While the occupy movement is still going strong in neighboring cities like Ojai and Oxnard, De la Guerra Plaza is back to normal and occupier free… images below.
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The End of the Occupation of Santa Barbara
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Occupy seems to have morphed into a growing number of professionally made glossy banners around town picketing various places of businesses with strikingly similar buzz words of class warfare. Latest seen in the County Courthouse arch railing against the “banksters and foreclosures” Another spotted down by the Post Office. Others union protesters at construction sites. Gee, how “spontaneous”.
Anyone who travels to other cities hassled by vagrants leaves with the desire to never return again. Try Vancouver. Try Fort Lauderdale Riverfront Park. Both civic efforts to restore the luster of their downtown commercial districts to become viable tourism destinations. Yet they became ghost towns since they could not control the vagrants who moved in to exploit the expected influx of out of towners.
If there is nothing to do to keep vagrants away, then something must be done to make visitors feel more comfortable when they are around panhandling and being aggressive. Almost monthly a letter to the editor gets written by an out of town tourist who chooses never to come back. Tourism is one of this city’s main sources of revenues. Don’t disregard this. Retail sales is where we get our money to run the city and pay the salaries. Vagrancy depressing tourism dollars is all our problems.
How come there are no vagrants in Solvang. Loaded with tourist and casino visitors. What are they doing right that we can learn from?
The drum circle and festival moved on.
Just to let you know the Occupy SB group has entered into Occupy 2.0 phase with active groups readying events and actions related to illegal foreclosures, corporate person-hood/Citizens United vs. FEC, NDAA/civil liberties, labeling GMOs, and more.
Currently there are bi-weekly general assemblies that anyone is welcomed to, one indoors on Wednesday nights and another on Saturdays in conjunction with a weekly event. The Fund for Santa Barbara has also assisted with non-profit umbrella status.
The occupy movement is becoming a broader movement for social change. Just because people got fed up with being cited and arrested in De La Guerra Plaza doesn’t mean that people won’t keep working to better our community.
Just thought you might want some actual information instead of what appeared to be a uninformed observational post.
Occupy 2 proves Occupy 1 failed. Cynically Occupy 1 was nothing more than a public employee union smokescreen, diverting closer scrutiny which uncovered the real looters of the public treasury are public employees themselves. Recognize public employee union greed by their class warfare buzzwords. We need a well-paid civil service because it leads to less internal corruption. But enough is enough. That is what Occupy 1-2-3 fails to understand. We get it. So should they.
Since there seems to be an alarming dearth of misinformation on the comments portion of this post let me be of assistance to AstroArtists et. al, and point out some of the facts that you neglected to mention.
Regarding AstroArtits classification of “failure”: Besides Occupies across the nation getting millions of people to move their money out of too-big-to-fail banks, allowing homeowners much deserved attention/refinancing opportunities in relation to illegal foreclosures, and working to garner support for specific legislation, (such as the MoveToAmend.org efforts), Occupy “1.0″ did change the entire national dialog from one of austerity by any means necessary to one of economic/income inequality to the point where Republican presidential primary candidates are using Occupy language in debates and advertisements. We are actually having a national discussion about venture capitalists, investment banking, and the idea that not all capitalism is equal. Who saw that coming? Oh, and you probably like the fact that (chances are) your bank will not be charging you a monthly fee for the privilege of their services.
Regarding AstroArtits claim of a “public employee smokescreen”: Locally the only official union presence at anything OccupySB-related was a bit of donated food and supplies, (specifically use of a printer, a couple pop-up tents, etc). There are a couple of folks who work in unions who regularly attend OccupySB events, and the SB GA’s have passed statements of purpose which relate to supporting collective bargaining and the rights of all workers, however, there is zero-tolerance for anything that even comes close to co-option. Point is that, while it would be easier to explain away by critics, the truth is that there is no overriding organization who started this movement from the shadows, unless you consider a random Adbusters call for protest, a fruit vendor in Tunisia, or millions in Tahrir Square to be movement masterminds. To try to paint a massive worldwide call for fairness in that light is intellectually lazy and dishonest.
Have a great day!
“Occupy “1.0″ did change the entire national dialog from one of austerity by any means necessary to one of economic/income inequality to the point where Republican presidential primary candidates are using Occupy language in debates and advertisements. We are actually having a national discussion about venture capitalists, investment banking, and the idea that not all capitalism is equal. Who saw that coming? Oh, and you probably like the fact that (chances are) your bank will not be charging you a monthly fee for the privilege of their services.”
Amen. Thank you for your words, Marshall.
It’s also ridiculous to a.) label the broad-based support for Occupy as “vagrants” and is outright offense to use the term “vagrant” as some sort of annoying nuisance that needs to be swept under the rug to attract the tourists. THAT IS [one of many things that is] WRONG WITH SANTA BARBARA – hide the most disadvantaged and in need among us in order to attract the vacationing millionaires from LA. Those of us devoted to Occupy actually care about creating a society in which everyone is uplifted rather than left to starve in the streets.
