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04 April 12
OCCUPY Düsseldorf – Operation Schildkröte
The comic theater was funny, but the reality is not: the Greek police labour union P.O.A.S.Y declared that the Greek democracy is threatened by the Troika. The people are also pushed into poverty and the police are forced to set against their parents, brothers and children, who are taking the streets for a change of politics. Police officers report that they are paid very bad, partially they get nothing. They realize, that they are a part of the 99%, too. Who is the next Greece? Protect the democracy!
Thousands march in Hong Kong, Lakotas Launch Hunger Strike, Palestinians Protest Land Seizure
By Eric Stoner, Waging Nonviolence
04 April 12
In a march themed with fanciful allusions to Little Red Riding Hood, thousands of protesters swarmed Hong Kong’s streets on Sunday in the first large display of protest since the city’s elite tapped a Beijing ally to become the Chinese territory’s next leader.
In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation began a 48-hour hunger strike on Sunday in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline – and all tar sands pipelines – they say will destroy precious water resources and ancestral lands in the US and in Canada.
Jordanian authorities arrested more than two dozen political activists during protests Saturday critical of King Abdullah II that called for a change of government.
West Virginia Retirees Occupy – and Win
By Jake Olzen
04 April 12
Karen Gorrell choked back tears one Saturday in early March as she pulled the final stake from the tent that had been her home for the past 75 days. Last fall, the protracted struggle she led for retired workers from Century Aluminum Corporation found itself an accidental part of the Occupy movement. "I’m elated that a bunch of little senior citizens can take on corporate giants in West Virginia," Gorrell said.
The 99 Percent Spring: The People Are Not Powerless
By Chuck Collins, OtherWords
03 April 12
In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will take to the streets as part of the "99 percent spring," echoing last year’s "Arab Spring." At the root of this discontent are the extreme inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity that have emerged over the last four decades.
The richest 1 percent now owns over 36 percent of all the wealth in the United States. That’s more than the net worth of the bottom 95 percent combined. This 1 percent has pocketed almost all of the wealth gains of the last decade.
In 2010, the 1 percent earned 21 percent of all income, up from only 8 percent in mid-1970s.
The 99 Percent Spring: The People Are Not Powerless
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
02 April 12
In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will take to the streets as part of the "99 percent spring," echoing last year’s "Arab Spring."
At the root of this discontent are the extreme inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity that have emerged over the last four decades.
Europeans Pushing Back Against Austerity
By Common Dreams Staff
02 April 12
Europeans are pushing back against government-imposed austerity measures, with protests growing and unions issuing general strikes.
Hundreds Arrested at Pre-Chicago NATO Protest
By Agence France-Presse
01 April 12
Hundreds of peace activists on Sunday tried in vain to break into the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Brussels, with 483 of them arrested by police.
The demonstration, organised by the Belgian association Action for Peace two months before a NATO summit in Chicago, was called to protest the alliance’s intervention in Afghanistan and Libya, and nuclear arming.
Occupy Boston Protesters Stage April Fool’s Rally
By Jaime Lutz, The Boston Globe
01 April 12
About 100 Occupy Boston protesters returned to Dewey Square for an April Fool’s Day rally Sunday, nearly four months after the group’s encampment there was shut down.
Waving signs with ironic slogans like "Tax the Poor" and "Bigger Cages, Longer Chains," protesters chanted and cheered during an hour-long march around the financial district. Others stayed in Dewey Square to socialize and to distribute free food and clothes.
Occupy San Francisco Creates Social Center in Vacant Church Building
By OccupyWallSt.org
02 April 12
In another sign of the Occupy movement’s diversifying tactics and growing spring momentum, yesterday Occupy San Francisco liberated a vacant building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and announced plans to establish a permanent occupation – including a social center, shelter, and food bank – on the site. The April 1st action began with a lively march from Union Square before arriving at the building just before 6pm. When they arrived, Occupiers who had already secured the building greeted the marchers with open doors.
The two-story building, located at 888 Turk St., soon filled with hundreds of exuberant Occupiers. Preliminary reports indicate that the Archdiocese has asked police not to take any action until the morning. However, the Occupiers are requesting help and numbers in case of any eviction attempt. If you are in the Bay Area and are able, please get down to the San Francisco Commune as soon as possible! Most recently (as of 1am Pacific time), police had surrounded the building with barricades to prevent supplies from getting inside. Occupiers have announced they will serve breakfast at 9am and are inviting everyone to join them!
Occupy Wall Street Marks Six Months With March Over Brooklyn Bridge
By Daily Mail
01 April 12
Occupy Wall Street protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday to mark the six months that have passed since hundreds of them were arrested walking the same route. This time, their numbers were far less.
A couple of hundred activists marched from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, where they first camped out last September to start a movement that has spread around the world. They were flanked by police officers on scooters and on foot.
The marchers used the pedestrian walkway to cross the bridge. The commemoration ended with a rally in Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, which wrapped up just as rain started to fall.
Occupy Toronto: Blockade in Response to Police Violence
By OccupyWallSt.org
01 April 12
Last Friday, Occupy Toronto was brutally evicted from their new encampment at Osgoode Hall at the Provincial Court buildings near City Hall. After holding their new home for four days, Toronto police moved in. Five Occupiers have been arrested and two required hospitalization after the unnecessary violent police attack. One person was arrested while delivering an explanation of the rights of protesters, and two more were arrested while filming. One woman was thrown to the ground and punched in the face by police in an incident being investigated for excessive force.
Yesterday, Occupy Toronto erected a blockade on Dundas Street in front of 52 Division for over eight hours beginning around 5:45pm. Today, they will continue. The blockaders are making four demands:
Eurozone Crisis Live: Violence in Barcelona amid Spanish General Strike – As It Happened
By Graeme Wearden, Guardian UK
29 March 12
Spain’s first general strike for 18 months has been well-supported, as citizens protest against the government’s labour reforms and austerity plans.
Protests began early, with demonstrators clashing with police in several cities as they tried to disrupt buses and prevent lorries arriving at, or leaving, wholesale markets. Over 50 people were arrested, and a small number treated for injuries.
Unions say they were pleased with the turnout today. Transport links have been badly affected, with hundreds of flights cancelled, and trains and buses delayed.
Violence Flares During Spain General Strike
By Al Jazeera
30 March 12
Spanish workers angry at a labour reform the government calls an "unstoppable" necessity staged a general strike on Thursday, bringing factories and ports to a standstill and igniting flashes of violence on the streets.
Tens of thousands of protesters packed a square in central Madrid to vent their anger at the labour reforms and deep spending cuts, while in Barcelona, police fired rubber bullets to disperse a crowd that had set bins ablaze on the sidelines of a demonstration.
Thursday’s strike was called by trade unions protesting against labour reforms and spending cuts which the conservative government says are needed to save the economy, and has resulted in some mild clashes and detentions of at least 58 people so far.
"This is a just response to a brutal reform of our system of labour relations," Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, leader of the CCOO, one of the main trade unions, said. .
Spain’s General Strike Shows First Signs of Rebellion Against Austerity
By Giles Tremlett, Guardian UK
29 March 12
With near-empty railway stations, shut factories, mass marches and occasional outbreaks of violence during a general strike on Thursday, Spaniards showed the first signs of rebellion against the reformist, austerity-preaching conservative government they voted in four months ago.
Police and pickets clashed in a handful of places, but it was a largely peaceful general strike in a country whose sinking economy, with 23% unemployment, has become the focus of worry about the future of the whole eurozone area.
Occupy Wall Street Affiliates Chain Subway Gates Open For Fare Strike
By Nick Pinto, The Village Voice
29 March 12
A group calling itself the "Rank and File Initiative" claimed credit yesterday for opening up more than 20 subway stations throughout the city for free entry.
Chaining open emergency gates at stations on the F, L, R, Q, 3, and 6 lines during rush hour yesterday morning, the anonymous activists posted signs designed to resemble MTA service-change announcements that read "Free Entry, No Fare. Please Enter Through The Service Gate."
A press release claiming credit for the action said it was carried out by activists affiliated with Occupy Wall Street, as well as by rank-and-file members of Transit Workers Union Local 100, which is currently in negotiations with the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Finally, OWS Gets Police to Arrest the People in Suits
By Bryan Farrell, Waging Nonviolence
26 March 12
Sometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was loudly denouncing police violence against minorities and protesters, a small group of environmentalists dreamed up a way to get the police to focus on the crimes of the 1 percent, to the point of arresting five corporate suits on United Nations property. Granted, those five were actually members of the OWS affinity group Disrupt Dirty Power, which used Saturday’s action (billed as a “mock’upation”) to launch a month of actions targeting the “corrupt partnership between Wall Street, politicians and the business of pollution.” Police officers seemed thrown for a loop as they tore down tents bearing corporate logos and cuffed people who claimed to be from Bank of America and ExxonMobil. Compared to the rowdy anti-NYPD march earlier that afternoon, this time, the cops had more of a chance to think about what side they’re really on.
#SpringTraining on Friday: Dress to Blend
By OccupyWallSt.org
29 March 12
Start Training for May Day and Join the Spring Resistance! Marches Every Friday, 2pm in Liberty Square! Trainings, skill shares, games, and theatrics from 2:00-3:30pm followed by a march to disrupt the 4:00pm NYSE closing bell with The Peoples’ Gong.
This week we march as "Civilians." Participants are encouraged to Dress-To-Blend and use street tactics discussed prior to the march.
Occupy New Haven Receives Extension
By Nick Defiesta, Yale Daily News
28 March 12
Whether or not Occupy New Haven emerges victorious from a court hearing today in the protest’s suit to remain on the Green, the encampment will stay put for at least another 10 days.
In a Tuesday afternoon phone conference, U.S. Federal Judge Mark Kravitz told representatives from the protest movement and City Hall that Occupy New Haven could stay on the Green for at least an additional 10 days past its current deadline of midnight on Wednesday. Kravitz will hear oral testimony from both sides at today’s hearing, but said he would give Occupy New Haven the extension because he needs more time to consider the case before issuing a written opinion.
April 1: March to Commemorate the Brooklyn Bridge Action
By OccupyWallSt.org
28 March 12
When: Sunday, April 1. Gather at 2pm, march at 2:30.
Where: Gather at Liberty Plaza OR 1 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, marches converge at Cadman Plaza
March on April 1, 2012 to commemorate the six month anniversary of the historic Brooklyn Bridge march where over 700 OWS protesters were illegally arrested. Meet at Cadman Plaza by 4:00 P.M. for a city-wide General Assembly. All metropolitan area General Assemblies are invited to participate.
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike
By Jeremy Brecher, Common Dreams
27 March 12
Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 "for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – and to recognize housing, education and health care as human rights." The idea has spread through the Occupy movement. Occupy Wall Street in New York recently expressed solidarity with the proposal and called for "a day without the 99%, general strike, and more!"
Wall Street Firms Admit Poor Public Image and Occupy Impact
By RT
27 March 12
A new study has revealed that over half Wall Street company executives believe the Occupy movement has had an impact on their business. Up to 94 percent say their firms got a negative public reaction by action or inaction.
3/24 LetFreedomSpring Anti-Police Brutality March
By OccupyWallSt.org
26 March 12
Today, we take direct action against the NYPD. They have spied on us, they have assaulted us, they have kidnapped us from the streets without cause or charge. We, the 99% of people who will no longer be silent have chosen to make our voices heard. Former commissioner Raymond Kelly, we, the people have decided you no longer have a job. Any acts of brutality you order today will only serve as further evidence of your misconduct.
Students Arrested at Sallie Mae During College Loan Protest
By NewsiT
24 March 12
About three dozen student activists were arrested Monday during a protest outside the Washington headquarters of student loan provider Sallie Mae, according to participants.
The demonstration was part of an annual legislative conference by the U.S. Students Association, which ended Monday with a "Lobby Day." That event usually consists of a march to Capitol Hill and meetings with congressional representatives, but because of the outcry over student loans and the challenges of student debt, the protest at Sallie Mae was added to the schedule.
Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) reported that the arrested students attended schools including the University of Central Florida, University of Oregon, Massachusetts, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rutgers.
Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators March to Protest Against Police Violence
By Ryan Devereaux, Guardian UK
26 March 12
Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators marched to protest against police violence and demand the resignation of New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly on Saturday afternoon. Protesters marched from the movement’s original base of operations, Zuccotti Park, in lower Manhattan to Union Square, where occupiers and police have been facing off for the past week.
Occupy Union Square: The Evolution of a New Protest Camp
By Nick Pinto, The Village Voice
26 March 12
When the NYPD again forcefully evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park more than a week ago, many of those who weren’t arrested marched north, leading police on a winding course that finally ended at around 2 a.m. in Union Square.
Most of the protesters went home after that, but a handful stayed the night, launching what has become, over the past eight days, a new encampment for the Occupy movement.
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+235 # Barbara K 2011-09-18 12:13
Hey Media: Just so you know, we are sick to death of your brown-nosing the Tbaggers and their nutty utterances. How about covering some events where intelligence prevails? How about coverage for intelligent people? We have had enough and are turning off your idiots.
+30 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:08
Many of us never tuned in to the Reich-wing media, so we don’t have to turn them off.
+26 # Freeman1776 2011-10-10 08:45
Quoting
Many of us never tuned in to the Reich-wing media, so we don’t have to turn them off.
You are right, but those who have been asleep and are now waking up, need to be made aware of how they have been brainwashed by the media.
+12 # Cassandra2012 2011-11-13 12:13
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You are right, but those who have been asleep and are now waking up, need to be made aware of how they have been brainwashed by the media.
