mic check Wal-Mart and politicians mic checked as well. hee hee

MIC CHECK! Muslims at Occupy Wall Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMNCTJ4kSE0

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/27/occupy-san-diego-targets-wal-mart-on-black-friday/
Excerpt:
Protesters affiliated with “Occupy San Diego” took their demonstration to two Wal-Mart stores on Black Friday.
A group of protesters filled shopping carts with merchandise and congregated at the check out lines at their first target, a Wal-Mart on on Murphy Canyon Road in San Diego, California.
“Citizens of WalMart!” they chanted. ”Greetings, and welcome-back from the food coma. In the spirit of holiday giving, we believe a discussion is in order about the meaning of value and low cost.”
“For every low price product purchased at Wal-Mart, scores of communities pay the difference. Every price drop represents mistreated workers, who still can’t feed their families, who still cannot afford their homes, and still can’t pay off their tuition.”
“Act locally! Shop small business! Buy American! Thank you, exit safely, and remember to smile,” the four-minute long chant concluded.
Police were called and arrived on the scene, but no arrests were made, according to NBC San Diego.
The protesters then took their demonstration to another Wal-Mart on Shawline Street.
Watch video of the demonstration, uploaded to YouTube, below:

mic check Kansas City
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x638329

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/27/occupy-oklahoma-city-mic-checks-wal-mart-black-friday-shoppers/
Excerpt:
While the usual stories of overcrowded lines and violent shopper actions dominated Black Friday headlines for another year, ‘Occupy Oklahoma City’ protesters provided something different from the day’s norm.
Demonstrators gathered at three Wal-Marts in Oklahoma City and mic-checked both employees and customers. The Occupiers mentioned in their speech how Wal-Mart workers are paid well below the poverty line for a family of four while their CEO Mike Duke continues having an enormous salary.
Ten protesters were arrested at the third Wal-Mart location they visited, according to NBC Oklahoma City affiliate KFOR.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x638264
mic-check Dayton

Karl Rove mic checked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlko7nweb4k&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFVBOD8iYI&feature=related
Excerpt:

 

oaded by 11dorisa on Nov 15, 2011

Karl Rove was speaking at Johns Hopkins University when Occupy Baltimore launched a "mic check", which is essentially code for "shouting down people they don't like." I whipped my phone out too late to capture Rove's initial response of yelling at them about the first amendment, but you do see some nice sparring. For those who only want to see the clash and don't care about the speech, the clash ends around 5:30. At about 5:00 when there's another person shouting, an ENORMOUS black security guard walks down the aisle from the back, silencing the person, at which point the guard contentedly observes "Ain't nobody makin' noise over here!" to great laughs. Sorry some of the sound got muddled. If you're curious what was being said at a certain time leave a comment and I'll tell you what it was.

Eric Cantor mic checked
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/14/watch-eric-cantor-gets-mic-checked-by-99-percent-video/

Excerpt:

Eric Cantor is the latest victim of a “Citizens Mic Check” by members of the Occupy Wall Street movement. During a speech at Rice University on November 10th, the Congressional Teapublican was immediately prevented from delivering his remarks when several citizens stood and began reciting Cantor’s offenses against the 99%.

[Check out similar Mic Checks against Scott Walker and Michele Bachmann.]
WATCH Cantor gets a dose of truth and reality from average citizens:

Gov. Scott Walker mic checked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHRdiklTlU


http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lynda_Rae_Resnick
Excerpt:
"Lynda Resnick began her business career at the age of 19, when she founded a full-service advertising agency. Other successful ventures throughout her career include corporate management, marketing, product development, and most recently, writing. She and her husband Stewart are passionate about all things healthy and Resnick is behind the marketing success of brands such as POM Wonderful, Fiji Water and Teleflora


http://www.prwatch.org/node/9415
Excerpt:
The Fiji Water debacle of 2009 was even more of a PR disaster for the bottled water industry. After the Fiji Water company ran an ad campaign promoting its bottled water by denigrating Cleveland, Ohio's tap water, the city of Cleveland decided to test its public water against a bottle of Fiji water. The results revealed that Fiji water contained 6.31 micrograms of arsenic per liter, while Cleveland's tap water had zero. This information prompted the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Santa Barbara to ask their employees not to use bottle water and ban city spending on bottled water, and Chicago added a five cent tax per bottle.
All of these factors, plus the environmental fiasco posed by the manufacture and disposal of billions of used plastic water bottles, are coming home to roost. It's also causing bottled water to fall out of favor.


http://open.salon.com/blog/naithom/2011/11/15/america_-_mic_check
Excerpt:
Mayor Bloomberg and those he answers to didn't understand that  when you beat a flame, you give it oxygen to grow and spread.  And that's what the Occupy Movement will do.  Every person who believes that corporations are not people and that they have no right to buy our means of government, every one of them has a voice...and a means of documenting abuses.  We will be non-violent but that doesn't mean we are weak - that proves we are strong.
America - MIC CHECK!

