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PEORIA, Ill. -- It's a sight for sore eyes. The Rivermen were back on the ice at the Peoria Civic Center.
A few months ago that was far from a certainty. But now, as new members of the Southern Professional Hockey League, the team is counting on the loyalty of its fan base to make this incarnation of the franchise a success at the box office.
"A new league was something that we knew would be challenging but we've had a lot of support from the community and our season ticket holders," said Katie Pogeman, the team's assistant general manager in charge of director of ticket sales.
It appears the community has already embraced the SPHL version of the Rivermen. According to Pogeman, by the time the regular-season opener rolls around season ticket sales will surpass last year.
And single game tickets are about five dollars cheaper than a year ago. Already 4,000 have been sold for the opener. And practices during training camp are open to the public, free of charge.
"In the AHL days we wouldn't have had five fans out here watching training camp and so far we've had 80 people a night here," said Alan Fuehring, Rivermen director of media relations.
The return of the Rivermen also scores points for the Peoria Civic Center. The building hosts hundreds of events each year and having a professional sports franchise that calls Carver Arena its home helps attract business.
"Having regular tenants here helps with the integrity of the building," explained Megan Pedigo, assistant director of marketing for the Peoria Civic Center. "It helps show that we're a smooth operating team that knows how to handle big shows, how to handle big crowds and it really puts promoters and people who come into this arena at ease knowing that we do multiple events a year on this scale."
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In today's "Key Matchup," PFW's Dan Arkush focuses on Lions WR Calvin Johnson vs. the Packers' secondary in the Green Bay-Detroit Week 11 matchup Sunday in Detroit.
Lions WR Calvin Johnson vs. the Packers secondary
Just imagine if Johnson was 100 percent healthy. Despite knee issues that have limited his practice time, the man they call "Megatron" has been a typically tough customer for opposing secondaries in his last two games. After catching seven passes for 129 yards in Detroit's 31-14 victory over Jacksonville in Week Nine, Johnson put on quite a show in defeat last Sunday in the 34-24 loss to the division-rival Vikings, exploding for a season-high 207 yards receiving on 12 catches, including his second TD of the season.
The Vikings held Johnson in check for the most part until 5:11 remained in the third quarter. That's when a 20-yard catch on the left side and a 50-yarder down the middle of the field — Johnson's longest gain since a 51-yard reception in Week One — led to Lions TE Brandon Pettigrew's TD with 2:55 left in the third quarter that got the Lions to within six points (16-10).
From that point on, Johnson became a near-unstoppable force, frequent double coverage notwithstanding, as the game became a fascinating mano-a-mano battle between Johnson, arguably the league's best receiver, and Vikings RB Adrian Peterson, arguably the league's best runner.
Coming off a brilliant 2011 campaign (96 catches for a league-leading 1,681 yards and 16 TDs), Johnson currently leads the league in receiving yards with 974, 43 more than his closest pursuer (Colts WR Reggie Wayne), and is tied for fifth in the NFC with Giants WR Victor Cruz with 60 catches (16.2 ypc), to go with a league-best 20 catches over 20 yards, as well as two catches over 40 yards.
An obvious shortcoming this season is Johnson's scant TD total — after beginning last season with a pair of TD catches in each of the four first games — but extra coverage on Johnson has opened up more opportunities for other Lions receivers (most notably Titus Young and rookie Ryan Broyles) in the league's top-ranked passing game.
Double coverage only works up to a point on Johnson, as he is simply too fast for the majority of defenders. If he gets a step, he's tough to catch, and even in tight coverage, his size (6-5, 236) and strength gives him a significant edge, especially in jump-ball situations.
Interestingly, while the Lions are ranked first in passing yards, they rank a surprising 15th in average gain per pass play. Green Bay's pass defense, meanwhile, is ranked 20th in yards allowed but a respectable seventh in average gain per pass and 11th in interception percentage.
The Packers' secondary was dealt a serious blow when S-CB Charles Woodson, an established playmaker of the highest order in the twilight of a great career, suffered a broken collarbone in the Week Seven win over the Rams. But the secondary has held its own for the most part without Woodson, in great part due to the efforts of rookie CB Casey Hayward, who has displayed Woodson-like instincts while registering a team-leading four interceptions.
Nine of the Pack's 10 picks have been provided by the secondary, with LCB Tramon Williams, who is feeling a lot healthier this season after being limited by a shoulder problem much of last season, making two interceptions, and Woodson, CB Sam Shields and rookie Jerron McMillian making one each.
Williams shadowed Cardinals star WR Larry Fitzgerald in Green Bay's last game when Fitzgerald lined up outside, and with over-the-top help from the safety, he held Fitzgerald without a catch in those situations.
Expect the Packers to use a similar strategy to defend Johnson, who was held in check in the Lions' first game against the Packers last season (4-49-1) on Thanksgiving Day, but then torched Williams to the tune of 11-244-1 in the second game on New Year's Day, as Stafford targeted him 17 times.