The media (even Brooks of PBS) are so accustomed to lying they have apparently lost their memories ...The latest Repugnican they are touting for President is old (nasty) Newt Gingrich. Has EVERYONE forgotten that this blue-eyed poster boy for 'family values' served his (last?) wife with DIVORCE PAPERS just as she was emerging from anesthesia after having a MASTECTOMY?????
+58 # X Dane 2011-09-26 21:59
Barbara, the media is beginning to pay attention, not in a positive way, but they can't ignore it now I would suggest we call the news papers and ask them why they are not covering the protests. Flood them with calls. Drive them crazy.
I am so impressed with the protesters.
I know I was critical of us for not having enough will to stick with it. I stand corrected. I eat my words and I apologize. The protesters are AVESOME.
+41 # Vardette 2011-09-28 15:54
I am so on the same page and wrote MSNBC and told them that I am so sick of the oral diarrhea that substitutes for news. What about the world, our environment, the XL pipe line, famine, drought?!
+20 # Barracuda87 2011-10-05 18:29
Good for you! I've written them before as well... Hopefully some good will come out of it. I feel like Keith Olbermann is the only one that used to cover stories that mattered, but he had finally had enough as well and packed up and left.
+5 # Doubter 2011-11-25 16:22
You can find good ol' Keith here:
http://current.com/shows/countdown/providers/the-venue
+16 # Peace Anonymous 2011-09-29 20:02
Quoting
Hey Media: Just so you know, we are sick to death of your brown-nosing the Tbaggers and their nutty utterances. How about covering some events where intelligence prevails? How about coverage for intelligent people? We have had enough and are turning off your idiots.
Great point but there is a reason...follow the money.
+183 # X Dane 2011-09-18 12:52
HELLOOOOOO. The media is OWNED BY BIG BUSINESS.
They have no intetion to show how angry we are. The demostrations need to be MUCH, MUCH bigger.
There are so many people out of work, they could demonstrate during the week, when ihe rest is at work.
We need our own Tahrir Square,.....NOW
+90 # Vardette 2011-09-18 18:06
Ed Shults on MSNBC does. Hes out in Ohio letting the people talk.
+81 # Barbara K 2011-09-19 05:53
Love Ed Schultz and watch him every night. We need more like him in the media. Not afraid to speak the truth and to help the people too. Go Ed!
+53 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:18
We should occupy K Street in Washington DC, where all the lobbyists are located .... slow down their operations and force them to stop influencing Congress so much.
+78 # Capn Canard 2011-09-18 14:42
X Dane, that is the heart of the problem and IMO the MSM does as they are instructed to do by big business. I used to work in a newsroom, and it is a sickening process to watch, though they do try to be subtle though occasionally they can be rather clumsy, i.e. some HOT stories/ideas start getting some attention and then inexplicably and mysteriously the potential story is tabled. Editors don't necessarily share the reasons why to their underlings and the offended Publisher need not say a word!
+59 # X Dane 2011-09-18 16:12
Yes Capn. I think a number of jounalits are liberal and want to inform the public and go after important stories.
But they are hamstrung by the corporate owners.
Then there are the "big" journalists who, I am afraid, have been blinded by politicians and celebrities and do not want to risk access, by writing anything unflattering, or asking in dept questions.
One in particular puzzle me: Woodward, he seems downright conservative, while Bernstein stayed feisty and liberal.
What is your take on Woodward, Capn??
+61 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:13
GE owns NBC so do not look to them for news
they have blocked out Japanese protest and the crime of their Nukes in Japan failing as in other places....Boycott GE
+8 # Capn Canard 2011-10-01 06:52
Woodward? I am not certain, but he may be too close to the powers that be... of course I am cynical, so he may try to avoid killing the goose that has laid some golden eggs.
+4 # X Dane 2011-10-03 22:31
Capn, thank you for replying, It would seem you agree with me. I was wondering if I was being unfair. But maybe Woodward always were more conservativem and simply went with the big story, watergate certainly was?
+8 # josephhill 2011-11-21 10:25
"Woodward, he seems downright conservative, while Bernstein stayed feisty and liberal."
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Woodward gave up "critical reporting" as he became more and more a tool of the Establishment. He has lost what critical edge he once had.
Bernstein on the other hand hasn't let up a bit. Maybe it's because of his radical pedigree.
+118 # Saberoff 2011-09-18 14:46
We all need to support these "Occupy Wall Street" protesters. Stay informed. Do what you can. Do not let up. These things are, and must, come to a head soon. We demand!
+46 # Vardette 2011-09-20 12:50
Yes - we need more but Americans arre starting to wake up and so many are the young who will also be devasted by a jobless society,low wages paying the rich to stay rich at the cost of our lives!
-46 # punk 2011-09-18 16:18
just ~1000 demonstrators? i wd think in manhatten u cd get more ppl to demonstrate about pigeon droppings. everybody hates the banksters and only 1000 protesters show up?
i know it sounds strange, but it could be a good idea to work with the TParty on this. i think there is a large segment of them who do not just protect the rich and are furious about the bailouts. they at least seem better able to generate involvement than the left. fixing wall st investment companies is an issue that has support on the L and the R
+34 # Ken Hall 2011-09-18 19:58
I don't think anyone is prohibiting or blocking TPers from being there.
+36 # Glen 2011-09-19 03:43
How many tea party types are in the street? We know so little that it is possible they are there in great numbers. Maybe we'll find out from Amy Goodman or the like. I'll be watching Democracy Now this evening.
+7 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:15
Lot of them are in alleys and subway bathroom stalls, cannot afford to miss out on the money
+34 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:39
It's not a TP issue. They don't oppose large banks. Remember, for all their claim of being a "Grassroots" organization, they ARE funded by the likes of the Koch Brothers. The Teabaggers are a corporate push trying to make out like they're just ordinary people.
+13 # readerz 2011-09-25 13:14
Yeah, anybody can wear a flannel shirt.
+38 # Glen 2011-09-19 03:49
Unless you are there, the numbers aren't known yet. Not being in New York doesn't mean there isn't concern, and yes, possibly from the tea party. The inability to get to New York City is an example of part of the problem. Folks have to work and can't afford to make the trip.
Time to get creative to find a way to show how much support there is of this protest by those who cannot be there.
+43 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:18
Rethink your 401k investments, look into who your Unions deal with, look into Canada, Mexico. Sierra Club has some new plans using green technology investments, but must watch that they are not in bed with GE etc.
Want to make an initiative Boycott and show the TeaParty you are doing what they do not do...because they are in bed with everyone. Tea Party, an insult to every American
+27 # readerz 2011-09-25 13:17
Don't just boycott GE.
BE SURE to boycott the many companies that are actually the Koch brothers; lots of grocery store items.
It really pains me, because I love the arts, but Koch has put their ugly stamp on the arts in NYC; it's time for avid audience members to say NO to the NO sayers. It really pains me, because sports is so much worse, but what do the arts stand for?
+23 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:44
I've been reading that what is needed to support the Wall Street protests is to get people out in the streets in other cities, protesting at banks and other financial places.
+21 # Torvus 2011-09-28 10:16
Protesters should ensure they go to a demo armed with at least a bottle of water (to drink, or rinse spray from eyes). And (from Nation of Change): if you get arrested, call the National Lawyers Guild at 212-679-6018. Write that number on your arm, because the police take all your stuff when they put you in jail.
+13 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:14
More than that have been showing up TP perhaps more will continue around the world to say No to Wall Street
+30 # suzyskier 2011-09-20 16:32
Punk where did you get the number 1000? I think that there are more than that protesting, and even if there aren't there yet maybe it is because there is a blackout from NBC and other networks. I think more people would show up if they knew about it!
+18 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:05
Why would we consider working with the TeaTHUGliKKKlan s, when they hate Americans? THEY are the ones who have been DESTROYING America for the past 30+ years.
+12 # readerz 2011-09-25 13:12
As much as everybody (me too) hates the TP, those few who are not racist pigs might be moved to agree that this country is being taken away from everybody, including them.
As far as "generating involvement," that is because there is a LOT of money funding the TP demonstrations, and the media covers them if 2 show up. (Remember the article that stated we should say it is a TParty rally?) There are more of us than them, and more of us demonstrating.
But lastly, if I say anything too strong, I will be censored. Remember what the college kids used to do in the late 1960s and early 1970s? They would occupy buildings, not streets, and I'm not suggesting it, but in this case... that would be the big media companies that are an EQUAL overpaid and underserving problem as the stock market and banks.
How many people do you know with a million dollar salaries (i.e., in the pocket of big business); now think of all those well-heeled "news" anchors.
+39 # minkdumink 2011-09-18 16:35
''The kingdoms of Experience
In the precious wind they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what’s real and what is not
It doesn’t matter inside the Gates of Eden''
Bob Dylan/Gates of eden
+98 # michelle 2011-09-18 17:39
If nothing else is accomplished we are sure of one thing now--there is no fourth estate in America. The press has deserted the citizens. Eerie feeling to know you cannot get information.
+27 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:24
But we can. We should remember the Newspapers, rags that actually started to give us our voice. Rolling Stone Village Voice used to. Buy papers that are not blacking us out....Papers are losing their subscriptions, now make it a reality.]
News stop watching TV…they thrive on ratings. Watch only Letterman, Kimmel etc…let them loseratings therefore advertising. Get people to call advertisers esp out of Country to pull ads with Stations until Media starts remembering this is America not Hitlers Germany.
+42 # suzyskier 2011-09-20 16:38
No it isn’t Nazi Germany, not yet. All the signs are there. I think the teaparty is a bit fascist. Lucky for Germany they have turned their country into a great nation, they learned the hard way. Is that is what in store of us?
+15 # readerz 2011-09-25 13:21
There are many signs of TP imitating Nazis, but they are also descended from the same people: the Bush family in the 1930s funded the Nazis. The Allies made sure that Germany put in a law the spreading Nazi propaganda (after WWII) is not free speech; it is against the law there. But here… although I’m not for censorship (we would be hit first), some kinds of hate speech are tearing people apart.
+74 # stevb 2011-09-18 18:13
Protests and marches are ineffective. To make a dent in the corporate oligarchy we have to hurt them and hurt them seriously and the only way to do that is by boycott and strike, strategies not too popular these days because they require months and years of hard work, organizing at every level, relentlessly. This is the commitment the movement needs – permanent international boycott of one of the corporate players until driven into bankruptcy and then move on to another. No other way to get their attention, and their respect.
+52 # X Dane 2011-09-18 19:38
Protest marches are ineffective steveb.
Just one word TAHRIR SQUARE, no that was two.
It CERTAINLY was EFFECTIVE. But it would seem the Egyptians want democracy MORE than we do
They sure had the WILL and the PATIENCE to stick it out till they won.
I am afraid that in this INSTANT AGE we Americans lack STICKTUITIVENES S.
If it doesn’t happen FAST we loose interest……..or will.
ANYTHING WORTH HAVING, IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR
+15 # Vardette 2011-09-28 15:50
I think that is changing now that joblessness and poverty are exploding. Our young people are facing ever increasing dismal futures.
+8 # X Dane 2011-10-03 22:42
I hope you all saw I apologized for being sceptical.I am so glad, that I was wrong.
Y’all should watch Dylan Rattigan at one o’clock (pacific time) on MSNBC. He is certainly fired up. Hi makes a lot of sense. I just wish he would TALK instead of yelling. He was interviewing some of the protesters.
Things are beginning to move the right way for us
+57 # michelle 2011-09-19 09:34
Marches if they are large enough should get some attention. Remember it took several days before we had any information on Wisconsin.
Boycotts can be very effective as well. An unorganized push on Netflix may not have yielded any results for consumers but look at the damage inflicted on the company. Netflix was trading for $304/share a couple of months ago and now it is $153/share. This was a spontaneous, I’m not gonna take it anymore, response to outrageous rate hikes. Imagine if it was coordinated.
I remember many years ago, in the 60′s, attending the Delano Grape Pickers event in Cucamonga, Ca. The Farm workers were advocating a boycott, surely one that would harm them in the short term. Their position was they would win in the long term and that is just what they did. Eventually farmers settled with them, recognized farm workers and wages improved. It cleared the way for the birth of United Farm Workers. Farm workers still have a long way to go but the boycott won some changes. Nothing will happen over night. Both approaches, boycott and protest marches, will move the goals forward. Both approaches allow people to participate when and where they can.
+28 # Vardette 2011-09-21 13:45
During the 60′s it was nation wide protests and very protracted and finally after the establishment knew resistance was futile they stopped the war. It was the same with the civil rights movement- This will alwsys be our battle because there will always be those in power who will allow corruption and greed to take a front seat against the people.
-1 # ChickenBoo 2012-02-12 17:26
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Marches if they are large enough should get some attention. Remember it took several days before we had any information on Wisconsin.
Boycotts can be very effective as well. An unorganized push on Netflix may not have yielded any results for consumers but look at the damage inflicted on the company. Netflix was trading for $304/share a couple of months ago and now it is $153/share. This was a spontaneous, I’m not gonna take it anymore, response to outrageous rate hikes. Imagine if it was coordinated.
I remember many years ago, in the 60′s, attending the Delano Grape Pickers event in Cucamonga, Ca. The Farm workers were advocating a boycott, surely one that would harm them in the short term. Their position was they would win in the long term and that is just what they did. Eventually farmers settled with them, recognized farm workers and wages improved. It cleared the way for the birth of United Farm Workers. Farm workers still have a long way to go but the boycott won some changes. Nothing will happen over night. Both approaches, boycott and protest marches, will move the goals forward. Both approaches allow people to participate when and where they can.
Excellent post! I agree!
