy that is millions and millions of stars can be the size of a marble or small jewel

the aliens play marbles with our galaxy among millions of others (this is a great moment: where it is hinted at that the little travails we have, the things that we humans fret about, all have very little meaning from the far side of space-time, in the view of DEEP HISTORY.)  (This need not be a dismal point at all times; we may utilize this perspective to our advantage!  Receive those great Ills as but little ones, or Better...receive them as great Boons!)

yyyyyyyYYYWHY DON"T THE DYSTOPIAS ever take place in a real location?!!!

Why was Men In Black a success?  It was a Utopian History!  It played loose with reality!  It was New York in an alternate universe (that wasn't actually different)!  It could have been real.  It might as well have been.  Except that because it was a movie, every thing seems more clever, more exciting, and violence is always a little less disturbing.  Many of the most traumatic aspects of life seem easier to take, being projected larger than life actually is, and we so small and mundane.  

Other recent examples of utopian history?

- the Matrix (kind of)

- et al.?

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Who wants walking tours of Occupy Wall Street? [i.e. share widely!]

One Q fr the A...in general...i.e. Everybody!

1. WHO ALL HERE would like to take an "Ambulatory History (Otherwise Known As 'Walking') [ahokwa] Tour" of Occupy Wall Street by Jez, the 1st of many Anarchivists for OWS?

Okay okay TWO:

2. WHAT would you be willing to pay-what-you-wish for it?  [No pressure...seriously]

Uh, also

3. Would you ask your friends?

kthxbye!