While Hayward has exceeded expectations, it's not a given that he will start on the right corner this Sunday over Shields, who was the starter before going down in the Houston game with shin and knee injuries. With Shields reportedly good to go, the team is saying the right corner has become a three-way battle between Hayward, Shields and Davon House.
Morgan Burnett has been doing a solid job replacing Woodson as the run-force safety near the line, and M.D. Jennings and McMillian have been adequate sharing the free-safety role. Hard-working Jarrett Bush and rookie Sean Richardson figure in the mix in nickel situations.
It's worth noting the big games star receivers like Wayne (13-212-1) and Marques Colston (9-153-1) have had up to now matched up against the Packers' secondary, as well as those from more pedestrian types such as Jacksonville's Cecil Shorts (8-116).


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With the United game coming at us quickly I figured what better way to prepare than to provide you all with some poetry written about out two most recent, famous results. Yesterday I posted a one penned in honor of the 6-1 derby day win. Now is the turn of the Semi Final defeat of United on that bright sunshine soaked Wembley pitch.
The bright sunshine of April
A wonderful glorious day
The sea of Blue in London
Walking down Wembley way
A fierce Northern rivalry
A battle about to commence
Thirty years for this one day
An atmosphere so tense.
Early scare, early nerves
Attempts from Berbatov
Hands from Hart blocks one
The other, over the top
City under pressure
The rearguard stays strong
Lescott, Alex, Zab, Barry
Kompany and DeJong.
The City fights back
The half ends all square
We're still in the game
An upset is in the air
Second half begins
City now the aggressor
Now can the evil ones
Handle the pressure
Misplace passes, blaming glances
Their defenders are a mess
Yaya Toure steams into the box
Under the keeper and into the net.
Ferguson bemused,
Ferdinand irate
Ginger winger gets dismissed
His tackle high and late
Tensions high, nails bit
While City secure the win
Ferdinand gets upset
When Mario winks at him.
Leave the field Rags
Get off quick as you can
We are going to our supporters
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Even after losing Sunday to their freeway rivals, the Los Angeles Angels, the Los Angeles Dodgers went into a three-game series in San Francisco with the best record in the National League at 43-30, mostly on the strength of a pitching staff that had allowed the third-fewest runs in the NL.
Some of that must have rubbed off on the San Francisco Giants during the just-completed three-game series between the Dodgers and Giants in San Francisco, because the Giants shut out the Dodgers in all three games, winning 8-0, 2-0 and 3-0. The dominance of the San Francisco pitching staff was so complete that the Dodgers had just 16 hits over the three games -- 13 of them singles, and the only Dodger baserunner who reached third base in the series was pitcher Chad Billingsley (who wound up getting thrown out when he tried to score on a wild pitch).
How rare is such an event? At least for the Dodger franchise, extremely rare:
Turns out it's the first time Dodgers have been shut out in a three-game series since 1937 against the Boston Braves.— DKnobler (@DKnobler) June 27, 2012
That long-ago Dodger team lost 91 games and finished sixth in an eight-team league. This year's Dodgers were cruising in the NL West, with a five-game lead just 10 days ago.
After Wednesday's game, the Giants and Dodgers are now tied at 43-33. Should be a fun summer in the NL West.
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Incumbent Alex Harding and challenger Art Holder each got 245 votes. Election officials said the eight provisional ballots cast likely will decide the winner.
Butch Lawter received 257 votes Tuesday, taking the other open seat on the board. Alex Atchison earned 189 votes and Mike Starks 11, coming in fourth and fifth.
The election is a makeup for one that originally took place in November 2007, when Harding and Holder earned the most votes. Twenty voters used the wrong ballots during that election: Some Clayton residents were given county ballots, and some county residents voted on Clayton ballots.
The State Board of Elections called for another vote among the top three candidates because only Lawter had lost by a margin of fewer than 20 votes. Atchison, an incumbent who had come in a more distant fourth, also asked to be included.
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Perhaps Councilman Paul Davis said it best when told the paper he believes Sahagun is telling the truth and says it's important for the officer's future to clear up the issue.
"This officer has to be completely and totally exonerated. Otherwise it could seriously hurt his career. An officer has to tell the truth all the time…"
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Metro North project questioned
THE CONSTRUCTION of Dublin's controversial Metro North rail system will not guarantee maximum accessibility to Dublin airport.
Moreover, it will not ensure the airport's future as a vital travel hub, a new planning report argues.
A Spatial Vision for Dublin was published yesterday at the Stephen's Green Hibernian Club, by members of the Dublin City Business Association, which commissioned the report, and author Hendrik van der Kamp.
Although Metro North has been touted by the Government as central to Dublin's economic development, speculation intensified at the beginning of the year that the project would be shelved due to an estimated cost of some €5 billion.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has proposed deferring the project and prioritising smaller, more labour-intensive construction initiatives.