+27 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:25
Right now there have been Marches for the past week in USA…so it is a very disgusting situation that we are living supposedly in a Democratic Nation and Media is working for Nazis
-13 # fobsub 2011-09-22 22:51
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Protests and marches are ineffective. To make a dent in the corporate oligarchy we have to hurt them and hurt them seriously and the only way to do that is by boycott and strike, strategies not too popular these days because they require months and years of hard work, organizing at every level, relentlessly. This is the commitment the movement needs – permanent international boycott of one of the corporate players until driven into bankruptcy and then move on to another. No other way to get their attention, and their respect.
A good idea,, 50 years too late to be effective here. The infestation is too widespread and integral to too many vital structures. Killing the disease would kill us all. It has to be destroyed using the same type of tactics that developed it: plain view, accepted deception.
+9 # Vardette 2011-09-28 12:14
BS
-1 # ChickenBoo 2012-02-12 17:32
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Protests and marches are ineffective. To make a dent in the corporate oligarchy we have to hurt them and hurt them seriously and the only way to do that is by boycott and strike, strategies not too popular these days because they require months and years of hard work, organizing at every level, relentlessly. This is the commitment the movement needs – permanent international boycott of one of the corporate players until driven into bankruptcy and then move on to another. No other way to get their attention, and their respect.A good idea,, 50 years too late to be effective here. The infestation is too widespread and integral to too many vital structures. Killing the disease would kill us all. It has to be destroyed using the same type of tactics that developed it: plain view, accepted deception.
It IS huge and it can be over whelming. But don’t ‘belly-Up’! That’s exactly what they WANT us to do. Great strides HAVE been made. If you can’t be active, at least be positive for those who ARE out there in the front lines trying to make a better way for all of us. Hang in there, and stay tuned!
+9 # Vardoz 2011-11-03 19:00
Sorry I don’t agree. What is the most effective and what happened in the 60′s and is now happening in Wisconsin and Ohio is large, widespread, P=rrotracted, peaceful protests combined with well organized grassroots action that elects the kind of people we want. Violence will get us nowwhere. Look what they did to Malcolm X The FBI killed them + a thousand others. The movement is growing. Its only weeks old and already 165,000 have put their money into credit unions. Come on what are we a few months into this? Its all over the news and there is a lot of organizing taking place.I am feeling hopeful. The determination is there. As it grows it will organize – there is already a massive strinke in Oakland.
+6 # BLBreck 2011-11-19 16:33
Thank you, Vardoz! Look at the amazing things this this movement has done in 2 months! Yes, just two, the 17th was the 2 month anniversary. We have become people who expect instant results, like Cup O’ Soup! Just like so many expected a new president to fix all the ills accumulated over 30 years, in a couple of months! Not that I am especially happy with our president, but our expectations are so often unrealistic! Perseverance! Remember Gandhi! In Egypt they are back in the streets to stop the military from taking over, it is not over for them…. OWS will develop new tactics and grow if we stand strong for as long as we need to.
+77 # speedboy 2011-09-18 22:02
What we need is a nationwide shut-down! No one should leave their home on a designated day, as a warning of what will happen if the majority of Americans continue to be ignored
-9 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:27
I wrote about it last spring…it was done but too many ignore us when we tell you
+32 # minkdumink 2011-09-19 16:26
it would be nice if that day was a sunday and the NFL games were empty.Theres no way that could be ignored.
+7 # thirby 2011-11-16 14:22
Why do people watch and pay for the professional sports mafia? Play your own games. Dont enrich these criminals anymore
+14 # fobsub 2011-09-22 23:24
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What we need is a nationwide shut-down! No one should leave their home on a designated day, as a warning of what will happen if the majority of Americans continue to be ignored
In theory you are correct, one or two days is all it would take but in reality it can’t happen because all Americans were willing conspirators in the growth of this cancer and the small economic quake we’ve recently experienced while generating some noise and discomfort, has not harmed enough of us to motivate widespread consideration of such drastic measures. For example the military and police structure was virtually unharmed and remains completely loyal to the enemy. Its business as usual and those losers who fell under the wheels served nicely as lubricant. One can only hope for a miracle disruption of mega proportions and seriously organize massive events on a relentless basis following that bit of luck. A week long national power blackout of mysterious origin for example.
+3 # BLBreck 2011-11-19 16:36
I, too, like the idea of a shut down, but with a little twist… when workers walk away from the businesses that are among the 1% that they walk TO small, local businesses and support them either with positive signs or by spending some money at the local mom and pop stores!
+5 # Vardoz 2011-11-03 19:02
I believe a big shutdown is coming. Maybe we should hit up the Walmart emplyees who are being so screwed?
+36 # Texan 4 Peace 2011-09-19 06:36
Disappoint to see #punk get so many thumbs-down. Certainly the teabaggers are odious, in their present form, but they are a significant manifestation of populist rage and many of them are as angry at the über-rich and their bankster henchmen as we are. That rage just needs to be educated and channeled in a productive direction. Not an easy task I know, but we need to build bridges if this is to become a mass movement. Today’s teabagger may become tomorrow’s progressive after he’s been foreclosed on.
+77 # X Dane 2011-09-19 09:09
Texan. The T baggers are NOT a grassroots movement. They were STARTED, ORGANIZED and FINANCED by the Koch brothers, and those two creeps call the shots at ALL TIMES.
They got together the nastiest reactionary wing of the republicans. I am sure that some independants and democrats are angry too, but they are not as stupid and backwards as the T-bags
+2 # BLBreck 2011-11-19 16:43
I agree with both Texan 4 Peace and X Dane… I certainly know that the T Party was and is a fake grassroots movement, but I also believe that some TP’s are realizing they were duped and have enough critical thinking skills to become aware they have been duped. One of the things I love most about the OWS movement is the educational aspect, and as Texan says, they may have a very rude awakening when they fall victim to the current system themselves! And many of them will!
+26 # michelle 2011-09-19 09:38
As much as I dislike the TPers and I’m pretty sure they can’t think their way out of a paper bag, you may be on to something. Divisiveness advances the power and wealth of the plutocrats and renders the rest of us powerless. I have tried talking with some on the far right and have not made any progress. I’m not sure how we can accomplish this but again the division is really harming the other 98%.
+69 # Tommypaine 2011-09-19 08:40
A bought off congress, supporting free trade agreements that have destroyed American jobs. A Wall Street casino, with no government oversight destroyed the housing market. Taxation policy has starved the Federal government of needed revenue. The rich have doubled their wealth while the poor increase in number. We fight endless wars with borrowed money. We have futile nation building abroad while our own infrastructure crumbles. The public watches TV. Now, watch Wall Street.
+33 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-23 07:36
Correction: According to Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman,( NY Times) the wealthiest Americans have increased their wealth 480% ! The middle class has had a 27% increase, over the same time span. Protests are more than justified, since there is no action being taken to change this trend.
+48 # iris 2011-09-19 10:56
I cant reach Amy goodman, but the demand was made by hundreds of picketing nurses a couple weeks ago. it was to tax wall st. transactions, like 17 other countries do at about 1/2 of one percent, and save the economy. This would also make them pay damages, and make it easier to police the fraud and risky speculation. Too bad there,s is a news blackout iris
+9 # fobsub 2011-09-22 23:45
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I cant reach Amy goodman, but the demand was made by hundreds of picketing nurses a couple weeks ago. it was to tax wall st. transactions, like 17 other countries do at about 1/2 of one percent, and save the economy. This would also make them pay damages, and make it easier to police the fraud and risky speculation. Too bad there,s is a news blackout iris
Who are you asking to do this tax thing? Lawmakers and virtually all major federal agencies (FDA, EPA etc.) work only for Wall Street and its related business partners (Monsanto, Big Pharmas etc.), not for us,, so why would they want to bite their own butt? In reality, they likely already have in place, laws that compensate them with tax dollars whenever they make an oops and suffer direct losses,, oh wait…..they actually do have that don’t they!! And you want to ask them to play nice? Ha!
+36 # iris 2011-09-19 11:01
cry out!!! TAX TRANSACIONS! POLICE THE FRAUD! JAIL THE GAMBLERS! (and Can Geithner and Summers et.al)
+4 # Regina 2011-10-08 08:38
Especially the latter!! Obama, thinking sweetness and peace, retained Bush’s sneaky varmints. Didn’t work out that way.
+34 # jimmyjames 2011-09-19 14:23
I just sent the protesters $100 of Pizza from Liberato’s Pizza in NYC. I challenge supporters on this site to do the same (or what you can afford. VIVA La Revolution!!
+21 # michelle 2011-09-19 17:49
Excellent suggestion. I had to call Liberato’s because the online ordering crashed. You can purchase a pizza for $12-$21 pretty reasonable. I assume it is the place on Cedar St. for those who need to google.
-19 # fobsub 2011-09-22 23:48
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I just sent the protesters $100 of Pizza from Liberato’s Pizza in NYC. I challenge supporters on this site to do the same (or what you can afford. VIVA La Revolution!!
I would but I haven’t got a hundred bucks,, will you lend it to me?
+15 # michelle 2011-09-24 08:47
Do you have $12? I think jimmyjames suggests, ‘what you can afford." If you have nothing, then of course you cannot send food to Liberty Plaza.
+2 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:58
Do they take food stamps form out of state?
+4 # BLBreck 2011-11-19 16:46
and the Republicans have just declared pizza a vegetable so all is good! All kidding aside, I’m glad you were able to support the protesters in this way!
+32 # Ma Tsu 2011-09-19 14:29
Wall Street is to the economy as insurance is to health care – a big suck on our prosperity, our well-being, a con game run by the few to benefit the few.
Enough of the suck. Game over. A new day dawns.
-19 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:15
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Wall Street is to the economy as insurance is to health care – a big suck on our prosperity, our well-being, a con game run by the few to benefit the few.
Enough of the suck. Game over. A new day dawns.
The "pot calling the kettle black". Republicans may have designed and facilitated this mess but they couldn’t have accomplished it without the greedy, shameless participation of all of us. Proud of yourself? If Americans will accept their own complicity in the creation of this ugly monster that has already killed millions and if there is any conscience remaining among us AND enough are willing to accept extreme hardship and sacrifice for a long time, then maybe a well organized effort could begin to turn things around. Personally I don’t believe Americans will ever become desperate enough in large enough numbers to be able to achieve such greatness and maybe thats a good thing.
+12 # BLBreck 2011-09-29 14:39
Yes, fobsub, we have been complicit and complacent. The mistake that has been made is that more and more people are no longer comfortable and no longer complacent. Thus, I believe more and more of these demonstrations will happen. these are so many young people who cannot find jobs…they are the main force, as always, but this time there are also many "old hippies" who demonstrated against wars and for civil rights that have also had their comfort and complacency ripped away. Demonstrations are now rising in Boston and I know there is one being planned in San Diego and I will join them. It will, if nothing else, be heartening to hear our own voices when we feel no one is listening in Washington in this time of very bad choices by the government that is supposed to be working for ALL the people, not just the top 1 or 2%.
+39 # X Dane 2011-09-19 14:53
We all agree, that the right-wing is evil and conniving……..unfortunately, they have also been A LOT SMARTER that the democrats.
Years ago they began buying up Newspapers, radio and TV stations, so now THEY OWN PRACTICALLY ALL MEDIA………Guess what? ….only THEIR message is heard. They are poisoning the airwaves with their right-wing crap. And what can we do??………….diddly squat.
We need to have wealthy democrats buy, and or start news outlets, so we can be heard, or we wil basically be out of the game……If you are never heard…….YOU DON’T EXIST
+16 # KittatinyHawk 2011-09-19 15:31
We slept thru it all or went to Wallie World.
I remember Letterman and GE…now Letterman is one who will have this on tonite, he has been speaking out and in favor of tax on rich…he is one of them
+29 # X Dane 2011-09-19 18:46
Thank god a number of wealthy people can see the injustice, and SAY that they should pay mere, good for them,….and us
+27 # Torvus 2011-09-19 15:03
And reading the comments about lack of sufficient media coverage, maybe protestors should demonstrate outside some of the media’s centres of operation? If certain of the media are so negatively selective in disseminating demonstrators news and views, what is their news ‘coverage’ worth? That should get exposure and an overhaul along with Wall Street.
+24 # DanetteB 2011-09-19 15:21
This may actually tip the scales- if RSN continues to cover this while others ignore it. Perhaps that’s the biggest news of the day– who’s paying attention to this? Who is encouraging the people to rise up?
+21 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-21 18:22
Follow the money from Wall Street to Washington. It is the elephant in the room, ignored by the lame stream, gothcha media. Someone must say stop!
-23 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:19
Ok, I’ll volunteer since I have nothing to lose, so here goes……STOP! Did it work? Are we all fat and happy again?
-19 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:16
It won’t
+28 # Dave45 2011-09-19 21:02
This is so great to see. Wouldn’t it be great if "Occupy Wall Street" was only part one, with part two being a similar occupation of the media giants who refuse to cover part one (or anything else slightly out of the ordinary that is beneficial for common people).Obama–pay attention!The White House could be next.
+9 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:25
Don’t blame Obama, blame yourself! Part one didn’t, won’t and cannot do anything. Part two, three, four,… will have the same results. A whimper isn’t heard, it takes a ROAR!!
+5 # Vardoz 2011-10-30 15:15
Unfortunately we don’t have many options. Mitt would be much worse. The GOP is even more interested in taking over the House and Senate. Look at all the power they have now!
+11 # cstein 2011-09-20 00:12
MONEY HAS AN ENEMY — PASS IT ON
+13 # X Dane 2011-09-20 11:22
Not MONEY, but gready conniving cheeters
-14 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:29
By that you’re making it personal,, you mean all of us don’t you?
