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Monday, October 10, 2011

Occupy / City / Retail B-Side Issues Marching Orders

Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:35 AM

Seen in the window of Stewart Street's B-Side Music, sent in by Slog tipper Christine.

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Is it okay that I made a special effort to do some shopping at Westlake stores while attending the protest Saturday? I felt it best to let nearby shopowners know the crowd did include their customers.

Posted by gloomy gus on October 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM

K, I will go to Caffe Vita and torrent my music.

Posted by The CHZA on October 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM

When did the protest suddenly become about saying fuck shopping? Isn't it supposed to be about bringing attention to unemployment and the need to impose higher taxes on the wealthiest percent?

Posted by Amanda on October 10, 2011 at 12:07 PM

LET'S GET THE RICH TO SUBSIDIZE INDIE MUSIC!!!!

Posted by cliche on October 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM

Meh, I'll buy online from somewhere in Toledo then.

Posted by KittenKoder

on October 10, 2011 at 12:11 PM

Is it really a revolution if people have to be prodded by shopkeepers and online blogs to attend?

Posted by Gern Blanston on October 10, 2011 at 12:17 PM

That reminds me...need to pick up a new iPhone next week and time to buy new clothes for the winter season!!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on October 10, 2011 at 12:32 PM

Let me guess, the place is normally closed on Mondays anyways?

Posted by stinkbug on October 10, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Shopping is exactly what will turn the economy around. No shopping = total economic collapse. Go out and buy some stuff.

Posted by Fnarf

on October 10, 2011 at 12:34 PM

@9, just like Bush told us to do!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on October 10, 2011 at 12:40 PM

Looks like the revolution is starting to disappear up its own ass.

Posted by Rotten666 on October 10, 2011 at 12:42 PM

@10, blind squirrels, acorn, you know the drill.

Posted by Fnarf

on October 10, 2011 at 12:45 PM

Eat shit, hipster scum.

Posted by sonder on October 10, 2011 at 12:56 PM

Once again the word "revolution" gets tossed around all too lightly. We had all better hope this doesn't end in a *real* revolution. The end result of pretty much every modern revolution has been a military junta, and the military is OVERWHELMINGLY conservative in this country. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire...

Posted by Orv on October 10, 2011 at 12:59 PM

KittenKoder and WIS are the same person, right? Right?!

Posted by okayokay on October 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM

@14 They just use that word because otherwise they'd have to admit that the reason their pet cause has not taken off is not because of, the media, the banks, the powerful, or whatever, but because it's just not a popular cause.

Most people are pretty OK with how the country is organized. They might debate whether the top bracket should be 35 or 39% or whether we should be in Iraq or not, but full scale social change is not something they want. And why should they? The vast majority of people have enough food to eat, a nice place to sleep, schools to send their kids too, and enough money left over to entertain themselves.

Posted by giffy on October 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM

yeah, no shopping means no need for goods and/or services means no need to hire people to work at stores/in manufacturing means no jobs means protesters complaining about not having jobs means hipster stores putting up signs telling people not to shop. genius!

Posted by zeebleoop on October 10, 2011 at 1:19 PM

Buy things!! It stimulates the economy! The people who have millions or billions squirreled away and don't do a gorram thing with it are the problem. They don't want to pay taxes on it so they can amass and hoard ridiculous amounts of cash. Buy things!

Posted by treefort on October 10, 2011 at 1:24 PM

It appears further clarity is needed: The sign is not saying "fuck shopping" as some kind of statement of the protest's philosophical principles.

It's saying "fuck shopping right now, as an important protest is going on and you should participate."

I thought this message was pretty (extremely) clear, but it has for some reason created confusion.

Posted by doesurmindglow on October 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM

Are there locks on the doors at B-Side? Why? To protect the products they intend to sell? WHAT? Isn't there a revolution going on?

If they don't want us to shop there, can we have all their stuff for free?

Posted by pg13 on October 10, 2011 at 2:12 PM

@16 As a Eisenhower Republican, I want the top tax rate to be more like twice that.

Posted by This makes me twice as "liberal" as the mainstream on October 10, 2011 at 3:30 PM

@21 The top bracket was a lot higher then too. Millions in today's dollars. Lots more tax shelters too. In terms of percent of GDP tax revenue was lower than in today's era (great recession excluded)

Posted by giffy on October 10, 2011 at 10:40 PM