Meanwhile, it's good to see the Paultards show up to plan this week's "Occupy NOLA" event. Between them and the "anarchists" (last seen in action here) what could possibly go wrong?
The actual Occupy New Orleans protest will begin on Thursday, Oct. 6 (the national Occupy Together movement's "Day of Solidarity") at noon in front of Orleans Parish Prison at Tulane and Broad.
Note: That location was determined by a series of votes after protracted and sometimes heated discussion. My read on it was that it could very well change, more than once, by Thursday, so check the Web sites listed above. Other, rejected-as-of-now sites included Lafayette Square, Lee Circle and City Hall.
Protesters will march from there to Lafayette Square to protest at the New Orleans branch of the Federal Reserve. They plan to set up a long-term occupation "base camp" in Duncan Plaza at New Orleans City Hall.
You know there are actually quite a few examples of inappropriate corporate usurpation of our public sphere in New Orleans worthy of "occupation." If the marchers go to John White's office, for example, they might draw more attention to the importance of these upcoming BESE elections as they relate to the privatization of our public schools. But then again, Ron Paul supporters don't even believe in public education in the first place so I guess that's out.
I also wouldn't mind seeing them take on any of the ongoing film productions around town which, funded through Louisiana tax incentives, appropriate city streets and public locations for the benefit of a particularly insulting kind of corporate profit taking not to mention create a major inconvenience for anyone who either lives near or travels through any of the city's more photogenic areas. But then I'm pretty sure there's enough overlap between the assembled protesters and people who like to pass around their head shots to keep that from happening.
Last week, I sort of tongue-in-cheekishly suggested the Superdome although some of that was "kidding on the square" as Buddy D used to say. It's at least more within the context than frowning at a statue somebody put up in Tivoli Circle a hundred years ago.
So, in the tried and true American spirit of incoherent compromise, the group has settled on starting at Tulane and Broad because.. you know police and stuff.. and then moving on to the Fed branch because.. GOLD STANDARD, BITCHES.. before settling down in Duncan Plaza which is where, you may remember, Ray Nagin once managed to ignore a whole encampment of homeless people for months. So the good news there is nobody should ask them to move or pay any attention them at all for quite a while. That is unless they take it into their minds to do any "aggressive panhandling" in which case the law requires Stacy Head to shoot them on sight.
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