Comments on: Lois Cordova: Moving Toward A New World – October 26, 2011

By: CodyMon

CodyMon — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:32:57 +0000

Ms Cordova,

I am currently considering suing you in small claims court.

I think I can make a case that you are disrupting my financial endeavors, and jeapordizing my future(I own BofA stock). I also think that by encouraging diruptive behaviors and inciting and organizing protesters and consequently failing to control them; you have acted negligently and you have lowered my quality of life and reasonable expectation of happiness. It only costs about thirty bucks to file a claim and if I and a few hundred other people did the same, we could effectively tie up the whole of your leadership in court. Heck, we might even win. How am I doing on the “Community Organizer” gig?

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:10:32 +0000

I support change, both monetarily and in, I hope, the way I live. But as I walked through the Plaza a couple of weekends ago, I was asked for money by a protester and when I said “I’m sorry” he asked if I was going to eat steak.

I get that this was just one person. And I’m glad to see people tangibly representing many views that I hold. I also get that in just about any situation there are people who would rather snipe and tear down than work for change with respect and dignity. I just wish they’d stay home.

By: Toohey

Toohey — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:16:20 +0000

Enough with all the talk just give me the free stuff. I like stuff others pay for which they must to give me else I’ll call then bad names.
–This seems to be the essence of OWS. Freedom without responsibility is an ugly thing and all too common in Arcata.

By: on the fence

on the fence — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:31:14 +0000

Prior to yesterday I was against the tactics of Occupy Arcata. After visiting the plaza last night I realized that it is the police who are not doing there jobs at this point. The organizers of OA are doing their best to keep things peaceful, clean, and under control. However, the individuals who are causing problems and making the plaza unsafe and unsavory are not actually members of OA. They are the transient community who were already on the plaza, already causing problems, and now they have moved from the north west corner of the plaza to the center in an attempt to use OA as a get out of jail free card, as an excuse to be more rowdy than usual. The people there for OA are just as annoyed and upset by this happening as the rest of the community is. So, where are the police? Why are they not doing their jobs? Why are tickets not being written for open containers, public drunkeness, smoking on the plaza, setting up tents on the plaza? Why arent these small issues being addressed and taken care of, to keep things nicer for everyone, Occupiers and everyone else who wants to enjoy the plaza? I feel that Lois is rather well spoken, and the things she wants and hopes for are fair. every human deserves to have their basic human needs met, and in a country that spends BILLIONS on waging war in countries that do not want or need us there, it does seem strange that our own men and women and children are left hungry and homeless. It is sickening that while bank CEOs and politicians get more and more spend more and more lie more and more cheat more and more the average working class american citizen, the one s who pay taxes, who have jobs, who are trying- really really trying to play the game by the “their” rules these peoplebasic are losing jobs, unable to buy food unable to pay their rents or mortgages. That is what the Occupy movement is about, and I think most all of us here are a part of the 99% that in other parts of the world and this country is speaking up, saying no more. Unfortunately that has been lost on our little community. Instead of everyone coming together and fighting for ALL of our rights, EVERYONES rights it has turned into another squable on a local level further dividing the haves from the have nots. It has become an argument about wsomeone being allowed to use a toilet to take a shit. The argument against it, there is no money, people may use drugs in it…. well, perhaps our town, our state should become more self sufficient, decide not to partake in federal government and their bullshit taxes and instead invest that money into our community, build and maintain a restroom and while we’re at it, begin rehabilitation programs for those in our community who are unable to work due to drug addiction. I know, of course this is but on small thing but i just feel everyone is losing sight of the goal, or perhaps never knew the goal to begin with because the OA movement is so terribly unorganized and thus far has been fueled by Trish’s ego. I implore everyone to take a step back, and to see things as they are. Our government is corrupt. Our banks are corrupt. When something has gone bad, doesnt work any more, do you generally continue to try to use it with out repairs? Do you continue to “beat a dead horse” so to speak, or do you move on? If everyone recognizes how corrupt everything is, and if everyone decides to just walk away, to stop participating in the corruption, then the things that are corrupt become obsolete. Powerless. The moment we decide to do something different, anything different, is the moment we take our power back. It is time we stop letting “them” win.

By: Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:47:14 +0000

Socialist drivel. She lost me at the “bullying is not allowed” as I look out onto the Arcata Plaza with the current assemblage present. I can not, and will not, take my children there now. So much for respect lady.