Tag Archives: pepper spray

On not getting punched in the nose for the Occupation on Black Friday

By Mark | November 26, 2011

A couple of days ago, AnnArbor.com ran a story about the Occupy actions planned for Black Friday. I was quoted in the piece, as I’d announced that my friend Jeff and I would be walking around Ypsi with signs, in solidarity with the folks in Ann Arbor and Detroit, who were going into big box […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AnnArbor.com, attacks, Best Buy, Black Friday, blood funnel, buy local, Confederate flag, Confederate Sons of America, Corner brewery, democracy protests, getting beaten up, Inside the Hall, Jeff Clark, Karl Marx, license plates, Marvel Comics, Marxism, Marxist history, Matt Taibbi, Occupy Wall Street, other Mark Maynards, OWS, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Peter Linebaugh, protest signs, protests, punched in the nose, Sons of America, Spider Man, vampire squid, Ypsilanti water tower | 18 Comments

Feeding the consumerbots a holiday meal of pepper spray

By Mark | November 25, 2011

Last night, I wrote something here on the site about the various Black Friday-related Occupy actions planned for today. At the time, it occurred to me that, if protesters really wanted to convey to people what’s at stake at this moment in American history, as they wait all night outside of stores like Best Buy, […]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Best Buy, big box retail, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, consumerism, food products, FOX News, John Pike, Megyn Kelly, Occupy Christmas, pepper spray as a food product, protests, Retail, Shop Local for the Holidays, Wal-Mart | 7 Comments

I’m trying not to be paranoid, but I received the following email today…

By Mark | November 21, 2011

I should probably be upset that the folks at City Hall are just leaving my personal information up on their screens, for anyone to see, but, at the moment, I’m more curious as to why they’d been looking at my information to begin with. Could it be that they’re having me tracked? Could it be […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Enemy of the State, parking passes, surveillance, Surveillance State, tracking, Will Smith, Ypsilanti CIty Hall | 12 Comments

UC Davis Chancellor escorted from her office as hundreds of students line her path, staring in deafening silence

By Mark | November 20, 2011

By now, you’ve probably seen the the footage of the UC Davis students being pepper sprayed. It’s disgusting stuff. The students are sitting down in a line, across a sidewalk, protesting recent tuition hires, and, ironically enough, episodes of police brutality elsewhere in the University of California system. They are peaceful. No one is yelling. […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged bullying, Celeste Langan, coughing up blood, Eastern Michigan University, Geoffrey O’Brien, Glen Greenwald, higher education, Joe Paterno, John Pike, kids today, Linda Katehi, Linda P.B. Katehi, Nathan Brown, non-violence, Penn State, police brutality, police state, Robert Hass, shame, solidarity, student activism, students today aren't worth a damn, surveilance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, tuition protests, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of California, University of Michigan, violence vs non-violence, walk of shame | 22 Comments

The Occupation of Wall Street… day eight marked by violence, arrests

By Mark | September 25, 2011

I’m sick as a fucking dog, and don’t have the strength in me to write anything even remotely interesting, let alone meaningful, on the subject, but I wanted to remind people that the occupation of Wall Street is now in its eighth day. According to what I’m reading, approximately 100 of the protesters were hauled […]