The report uses the example of Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, which it says, like Dublin airport, was for a long time poorly served by public transport, relying almost solely on bus connections to Amsterdam and other cities across the Netherlands.
It found that the deliberate effort to create a working main network railway station in the airport, rather than a mere shuttle rail service to and from the city centre, proved a huge success.
The report also claims that Dublin should not be satisfied with simply connecting the airport with the city centre, as mainline rail access has proven a model of success across Europe.
"It may be of benefit to see Belfast, Dublin and Shannon connected together through a single high-speed railway line, which would link up the three major airports in the country," Mr van der Kamp. said. "It would provide a . . . fast connection to the west of Ireland, and Galway could be connected to this via the Western Rail Corridor."
cgcsb wrote:havent the costs been reduced to €3bn because of the downturn?
kefu wrote:And the notion that somehow connecting the major airports by rail, mentioned here as Shannon, Dublin and Belfast is of value. Can somebody explain that?
jdivision wrote:In my opinion any report that mentions the WRC lacks any credibility
I can definitely see the benefit of linking Dublin airport by rail to Belfast - for Belfast people. Maybe the British government could be prevailed upon to pay for it.
Ireland did not benefit one bit from decades of emigration
Projects like Metro are vital for our economic progress. The project itself will provide major employment for the building sector while also giving some of the farthest reaches of Dublin and the surrounding counties a quick rail link to the city
missarchi wrote: The labour thing is one thing but the IDA have had a decade to train for this?
Great stream of consciousness; your point is?missarchi wrote:Where people trained while the port tunnel was going? It was the time...
And send people overseas...
They won it in a tender but no doubt the costs of ticketing are a minute proportion of the major inputs such as route, stations and ongoing costs such as energy, labour etc. Relevance?missarchi wrote:Also the ticketing for luas is not controlled by an Irish company i.e the money?
Probably not, again rolling stock is a small proportion of overall cost. Relevance?missarchi wrote: The luas is not made in Ireland? Are the tracks made in Ireland?
missarchi wrote: Was it even designed in Ireland?
missarchi wrote: 2 lines better than one... If they are done correctly...
cgcsb wrote:well it's too late in the planning process now. Just build the shaggin thing and get this 10 year saga over with. Isn't construction to begin in September? it cant come fast enough, cos at this stage I'm sick of hearing of people cominig out with aledgedly brilliant alternitive solutions when construction is 3 months away. They had years to voice their opinion and chose not to.
Seamus O'G wrote:That proposal was clearly ignored. The public consultations about the interconnector only included the longer, more expensive, circuitous options via St. Stephen's Green.
We'vve been discussing the reasons why St. Stephen's Green is to be the location for the interchange for a while and, in my opinion, no coherent analysis of why this is preferable to a more central location has yet been presented.
That is a very fair point there is a significant discrepancy between the DRRTS proposal and the interconnector in terms of route length and specific alignment and there are significant cost implications of extending the route.
Dublin as a medium density urban centre in the 1970's was very much concentrated between say the Customs House and the Four Courts East to West and Parnell Square to Stephens Green North to South.
In the 1980's the area between Harcourt Road and Lower Mount Street emerged as the main private sector office area. In the 1990's areas such as IFSC, Grand Canal Quay emerged, in this decade this spread to Hannover Quay and Spencer Dock.
Areas such as Parnell Square stagnated and the former office mecca of College Green turned into outer temple bar i.e. its main function changed to leisure tilted at stag weekends.
What is clear is that Stephens Green is in employment terms probably the most intensively used location in Dublin; Pearse Station serves an area that was in the 1970's decaying but has transformed into a viable educational and office quarter. Spencer Dock is now what Wilton Place was in the 1980's and is surrounded by hundreds of acres of heavily leveraged development land which NAMA is crying out to see properly sefved by public transport. The area around Guiness is not much different.
As logical as your idea is to link Heuston and Tara Street or Connolly directly the chance to develop large scale projects along its route would be problematic due to the fact that so many ideal sites were developed as low quality low rise apartment buildings in the past 15 years. There would also be significant heritage concerns on virtually all the route from Customs House to Christchurch (Hawkins Street Excluded).


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hey guys I was wondering how this looks for volume after my max effort close grip bench.
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Dumbell Bench: 140x6, 140x5
Skull Crushers: 70x6, 70x4
French Curls: 55x7
Shoulder Side Raises:40x10
Shoulder Front Raises:50x12
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Barbell Rows:70x7
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My plan for now is to do similar assistance work on speed bench day, gradually increasing the reps and sets while keeping the same weight, or for some excersizes increasing weight while keeping the same reps. Any changes or suggestions? Also, would you guys reccomend keeping the same assistance excersizes for 3-4 weeks, or just rotate them when i stop making progress?
That's an insane amount of assistance exercises. I hope you're not doing that every bench workout.
