Reminder- Rose Parade with 70-foot Occupy octupus float coming up today.
8:45 Octopus in the Garden: Rose Parade in Pasadena coming up--complete with the 70-foot octopus Occupy float. Stay tuned. I'll be posting livesteams.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/165375/occupyusa-blog-special-holiday-weekend-edition
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Assembling of Occupy the Parade activists: 9AM Central
Formal Rose Parade start: 10AM Central
Occupy folks begin to march to the parade procession area: 11:30AM Central
(If looking for local Pasadena organizing schedules scroll down or go here.)
For decades I have looked on with a mix of fascination and disgust at the Rose Parade of Pasadena California or just ignored it entirely. This year I took a closer look at the event because I heard there would be a 70 ft. octopus at the end of it. Unlike the floats covered in fresh flowers, this octopus will be made of recycled plastic bags and carried aloft by at least 40 occupy activists.
This news is all it took for me to commit. I expected 1 octopus, 43 flower floats, 21 bands, and 400 horses. (No Budweiser Clydesdales this year, however.)
But the more I read about the Occupation of The Rose Parade the more I realized that the spectacle of the occupation will be much larger to include –
–a 250 ft. long “We the people” constitution followed by a 70 ft. long “We the corporations” copy of the document.
–a Goldie Sachs Wheel of Fortune
–the octopus representing “the strangle hold of Wall Street and other corporations on our democracy”
–float #99: 99 people holding 1 person up on a throne, representing the 1%
Not only that, throughout the floats you’ll see people wearing person-sized tents emblazoned with political statements.
Occupy the Rose Parade organizers expect from 300 – 1,000 activists to show for the event.
The parade usually runs 2 hours long. The occupy participants will be at the end of the parade, so they will likely appear on network television at 11:30AM Central or 12PM Central if they show up on corporate TV at all.
Even if corporate media fails you, you’ll be able to witness the occupation of the parade through livestream broadcasts from within the parade and the sidelines this year. Livestreams are expected to feed from occupy participant @OakFoSho A.K.A. Spencer Mills and others.
If you’d like to follow on twitter, try the hashtags #OccupyTheRoseParade or #OTRP and see what these folks re tweeting:
@OccupyLA
@occupyrose2012
@oakFOsho
@TsuyoshiOrihasi
@ashleycarey and
@PeggySue_6
@occupyfreedomLA
@dro_manski
Live Rose Parade Channels – Ordered from most independent to most conventional
Occupy Oakland Live from @OakfoSho
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http://www.bluecheddar.net/2012/01/02/watch-the-rose-parade-occupation-online-monday-jan-2nd/
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photos! courtesy OakFoSho...
OakFoSho 13 mins 39 secs ago Twitter
OccuPus practicing yfrog.com/mgdaoivj #OTRP #OLA #OccupyLA #OO #OSF #OccupySF #OPDX #OPHX #OccupySeattle #OccupyDenver #OWS #p21
Stuff the Ballot Box 1%!
Peace Keepers
We the (Corporate) People?
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Parade begins with B2 bomber flyover!
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They do not fake it. 
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Excuse the Inconvenience...
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Occupy the Rose Parade's Octopus Float Is 70 Feet of Awesome (PHOTOS)
We're talking about Occupy Octopus (yes, that's his name; yes, he'd make an amazing beanie baby), a 70-foot-long crowd puppet made entirely of recycled plastic bags. The giant sea creature will hover over a band of occupiers for their Occupy the Rose Parade march this coming Monday. And though he's just going viral as of this morning, it appears the octopus was born over a month ago...
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/12/occupy_the_rose_parade_octopus_float.php
Occupy Rose Parade protesters march in Pasadena
The 2012 Tournament of Roses made its spectacular way down Colorado Boulevard on Monday, but the floral-decked floats and gleaming marching bands were shadowed — literally — by anger at the nation's political and financial woes.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the sidewalks at the 123rd annual event while in a nearby park, several hundreds anti-Wall Street protesters put the finishing touches on an unofficial float — a 70-foot-wide octopus representing the demonstrators' view that greedy banks and corporations have a stranglehold on the government.
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http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/01/02/30617/slideshow-occupy-rose-parade-protesters-poised-mar/
