Occupy WBAI (80's movie come to life)
We just need a Cusac...
So yeah, Me and 23 other occupiers occupied 95.5 WBAI last night. We're demanding the current Program Director be kept on. The Occupy/radical Programming they've been doing needs to continue, and 12 seats need to be added to the WBAI board of directors, and they must be filled by people under the age of 35. http://tickateeboo.files.wordpress.c...das071310.jpeg |
No responses? You guys suck.
Anyway, we totally did it: http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg612/sca...=640&ysize=640 http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg863/sca...=640&ysize=640 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/xjT4.jpg There were about 30 of us. Wed. night with the help of some sympathetic staff we stormed the building, got on the air and issued our demands: Quote:
I also got brought on as a guest on the Progressive Radio Network during the occupation: http://prn.fm/2012/03/29/occupied-territory-032912/ (Skip to about 36 minutes in) Overall this was really cool, and extremely effective. The WBAI staff did this sort of stuff to their bosses in the 60's and 70's and it was really neat to connect with longtime activists in this manner. It was also absolutely HILARIOUS to see old-school hierarchical liberalism come face to face Occupy's lateral structure and culture. |
How much difference to your cause do you think this occupation will have made? Is it something you'd think would be worth doing at other stations or even to the same one again? If occupying the station hasn't had the desired effect, how would you go about changing your approach during further action?
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I'd say it made a pretty big difference.
Tghe pro-occupy program director is probably going to be fired despite the occupation, and I don't know if we're actually going to be able to get any seats added TO the board, but judging by the listener's response we're likely to sweep the board elections next year. As of now, we've brought some serious attention to the station, so at the very least we've secured Ocupy-related programming ON the station. But beyond that, engaging in creative direct action like this is just what the movement needs. Occupations of other media sources are good ideas IMHO, but they need to be more planned and less spur of the moment in the future. I would LOVE to Occupy Fox or MSNBC or CBS, but we'd need employee support for that, otherwise we'd be arrested pretty quickly. If nothing else we've shown that occupy is both committed and autonomous of mainstream liberalism, which is good because mainstream liberalism is pretty much useless. |
Do you think it's possible to get employee support to occupy some larger orgainisations or do you think the employee base in those places will be too loyal to the company as a whole? Do you think their bias will prevent you from further action on a wider scale?
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I'm still not sure if it's anything other than symbolic.
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Awesome. Can you just take over the board of directors or are there too many "you'll only get them out in a coffin" types in there?
I'm going to occupy my local media server administrator, and protest my rights. |
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