A few statistics:
Adjusted for inflation, average hourly worker pay in the U.S. has not increased in 50 years.
When it comes to income equality and closing the massive gap between rich and poor, the U.S. currently ranks 93rd in the world.
Unemployment is still the highest it’s been since the Great Depression.
The average time an individual is unemployed is now at least 6 months.
Meanwhile, corporate profits are HIGHER than they have ever been.
And the top 5% of the U.S. own 70% of the financial wealth, while the bottom 80% own 7%.
SOURCE, with over 40 charts: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10
If wanting to change all of that is worthy of AstroArtist’s and others’ heartless, Randian scorn, then so be it. We only have one life to live and one planet. I can’t think of one thing more important than working to decrease human misery.
Power to the people. Yawn.
Meant “dearth of information”*
And way to feign boredom instead of engaging. That’s a very effective way to back up empty rhetoric.
Rock on drum circlers! our fed only spent 55% more than we made as a country in 2011. we need to raise the debt limit so we can spend more. btw how is that euro doing?
And by the end of the year, we’ll have either the wealthiest President in history, or our existing Wall Street puppet. Good job, OWS.
You’re right, NO, a debt-based economy is really hurting us. And, if you’d maybe come to some of the local events instead of forming your opinion from biased media, then maybe you’d know that we haven’t had drum circles, (though that would probably be fun). We have had some excellent music. Here is a clip you will probably find interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Tgg5z317w
Shannon, excellent informative post….looky there! You used facts! How bold of you.
Opinion was not formed by media. been to LA with my eyes! and u? not. hows bout OAKLAND? not lookin much like law abiding people and never really has! hows that euro union doing anyway! move there. see ya drum circlers
Debt-based economy: rank in any order you want, and start chipping away
1. Throw the bums out who keep increasing the public debt
2. Reduce expenses
3. Raise taxes
4. Go bankrupt and rewrite existing contractual obligations
5. Reduce future entitlements
6. Revise tax code for wealth redistribution
7. Send tax scofflaws to debtors’ prison
8. Increase IRS audits and investigations
9. Camp in a park, eat free food, play the drums and demand others pay for your drama degree.
Who in the Occupy Movement is asking for anyone to pay their way?
Such narrow minded people. Did you ever go down there in person or were you afraid you might meet someone with a soul?
#4 would be the cloward and piven stratagy which is what is going on. google it.
The American landscape is littered with the wreckage brought on by the 1%. Pensions have all but disappeared, wages are stagnant if not decreasing, fuel costs are at record levels, foreclosures are epidemic, poverty is increasing and people want to blame the workers. Wake up! People get more outraged by who sings at the Super Bowl than they do at the greed and corruption that is ruining their country. Call them names, give them labels, it doesn’t matter. The youth of this Country is waking up and their time is coming.
Marshall:
Millions in Tahir Square you mention speaking of empty rhetoric, there were not millions and they actually had a specific goal in the downfall of the regime. In terms of that working out they did get rid of the regime in favor of a military coup which took over from said regime. As for thanking Occupy for the rollback of the Bank Fees, that was a 22 year old female in Washington DC whose online petitions gained tractions (she also got Verizon) but how gallant of you to try to steal the credit for “the movement”.
Mike B:
Wasn’t one of the Occupy demands the erasing of student debt? Banks got bailed out etc, even though most banks have since repaid the loans.
Occupy was interesting however the main groups who got any attention out here wallowed without any direction until they got co-opted by unions and then got more attention. It was a nice idea who never managed to harness it energy and the encamped groups caused more bad press leading to the end of that vehicle.
Occupy 2.0 is not the vehicle for change, its coming as things are screwed up but the odds are it wont be junior college radicals, those who think the human microphone is effective, or someone with a poster of Che on their wall who actually lead the change.
I did go down to the Occupy SB site at DLG Plaza to learn firsthand what was going on. And despite my attempts to engage the guys seated at the information table, they were more interested in texting and scrolling their cellphones than in having any kind of discussion about their platform and plans to implement it beyond just sitting there all day long. One of them did offer that he was from Occupy Santa Cruz, and was just sort of traveling down the coast, visiting one Occuply site after another. As one of the 99 percent, I want there to be a real wake-up call about economic inequality in America, but I have my doubts about the effectiveness of grungy hanging out.
IRA’s have not disappeared. You earn it. You save it. it grows tax free. Best pension plan in the world. And then you invest it inside your IRA in profitable corporations, where you get the best return for your money. Play this long and you will be fixed for life on your own dime. Every hour you spend protesting could be an extra hour of earned labor you could put into your IRA. Your call.
Occupy smells more like class envy, than class warfare.
You got it diane. the entitlement generation is doing what they know how to do. demand that they get theres as easy and with as little work as possible, all the while scrollin around on there dumb devices. they bought the marketing trick of calling it a smart phone. NOT
It looks like the guy who got popped for the latest arson attack on the IV Foot Patrol was also arrested in October as one of the 10 Occupy folk who chose not to leave De La Guerra Plaza when they cleared that. A diversity of tactics indeed.