Posted on 11/29/2014 11:53:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a development that may portend extended disruptions, veteran street organizer Lisa Fithian, previously dubbed Professor Occupy, recently trained Ferguson protesters how to simulate chaos.
Fithian is a legendary organizer who once announced she seeks to create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.
She was one of the luminaries of the Occupy Wall Street movement and was a lead organizer in the infamous 1999 Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization that descended into violence.
The 1999 WTO event in Seattle devolved into widespread rioting in which more than 40,000 protesters, some using violent tactics, descended on the city, prompting police to use tear gas and rubber bullets. The clash became known as The Battle of Seattle.
According to Discover the Networks, Fithian specializes in aggressive direct action tactics.
Prior to the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting case, Fithian was interviewed Nov. 14 on NPR.....
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
She’s YOUNGER than me?! What?!
“Tactics of the communists.”
Because...(stating the obvious).
Discover the Networks is an effort Tom Delay began in ~2005 or so.
Thanks. I did not know that.
In 2012, Fithian spoke at the Left Forum (successor to the annual Socialist Scholars Conferences) (bottom) here...
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2521
Every organizer want to be one thing the King.
Occupy was a pure form of incited class conflict. It did not take off on a massive scale. So now they are giving class conflict a racial makeover. But it is still class conflict in the Marxist tradition.
Not checking time zones ... “4 am” is a self bump reminder to read post the next morning.
If I do it right I also delete anyone in the “To:” field so its just a reminder ping to me (& a bump to thread). FYI ;-)
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