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You're not doing much of any one assistance exercise. That's the problem - you probably aren't doing enough of any of them for them to do much for your bench. The only thing you'll probably succeed in doing is tiring yourself out. Choose 2 or 3 assistance exercises you are weak at and hammer out a few sets of each.
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thanks guys. I'm assuming you mean 2 or 3 bench assistance exercises, like dumbell bench, and skull crushers. After that would 2 sets of shoulder raises and 2 sets of back (like rows and pullups) be about right?
Yes. Not to say it's bad to rotate between assistance exercises once in a while, but do no more than 3 or 4 to complement your main movement, and do at least 2 sets of each one.Originally Posted by Laxman
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By Mike D'Angelo
POP QUIZ, HOTSHOT. You are a young, boyishly handsome, vaguely effeminate Mexican actor. Your latest film, in which you play a callow horndog tooling around the countryside with his very best amigo and a sexy, accommodating older woman, has shattered box-office records at home and achieved proportional success abroadthe kind of numbers that make opportunistic Hollywood execs think crossover. The film's director has just been offered the third installment in the insanely lucrative Harry Potter franchise. It is slowly dawning on you that you stand at a critical juncture in what you are surprised to find yourself actually thinking of as your career. As one of Mexico's new It boys, you'll be in a position to cherry-pick the best Spanish-language roles and establish some impressive leading-hombre credentials. On the other hand, you can already smell the plush leather interior of the Carrera you'll be able to buy with your check from the new Spielberg flick, in which you've been offered the challenging role of Wacky Ethnic Sidekick #3. Integrity versus visibility. Craft versus dinero. What do you do?
Depends on who you are, it turns out. It's now been three years since Y Tu Mamá También put the men back in ménage à trois; few moments in recent movies have rocked audiences like the one in which Julio and Tenoch, both undulating against the woman of their adolescent wet dreams, lean around her stunning naked form and start soul-kissing each other. And like test subjects in a controlled experiment, the film's talented and courageous stars, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, have set off on nearly antipodal career pathsone inspiring, the other dispiriting. (For those of you who can't recall offhand who was who, García Bernal was the floppy-haired one with the soulful eyes and winning smile, whereas Luna was the floppy-haired one with the watchful eyes and charming smirk.)
Of the two, García Bernal had the higher profile prior to Y Tu Mamá, having made an arresting debut in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Amores Perros. He's opted for the high road, and he's not fucking around. Can you say Che? Opening this month, The Motorcycle Diaries, directed by Walter Salles (Central Station), follows the young Ernesto Guevara, then a privileged med student no less cheerfully self-absorbed than the rest of us, as he and a buddy journey about 8,000 miles from Buenos Aires to Lima, encountering a variety of conscience-jarring locals en route. The film was faithfully adapted from Guevara's own account of the period (some of it contemporaneous, other bits retroactively revised) and purports to depict the slow yet seismic evolution of a revolutionary; at times, you can almost see the fault line widening behind Che's eyes.
For all its scrupulous compassion and vivid location work, The Motorcycle Diaries is a bit of a snooze. Salles works so strenuously to avoid self-conscious mythmakinga laudable goalthat he allows the movie's rhythm to become plodding and cozily anecdotal; the growing urgency in García Bernal's performance isn't echoed by the filmmaking. But it's remarkable nonetheless to watch the shrewdness with which the actor conveys Guevara's gradual transformation. There's no eureka moment, no epiphanyjust a series of psychic gearshifts that manifest themselves in the character's carriage and tone of voice. Even at the climax, as a disgusted Ernesto swims across the river separating the staff of a leper colony from its patients (care to guess in which direction?), there's still a sizable disjunction between the man onscreen and the legendary firebrand lurking inside our heads. García Bernal respects proto-Che's embryonic state, but unlike Salles, he manages at the same time to capture something of his passion.
Passion, in varied and sometimes destructive forms, is the subject of another startling García Bernal showcase, Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education. Almodóvar, of course, is Spanish, and so are the various characters García Bernal plays in the film. But from the moment you first see the actor strut into the frame in full draglooking uncannily like Julia Roberts, only prettieryou can see why Almodóvar dispensed with national pride. If Guevara's identity is in flux throughout The Motorcycle Diaries, the identity of Bad Education's semiprotagonist, an aspiring actor, is so dizzyingly fluid that it's impossible even to give the character a name. He is ingenuous one moment, lascivious the next, and his mutability allows G.G.B. to demonstrate a range that confirms him as one of the most gifted actors of his generation. That he won no prize at Cannes, where the film was the opening-night attraction, is due only to Almodóvar's decision to withhold it from competition. Bad move, Pedro.
Nobody, alas, is likely to suggest that Diego Luna was robbed. His own post-Mamá career, while not an outright embarrassment, nonetheless serves as an object lesson in the way Hollywood pays lip service to diversity while quietly marginalizing anybody not named Halle or Denzel.