-14 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:27
Any enemy of MONEY has been met and defeated.
+2 # dorianb@fuse.net 2011-11-20 12:43
fobsub: You are a very negative, cynical, uninspired person.
+23 # jwb110 2011-09-20 09:56
Remind the NYPD that they have a functioning Union and a very good retirement program and medical care. Whose side are they on. The people pay for the things that the NYPD enjoys not Wall Street.
+9 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:33
The NYPD works for them, not us as do all PD’s and they are well taken care of, so don’t expect any quarter from them.
+1 # Regina 2011-10-08 08:43
It was the White Shirts, police managers, that attacked the demonstrators, not the rank and file blue shirts, union members. (No doubt they have an even better retirement program.)
+6 # Vardoz 2011-10-30 15:13
They just got paid 3 million from Wall St to brutalize the protests!
+14 # iris 2011-09-20 10:55
what was that lovely musical piece in the 5 min of slow motion clip? by the way read Saul Alinskis "rules for radicals". once you start, keep it up, point out specific targets, and specific demands
+17 # Torvus 2011-09-20 12:46
Thanks for the Alinsky tip, iris; one section reads: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and ‘frozen.’…
"…any target can always say, ‘Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?’ When your ‘freeze the target,’ you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments…. Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the ‘others’ come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target…’
+14 # Torvus 2011-09-21 14:41
. They become visible by their support of the target…’
Or in this case by their LACK of support for the protesters. The silent media must be really really scared.
-21 # fobsub 2011-09-23 00:38
Hey that insight is really cool, it should solve everything! I think it should be reinforced with a catchy slogan or rallying call like "gimme back my D"
+36 # Vardette 2011-09-20 15:47
I praise these young people who have the courage to get out there. They are isn such trouble and I think they are starting to get it. We fought for 15 years to end the Vietman war so give them encouragement for doing the right thing. Without action we are all sunk!
-24 # fobsub 2011-09-23 01:00
I would too if I thought the event has anything to do with "courage". To me "courage" implies suffering, danger, sacrifice and I don’t see any of that here. With no concerted agreement as to expected outcome or demanded solutions it looks more like an electronically organized social event put together by some bored school kids who think whats happening in some tortured countries is really cool.
+1 # Doubter 2011-11-20 13:18
"I don’t see any of that here"
Blind.
+9 # Capn Canard 2011-09-21 07:52
I like the video of 9 year old Sam Kesler and his comment of "Reverse Robin Hoods", nice.
+9 # iris 2011-09-21 11:03
I still dont know how to locate that great song on the slow motion video… u tube only gave it hard rap…And Torvus: I did a protest once targeting a governor and a labor comissioner. by the time the press got done "the others" did come out of the woodwork. 14 public officials resigned in a hurry. Now if yahoo keep censoring id do a boycott, change servers, and sell their stock short… just like the banksters. iris
+10 # Torvus 2011-09-21 14:47
Well done, iris, and at least you had the Press on your side for that one to work. Where is the media now? Who was it who said decades ago that Pressmen are prostitutes? Obviously we must exclude those who ARE reporting this news and not blacking it out as if it were a non-event.
+5 # Regina 2011-10-08 08:51
We need to separate the reporters from the editors and the publisher, who call the shots on what gets covered and published, not the writers who cover what’s assigned. And it’s the corporate owners who decide policy. (Reporters also have a union but we’re not hearing from them.)
+3 # BLBreck 2011-11-19 16:58
Some of us who are participating in our local OWS met with reporters from a few news agencies on Thursday night after our action on a bridge. One interesting thing that became clear was that the police would wait until the reporters gave up for the night (they have to sleep, too) to perpetrate the violent raids on encampments, therefore putting the kabosh on any real reporting of the event. The reporters also asked for "citizen reporters" to help them get the news out and the stories of the protesters. Like so much of the news media, the local media is telling a very skewed story on what is really going on and the mayors and City Council aid and abet that. And, yes, as our city is very Republican most of the news media is owned by 1%ers, and the reporters are restricted by their bosses.
+18 # Torvus 2011-09-21 12:34
So protesters are ‘dumb’ are they? (CNN contributor and RedState blogger Erick Erickson labeled the protesters as "profoundly dumb.") DON’T YOU HEAR THEM, MAN? THEY are not dumb. YOU are DEAF; and out of it. Maybe a member of the arrogant smirking breed as shown by the people who were on a Wall Street balcony confidently raising their glasses and laughing as the protesters did their laps around the protester-forbidden street (which should now be called Fall Street). Financiers and their supporters are the real dumbos. They are so arrogant they are not only deaf, but blind as well.
-27 # fobsub 2011-09-23 01:35
"Dumb" is actually a fairly accurate description of this incident and its participants. Serious protesters that may have been planning a real protest action may be justifiably angered by this non-event as it brings to mind "the boy who cried wolf" in that it halfheartedly addressed a very serious condition and resulted in not only appearing frivolous but also playing down its importance to public opinion and may have only served to produce a massive obstacle of indifference to any future truly fervent organized attempts to address this issue. Good going kids, hope you had fun, don’t bother to pick up all those pizza boxes, I’m sure the cleaning lady will take care of it!
+8 # cstein 2011-09-21 18:02
MONEY HAS AN ENEMY (pass it on
+21 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-21 18:11
The protesters are certainly not dumb or stupid. They are unafraid. When you ain’t got nothing you got nothing to lose. The current economy affects them the most, because they are young with no prospects for a real job. Only they are willing to say what everyone else knows but are reluctant to speak out. The system engineered over the last 30 years has failed them and almost everyone else. The rich, the big banks, the multinationals, are doing very well and must use the NYPD to keep things that way. Keep in mind that many Police officers have lost their jobs etc. as well. Can you get them on your side? You probably could, if you decided to do that.
-28 # fobsub 2011-09-23 02:09
Of course they’re unafraid, they have nothing to be afraid of,, they don’t even know what they want and they’ll all go home soon, so they present no threat. While its true that they are the ones that will be most affected by this problem, its also true that "youth is wasted on the young" so they don’t even know it and by the time they figure it out they’ll be too old, battered and defeated to be able to do anything, or will have gained so much to lose by goin with the flow that they won’t want to do anything. Every previous generation contributed in that way to help create this ugly condition and I am as confident as its evil perpetrators (knowing that they are far more immoral and clever than I) that every following generation will do the same until the whole thing crumbles down on top of its self,, only then will the sun come out and birdies will be tweeting again and there may even be a few human survivors to eagerly begin the whole process over again. Thats the human thing,, its how we progress.
+16 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-21 18:16
There is a lot of rainy weather ahead. I think you should consider working in shifts to give people a chance to dry off and warm up. Good luck, don’t give up.
-32 # fobsub 2011-09-23 02:12
No need, they won’t be there,, they’ll be home polishing their skis or otherwise getting ready for their next adventure.
+18 # iris 2011-09-22 09:02
if the press wont cover it, try bumper stickers that say it "tax wall st transactions" ." police the fraud" "Jail banksters!". return the glass steagal act. iris.
-25 # fobsub 2011-09-23 02:13
Cool, mine says "I brake for ants"
+3 # Doubter 2011-11-20 13:35
Mine says:
"I brake for Trolls, Zombies and the Brain Dead"
+26 # TrueAmericanPatriot 2011-09-22 12:59
No, Keith; Mainstream Media did not FAIL to cover the protests; THEY REFUSED to cover it!
+22 # BLBreck 2011-09-22 13:43
I have written comments at NPR and CNN and the NYT asking them why they are not covering progressive events like this and the protest out side of the White House about the Keystone Pipeline where hundreds of people were arrested. I guess it’s time to start calling them, too! Perhaps if a lot of people who can’t be in NYC flood the phone lines of major media asking why they are not covering this event, it would be part of this protest.
-20 # fobsub 2011-09-23 02:19
Things get to where they get because the perps have confidence in the American people. This is a Demockracy so you have a choice,, get with it, or get burried.
+12 # reiverpacific 2011-09-29 17:00
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Things get to where they get because the perps have confidence in the American people. This is a Demockracy so you have a choice,, get with it, or get burried.
This has been an interesting and sometimes cloudy back-and-forth but I have to interject here. The fact that you consider the "Fragmented States" to be a "Demockracy" (is that a new spelling for a mockery of "democracy?" -in that case, right on!), demonstrates y’r insouciance and please don’t give me any patronizing or flippant claptrap in return. -Just what you base these specious assumptions and mockeries on.
Macing a non-violent bystander OR a protester and cuffing same is not democracy. These are NOT spoiled trust-fund brats but people of all ages who see their future and past (like me ) being shredded by the greed-mongers and their shills in congress. They are occupying public and semi-public spaces as is their right.
The bloody cops should be out there WITH them! -They are just as much at threat as the Wisconsin example shows.
I’m an old activist from way back, physical and conceptual, and I applaud ALL attempts by ALL people from ALL walks of life to get out and say "Enough!".
If you don’t like it, get outa the way! I’d be there with them if wasn’t one of the "New Poor", caused by -well guess who?
Now git real or git off!
0 # Cabbagehead 2012-02-08 23:00
The first step in Revolution is to Pull the Plug. Use TV to watch DVDs from the Library; be selective. Listen to one or two remaining radio shows. Ignore the broadcast media. Pull the plug on GE/NBC, Disney/ABC, CBS, Koch, Fox. They are your enemies and your consumerism pays their dividends. Pull the Plug. Take the first step. No cop will bop you if you just Pull the Plug.
-8 # fobsub 2011-09-22 22:23
I heard few complaints before the meltdown. The "99%" are equally responsible for allowing an evil enemy to permeate, gain power and tear down the constitution and democracy while we (the 99%) turned a blind eye, greedily hoping that some of the blood $$ would drip on us. Its a little late. It will take millions of determined protestors on Wall Street to begin to make a dent and many will die. Ready to make a sacrifice?
+19 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-23 07:42
If voters were truly informed and checked their facts before they voted,that would solve all our problems. The middle class is a sleeping giant, easily persuaded to vote against their own interests, on the basis of mere slogans. The politicians smile and wave the flag, while they pick your pocket. Wake up america, please.
+16 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-23 07:43
Tip: best rain wear is a full length poncho.
+14 # boudreaux 2011-09-23 07:00
They have forgotten who bailed them out and now look at where we are, they still get so many profits from kickbacks and keep wanting to drain us of everything that we have worked for in this country to stay free, now it looks like they will become a police country until these Americans wake up and know that they live in this country too…we need more United We Stand in this once beautiful land in which we lived and prospered.Let’s not ever forget that we built this land and this land is our land……
+19 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-23 14:44
Wall Street just completed it’s worst week since 2008. This may get people to realize that NOTHING has been fixed on Wall Street. The protest may begin to gain more traction. Don’t give up. Peace.
+19 # Vardette 2011-09-23 14:48
It is so sad to see our bright, young people protesting in desperate for the preservation of their futures! They deserve better and they know they are totally being screwed. Kieth Olbermann did report the protest on Current TV 107 on Comcast! I emailed Ed Shultz demanding coverage.
+15 # Helen 2011-09-24 09:18
I wonder if this protest is being reported abroad. Maybe the people in other countries would be interested in seeing that all Americans are not in league with the corporations.
+15 # coffeewriter 2011-09-24 17:08
As a South African living in South Korea, I admire and support these protests 100%. I hope they carry on until, in your own country and elsewhere, the powers that be take note. Make sure your mainstream media has no option but to report on the occupation! Strength and peace to all involved.
+2 # dorianb@fuse.net 2011-11-20 12:58
"Strength and peace to all involved."
Thank you Coffeewriter!
+5 # Dion Giles 2011-10-06 19:19
I noticed a call on Facebook today inviting people to an Occupy Townsville meeting on October 15 at that town’s Masonic Hall. Townsville is a regional city in north Queensland, Australia. There are many echoes of the Occupy Wall Street movement around the world – but the usual Press blackout.
+13 # Vardette 2011-09-24 10:43
Things need to start from somewhere and this is a beginning. We must protest or be crushed. Also we should all call our reps and tell them that legal bribery has been a primary component in landing us where were are today and we will no longer vote for reps who put profit and corporate favoritism ahead of the survival of their constituients. You can look up where your reps get their money from online. http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/overview.php?cmte=SBUD&cmteid=S07&cycle=2012
+2 # wwway 2011-09-24 14:06
Someone told me that one of the reasons why NYC has so much law enforcement and other services and eminties like Central Park upkeep is because the wealthy residents pay extra above and beyond their own taxes and raise money among themselves to fund all these things. Is this true? Anyone know? It seems that the police are getting braver and braver through expectations by the wealthy that the city be "cleaned up."
+5 # teachnet 2011-09-24 14:22
Scott Galindez’ "Put on Notice?" captures the struggle intrinsic to capitalism and made real in the 1854 question attributed to Chief Si’ahl (Seattle) "How can you own the sky?" Capitalism MUST commodify EVERYTHING — the Midas Virus. Brookfield Properties spent $8 million renovating the plaza in 2005, probably much less than the taxes they owed that year but avoided paying. They "own" this public land! Privatization of that which we should share in common with all life leads to "Notices" of what we can and cannot do there.
Time to take it back. ALL of it.
+9 # angelfish 2011-09-24 14:24
WHY are the Police acting like Nazi Storm Troopers towards these PEACEFUL protesters? Mayor Bloomberg should be ASHAMED of himself for allowing this kind of brutality to take place against NON-VIOLENT citizens exersizing their right to Free Speech! This is DISGRACEFUL and will be remembered! I sent an e-mail to the New York Times asking WHY they haven’t covered any of this and have not received the favor of a reply. So much for "All the News that’s fit to print"!
