Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders - Polidicks

Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders New York Post 10:58 AM, October 27, 2011 [release]The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday -- because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters. For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad. They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day. To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said. As the kitchen workers met with the “General Assembly’’ last night, about 300 demonstrators stormed from the park to Reade Street and Broadway, where they violently clashed with cops. Officers made at least 10 arrests when rowdy demonstrators refused to get out of the street and stop blocking traffic. A dozen cops on scooters tried to force them back to the sidewalk. There were no reported injuries. The demonstrators said they were angry over the violence in Oakland. After making their way to Union Square, many of the protesters returned to Zuccotti. The Assembly announced the three-day menu crackdown announced earlier in the day -- insisting everybody would be fed something during that period. Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse. Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day. “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer. A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.” Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area. Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out -- so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals. Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting. Organizers took other steps to police the squatters, who they said were lured in from other parks with the promise of free meals. A team of 10 security volunteers moved in to the trouble-prone southwest section of Zuccotti Park in a show of force to confront them. “We’re not going to let some members of this community destroy the whole movement,” a volunteer said. Some arguments broke out as the security team searched tents -- but no violence erupted. Overall security at the park had deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, security- team members said. Rumors swirled that one homeless man had pulled a knife in a dispute the night before -- and that there had been yet another case of groping. But protesters and a cop on duty told The Post that most of the crime goes unreported, because of a bizarre “stop snitching” rule. “What’s happening in there is staying in there,” said the cop.[/release] source: [url]http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL#ixzz1c0fUc0wH[/url]

The protesters are protesting the protesters?

This protest occupy shit is pretty bull.

New York Post. All that we need to know.

No, they're protesting people who show up to OW for free food and then leave.

If where not careful this is gunna end up like Dale Farm.

This is outrageous, it's wrong for them to be hogging up so much of New Yorks organic produce. I hope the homeless make their own occupy movement, teach them a thing or two about greed.

[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;32997280]If where not careful this is gunna end up like Dale Farm.[/QUOTE] ...A group of people expanding illegally off of their legally owned and developed land onto an area of greenbelt land without planning permission and then claiming all legal punishment sent to them was xenophobia? This is completely fuckin' different you cretin.

Let's see how much the protests die down because they can't have organic chicken [editline]asd[/editline] Hell, I'd protest for something as cheap as gas-station pizza

[QUOTE=Greenen72;32997349]Let's see how much the protests die down because they can't have organic chicken [editline]asd[/editline] Hell, I'd protest for something as cheap as gas-station pizza[/QUOTE] Gas station pizza tastes better than organic chicken anyways.

[QUOTE=Florence;32997253]New York Post. All that we need to know.[/QUOTE] Glaber thread aswell

[QUOTE=A big fat ass;32997247]This protest occupy shit is pretty bull.[/QUOTE] I guess I don't understand it because I'm Canadian, then.

What the hell? I had no idea these protesters got such luxurious meals... I'd be a happy man if I was fed chicken every day!

Who is paying for the food, and if nobody is paying why is food being made in the first place Either these chefs are protesting by refusing to make food that was ordered and paid for or they're protesting by making food for free - which means they're either massive assholes committing fraud or idiots. Pick one glaber

Why not charge for the food, and the money can go towards the protests?

Free food? Now I'm going to occupy oakland

[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;32997655]Glaber thread aswell[/QUOTE] [h2]THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GLABER[/h2] Why don't they just stop being dumbasses and stop making food until they receive payment

I don't even understand how they can server such high-end meals anway??

[QUOTE=yawmwen;32997621]Gas station pizza tastes better than organic chicken anyways.[/QUOTE]you must have a classy gas station in your city

I volunteered at an OWS kitchen, it was pretty chill. I made a ton of salad and washed dishes for two hours. No one had any problem with who was getting the food, it was cool. Anyway it's all donated and made by volunteers, therefore the people eating the food should help out.

[QUOTE=Kopimi;32997918][h2]THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON GLABER[/h2] Why don't they just stop being dumbasses and stop making food until they receive payment[/QUOTE] Because barely any of the protesters have any money.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;32997794]Who is paying for the food, and if nobody is paying why is food being made in the first place Either these chefs are protesting by refusing to make food that was ordered and paid for or they're protesting by making food for free - which means they're either massive assholes committing fraud or idiots. Pick one glaber[/QUOTE] Do you have the missing information? They could be volunteers and are now double protesting. Protesting with the Occupy movement, and against the "Professional" Homeless just coming for the free food and don't help the cause.

What the fuck is an organic chicken? Isn't all chicken organic?

Use the word chronic instead of professional please professional homeless is so oxymoronic

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32999552]What the fuck is an organic chicken? Isn't all chicken organic?[/QUOTE] Chicken that is fed with natural organic feed and usually free range.

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;32999552]What the fuck is an organic chicken? Isn't all chicken organic?[/QUOTE] Chicken without being pumped full of (synthetic) hormones, fed non-GM stuff I would imagine. [editline]28th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=RichyZ;32999582]an un-augmented chicken[/QUOTE] Cluck cluck-cluck clucked cluck cluck?

This is an interesting issue and I'll try to remain skeptical, but I did find a quote that could have some meaning: [quote]OWS is not a soup kitchen. It's a political occupation holding ground in the heart of enemy territory. Despite the antics of trolls who think they've found an ironic bit of hyprocrisy on the part of the movement to exploit and expose, OWS is under no obligation to feed panhandlers, bums, dirt punks, users, and people who think it's nothing but a big party. The plight of the homeless won't be served by letting the occupation be undermined by parasites. (and if you think that the left has no concept of "parasite", you need to read a book.)[/quote] [url]http://occupywallst.org/forum/share-with-the-homeless/[/url]

[QUOTE=Lambeth;32999194]you must have a classy gas station in your city[/QUOTE] 76 station. They keep the insect-food ratio at luxuriously low levels.

[QUOTE=Glaber;32999496]Do you have the missing information? They could be volunteers and are now double protesting. Protesting with the Occupy movement, and against the "Professional" Homeless just coming for the free food and don't help the cause.[/QUOTE] Professional Homeless. Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me.

[QUOTE=Florence;33001084]Professional Homeless. Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me.[/QUOTE] That's a fucking amazing quote. Professional Homeless people.