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Occupy Dublin. Where are they now?

  • 21-03-2013 11:39AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    I think we can all agree that the Occupy Dublin movement failed to bring about even the merest hint of change, but I've often wondered where did the people who hung around there go? Did they stick on a Che t-shirt, listen to some Rage Against The Machine and head off to another protest? What occupies their minds these days?

    I work in the area, and cannot say I miss the sight of some crustie, sleep heavy in his eyes, poking his head out through the door of a tent as I walk to work. Or the posters which seemed to have opinions on everything from Shell to Sea to Palestine. It was like a catch-all collective of serial protesters.

    Do you think they achieved anything, and if so, what?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    I will take a wild stab in the dark

    the dole office


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Sergeant wrote: »
    Occupy Dublin. Where are they now?

    They all graduated from university.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Back home sleeping on their mammys sofa


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭aaakev


    Showering hopefully


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Gone back to their own countries.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Sergeant wrote: »

    Do you think they achieved anything, and if so, what?

    Annoyance of the general populace to the extent of making even liberals want to drive to work in Swastika-daubed Bentleys with baby seal-fur interiors


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    I have a mate on Facebook who was a fan. They engaged in low-level mischief-making (occupying the offices of the referendum commission during the referendum, championing the cause of those landlords who got evicted from their Kiliney home) but have quietened down now. Can't find the Facebook page any more.

    My favourite antic was last year, when the troika came to town. They decided to loiter about the Merrion Hotel where they were pitched up, and 'chase' the IMF delegates from the hotel they were staying in to the Government offices they were visiting across the street. There's a photo of them in mid 'chase', that sad-faced IMF lad just ignoring them, while one fellah makes faces behind him while inexplicably holding a Macbook.

    Clowns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    are they still protesting outside the israeli embassy the odd friday morning?
    there's a tree in brighton that the council want to cut down, but 2 shams have 'occupied' it. could be some of the same bunch.


  • Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They're at home...wwwashing their tights!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    geeky wrote: »
    I have a mate on Facebook who was a fan. They engaged in low-level mischief-making (occupying the offices of the referendum commission during the referendum, championing the cause of those landlords who got evicted from their Kiliney home) but have quietened down now. Can't find the Facebook page any more.

    My favourite antic was last year, when the troika came to town. They decided to loiter about the Merrion Hotel where they were pitched up, and 'chase' the IMF delegates from the hotel they were staying in to the Government offices they were visiting across the street. There's a photo of them in mid 'chase', that sad-faced IMF lad just ignoring them, while one fellah makes faces behind him while inexplicably holding a Macbook.

    Clowns.

    I stand corrected, they're still 'championing' every cause going here: http://www.facebook.com/OccupyDameStreet

    And I dug up that photo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    They brought awareness. That probably went over your head entirely. Some people don't want to know. Thats fine too.

    Continue pushing cash at banks, let them buy guaranteed,,, government debt at cents on the euro and wait for a bond market crash.

    What will you do then OP? Sleep on your parents couch, go on the dole or live in a tent?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    They brought awareness.

    Self-awareness perhaps.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 652 ✭✭✭jjpep


    Weather they were right or wrong they did something. Might not have achieved anything tangable but mocking a group for failing at something is really a little bit snide now isn't it. Especially when they were trying to do something for the greater good.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    They brought awareness. That probably went over your head entirely. Some people don't want to know. Thats fine too.

    What awareness did they bring? That dreadlocks really don't suit pasty Irish men? I never ever understood the central theme of their protest, never mind the hodgepodge of other 'hot topic' issues that they seemed to stick a poster up about.

    There was never a cohesive message. It was an utter failure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Going down the Occupy rabbit hole I came across this event: Occupy Dáil Éireann, Force the Government to Resign

    http://www.facebook.com/events/446293835447518/

    I can see no possibility of this failing. If 1916 taught us anything, it's that a marching straight into buildings without numbers, equipment, training or a mandate following an attempted publicity campaign yields instant success. Oh wait.

    My favourite line from the organiser: "This is a serious Event .....NO TIME WASTERS !!!!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Sergeant wrote: »

    What awareness did they bring? That dreadlocks really don't suit pasty Irish men? I never ever understood the central theme of their protest, never mind the hodgepodge of other 'hot topic' issues that they seemed to stick a poster up about.

    There was never a cohesive message. It was an utter failure.

    You're not bothered. Thats fine like I said. Some lazy "paddy " who doesn't want to know what's going on. Bury your head, the world will go on.

    But bear in mind it'll go on making a fool of you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    You're not bothered. Thats fine like I said. Some lazy "paddy " who doesn't want to know what's going on. Bury your head, the world will go on.

    But bear in mind it'll go on making a fool of you.

    You're engaging in the type of vague rhetoric that caused me to create the thread in the first place.

    What is going on? Why am I burying my head in the sand? What will go on making a fool of me?

    The entire protest movement in general appears to be filled with this type of gibberish. Vague slogans and a couple of soundbites.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    You mocked them when they were protesting and you mock them now because they're not. I wish I knew the meaning of the word ironic because there's a chance it could be used here?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭maximoose


    You're not bothered. Thats fine like I said. Some lazy "paddy " who doesn't want to know what's going on. Bury your head, the world will go on.

    But bear in mind it'll go on making a fool of you.

    So because someone doesn't/didn't support crusty hippies sitting around in shacks in a left-wing fantasyland with unrealistic "demands" while damaging local businesses and causing a nuisance to everyone working in the area they are a fool and don't understand or what to know what is going on with the economy?

    Good one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    Sergeant wrote: »

    You're engaging in the type of vague rhetoric that caused me to create the thread in the first place.

