As new crackdowns emerge on the stock market to insulate hedge funds and capitalists from innovative disruptions to the system, we look back to our reflections immediately on the heels of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement:

“The same technology that helped capitalists outflank the resistance of the 1960s has produced new forms of revolt, from file-sharing to viral riots. Without the advance endorsement of Anonymous, for example, Occupy Wall Street might never have gotten off the ground. We can expect to see a worldwide authoritarian backlash against the internet-spread and twitter-savvy revolts of 2011.
Much of this clampdown will take the form of direct surveillance and censorship. We take for granted that those are chiefly employed in places like Syria and Tunisia; in fact, most of the censorship technology those governments use comes from Silicon Valley—and was first applied right here in the US.”

https://crimethinc.com/2012/01/18/2012-the-empire-has-no-clothes-whats-at-stake-in-the-new-year

Bellingham, WA

Friends and neighbors help defend an encampment from eviction.

https://twitter.com/stonewall1312/status/1354848694797918209?s=21

"His wife put it more bluntly: 'Eat the rich.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/business/gamestop-wall-street-bets.html

Robinhood is now selling peoples' shares on their own, "for their own good"

#NYC tonight

#NYC today

"In a suit filed in the Southern District of New York, the Plaintiff claims that Robinhood “purposefully, willfully, and knowingly removing the stock “GME” from its trading platform in the midst of an unprecedented stock rise thereby deprived retail investors of the ability to invest in the open-market and manipulating the open-market.”"

https://www.ign.com/articles/robinhood-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-after-halting-gamestop-stock