+6 # endgame 2011-09-24 14:32
Is this really happening? I just now rechecked today’s New York Times and the LA Times. Not a word on it in either paper. Must be one of those strange dreams. I gotta get off the jug wine.
+4 # fobsub 2011-09-24 16:10
Quoting
Is this really happening? I just now rechecked today’s New York Times and the LA Times. Not a word on it in either paper. Must be one of those strange dreams. I gotta get off the jug wine.
Good morning sleepy,, now you know what your news media is all about. What you see happening here is the norm and can be extrapolated to include all "news" in this country. We call Palestinians "terrorists",, start reading foreign news broadcasts to learn who the real "terrorists" are. This is just one of many glaring examples demonstrating that every word or action, spoken or perpetrated by Republicans is a lie or a deceitful tactic bent on personal gain regardless of cost to others or national consequence. Have a nice day.
0 # Doubter 2011-11-20 13:46
See! I told you this guy interpolates some truths among his venom.
0 # Cabbagehead 2012-02-08 23:01
Quoting
Quoting
Is this really happening? I just now rechecked today’s New York Times and the LA Times. Not a word on it in either paper. Must be one of those strange dreams. I gotta get off the jug wine.Good morning sleepy,, now you know what your news media is all about. What you see happening here is the norm and can be extrapolated to include all "news" in this country. We call Palestinians "terrorists",, start reading foreign news broadcasts to learn who the real "terrorists" are. This is just one of many glaring examples demonstrating that every word or action, spoken or perpetrated by Republicans is a lie or a deceitful tactic bent on personal gain regardless of cost to others or national consequence. Have a nice day.
The first step in Revolution is to Pull the Plug. Use TV to watch DVDs from the Library; be selective. Listen to one or two remaining radio shows. Ignore the broadcast media. Pull the plug on GE/NBC, Disney/ABC, CBS, Koch, Fox. They are your enemies and your consumerism pays their dividends. Pull the Plug. Take the first step. No cop will bop you if you just Pull the Plug.
+14 # Annette Saint John Lawrence 2011-09-24 14:35
Simply wanted to thank RSN for this excellent Chronicle. I appreciate the simplicity and meticulousness of what you
put out as well as the way you go about it. I experience a
certain Soul quality which I am not able to explain in words.
Thank You.
+15 # angelfish 2011-09-24 14:50
I think it’s heartening to see so many bright, articulate young people telling their truth to power in such a peaceful and coherent manner. THIS is why the News Media isn’t covering any of it. They WANT to see blood in the streets, THEN and ONLY then will it get any air time. Shame on ALL of them who are turning this Country into a Nazi/Fascist State!
+5 # Lulie 2011-09-24 15:39
Hurray for the protesters! But they need to make their demands more clear and specific.
+9 # Progressive Patriot 2011-09-24 18:50
I’m not at all surprised that there is brutality on the part of the police. America promotes that kind of treatment of demonstrators in other countries.
+13 # giraffee2012 2011-09-24 18:52
How does one get a "permit" to join the protest? I "Heard" – those without a permit will be arrested.
These PD are acting like "brown shirts" of yester-year!
Other than ONLINE – has anyone seen these protests in local newspapers?
+6 # X Dane 2011-10-03 23:03
Yes Giraffe. I don’t know where you live, but I can tell you that on the 12th day LA Times FINALLY got their act together and started writing about the protests, a number of snide remarks, because there were not thousands (week-day) but hundreds…..and they also chided protesters because there were not any famous people taking part.
I wrote and asked them if they were waiting for the blood to flow in the streets before they would bother to inform their readers about what is going on.
+1 # boudreaux 2011-10-14 08:04
Not at all….
+8 # Tommycanyouhearme 2011-09-24 21:02
I have to hand it to the officer in the white shirt who applies the pepper spray to the females in the orange net and then quickly walks away, out of view. Is that what they teach them in the police academy?
0 # Doubter 2011-11-20 13:48
He is probably one of the instructors.
+10 # seeuingoa 2011-09-25 01:35
Policestate and fascism as in
Germany and Italy in the 1930´s
is just around the corner.
+12 # seeuingoa 2011-09-25 02:28
what about making huge banners saying:
DEAR POLICEMAN
WE ARE HERE FOR YOU ALSO
SO PLEASE BE NICE TO US
+6 # X Dane 2011-10-03 23:06
Good idea, and also the truth.
+18 # SteveH 2011-09-25 08:22
I just visited the NY Times web site to see if there’s any reporting and, yep, a couple f articles in fact. The articles were disparaging of and focusing on what could be seen by many as the "fringe". This is an attempt to discredit the movement.
However, by far, the largest number of readers’ comments, responding to those articles, articulated that these protests are valid, relevant and intelligently motivated. Despite biased reporting, people are watching and understanding all too well that the 99% are us and that Wall St controls K St and K St controls 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and 1st St.
+6 # X Dane 2011-10-03 23:12
Steve H, write and give them hell. They really need to understand how angry we are. And they neglect it at their own peil, because the protedters are not going away. I truly believe this is a beginning of something important. and we need to support the protesters, even if we can’t be there with them on the street.
-26 # Joeconserve 2011-09-25 09:14
Hey, the sit in is getting great coverage on FOX. Oh, that’s right that channel is not on the list of approved channels. Anyway, it’s been good coverage.
+4 # angelfish 2011-10-03 08:20
Yeah? Maybe so, but I think that, Sick Puppies that they are, they’re just gloating at seeing young people get brutalized by the Goon Squads.
+3 # X Dane 2011-10-04 19:44
Joeconserve Who cares what fixed news says or does, very few people with working brains and hearts watch that crap.
A few times I have watched. It nearly made me sick. Sadly too many people’s brains have been poisoned, and turned into mush by the venom spewed by fix.
I am afraid they are now a lost cause.
+14 # Vardette 2011-09-25 12:41
OUT RAGE!!!!- I am calling Bloomberg’s office and telling him I will NEVER vote for him again! How dare they do this to our desperate young people!
212-788-0010
+1 # dorianb@fuse.net 2011-11-20 13:04
Good for you, Vardette!
+8 # propsguy 2011-09-25 13:29
hmmm, does anyone still go to burger king? maybe you want to stop
+10 # bigkahuna671 2011-09-25 16:41
How many of you are veterans? How many of you really believe we need to do something about Wall Street? If you really did, you’d think that maybe it needs to be occupied by veterans who’ve decided to exercise the 2nd Amendment rights guaranteed to us by the GOP and their Supreme Court. All police officers and other first responders who are vets and who are sick and tired of the greed and corruption of Wall Street should also get involved and shut down the Street. Don’t support Big Money by coming down on middle class Americans who’ve grown tired of being screwed by these jerks, support your brethren and peers and help to drive them out of the country. Do you think the Chinese would put up with this kind of greed? Hell, no! In China, you do this and you get publicly executed. If the Right Wing can call for people to take up arms, isn’t it about time that the Left Wing do the same? Enough of this garbage, take the SOBs down. Scare the living bejeesus out of them and maybe (although I doubt it), just maybe, they’ll start working for less $$ and try to restore the foundations of our economy. Hey, maybe we could even get some of the Pols in the GOP to join in, although I doubt it. Throw the bums out of their offices and into jail cells!!!
0 # punk 2011-09-26 04:28
wtf are u talking about? u havent been to china, thats for sure. there are enormously wealthy ppl there, and they’re out shopping like mad in malls so glitzy, they make american malls look like run-down dollar stores.
get out your guns and talk ignorant gibberish? i think you crashed the wrong party. u sd have taken a hard right back at the T party exit. sorry, but you’ll just have to lick the bankers’ ferragamo moccasins [$2,300] with all the other t party toadies.
+8 # X Dane 2011-10-03 23:17
Spoken like a true right wing punk. You are clinging to your damned guns.
GUNS DO NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS THEY CREATE THEM. BRAINS SOLVE PROBLEMS.
+12 # bigkahuna671 2011-09-26 13:32
I guess people didn’t get my sarcasm with the 2nd Amendment rights bit. Actually, as a Democrat, this is one point of view I could appreciate ’cause I’m sick and tired about hearing how the wealthy pay more than their share, after all, they pay more than the rest of us combined…1% pays more than 97%, whoa!
But, hey, they earn the most and protect it through all the tax breaks they’re given by our Congress. What breaks do the middle class have? Unless you own a home, just your mortgage interest, but the wealthy incorporate themselves and buy their cars, vacation homes, etc, through the corporations. The corporation pays at a corporate rate, but since the car is used to haul the CEO around and the vacation home might be used to reward junior execs for a job well done, they become complete write-offs. It’s a racket but they get away with it. Jefferson said a little blood needs to be shed every now and then. In recent years, with the two Bush wars, the only blood that’s being shed is by working class stiffs. I still think a 2nd Amendment solution sounds pretty good.
0 # Doubter 2011-11-20 13:53
How about active service members?
I’d rather be locked up for a REAL cause than be sent to die for a phony one!
+6 # punk 2011-09-26 03:56
i’m glad the ‘Protesters Go Topless’ vid was removed. why did u put it on anyway? nothing like making the whole protest look stupid.
-21 # Martintfre 2011-09-26 12:32
crap that might of been the only vid worth the time.
+1 # Martintfre 2011-09-26 12:28
Wrong target –
If corporations are what your after then
Occupy the FED (Federal Reserve Bank) They are a corporate monopoly protected by government with the ‘exclusive’ power to print money at will.
By the way – the Democratic party, like the Republican party and the US government are corporations as well – legal fictions that have no brain no belly no life and no right to vote.
+17 # davidhp 2011-09-26 13:20
The arrests I have seen on these videos were just plain harassment of the right to assemble and petition the government. This is part of the creeping fascism which is a result of allowing the corporate robber barons to control America’s economy at the expense of the rights of the people.
America allows right wing theocratic zealots to appear at demonstrations supporting the corporate oligarchy and armed with assault rifles and takes no action, but arrests peaceful demonstrators against the corporate power structure. The police who are union members should be ashamed for allowing this to happen (though it appears the police manager scabs are the ones leading the arrests).
These demonstrations need to spread across the country – they cannot be centralized in one location. The arms of Wall St spread through out the country, they must be fought everywhere.
+15 # davidhp 2011-09-26 16:48
Everyone should be contacting their representatives in Congress and the Senator demanding a federal investigation into police brutality at the anti Wall St demonstrations in New York. Stop this fascism now.
+4 # Vardette 2011-09-26 17:51
These kids are disorganized. They need a leader- Where is Michael Moore and the unions? Where are Progressive leaders. These poor kids are alone trying so hard to make change and be heard.
+7 # Regina 2011-10-08 09:04
Michael Moore has been there, but only Keith Olbermann showed him there, as I recall.
+2 # Doubter 2011-11-20 14:02
I guess you are right in a way, but I can’t forget Bob Dylan’s admonition:
"Don’t follow leaders
Watch the parkin’ meters."
+12 # Vardette 2011-09-26 18:01
NY police should pay attention to the Tea Party agenda to break the unions and know that the police unions are at risk as much as evryone else. So as silly as these people may seem to them, tomorrow it may be their wages and jobs that are cut.
+12 # R U Kidding Me? 2011-09-27 00:47
This is reminiscent of the 60′s in the fight for Civil Rights, the fight to abolish Prohibition, and it will no doubt spread throughout the country which is a great thing. Have a cohesive argument PLEASE…don’t be all over the map so your message is clear: College grads with a ton of debt unable to get good jobs…the American dream hijacked by sheer corporate greed. They are not job creators, they are middle class destroyers and WE THE PEOPLE SHALL OVERCOME one more storm. The sane part of the country is with you and the insane part you don’t want anyway.
+10 # sebouhian 2011-09-27 00:51
This violence against the people is not surprising. From my childhood in the Bronx up to my high school in Queens, I experienced police threatening us boys on the street, to confess robbing a local store, when we were just playing ball in the street; climaxed by a scene in which several cop cars screeched up to a corner out side the high school, jumped out with their batons lashing at the kids gambling with dice, no warnings, no talk, just attack to injure, beating the kids on the head, all over, no restraint, kids sobbing in pain, police crazed by what they saw as enemies like on a battle field. I grew up on seeing the police as a danger to us, not as protectors of peace and justice. Unfortunately what has happened on Wall Street simply reinforces that view, as if the citizens peacefully objecting to the captialistic system and its faults and economic cruelty against workers and their families–as if those objecting in public are the terrorists.
+9 # gtigerclaw 2011-09-27 10:47
Hi all, I just got bounced off Facebook for posting this link on the official Occupy Wall St page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLRX7bZH41g.
I don’t really care, but if that was the cause, the big players are getting really scared.
They have the power to isolate me, but change my mind and stop me from spreading the word never.
+8 # Bodiotoo 2011-09-27 14:35
Wish the "sitters" all the best. Stay "Peaceful. find the route the serves the poropse…long term anti violence, we need these all over the country, not just in front of Wall Street…"
+11 # Bodiotoo 2011-09-27 14:45
will the actions of the officers in NY mark the "Kent State" of this generation or will we need our youth to be murdered on the streets and campuses again?
+8 # Vardette 2011-09-28 12:13
We need to do what we have to do with courage and conviction for our futures and lives. Kids in poor neighborhoods are getting murdered every day. Medical malpractice is the major cause of death in our nation, followed by smoking cigarettes, poverty, lack of healthcare. We are already being murdered!