Kevin Costner cast Luna as a free-grazing farmhand in last year's underrated western Open Range, but the character, known as Button (how cute!), exists solely as rifle fodder: He has to be injured halfway through the movie so that Costner can make taciturn goo-goo eyes at nurse Annette Bening. He is one rung up the evolutionary ladder from the random, frequently ethnic Enterprise crew member who ventures onto each episode's strange new planet in order to give Kirk and Spock something to avenge. Still, that's more respect than Luna is accorded in The Terminal, in which he's just one of several handy minorities providing Tom Hanks with a tour of America's melting pot in microcosm. We don't even get to see him woo Zoe Saldana's fetching immigration officer; once Hanks has brought the two together, the movie loses interest, cutting from their first tentative conversation straight to the wedding.
This month sees the release of Criminal, Luna's second English-language starring role. (As an act of charity, I will ignore the first, except to note that every single review of this picture, without exception, included the word Swayze.) Ironically, Criminal is itself a remake of an Argentine movie called Nine Queens, about an amateur swindler who gets recruited by a professional con artist to assist him in pulling off a major job. Given that the film was coproduced and cowritten by Steven Soderbergh (under the pseudonym "Sam Lowry") and directed by his longtime assistant director, Gregory Jacobs, this is vanity filmmaking at its most inessential: a wan, dutiful facsimile of a movie that wasn't very distinctive to begin with. Imagine a Mamet caper minus his arrestingly staccato dialogue, culminating in a twist that you've been dourly anticipating since roughly scene three, there being nothing else to occupy your attention. Now imagine it in slow motion.
In the original, Gastón Pauls gave the neophyte a memorably erratic personality, alternately cunning and befuddled. Luna, who acts most of his scenes opposite the great John C. Reilly (Chicago), seems to have decided that his best bet is to exhibit no personality at all, lest he upstage his costar. In the film's best scene, Luna's character uses his knowledge of Spanish to extort a higher percentage of the profit from his desperate mentor. But while the sequence works conceptually, there's no emotional charge to it, no sense of this kid's exultation in using his outsider status as a weapon. After a while, it seems to be the actor himself who's wary.
To be fair, all of this isn't quite as schematic as I'm making it look. García Bernal made an appearance in something called I'm with Lucy, starring Monica Potter, playing one of the heroine's several blind dates. Luna has the lead in a new movie called Nicotina, which I can't really address because I walked out of it at last year's Toronto Film Festival after determining that the catalog description"Mexico's answer to Guy Ritchie's Snatch"was hideously accurate. It's also possible that Luna simply knows more English than G.G.B., making the latter's virtue a linguistic accident. But it seems more likely that García Bernal is following the lead of Spanish heartthrob Javier Bardem, who tends to keep his distance from Hollywood, while Luna is taking his cue from former Almodóvar regular Antonio Banderas, who has long since embraced the town. One of these men has been nominated for an Oscar. The other is married to Melanie Griffith. Little more need be said.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Solidarity, White (Male) Privilege and Occupation
With all due respect to Indigenous Peoples, of course.
At least that's how many of the posts start out. "Decolonize the Americas, but Occupy Oakland," one post declares. "Voting No to Decolonize Occupy" another states. After I posted on twitter the upcoming proposal date at the general assembly, I actually received a message that started out, "No offense, but..." Really? No offense? I don't think I've heard that expression since junior high. And, for the first time in a long time, I'm surprised.
By the phrase, not the sentiment.
A sentiment in defense of, to quote bell hooks, white male supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
See, here's the thing that I love about people of color and white women: we're hopeful every time a new protest or movement comes along that, like Occupy, speaks to us. We get involved. We organize. We take on leadership. We fight. We stick around, even when racism, sexism, and homophobia become explicit. In other words--when white male dominance is challenged and subsequently, (and staunchly) defended--we hang in there.
Because it always happens.
Whenever we organize with white men (or their comrades who protect white male dominance), there comes a time when they feel their status is threatened. And really, it can be from something as little as proposing a name change--mind you, this hasn't even went up before the GA yet and already there is a backlash, er, freedom of speech I mean. A name change that recognizes the experience of the majority of people living in Oakland. A city whose unemployment rate is 17%, twice that of the national rate. And you know what that means? That means that the people that experience the rapid collapse of capitalism, which you so vehemently defend (I was also told that recognizing how Blacks, Indigenous People, and Asians have been colonized in this country was a distraction) are people of color. And we've been feeling the effects of this collapse for decades, not since September or whenever the decline began to impede on your ability to get a piece of the pie.
Personally, I support the name change (as other cities have changed the name to Unsettle and (Un)Occupy with little resistance) and I won't be deterred if the change is blocked, but I am and will continue to be swayed by the ongoing fight against white male patriarchal dominance masquerading as "community." No offense.