    What is going on? Why am I burying my head in the sand? What will go on making a fool of me?

    The entire protest movement in general appears to be filled with this type of gibberish. Vague slogans and a couple of soundbites.

    What do you want me to tell you? What use is telling you anything? If you didn't want to hear then, why do you want to hear now?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    What do you want me to tell you? What use is telling you anything? If you didn't want to hear then, why do you want to hear now?
    Is this the usual way in which you communicate a message of protest? I can see the chant now;

    "What do we want?"

    "Why should we tell you?!"

    "When do we want it?!"

    "Mind your own business!"

    Doesn't surprise me that Occupy disappeared with barely a whimper when they seem unable to provide even the most scant details about their aims or achievements.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    maximoose wrote: »

    So because someone doesn't/didn't support crusty hippies sitting around in shacks in a left-wing fantasyland with unrealistic "demands" while damaging local businesses and causing a nuisance to everyone working in the area they are a fool and don't understand or what to know what is going on with the economy?

    Good one.

    Economy? Which economy? Loads of those crusty hippies were suit and tie wearing, well paid business people. What have you done? Sat back and taken it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    They brought awareness. That probably went over your head entirely. Some people don't want to know. Thats fine too.
    You're not bothered. Thats fine like I said. Some lazy "paddy " who doesn't want to know what's going on. Bury your head, the world will go on.

    But bear in mind it'll go on making a fool of you.
    What do you want me to tell you? What use is telling you anything? If you didn't want to hear then, why do you want to hear now?

    You strike me as being not so much a poster as a Jefferson Airplane album that has somehow achieved sentience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    anncoates wrote: »
    Annoyance of the general populace to the extent of making even liberals want to drive to work in Swastika-daubed Bentleys with baby seal-fur interiors

    I don't get how people always found them so annoying. I also worked around the area at the time and sure, there were always blow ins (who weren't even part of the movement and who would go home to their beds at the end of the night) who made tits of themselves.

    However, there were also a core group of the same people that were always there, that actually slept in those tents every night and who never gave the gardai hassle.

    They didn't achieve anything, but I respect what those core group of people did for the best part of 6 months or so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭G Power


    geeky wrote: »
    I have a mate on Facebook who was a fan. They engaged in low-level mischief-making * (occupying the offices of the referendum commission during the referendum, championing the cause of those landlords who got evicted from their Kiliney home) but have quietened down now. Can't find the Facebook page any more.

    My favourite antic was last year, when the troika came to town. They decided to loiter about the Merrion Hotel where they were pitched up, and 'chase' the IMF delegates from the hotel they were staying in to the Government offices they were visiting across the street. There's a photo of them in mid 'chase', that sad-faced IMF lad just ignoring them, while one fellah makes faces behind him while inexplicably holding a Macbook.**

    Clowns.

    * this is in contrast to the long list of factual high level mischief the "elite" have been up too!!

    ** so now protestors are only allowed have particular brands of devices?? or maybe they should be hauling a blackboard and chalk around with them is it??


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Three Seasons


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    You mocked them when they were protesting and you mock them now because they're not. I wish I knew the meaning of the word ironic because there's a chance it could be used here?

    You're right, you don't know the meaning of the word. You make Alanis Morrisette look good.


  • Administrators Posts: 55,229 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    seamus wrote: »
    Is this the usual way in which you communicate a message of protest? I can see the chant now;

    "What do we want?"

    "Why should we tell you?!"

    "When do we want it?!"

    "Mind your own business!"

    Doesn't surprise me that Occupy disappeared with barely a whimper when they seem unable to provide even the most scant details about their aims or achievements.

    That's because they didn't even know their aims. It was an excuse for the attention seeking ultra-left to make a nuisance of themselves once again, nothing more.

    These people get their jollies in protesting about everything and anything, I think it makes them feel relevant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭G Power


    They didn't achieve anything, but I respect what those core group of people did for the best part of 6 months or so.

    did they not?? they achieved a lot given the very limited support they got. people are still talking about them with mainly the same ignorance as they did while the camp was there!!

    FAO everyone who laughed at or continue to laugh at the movement, just take an honest look at how much better your life is today by ignoring it and waiting for it to "fail" as ye put it. I say it didn't fail and in it's own little way helped educate a lot of people at the time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭G Power


    seamus wrote: »
    Is this the usual way in which you communicate a message of protest? I can see the chant now;

    "What do we want?"

    "Why should we tell you?!"

    "When do we want it?!"

    "Mind your own business!"

    Doesn't surprise me that Occupy disappeared with barely a whimper when they seem unable to provide even the most scant details about their aims or achievements.

    so unlike many other countries the Irish want a small group of people to not only explain every finite detail as to what they're doing now and what solutions they hope to bring about in the future before the majority will even consider joining a movement or protest!

    this is why we are where we are today


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  • Administrators Posts: 55,229 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    G Power wrote: »
    * this is in contrast to the long list of factual high level mischief the "elite" have been up too!!

    ** so now protestors are only allowed have particular brands of devices?? or maybe they should be hauling a blackboard and chalk around with them is it??

    You don't see the hilarity in someone protesting about today's tough times and the decisions being made while carrying around a laptop that costs well into 4 figures to buy?

    Ha! :pac:
    G Power wrote: »
    did they not?? they achieved a lot given the very limited support they got. people are still talking about them with mainly the same ignorance as they did while the camp was there!!

    FAO everyone who laughed at or continue to laugh at the movement, just take an honest look at how much better your life is today by ignoring it and waiting for it to "fail" as ye put it. I say it didn't fail and in it's own little way helped educate a lot of people at the time

    So what did they achieve? :)


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