-4 # Ella 2011-09-27 22:20
A simple revolution for people who don’t get that they are being manipulated and lied to like always. Shedding more blood for the NWO, jut like the original "fake" tea party. History is being written/falsified once again. How many will die for this one? Wake up people, Anonymous is the CIA. Alex Jones is CIA. You are being CONNED.
+3 # Vardette 2011-09-28 12:09
Please. What planet are you from?
+6 # Vardette 2011-09-28 11:36
I emailed brother West and he heard my call now we need more like him to join in. I have even called the Obama comment line saying that if he is truly behind jobs and our futures he needs to come and support our young people who are fighting for their lives! IT MADE ME CRY TO SEE HIM THERE!
+13 # Vardette 2011-09-28 11:46
TIME FOR THE UNIONS TO JOIN IN THE NURSES UNION, THE TEACHERS UNION AND ALL THE WORKERS WHOSE JOBS ARE BEING THREATENED!!!!
+2 # X Dane 2011-10-03 23:24
Vardette. They are joining in now. one of the big union leadersg to join the protests there.
+14 # Vardette 2011-09-28 13:11
Now that MSNBC has joined Olbermann on current TV along with Amy Goodman I am very, very happy that our young people whose futures have been stolen by criminals and gangsters as Mr. Moore put it, are getting support. But they need and deserve much more. All I know is that if we end up with a TP nation every parasitic special interest will suck the economic marrow from our bones and our young people know it. As Boehner said, " no jobs, so be it."just as long as the rich stay rich at our expense. They are not for jobs, healthcare, education, student loans, unemployment benefits, food stamps, head start, you name it, higher wages, unions, workers rights. Waxman just said this is the most anti envirnmental congress in our history so we can kiss our entitlements and protections good-bye too. If we vote in these guys it will be the end of our nation as we know it. This is why so many big corporations are paying off our corrupt reps that we vote for and throwing milllions to beat Obama. The GOP doesn’t care if 50 + million have no health care or that our kids pay more for college than any other developed nation – And when the ten’s of millions graduate and there are no jobs waiting for them shoud they roll over and play dead?
+9 # futhark 2011-09-28 15:28
The whole idea of having a "demonstration" is to attract media attention to a cause or point of view. Now, however, with the corporate-controlled media being used as a tool to protect the plutocratic status quo, demonstrations as we have known them in the past are no longer as useful.
So, some other tactic needs to be invented whereby the media are compelled by public interest to give attention to opinions at variance with the self-serving interests of the plutocracy.
+14 # Vardette 2011-09-28 16:16
Michael Moore interviewed at Wall St on MSNBC on the Lawrence O’Donnell show!
Michael " How can I live in a nation where 100′s of peaceful protesters get arrested but not one banker that robbed us and the nation are arrested.
O’Donnell – " We have to protest this." who says protests don’t work?
Thak you Lawrence!
+8 # unclewags 2011-09-28 18:12
Please ask Mayo Bloom to identify the "White Shirts" component. Are they oursourced mercenaries, trained and contracted through "BlackWater" with Homeland Security funding? Resurging Nazi-fascist "Brown Shirts" ? Our citiizenry must demand full disclosure re this tool of fascist tactics. If not, our nation may well totally succumb to the dictates of corporacity-fascist governance which is in gestation at the obstretician hands of "Goebels-ian" manipulations of facts before presentation to mass consumption. As an FDR Democrat, now turned Independent, after having recruited "Veterans for Obama" who manned a phone bank in southern Indiana for the Obama ’08 Campaign, I am now prepared to support only person of integrity who have proven themselves to have spoken against the abuses of power as exemplified in the actions of both the "repugnacants" and the "demon-rats" for have been feeding at the trouth of WS and the MIC. Wake up true American patriots; before you are silenced by the "White Shirted SS" of fascism… Ponder the machinations of Hitler’s Brown Shirts".
+9 # in deo veritas 2011-10-02 12:20
Bloomberg is the biggest corporate fascist of them all. Why did the stupid voters elect him?
+10 # Vardette 2011-09-29 13:43
The jobless rate for young people are the lowest since they have been keeping records.
I guess Beohner is keeping his word. "No jobs so be it!
This state of affairs is a threat to the health, safety and welfare of ten’s of millions of people. The Pew Foundation just reported that those without jobs will live shorter lives. And it made me sick to see the wall street gang standing above the crowd laughing and sipping wine! How dare they!
+5 # JohnMayer 2011-09-29 22:44
Bull Conner would have gone far in the NYPD.
+8 # Paul Scott 2011-09-30 20:03
I would suggest that all of us who want to support the OcuppyWallStree t movement include OWS at the end of our messages when using the internet. Its only three little letters, but at this time it represents, the power of the people.
OWS
+5 # michelle 2011-10-25 11:53
I am writing ‘I support the Wall Street Occupation heroes’ on the back of every envelop I mail, every bill, every correspondence, every card. Let’s show our support each and every way we can. Any more suggestions? I think I will add your OWS both at the end of emails and in the re: section. Resistance has to start somewhere.
+9 # btbees 2011-09-30 20:06
The documentary “Inside Job” should be shown on large screen to all attending the protest rally. The shocking truth of Wall Street, a crime story like no other in history.
+8 # Vardette 2011-10-01 09:05
As a supporter of NPR I am outraged that they are not reporting Occupy Wall St and I am emailing them to tell them I will not support them until they cover this story and you should too!
0 # Lowflyin Lolana 2012-01-03 21:07
So any luck?
+11 # Vardette 2011-10-01 14:34
UNION PEOPLE NEED TO SHOW UP NOT JUST GIVE THEIR SUPPORT!!!!!
+6 # X Dane 2011-10-03 23:29
They are now, Vardette. They will join protesters in Pittsburg
+13 # Vardette 2011-10-01 14:47
all I can say is vote for Elizabeth Warren and more like her. Listen to her epic speech and we can all see she is on our side 100%
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/warren_thankyou/index2.html
+8 # Vardette 2011-10-01 15:53
They may be spying on us but we are all reporting on them with our millions of cell phones and cameras! They can’t hide this from the people anymore and having ten’s of millions of young educated people with no jobs is actually going to make big changes for all of us – GO FOR IT
+11 # Vardette 2011-10-02 10:51
Here’s a bit of info that might make you angry. This was just reported in the New Yorker. Congressional aids do not have to pay back their student loans and congressmen and women get all stellar benefits and pay for the rest of their lives even if they only serve one term. In this case why would any of our congressmen or senators ever have any incentive to sticke their necks out for the people. All their needs are take care of and we can go to hell! This is an outrage and I will be contacting my reps to express how I feel that demand that this needs to be changed- You should too -202-224-3121 As ten’s of millions of Americans struggle to survive, our reps are sitting pretty!
+11 # jooberdoober 2011-10-02 11:00
The first line of this NY Times article was heavily edited from the original. The original first line stated "After allowing them on the bridge, the police cut off and arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. The edit now implies that the DEMONSTRATORS were unruly and were NOT lead on to the bridge by police. Someone must complained that the reporter was reporting the truth the first time and that it had to be changed to appease the NYPD.
+7 # in deo veritas 2011-10-02 12:18
nyone who maintains an account of any kind with these vampires is an incorrigable idiot and an accomoplice. Switch banks-they are not all of them corrupt. Pay off any credit cards you have with them. The only thing these thugs will feel is in their bottom line as they have no other area of sensitivity, certinly no heart or conscience.
+7 # Vardette 2011-10-02 14:33
JPMorgan Chase Recently Donated 4.6 Million to NYPD
Of course they did. This is the nation we have become. The theives are paying their private police. This is why we are out there becasue of abuse of power.
+11 # Stephanie Remington 2011-10-02 19:49
Regarding “JPMorgan Chase Recently Donated 4.6 Million to NYPD”:
JP Morgan Chase reported over $100 billion in revenue last year. Donating $4.6 million is like a person who made $50,000/year donating a little over $2. Despite JP Morgan Chase’s role in destroying police jobs and pensions, this pitiful ‘tip’ – to “let [NYPD] know how much we value their hard work” – apparently bought them police brutality on their behalf.
+6 # williamofthetrees 2011-10-03 05:46
The Public Square is after all Public: where WE are all equal; where life needs to flow and become renewed so as to channel into every house and institution the spirit of the times. The fact that force is used on the people against the expression of that spirit is an intrusion of authoritarian power. The objective force of speech not only as a right in the full sense of the term but as a quality in the human being that keeps "life" alive is what needs to be protected above all else. Transparency, communication, solidarity are aspects of trust between human beings and are all needed for a healthy development of a humane society.
+12 # boudreaux 2011-10-03 07:59
I am so in AWE of what I am seeing with the 99%, they are cleaning up the streets as they go, sweeping up garbage and being so civil with each other…but where is the media? I don’t hear anything about this on CBS at all. I’m thankful for MSNBC for taking a stand with the 99% but what I really want to know is where are the people like Michael Moore, Bernie Sanders, Van Jones and the teamsteers in all of this. They should be leading in the front lines of this protest then see how many will be arrested…I am still here in the streets doing what is right, where is Robert Reich? Come on out and join the 99% where you should be….Let us all unite…
+8 # metamind 2011-10-03 15:03
http://911.nodes.org We had a cabal in 2000 when Bush was "elected." There is ONE truth. Set the truth free and the truth will set us free.
+11 # Vardette 2011-10-03 15:56
All I can say it will be a long hard fight so hang in there. We need you, your courage and determination. Obama has the power to use his executive power to override congress and create an emergency jobs act. Everyone shoudl call his comment line and urge him to be strong and so that.
+12 # Vardette 2011-10-04 06:51
I was thrilled to see on MSNBC that Joseph Steglitz, the Nobel Prize winning economist go down to Wall St. It is people like him who make it so much more important and bring attention to the economic crisis, the destruction of our Demicracy and nation are being subjected to. He was shocked when he found that no Bull Hornes or microphones were allowed and wondered what happened to our rights. We the people are in such big trouble. The unions and many people cannot sit back and let so many of OUR brave young people take the heat for the rest of us!
+11 # aljoschu 2011-10-04 08:10
Dear Americans,
you can be proud of this movement – go for it! We from the outside are looking in on what is going on in NY.
This is like Libya, like Egypt – a bottom-up movement against the plutocrats.
They are all of one kind: But Mubarak fell, Gadaffi fell – Wall Street and its filthy thugs will fall too for the better of the people.
I just wished we could get NATO to support you in your march to Wall Street 
)
You are not living in a democracy yet, but hopefully you will be soon.
Best wishes and good luck
+14 # RemainingHuman 2011-10-04 09:03
LET US HENCEFORTH USE THE TERM "CORPORATE MEDIA" …… IT IS not not not MAINSTREAM IS IT?
+4 # RemainingHuman 2011-10-05 14:16
Right on!
-24 # Martintfre 2011-10-04 09:54
TIME TO DEMAND A PEOPLES DICTATOR!
The Sheepole demand a new dictator!
+5 # Vardoz 2011-11-01 16:12
No a nation of the people, for the people and by the people. NAFTA HAS BEEN THE REASON FOR THE LOSS OF NILLIONS OF JOBS. OUR GOVERNMENT THINK IT’S OK TO DESTROY OUR ECONOMY FOR PROFITS
+4 # Vardette 2011-10-04 14:45
What wolf is saying is exactly waht we need to do and I have been SOL. We need to kick out the TP, GOP and Blue Dogs and replace them with PROGRESSIVES!!! ! AND CHANGE THE FACE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE WAY THE TP HAVE CHANGED CONGRESS.
VT is now a progressive state. Gee how did that happen? They VOTED FOR ALL PROGRESSIVES! So whatever it takes vote for Obama and a Progressive congress and senate!
+14 # haightashbury 2011-10-04 19:58
Try this slogan.
Hay Hay B of A
How many homeowners did you Bankrupt today!
+1 # Vardoz 2011-11-01 16:09
This gets 10 points? Who are you guys?
+7 # socialismby2020 2011-10-05 08:11
Let the media now we want events covered! Sign protest forum at: http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
700 arrested, thousands beaten, women groped, peaceful protesters maced, yet the media won’t report it!
http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
0 # Cabbagehead 2012-02-08 23:04
The first step in Revolution is to Pull the Plug. Use TV to watch DVDs from the Library; be selective. Listen to one or two remaining radio shows. Ignore the broadcast media. Pull the plug on GE/NBC, Disney/ABC, CBS, Koch, Fox. They are your enemies and your consumerism pays their dividends. Pull the Plug. Take the first step. No cop will bop you if you just Pull the Plug.
+8 # redchilirevolution 2011-10-05 09:49
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2313130.shtml?cat=500
Occupy Albuquerque !
New Mexico supports Occupy Wall Street !
Restore 95% federal personal income tax rates on Americans who NET $1 million or more a year.
Close all USA corporate federal income tax loopholes.
Use these new tax revenues to create at least 14 million new jobs !
+8 # socialismby2020 2011-10-05 10:10
Why isn’t the media reporting this? Sign the petition at: http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
+10 # R U Kidding Me? 2011-10-05 11:35
Every single politician has been bought off. The Supreme Court with the likes of Thomas is the worse offender. They don’t even do it on the sly anymore, they are blatant in their insipid moves. How long can the people on Wall Street and everywhere else building momentum last? The 1% are sitting in their plush offices thinking this will pass. WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!! If they are allowed to get away with these iniquities, THE MIDDLE CLASS IS FINISHED!!! There is very little insulation between a resurgence of any middle class and a collapse of the corruption between politicians and Wall Street. Wall Street won’t relent unless LAWS CHANGE!!! ALL THEY WILL DO OTHERWISE IS RIDE OUT THIS WAVE!!!
