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Tag Archives: co-optation
Mario Brito, the Leader of OccupyLA & the LWV
(ed. Originally published April 5, 2012 – here! Brito would later famously be chased from Pershing Square during May Day’s “General Strike” by his “followers.”) This week, the League of Women Voters announced an event featuring Mario Brito speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Liberalism, occupy, Patriarchy
Tagged big labor, charlatans, co-optation, democrats, front organization, Good JobsLA, leader, liberalism, liberals, mario brito, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupyla, ola, opportunists, ows, SEIU
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Create, Take, Take Over and Be Free!
(ed. Originally published on March 14, 2012 – here! Background: On March 5, 2012, several thousand “occupy” protesters and their allies descended on the Capitol in Sacramento to “demand” nothing more than their human right to education. Or so many of them thought. … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Archival, Liberalism, occupy
Tagged anarchism, co-opt, co-optation, demands, education, facilitators, liberal, liberalism, march 5, occupy, occupy education, occupy the capitol, OLAASM, reform, reformism, rotunda, sacramento
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The Liberal Phallusy
THE LIBERAL PHALLUSY (originally published: January 13th, 2012 here) OLA has always been different from the other, similar sized Occupy movements across the world. Unlike OWS, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Portland or Occupy the London Stock Exchange, OLA is passive, reactive … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Liberalism
Tagged co-optation, diversity of tactics, jim lafferty, liberal, mario brito, nlg-la, non-violence, nonviolence, occupy, occupy los angeles, ola, ows, property destruction, violence
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