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/11/23/1847145/nypd-raid-destroyed-thousands.html
Excerpt:

"Today we are here questioning the appropriateness and the legality of the confiscation of approximately 4,000 books," said former New York Civil Liberties Union director Norman Siegel, who hosted and moderated the event. Siegel said that 1,275 books of the 4,000 books seized had been recovered; of those, one-third were damaged to the point of being unusable. He estimated that 2,725 books had been destroyed.
The self-appointed Occupy librarians said many of the books were not easily replaced, including signed copies, handmade publications and a special edition.


Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/11/23/1847145/nypd-raid-destroyed-thousands.html#ixzz1eyYykjnL

Nazi Book Burning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_j4c7Bop0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
Excerpt:
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology.

Occupy Monterey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAzVXKkWK4

ROFLMAO as these 3 screwed up so badly w/regular mics.  ...cal

http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/20/mic-check-pelosi-hoyer-experience-health-care-hearing-bloopers/
Excerpt:

January 20, 2011

Mic check: Pelosi, Hoyer experience health care hearing bloopers

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/20/mic-check-pelosi-hoyer-experience-health-care-hearing-bloopers/#ixzz1eyAKuEcX

http://occupyhollister.blogspot.com/
Excerpt:

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Love It or Leave It

-Rachelle Linda Escamilla

Chris and I have always talked about moving to another country, specifically before #OWS.  I imagined having multiple books of poetry published (the dream is on target); building my resume; charting out a future in academia; and Chris dreamed his crazy-computer-science-minded dreams about making solar robots (which he does) and providing an adequate cushion for us to begin the relocation process.  Because that's how you do it, legally - in order to emigrate you must make yourself viable to the receiving country.  We contemplated Guatemala,  considered South-East Asia, and wished for somewhere like Germany, Iceland or Sweden (but I'm a California girl, having transplanted once to the cold climate, I don't know if I could do that again).  After a few passive sessions of wishing on the globe, we settled on Argentina.  I researched Universities I could either attend or be employed, and he became instantly lost on the internet researching the cost of an organic, grass-fed, lovely steak dinner. 

Today we were driving to Stanford to visit the Cantor Center; I was craving a dose of Rodin in the bleakness of current political events.  How nice it would be, I thought, to escape the world for a while and look at the glossy black forms.  During the drive we were wrapped in conversation about the recent police brutality on college campuses.  College CAMPUSES where free speech, non-violent protest, and activism has its strongest and most sensible crowd.  As we drove, Chris read the open letter to the Chancellor of UC Davis.  The letter addressed the recent bout of police brutality which included prying mouths open and spraying pepper spray down the throats of students who sat, arms-linked, in agony. In the letter, Nathan Brown an assistant professor in the English department at UC Davis, asked Linda Katehi, the Chancellor, to resign due to her inability to provide a safe environment for her students.  

I agreed with Professor Brown and was infuriated.  I could feel my blood pressure rising and my body become stiff with worry.  How could this happen?  This is AMERICA.  How does it occur that students, sitting, in non-violent protest, become victims of physical pain?  I don't question the police action (because, as a person of color, I expect police to be evil, unless they are the exception to the rule), but I question the one institution I've always believed in: Education. How could a University provide so much education, but make such disgusting decisions regarding civil liberties? 

Well, we proceeded with our planned day.  We arrived at Stanford later than planned, but ready to take a break from the world of activism and worry.  As we emerged from the parking structure on campus, we heard voices shouting in unison.  I assumed, because this is Stanford, not Cal, that it was just a bunch of kids getting ready for a pep rally. As we rounded the corner we watched a procession of students yelling "What do we want? JUSTICE! When do we want it? NOW!" I became instantly elated.  Had we stumbled upon a demonstration in solidarity with the recent police brutality on the UC campuses?  We picked up the pace and caught up. 

Sure enough, we had.  Chris and I blended in with the early twenty-somthings, and yelled our way around campus.  We trailed along in the back and midway through the march I nudged Chris to look behind him, we were now in the middle. He squeezed my arm, as if to say "see, my love, people care".

And sometimes, in this country, we do not care. Or we are distracted.  The clamor of television,  celebrities, and consumerism becomes so loud, so overpowering that the country seems lost. The overpowering diegetic nature of our lives: the worlds within worlds within worlds where information and power and civil liberties and love and peace are diluted with clothing and shopping and doggy pajamas and new release movies and everyday tasks and going to the museum; everything becomes lost in the shuffle of being lost in the shuffle of being American. And that's why we contemplated leaving America. It isn't slow enough for us, or clean enough for us, or progressive enough or nice enough or loving enough or peaceful enough.

But stumbling upon the cavalcade today made me realize that there might still be a glimmer in the darkness.  That we, as a country, can redeem ourselves.  We could cash in our trademarked blinders for clarity and care.  That all is not lost. 

When we considered emigrating to another country a couple years ago, it seemed difficult. Now, it seems to be the easiest route: leave the mess of America to the mass of Americans.  I don't know if I want to leave anymore, I've never backed out of a challenge before. I sure as hell won't do it now.