So, here's a tip: What you need to do now is listen, not interrupt. Cause what you're doing is interrupting. Listen to the majority of people who live in this city. Listen to people whose land we occupy. People of color make up the majority of Oakland, physically and metaphorically, the very fabric, and our voice in this movement needs to be recognized. Not in a "caucus," or a "working group," as some have graciously offered and declared support for. But, as the majority of the city that you are representing. The majority of the 99% in this city. We are as much a part of this movement, involved fully or not. And, as some of you have stated, you need to reach us. And, reaching us does not mean being defensive, posting numerous blogs and posts about your movement to block the passage of a name change, and trotting out your friends of color to tell us what "occupy" means.
You need to find another path to build and maintain this movement.
In solidarity.
33 comments:
- Liz said...
I am fine with a name change and amplifying that. Decolonize or Liberate both sound good.
I think I will start at least double tagging any "#occupy" posts with #liberate and see how that goes.
The instant backlash against the name change without even listening to discussion, just unwillingness to listen or change, are some major bullshit...
- November 29, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- Summerspeaker said...
Unfortunately, the name change to (un)Occupy here in Albuquerque has meet with more than a little resistance. I wish y'all in Oakland the best in confronting colonialism directly and refusing to fall into tired old patterns of white supremacy. This struggle will continue for some time, but it's worth the sweat and tears.
- November 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano said...
Right on. Thank you for writing this. I spent 8 years working in the LGBT world and, lord, such rhetoric was among the only constants.
By the way, are you on twitter? I couldn't find it on your page.
I'm under @herreraylozano
- November 29, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Aw, I was loving the continuity with Occupy Alcatraz and the AIM!
- November 29, 2011 at 2:36 PM
I agree that the Burque name change has been painful. There are now two groups with different GAs. Since Oakland is respected so much because of the closing of the ports this name change would open up a lot for the rest of us.
Albuquerque changed the name early on but it was far from smooth. And it will not deter the anti-colonialists! Just wait until those resisting dealing with colonialism get into dealing with whether or not they are capitalists!
- November 29, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- queerblackfeminist said...
@summerspeaker and Anonymous #2, thanks for your words. I figured as soon as I typed it that "little resistance" might be a stretch. I know it took a lot of work to pass that. Will let you know how it turns out here. In solidarity.
- November 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Yeap. From 'Burque and was in many of the GA's where the "Occupy, name change" discussions took place. It was not neat and cut in any form. Lot of people on both sides were offended and hurt. A lot of people quit. It was not as simple as white people for, and people of color against either. There were white men, women and people of color (including natives) on both sides of the discussion.
I can say this with confidence, because I wasn't busy arguing. I was busy listening.
- November 29, 2011 at 4:07 PM
I have read your blog before when you wrote about using "occupy" and I found my heart strengthened up by your words. So now reading about the name changing is again an emotional pull. Here in Albuquerque there has been a lot of strife and struggle even though the original meetings where the name was consensed on were very beautiful examples of how we can listen to one another and allow ourselves to grow in our understanding. But since then the level of discord among a very few, mostly white folks has played out as a split in our GA and an inability to work together as (un)Occupy Albuquerque, our dream of shared power with folks of color and our white allies working together. The consequent colonizing behaviors,the re-writing of our history of actions and efforts as (un)Occupy Albuquerque, is sad and old and tiring. We have had to continue to affirm who we are, what we stand for, and why we stand together. That has kept those of us who have stayed, both POC and White folks, those of us who have honored our consensus process and who have understood our collective power to continue to work hard and not let other folks define for us who we are. The same strengths that we have always used to keep us going in these many movements and struggles. Good luck with this momentous name change. Don't be afraid to change the name...everyone will know you by your actions.
- November 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM
- mojo_iv said...
You're not wrong in the slightest -- I would, however, argue that since the public already knows the name "Occupy Movement", changing it now might confuse the public and end up blunting the movement's impact. Not everyone is involved with the movement, and I've always felt that the best thing the movement could do is shift the national discourse towards more directly dealing with the issues we're up in arms about.
That, however, is clearly not what your post is about. You haven't even brought this up at the GA and you've already got people trying to hand-wave you away, and that's antithetical to the ideas this action is supposed to be based on. Don't let them dismiss you -- bring the idea to the GA and let everyone vote on it.
- November 29, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Lisa Carver said...
Thank you for this.
- November 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- scholem_redux said...
i agree with mojo, is that there is a power in branding, much like magic words. the term "occupy" has taken off, and it has momentum. to get caught up in a (legitimate) debate re: the power of said language is to lose said momentum and attention of the public eye. we live in a world where our moral choices seldom leave us the privilege of perfection, and the notion of a "greater good" is sadly the most relevant one in terms of mass action.
in addition, in terms of a philosophy of language, not every use of a word has to mean the same thing. some words are equivocal. jewish medieval philosopher maimonides stressed the centrality of equivocal language in speaking about G?d (following much muslim philosophy), that words describing G?d have a radically different meaning than in contexts when used as descriptors of humans.
similarly, in this case, we can repurpose the term "occupy" towards a more righteous end, by being conscious of its problematic history and redirecting it to try to achieve as much justice as we can in this world (which sadly seems to always involve aspects of injustice as well).