+3 # RemainingHuman 2011-10-05 14:08
FANTASTIC HARMONICA!
+7 # RemainingHuman 2011-10-05 14:12
Why do we care so much whether CORPORATE media covers this history? We are making it. We know about it. We are telling all the people who want/need to know about it. To hell with CORPORATE media. They are jackals for CORPORATE interests the world over. When we slaughter people, bomb them with drones ad nauseum – we are the MILITARY for all the wealthy of the world. We are protecting their assets as well as the assets of the SLIME in this country.
+3 # Cassandra2012 2011-11-13 13:02
Quoting
Why do we care so much whether CORPORATE media covers this history? …
We care because so many ordinary, ok people are led astray by the media to think these are just the un-washed fringe of young protestors. They remain ignorant because they are fed this interminable hogwash. A good example: there’s a repeating disgusting Rove TV ad featuring a woman with a little girl at her door being told by a HIDDEN figure that she owes the govt. $70,000 to be paid out immediately or over 20 years etc.so as to cover’public expenditures like pensions.’ When she protests she does not have that money and can not pay, the hiding figure says, ‘I wasn’t talking to YOU,…." and the ad implies that our children will have to foot the bill for e.g., public pensions and other ‘entitlements’. Very CLEVER ad, but a total lie …public pensions (for e.g.nurses, college teachers, teachers, cops, firemen) etc. were PAID FOR BY THESE PEOPLE! AND IT IS JUST THAT THE GOVERNORS AND LEGISLATURES HAVE BEEN UNDERFUNDING THE PENSIONS BY STEALING FROM THEM TO PAY THEIR BILLS/BUDGETS!!!! The real ‘ENTITLEMENTS’ (don’t you just love that term??) are for unpaid, underpaid taxes by the corporations, and those super-medical plans for legislators including the Repugnican loudmouths in congress!, not the piddling pensions for public workers!!
+11 # angelfish 2011-10-05 15:33
The People, UNITED, will NEVER be defeated! God Bless you all in Liberty Plaza! Those of us who can’t be with you in body are there in Spirit!
+10 # socialismby2020 2011-10-05 15:50
1200 arrests yet the mainstream media does not report this. Protest now:
http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
+4 # socialismby2020 2011-10-05 15:51
http://occupywallstreetnow.blogspot.com
+12 # angelfish 2011-10-06 01:22
Has anyone else noticed that there is NO mayhem UNTIL the Police, especially the ones in the White Shirts arrive? WHY do they need to Pepper Spray and Club unarmed, non-threatening people with their Batons? Don’t they realize that this is ALL being filmed for Posterity AND the Courts so that when they try to criminalize the behavior of the Protesters, THEY themselves will be seen as the Perpetrators? God Bless ALL the Protesters! Remember that, the People, UNITED will NEVER be defeated! Justice WILL be served!
+9 # fredboy 2011-10-06 09:26
Crowds frighten police. They are trained in order and expect people to obey sheepishly, thus a large crowd that stands its ground is terrifying to them.
I think, for greatest effect, it may be time to take the protest to cyberspace. And summon the will and strength of tens of millions.
+14 # RemainingHuman 2011-10-06 10:39
We (my loved ones and I) are in awe of your intelligence, humanity, courage …. We salute you. We applaud you. We admire you. We support you. It would seem that those deriding this movement do not understand: (1) that the top 20% of Americans hold 87% of the total wealth in this country and that the bottom 60% owns 3.9%; (2) that the US accounts for 41% of total military spending in the world (China ranks second at 6%); (3) that 54% of all federal spending goes to fund present and past wars; and (4) if you have a job you are lucky and most definitely benefit from the work and sacrifice of all who came before us (including the cleaning staff at the hospital where you were born and the people who paved the highway to get to the hospital) … and including, of course, all those before us who struggled and died so that you DO have a job, a forty hour week, a safe work environment, health benefits, holidays, etc. Those of you who mock the bravery of these true patriots are lucky. You are NOT special. And certainly you are no more special than the patriots on the streets. (Think maybe the alleged object thrower may have been an undercover cop?)
+10 # Billy Bob 2011-10-06 18:30
Yahoo is at it again. They just dumped 5 more of my emails into my trash folder while I wasn’t looking.
ALL OF THEM had references to "class warfare", or "occupy wall street" in the subject heading.
I’m sure it’s just another one of those "bugs" they’re trying to fix.
+8 # giraffee2012 2011-10-06 18:33
Jobs – not cuts – TAX WALL STREET!
Wall Street has bought our government – and … VOTE DEM VOTE OBAMA in 2012 — the most important election ever.
Carl Rove already has 350 Million in his "super pack" thanks to the Supremes’ decision to give "person hood" to big $$$ (the motion was put before the Supremes by the Koch Brothers – after they wined/dined Scalia/Thomas – that was in the news)
Go to your Dem headquarters to go with others to minority, old people etc. neighborhoods so these people get registered and get MAIL-IN ballots. Our elections in USA are "still" free so those "required" IDs in some states FOR VOTING are also free. Walker of WI is trying to charge $28 for an ID – and there are other crazy laws being put in to limit Dems from voting.
This advice is from Michael Moore & others.
Do not sit home as in 2010 or we’ll have more GOP/TP supported by the Koch + GE + ???.
And if you CAN take the day off – volunteer to COUNT VOTES — so Dems votes do not end up in trunks of cars, garbage cans etc (as they found in OH in 2004 after John Kerry conceded.
Thank You — VOTE DEM VOTE OBAMA — "trust me I’m Jewish" (old saying) and old (truth)
+4 # DurangoKid 2011-10-06 18:59
So the Democrats have enbraced Occupy Wall St. What comes next? Strangle it?
+6 # Dion Giles 2011-10-06 20:04
Item: Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times,reports: "President Obama said Thursday that the Occupy Wall Street protests show a ‘broad-based frustration’ among Americans about how the US financial system works."
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No, Mr Obama. the frustration is not with how "the system" works, as if "the system" were the product of some kind of natural economic laws. The frustration is over DECISIONS that have thrown millions out of work, out of their homes, out of what passes in the USA for insured medical care, in order to serve the interests of Wall Street billionaires who produce no goods and no services for the community with their own hands and brains. The decisions are ones they buy through their lobbyists with the wealth they accumulate. The decisions in large measure are those made by you and by your largely chosen administration, Mr Obama, and by the venal pollies predominating in the chambers of Congress. Yes your predecessors did the main damage, but Mr Obama you are following with essentially the same decisions.
0 # Lowflyin Lolana 2012-01-03 21:02
LA Times: LA TOOL.
They have published articles very critical of Occupy, one after another, editorials as well.
I’ve had similar responses to them in my head many times.
+11 # Vardette 2011-10-07 08:23
Obama said on the news that if Europe goes belly up we will too. So this Global capitalism situation has clearly failed! Obama is telling us that his JOBS ACT is insurance if we go belly up except he knows damn well that this bill will NEVER pass. But when it comes to the military writing blank checks for billions is NEVER A PROBLEM – In the meantime our desperate young men and women are getting beaten and pepper sprayed while Obama and the senate are giving us false hopes once again. HOW DARE THEY AND I Have called THE OBAMA HOT LINE, AND MANY REPS HOWLING ABOUT THIS! HERE OUR PEOPLE ARE STURGGLING TO SURVIVE, GETTING BEATEN AND ABUSED WHILE OUR REPS ARE TAKING BRIBES THAT HURT US EVEN MORE, AND THEY HAVE BILLIONS FOR THESE GODDAMN WARS – NO PROBELEM!!!!!!! ! HOW DARE THEY! AND NOW WE ARE FACED WITH MR GUTLESS, GAME PLAYING FALSE HOPES OBAMA OR THE HORRIBLE TP WHO WANTS US TO GO BELLY UP! BUT BILLIONS FOR THE MILITARY AT ANT TIME NOW PROBLEM. TAX CUTS FOR THE 1% DURING A DEPRESSION, NO PROBELM AND IT MAKES ME SOOOO SAD TO SEE THESE DESPERATE KIDS GETTING BEATEN AND THE PEOPLE OF OUR NATION CRUSHED BY THE HANDS OF OUR CORRUPT AND RUTHLESS LEADERSHIP AND REPS WHILE THEY GET PENSIONS FOR LIFE NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY SERVE!!!!!
0 # dorianb@fuse.net 2011-11-20 13:28
VARDETTE: This is the most lucid and important comment posted! It needs to be read and reflected upon.
+8 # Kathymoi 2011-10-09 07:54
I am greatly releaved to see that there is a ground swell of open protest to the takeover of America by corporate greed, wall street greed and bankers’ greed. The protesters are risking arrest, brutal beatings and other hardships to stand up for all of us. I am, however, concerned, that marching and sign carrying will not make any impression on the rich corporations or the politicians who may be dependent on the contributions of the rich. I think the protest needs teeth. We need to organize to do something that the corporations will feel, such as withdraw our investment money from their stocks and transfer all investment money to stocks only in "socially and environmentally fair" companies. Also, shopping at local and smaller businesses rather than huge international corporations who are in large part responsible. Is there a group among the protestors offering education on what some of the huge corporations such as WalMart and McDonalds are doing and on how we can get along without supporting them? Is there a group offering education on safely borrowing money for a mortgage? What can we do to cause the bankers and corporations tofeel the danger instead of the protestors being the only ones risking loss and discomfort?
+9 # Freeman1776 2011-10-10 08:40
Dear Occupiers, thanks for doing what you are doing for the rest of us who can’t join you at this time, but we are slowly increasing our numbers and will be joining you soon.
A word of caution, there are members of the FED, corporate monkeys, some government moles amongst you with an agenda to thwart the cause or to misdirect it. You are vulnerable because you are not yet well organized and that is when you are weakest and most likely to have a breach in leadership. Be careful of whom you follow and what road they will lead you down. Dont get infatuated with a dynamic leader who may have been coached on how to create a following and steer you down the wrong path.
Keep up the great work!
+8 # Hardy 2011-10-11 19:43
Lets close down B of A! close your account move your credit cards to another institution.
+6 # Vardette 2011-10-12 10:25
MORE CORPORATE ABUSE IS IN THE WORKS@!
Big Business is trying to rig the justice system.
Multibillion-dollar banks, cell phone companies, cable providers and other industries are slipping forced arbitration clauses into the fine print of their contracts.
These clauses strip the signer’s right to take the company to court. Instead, consumers and employees who have been hurt or ripped off are forced into a private, secretive tribunal that favors corporations.
Tell Congress: Stop the corporate attack on our rights and end forced arbitration.
No one should have to sign away their rights in order to buy a product or get a job.
Last April, the Supreme Court made this bad situation worse. It ruled that corporations can use forced arbitration clauses to deny people the right to band together in class actions.
There is virtually no way for the customers to hold the company accountable for stealing $100 million.
.
This is corporate mugging on a grand scale.
The Arbitration Fairness Act (S. 987, H.R. 1873) would fix this injustice. The Consumer Mobile Fairness Act (S. 1652) would specifically fix the problem Don’t let Big Business rig the justice system.
Thanks for all you do,
Public Citizen’s Online Action Team
action@citizen.org
+15 # Cheryl 2011-10-12 11:27
If this is all true, IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE PROTEST RIGHT ALONG WITH THE WALL STREET money crabbers!!!!How many Americans can get a retirement like this???? Wouldn’t it be nice to able to vote on you future income or have a FREE handout like this to all of us for so Little time at a job??? Make term limits on all politician’s. STAND UP FOR THIS CAUSE ALSO!!!!!
Subject: Wages
Salary of retired US Presidents ………….$180,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate …………………….
$174,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of Speaker of the House …………$223,500 FOR LIFE
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders …… $193,400 FOR Life
These are unfair compared to the above salaries…
Average Salary of Soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN $38,000.00
Average income for SOCIAL SECURITY seniors $12,000
I think we found where the cuts should be made!
If you agree… Pass it on!
+2 # TJGeezer 2011-12-09 06:37
True, but even so – these numbers pale before the routine $1million-plus tax-dodge "bonuses" paid to Wall Street operators. It’s all 1% crap and it needs to stop.
+5 # Holyone 2011-10-12 16:45
How can we send "Care Packages" To Our Brave 99%ers Camping out on Wall Street?
How can we get them Porta- Toilets Services and Porta- Shower Services?
+5 # Vardoz 2011-10-18 17:24
An interview with the head of the Nation paper said on MSNBC all these protests must translate into votes. We must be aggressive at the voting stations and not let the screw us and that is what they want to do – HOW DARE THEY!
You gets just dont sem to get it!
+5 # Activista 2011-10-19 11:13
"Occupy Wall Street Shows People Want Democracy, Not Corporatocracy: Jeffrey Sachs"
anybody with smarts knows that the MOVEMENT is not about voting, but changing system.
Start with shutting MILITARISM – $1.3 trillion/year
+5 # Vardoz 2011-10-23 18:30
All I can say is that those who have landed us where we are today have made us a gross twisted hypocritical nation that waves an empty flag of "Democracy". The ambitions of those who are in charge behind the scenes have a sadistic vision of what humanity means. I hope we can prevail under such demented and ruthless conditions. Those masters of war and Wall St with their myopic minds could create a world of compassion and raise the bar for all humanity but instead they pursue a tortured world that they will leave behind anfter they have lives out their short meaningless lives. This is mankind’s paramount failure and shows how truly primitive we still are.
