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« on: October 02, 2011, 04:30:32 pm » |
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Apparently, New York allows protests trying to keep a mosque from being built, but won't allow protests against Wall Street and political greed. Support Occupy Wall Street! We the 99% will not be silent and we will not be intimidated. This Saturday thousands more of us will march together as one to show that it is time that the 99% are heard. Join us on the 2nd week anniversary of your new movement.
This is a call for individuals, families and community and advocacy groups to march in solidarity with the #occupywallstreet movement on Saturday, October 1st at 3 p.m.
We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed and underemployed. We are all races, sexes and creeds. We are the majority. We are the 99 percent. And we will no longer be silent.
As members of the 99 percent, we occupy Wall Street as a symbolic gesture of our discontent with the current economic and political climate and as an example of a better world to come. Yesterday, over 700 of these peaceful protesters were arrested. In the days when our own President can be maligned and threatened by the rich members of the right wing, it's about time middle America spoke out! |
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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2011, 06:54:44 am » |
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They are disrupting the flow of daily commerce....shame on them !
Damn it....get a better game plan...yo
What the fuck...
You don't hurt those guys that way....who the fucks in charge of this shit...seriously
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Howey
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2011, 11:53:37 am » |
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http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/cain-rails-against-wall-1195272.htmlRepublican presidential candidate Herman Cain says the Occupy Wall Street protesters are un-American and against capitalism.
Speaking to The Associated Press during a book signing event Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla., Cain said the protesters shouldn't rally against Wall Street bankers or brokers because "they're the ones who create the jobs."
Cain suggests the protesters should focus on going to school and getting a job.
The former head of Godfather's Pizza made his remarks at a Barnes & Noble bookstore. He was in Florida to sign copies of his recently released memoir. More than 400 people attended the book signing.
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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2011, 12:06:49 pm » |
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this guy is an idiot.. I can't believe a person who has never been elected for anything, even dogcatcher, is 3rd in a presidential candidate race.. and wtf? he won our straw poll? really? Jesus, we're idiots.. |
Facts are the center. We don’t pretend that certain facts are in dispute to give the appearance of fairness to people who don’t believe them. Balance is irrelevant to me. It doesn’t have anything to do with truth, logic or reality. ~Charlie Skinner (the Newsroom)
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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2011, 12:14:29 pm » |
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Eh, only CERTAIN types of protests are patriotic! *end sarcasm*
I wasn't hip with some of the TP protests, but I would never say they were un-american, that's just fuckin recockulous.
Actually, the protests central theme seeks to protect capitalism, and objects to it being hijacked and legislated for a specific minority.
This is our history, this is who we are. We, as human beings (or at least some of us), cannot get away from the desire to horde wealth...and the aspirations for it become all consuming at the expense of the general welfare of the country at large.
We've done this before...and even after this is all straightened out...I'm quite sure years from now, we'll do it again.
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Howey
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« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2011, 01:36:31 pm » |
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Occupy Wall Street is OUR Arab Spring.
You ain't seen nuttin yet!
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Howey
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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2011, 12:04:28 pm » |
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For those questioning the motives of Occupy Wall Street, a good read:At this point, protest is the message: income inequality is grinding down that middle class, increasing the ranks of the poor, and threatening to create a permanent underclass of able, willing but jobless people. On one level, the protesters, most of them young, are giving voice to a generation of lost opportunity. […]
The protests, though, are more than a youth uprising. The protesters’ own problems are only one illustration of the ways in which the economy is not working for most Americans. They are exactly right when they say that the financial sector, with regulators and elected officials in collusion, inflated and profited from a credit bubble that burst, costing millions of Americans their jobs, incomes, savings and home equity. As the bad times have endured, Americans have also lost their belief in redress and recovery. […]
Extreme inequality is the hallmark of a dysfunctional economy, dominated by a financial sector that is driven as much by speculation, gouging and government backing as by productive investment.
When the protesters say they represent 99 percent of Americans, they are referring to the concentration of income in today’s deeply unequal society. |
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2011, 11:41:19 am » |
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I'll be sooo glad when he's back in office.
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Howey
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2011, 09:35:40 am » |
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Arguably, one of the most contentious of the Occupy protests has been occurring in Oakland with the travesty of police violence capped by the critical injury of an Iraq War veteran. Here is a live feed of the protest: http://ustre.am/EqY3 |
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Howey
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« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2011, 06:37:27 pm » |
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More police brutality! Gawd...I feel like I'm turning into FaFa.   |
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« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2011, 11:57:10 am » |
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Occupy Wall Street is OUR Arab Spring.
You ain't seen nuttin yet!
With even more sexual assaults! Take that Egypt! |
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