- November 30, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- mojo_iv said...
I honestly hadn't considered the word "Occupy" in terms of historical colonialism -- to me it was that the folks in power had illegally occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, lining their own pockets in the process while bankrupting us, and we, in turn, occupy the banks in protest. I hate to admit it but while I was protesting modern imperial ambition I seem to have somehow forgotten that its nothing new.
(sorry, I had to go back and fix my typos)
- November 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM
- queerblackfeminist said...
@Maria, thanks so much for words and experience. I love being a part of this discussion/movement. And, @mojo_iv and @scholem_redux, I totally get the argument about keeping Occupy to align with OWS and the public's short term memory/need for consistency. I'm more invested in pointing out dissonance between the movement's inclusion of all 99%ers and the backlash when some of us offer a view that doesn't support the dominant group. peace and solidarity.
- November 30, 2011 at 5:23 PM
My one contention - Branding. That's what the name change comes down to. The Occupy movement started as a call to action. "Occupy" as a word has a strong connotation for this call to action. I don't mean that a re-branding (or naming) doesn't deserve discussion, but only that I feel that the strength of the current brand holds a distinctive weight. A question I would like to impose is; As a movement that has been perceived already as muddled in its message, Is there value in changing it's brand, and will a change further the perceived confusion already going on?
- December 1, 2011 at 12:12 AM
- lex said...
Word and well said! This is something I wrote (invoking our black feminist poet elders and ancestors) about the way this has been going down in North Carolina...
- December 1, 2011 at 3:22 AM
right on for this andreana!i feel where you're coming from and have also entertained the thought of constructing something around race, gender, and class inside (and outside) this movement. i have also been troubled by the ways in which folks of color have been dismissed, and have been told that our experiences are distractions. bullshit! i say keep up the fight because it is far from over. let me know how i can be of help and join you in this struggle. rochelle
- December 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM
- miguel said...
I think it's a useless divisive argument to be provoking now when Occupy Oakland is in a bit of a crisis. Everybody I talk to that has been involved in OO is pointing fingers and making accusations and the whole movement is splintering in different directions and it feels like such a waste. I remember reading all the stories about the useless infighting that happened in the 1960s movements and thinking that it just didn't make sense, why would they get distracted from the obvious enemies gathering around them? But here we are having the same dumb internal arguments all over again.
- December 2, 2011 at 2:45 AM
- queerblackfeminist said...
Thanks @lex! I love your piece and love being in conversation, always. @Rochelle, you are already "helping" in this struggle, your words, your work, always. peace.
- December 2, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- queerblackfeminist said...
@Miguel, I'm not really interested in whether you think this critique is "useless." I am interested in you and your comrades use of "divisive." Is that supposed to be some kind of deterrent? People get upset, or like many of you, hostile and that's a problem? Maybe you should "study" those movements a little closer and the role of white male patriarchal hegemony, whether white men were the upholders or not.
- December 2, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- miguel said...
Some people will feel strongly for the proposal others will be strongly against, feelings will be hurt, people will threaten to quit the movement, it will clearly be divisive. It's happened several times before. The consensus process is supposed to avoid the divisiveness by helping the entire group to work out a solution that everybody can live with, but in practice it hasn't worked that way for any of the previous issues that have had even a little bit of controversy.
- December 2, 2011 at 9:59 AM
- miguel said...
The word useless was too dismissive on my part, I apologize.
- December 2, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- bint alshamsa said...
Let's face it. Most of the people who are concern trolling about how we should leave the name alone because of branding are only looking for excuses to ignore what needs to be done in order for this to be a movement that truly represents the 99%. "(Un)Occupy Oakland" would make it clear that the group should be seen as an extension of the movement taking place across America AND it would show that this is a movement that we can feel represents us as people of color.
All of this stuff about branding really makes me roll my eyes. I mean, really? Have this turned into the Coca-Cola company or something? When you're thinking about branding as more important than what marginalized people are telling you, then congratulations! You have now identified yourself as part of the oppressive system that we want nothing to do with.
- December 2, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- queerblackfeminist said...
@Miguel, thanks for your apology. My last comment on this is that the act of bringing a proposal for a name change or putting attention on white male privilege is not divisive. Those acts in and of themselves. People's reaction/response/inability to listen may in fact be divisive. peace.
- December 2, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- queerblackfeminist said...
@bint alshamsa, WORD. love your thoughts on branding vs. marginalized voices. peace.
- December 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Yes, by all means let's focus on trivial things like the specific name of the movement and not its overarching goals like...you know...equality. That will do wonders for progress. Come on.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Also, the basis of naming the movement "Occupy" is actually parallel to your views because it is satirical. It started because protesters aimed to "occupy" the institutions that have been occupying the nation. Again, come on.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM
This is the sort of "with us or against us" talk I hoped wouldn't crop up in this movement. You claim that the only reason why someone would disagree with a name change is because they are supporting white male capitalist supremacy.