+2 # panhead49 2011-10-25 15:04
Not surprised by Oakland PD in the least. They cannot do anything about the rampant violence – mostly caused by wealth & resource disparity – because the gang bangers shoot back. The OWS protesters don’t. Talk about low hanging fruit!! And anyone that doesn’t get that their PERS STRS 401k ad nauseum is in the hands of the Wall Street Mafia (with apologies to the real Mafia for the defamation) shouldn’t be given a badge and certainly not a loaded gun!
+4 # Vardoz 2011-10-26 16:08
EMAIL TO OBAMA
Your inability to uphold the rule of law and justice and your willingness to destroy equal rights for American citizens and protect criminals at our expense does not make us want to vote for you.
How many people did Bush and company kill and torture in Iraq? A war that was based on lies.
How many innocent men women and children have we murdered in Afghanistan.
I cannot believe this is who you really are in you heart.
How can you face your children when you support such horrific crimes?
What is your objection to respecting the rule of law?
Why do you support immunity for criminals and use the law to protect crime?
We are no longer a nation that lives by the rule of law and we fly a hollow flag of Democracy that has lost all meaning.
Desperate Americans, faced with a dire economy, fighting for their lives as the gluttonous military, blithely spends 9 billion per week for the so called war in Afghanistan one of the world’s poorest nations, corporations and the 1% are sucking our economy dry, as you stand impotent to protect the people who elected you and now support the abuse they are receiving while practicing their right to assemble. How can we cast our vote for you in light of all this?
+3 # Vardoz 2011-10-26 16:55
Survival gear when protesting- motor cycle helmets or football helmets, bullet proof jackets or some kind of reinforced jacket if you can afford it and gas masks.
+1 # sphereless 2011-10-29 18:20
I just started a new FB Page:
OCCUPY THE CONSTITUTION https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-the-Constitution/254037607976976
+4 # Vardoz 2011-10-29 21:14
We need to ALL call the Obama hotline and demand that he PUTS A STOP TO our peaceful protesters getting brutalized. If he can make sure bin laden gets shot he can damn well stop the police violence against our peaceful protesters around the nations who are in the streets because they want a fair shake! 202 456 1111 CALL AND CALL AND CALL! LET HIM HEAR A MILLION VOICES SHOUTING AT HIM THAT THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! NO MORE SHOOTING AT PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WITH RUBBER BULLETS, NO MORE PEPPER SPAY, NO MORE TASERING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE- THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! WE ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW OURSELVES TO BECOME A POLICE STATE AND HAVE OUR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AND RIGHTS TRAMPLED ON!
+5 # seeuingoa 2011-11-01 16:27
What about an "occupy White House"
continuation of the movement???
A circle of people holding hands
(or tents!) around the White House
as long as it takes.
+3 # Vardoz 2011-11-03 14:48
How about occupy the Supreme Court!
+5 # Vardoz 2011-11-03 14:46
Grace Lee understands what needs to e done.
We need framers for our new revolution.
We need our great minds to get together and create a new view of the kind of goverment we want and a way to achieve it.
Bill Moyers: "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy"
John Boehner calls on the bankers, holds out his cup, and offers them total obeisance from the House majority if only they fill it.
That’s now the norm, and they get away with it.
Barack Obama criticizes bankers as “fat cats”, then invites them to dine at a pricey New York restaurant where the tasting menu runs to $195 a person.
That’s now the norm, and they get away with it. The President has raised more money from banks, hedge funds, and private equity managers than any Republican candidate.
Our politicians are little more than money launderers in the trafficking of power and policy – fewer than six degrees of separation from the spirit and tactics of Tony Soprano.
Why New York’s Zuccotti Park is filled with people is no mystery. Reporters keep scratching their heads and asking: “Why are you here?” But it’s clear they are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied the country.
+4 # Vardoz 2011-11-04 16:09
When they talk about the economic crisis on the news they act like this is something that just happened and will take years to dig out of. But Wall St, the GOP/TP, the banks and the whole damn government act like a big money laundering operation that would make any mafia boss jealous. THEY MADE THIS HAPPEN – THEY REFUSE TO CREATE JOBS OR DO ANYTHING ABOUT ALL THE TAXES THAT ARE NOT BEING PAID AS THEY SHELL OUT 9 BILLION PER WEEK FOR 1 WAR! I AM SO ENRAGED! AND NOW THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR ENTITLEMENTS!
This is why why need to protest and vote and organize hard cause these SOB’s are destroying us and they do not care! They are getting rich as we become impoverished!!! !!!
+5 # Vardoz 2011-11-06 17:04
David Patterson, the former Gov of NY, said on last weeks Bill Maher show, that this was the way it started in the 60′s. He said he took part in the take over at Columbia Unvi in 68 and claimed that eventually the movement became very well organized and finally drove out Johnson. So don’t lose faith. Patterson said the movement grew out of hope.
+4 # Johnyboy 2011-11-12 06:22
No its bigger then that. Its worse then that. This is a repeat of history again and the same fight we had over 70 years ago. There was an attempted fascist ( Business plot) to over throw the government in 1933. The exposing of this plot allowed the bills to pass to regulate the banks and finance firms. These banks and corporate elites waited until enough time had passed for there shame to be forgotten in history. Obama de-classify the people accused of high treason and refer them to FBI for trial of high treason. Lets see who the 1% are and expose them for criminal insanity that they continue.
see more
+2 # Johnyboy 2011-11-12 06:23
The grand father of two presidents was accused of high treason by a two time recipent winner of the congressional medal of honor and an american general. The injustice to this American goes on. There should be a statue of USMC Smedley butler outside the halls of congress.
I call for OWS to bring forth the ghost of USMC Smedley butler to bring fear into the ranks of Wall street.
Want links to verify this?
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/butler01-by_schmidt.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mav69K2zkgw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na8Kv0h6OvE
+6 # Vardoz 2011-11-12 12:03
If you want to close your account at the bank of your choice, you don’t have to go there. Just write out a check for the total amount in your account and open an account in a credit union. Then you can go sometime later an close the account that has no money in it or call. $700,000 have now withdrawn there money and put it into credit unions. I am impressed. Keep it coming.
+2 # seeuingoa 2011-11-13 14:01
URGENT!
I have just been doing some googling!
Barrery-driven heating blankets and clothes do exist!
Please tell us from where and how we can
get this stuff so we can support our friends during wintertime!
+5 # Vardoz 2011-11-14 08:42
We need to teach our children well because each generation will find out for themselves that freedom is not free. This wll always be our battle as Angela Davis just said in Oakland. There are those who will always want to abuse the masses and have done so for generations. We must be careful who we vote for and not refuse to vote because we are angry at the govenments inaction. Our lack of participation in the last election only resulted int he TP taking over – We should have written in Progressives instead. But the protests must not stop. I would like to know more aout what is happening in Wall St and Atlanta.
+3 # markman2008 2011-11-18 15:05
I just wanted to share this video I shot the other day at the UC Davis campus. Even the teachers cancelled class so they could attend themselves!
http://occupyamericamovement.com/video/occupy-wall-street-protest-uc-davis-berkeley
-3 # MidwestTom 2011-11-19 06:46
The real problem with the OWS movement is its political naiveté. The protestors imagine that by attacking free enterprise and the capitalist system they are upholding the rights of the common man. The exact opposite is true. The only real alternative to free enterprise is an economy owned and administered by society’s most ruthless and cruel elements, who always seems to gravitate toward statist means.
If OWS is successful, it will wake up to a world that is lorded over by federal bureaucrats and jack-booted enforcement thugs. The entire world will be run like the Post Office, the TSA, the IRS, and the Customs Bureau. This has nothing to do with freedom and nothing to do with human rights.
+1 # josephhill 2011-11-21 10:33
"The entire world will be run like the Post Office, the TSA, the IRS, and the Customs Bureau."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Government is US. The problem is that it is currently owned and operated by the capitalist powers-that-be. We The People need to take it back and make it work for US!
The ‘ruthless and cruel elements’ come from the capitalists that control what is supposed to be "OUR" government.
+1 # stevb 2011-11-25 13:29
OK – now let’s get down to the real work and take down (destroy financially) one of the 1%. The only means we have to do this is the power of the boycott. The highly integrated nature of the economy forces us to target a consumer oriented company. I nominate Coca Cola. Coca Cola has been implicated in all sorts of offenses against workers and the environment all over the world. So let’s spread the word all across the world – BOYCOTT COKE – BANKRUPT COKE. If we truly are the 99% we have the power to do this and the 1% will take notice and we can begin to exercise the, latent up til now, enormous political power of the 99%. Business as usual is over.
+1 # cabotool 2011-11-30 10:42
I called my local Home Depot and they don’t carry Georgia Pacific wood products. I congratulated them told them that I had hoped they were not carrying Koch Industries products as I would have then voted with my feet and pocket book! Everyone can do the same.
0 # cabotool 2011-11-30 10:40
My study of history goes back 60 years. I see the handwriting on the wall for the 1/10th percenters. Perhaps they will end the overseas wars for natural resources and bring the troops home to attack peaceful Americans, just as they do in Iraq and Afghanistan. But in the end the troops will turn against their masters. They will hesitate to kill their friends, neighbors and families. And that is the END for the 1/10th percent.
Just my take on all of this.
0 # WE Party Mentor 2011-11-30 18:22
www.WEalloccupy.info to promote 100% collective consciousness www.WEare100percent.info as a WE Party Peace Ambassador (volunteer online mentor)shake up Wall Street! Dow rises 490 points on global collaborative for peace talks.
+1 # Vardoz 2011-12-10 16:27
Occupy has really gone global. I heard on the radio today that there are now big protests in Russia.
+1 # Vardoz 2011-12-28 12:58
OWS needs specific goals or bench marks like they have in Egypt. 1. depose Murbarak, have free elections, punish Mubarak and now depose military rule. Also people need to get Gene Sharp’s hand book FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY. He was interviewed on Current TV and will be show again Jan 1 9PM. He his a Harvard Professor, founded the Albert Eienstein Institute and has devoted his life to successful non- violent movements. His hand book appears to be a helpful tool for those who are interested.
0 # sheila Cee 2012-01-06 20:37
I’M terribly concerned that the violence against the protestors will become much worse as OWS spreads and brings larger crowds.
It’s what I feared would happen when OWS began. These wealthy SOBs are not going to give up without a fight and their troops are in the training camps of Blackwater…..or whatever it is now called.
And why are the police being fortified with military gear, tanks with bunker buster capability, assault weapons, etc.
IT IS TO KEEP US DOWN. TO MAKE US FEARFUL TO DEMONSTRATE.
I don’t think most people in this country realize that we are already living in a police state. And the head of this state is most likely the wealthy who are seizing control of……everything they can get their greedy little hands on.
0 # Dan 2012-01-21 12:48
Occupiers! I applaud what you are doing, especially WHY you are doing it! But even the dreaded T-baggers realize that to change the system, you need to work WITHIN the system. That’s why I, an unemployed Union member, have the audacity to run for California State Assembly. We can put one of our one – or several – in government, not by money, but by taking to the district and asking for the votes of the Working Class. Help me help you. I have a FB page called Dan McCrory for Assembly. Let me know if you’re willing to help me get elected in 2013. It starts with one – just ask the T-baggers!
+1 # bluepilgrim 2012-01-22 19:28
Out [Put] this on your required reading list:
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/moyermap.html
The Movement Action Plan:
A Strategic Framework Describing The
Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements
By Bill Moyer, Spring 1987
0 # Cabbagehead 2012-02-08 22:54
Forget TV. Our set is for playing DVDs from the Library. We listen very selectively to radio. Our local radio is all right-wing except 2 stations. If you don’t pull the plug you will end up with inane boycotts of ABC and NBC and CBS, muchmore Fox, without realizing you are really talking about Disney, GE and other corps that blackout and twist and spin all against your own interests. The most victimized TV watcher segments are supporting their corporate enemies by not pulling the TV plug. The first step in Revolution is Pull the Plug on TV. Try it. No cop will bop you. Your stress level will improve. You may learn to read print again. Or have a face to face conversation with another human being. Become humanized: Real Reality begins by Pulling the Plug on TV. Even a Cabbagehead understands that.
+2 # seeuingoa 2012-02-17 13:13
Franklin D. Roosevelt(1938) in a message
to congress:
"The liberty of a democracy is in danger
if the people tolerate the growth of
private powers (corporations/Adelson)
to a point where it becomes stronger than
the democratic state itself.
That, in it´s essence is fascism"
-1 # Vardoz 2012-03-10 13:00
I was just in San Jose Costa Rica, There was a huge protest march with ten’s of thousands of people demanding higher wages and there were speakers. No one was pepper sprayed, beaten, shot teasered or arrested. In fact the were very few police at all and there was no violence and traffic was rerouted to facilitate the protesters. We have really gone down a disgusting anti Democratic path in this nation.
-1 # Vardoz 2012-03-23 09:19
Since the recent threat by one congressman to gather Facebook passwords, we will no longer use Facebook. I called my rep and told him that we were withdrawing from Facebook not only because the govt is threatening to invade our facebook passwords but also because they are spying on everything else. We are fed up and I hope many follow because Facebook is a big business that is used to invade and assault everyone’s privacy.
As the world is in the throws of irreversable Global Warming threatening our very existence, the NSA is spying on everyone and spending billions to do it. I asked what the objection was to warrents for spying so that there was some accountability and it seemed to work very well for decades? They don’t answer the question. I asked if all regard for the Constitution was gone?
I didn’t need an answer for that one. Just imagine if thousands stopped using Face book! If you want to join in call your reps and tell them. 202-224-3121.
We are just sick of being abused and very upset that we are living in a lawless nation where we can be taken away without any legal recourse at all. They have taken away our right to due process and now they are spying on us in such a vast way it would shock Orwell.
