RESEARCH NOTES
and Sanitation, Brookfield Properties, US Parks Police, Port Authority Police, Federal Reserve Policy, NYC Enforcement Control @ the Department of Parks, NYPD • Private securities companies were hired and networked with local public authorities to survey the physical and digital workings of OWS • Ex. JPMorgan gave the Police Foundation a “gift” of over $4.6 million to fund new capitol; Paid Detail Unit of NYPD sells off-duty police force to private corporate identities – no way for citizens to know who the police are working for? • Use of technology and animals to enforce policing in three ways: 1. Contain Channeled Occupiers into linear and Cartesian arrangements Mobile prisons, preventing metastasizing through urban corridors Galvanized steel FX7 barriers manufactured by Louisiana firm Frederichs Custom Manufacturing, Inc. @ barricades.net NYPD has enough of the above to encircle all of Manhattan 2. Surveil Limiting spatial occupation facilitated surveillance Personnel positioned on roofs and high floors with binoculars CCTV camera mounted above Zuccotti ICx Skywatch surveillance tower Panopticon, “a technological black box” Klieg lights that confuse and temporarily blind OWS members 3. Project Stationed outside of OWS confines, in public institutions like Pace University Riot gear, batons, flex-cuffs, other technologies Barricades, scooters and horses were “weaponized” Intimidations of occupiers that would coerce them into arrest Pepper spray and netting, violation of NYPD’s own policies by not providing victims of these technologies with medical aid • Resistance tactics: 1. Satirize and dramatize the police using art, music and performance 2. Publicize and expose public and private organizations policing OWS 3. Humanization of interactions between OWS and police 4. Disable the so-called “black box” 5. Judicialize the conflict by publicizing it and pulling it into the courts • Occupiers created improvisational tactics to reduce the effect of policing upon the movement, destabilizing the socially contradictory “black box” tactics • Relabeling police CAUTION tape with the slogan OCCUPY – characterizes the object of arrest in a motivational and engaging light • Rap battles, teddy bear protest, dressed in police uniforms – not weaponized technology, weaponized sociality • Objectivity vs. Subjectivity, ANT versus humanity
7. More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today ed. Jennifer Siegal •
Japanese ply-wood alternative called Kirei – recycled product of sorghum grass and non-VOC