This movement IS the Occupy Movement. The name is tongue-in-cheek, and everyone gets it. I think it even helps people think about other occupations by opening a dialogue about the meaning of the word.
Branding is real. It has consequences. It means something to most of the 99%. I believe there is something to lose in a name change.
And just in case I wasn't clear, I disagree with what you've written based on what you've written, not because we're differently priviledged.
- December 5, 2011 at 12:45 AM
- queerblackfeminist said...
Interesting comment, @Taylor, especially your "clarification" at the end. You may want to re-read, as the point of the post is a critique of white male supremacist capitalist patriarchy, based on the response to the proposal to change the name, not whether or not someone disagrees with it. I'm not invested in a name change or the name itself, but rather the privileges that many of us hoped wouldn't come up in this movement, this one that is supposed represent all. Also, who cares whether the name is tongue in cheek or "satirical," the point is the response/critique that marginalized voices, you know those 99% you claim to represent and many of whom voted in favor of a name change last night in Oakland, launch, whether it's "serious" or not.
- December 5, 2011 at 7:28 AM
You're still claiming that the root cause of an objection to a name change is white male supremacist capitalist patriarchy. There are real reasons why many people (people of color included) didn't want to change the name.
A vote against the name change is not a vote against decolonizing Oakland. I want this movement to help decolonize Oakland, and it can only do that if it is strong. I think changing the name would weaken the movement. So, because I want to decolonize oakland, I'm against changing the name to decolonize Oakland.
My point is, these arguments are valid and understandable in and of themselves. You don't need to pull in white male supremacist capitalist patriarchy to explain opposition to a name change.
- December 5, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- queerblackfeminist said...
I appreciate your thinking on decolonization, decolonizing Oakland and the various reasons for keeping the name Occupy, Taylor. We'll have to disagree on the other points, as I still think white male supremacist capitalist patriarchy still plays a role. peace.
- December 5, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- Seth said...
I haven't given this too much thought, but perhaps it would be best to consider Occupiers as queering the term occupy. By occupying and physically putting their bodies on the line, they are reclaiming the word, its harmful colonial history, and the public space (though I realize land ownership and public space usage is a sticky subject). Certainly occupying is an activity open to all people (though some may have the privilege to occupy easier in that they can go home if they want, or aren't afraid of being arrested, etc). What I've noticed from organizing is that it's really hard to be fully inclusive and purely and completely just according to the theory 100% of the time. There aren't any perfect solutions and I hate that. But I think it's a win that we try. This is not to excuse/apologize for privilege or inconsiderate behavior. What I'm saying is that we just have to pick our battles. From a practical standpoint it would be bad for the local movement to lose its link to the larger OWS/Occupy movement for the access to the media narrative/frame. The media had a hard enough time trying to figure out what Occupiers were doing the first time, and a new name would probably confuse them, so a radically new name would lose valuable PR (to the extent you get good media coverage, but that's another convo). I think the suggestions of (un)Occupy or Occupy to Liberate or something with Occupy in the name but challenges colonialism would be a good compromise. OTL has a familiar ring to it. Again I hate that there isn't a pure (black or white, may be the wrong phrase here...) answer, but I think these kinds of things are difficult and we can't get all caught up with being in line with the theory 100%. I think it's a win for simply having this conversation and raising awareness of privilege among ourselves. Let's be glad the Occupy movement was inclusive enough to even attract the right kinds of people to offer this critique. I mean, you could argue that the 99% rhetoric is explicitly exclusive of the 1% and creates an unnecessary and potentially harmful Us/Them dichotomy... So my #gayboisolution is to recognize the history of oppression, and offer to change the name to something related. I would expect that someone will block a name change for reasons good or bad, but try to move on to the larger issues at hand. I also realize that if I were indigenous or a POC, I might feel more strongly about such a compromise, or lack thereof, so I think you just have to ask yourself if the old name and struggle to change it something you can live with and continue to function in the group. If it's too much headache/heartache, get out of there. There's no need to beat yourself up over volunteer work. But I suspect you're a fighter. And you've inspired me to modify this into a blog post, but I'd love to hear your response first. Twt me @SethEKaye.
- December 25, 2011 at 11:41 AM
I can't support this movement with all its sexism, racism, and homophobia. Unless it makes a real effort to deal with these problems, I will be opposed to it. The economic problems have been faced by minorities and women for decades without acknowledgement from white males. They need to start dealing with these issues before I can call myself an ally in their fight. Black slaves fought with white indentured servants for freedom and when the white servants were given land, they went on oppressing the black slaves. Let's fight to make sure that doesn't happen again.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Felicia Pitre said...
"And we've been feeling the effects of this collapse for decades, not since September or whenever the decline began to impede on your ability to get a piece of the pie."
- December 30, 2011 at 1:46 AM