Occupy Wall Street: Not on major media but worth watching!

[AOD2012]

IPS, you got that right dude. I have been down there a lot for school, had to visit the WTC site to take some measurements and shit, and honestly man, I will probably get flamed for this, but A LOT of the people that were in "tent city" were seriously just bums from the rest of NYC and just congregated in this place bcause there was a lot of free food.


I bought a few boxes of pizza down there two weeks ago, and literally they were torn apart like they were a gazelles carcass getting picked apart by hyenas.


Honestly, they arent doing anything but fucking with a lot of people in NY who are trying to get to work and shit. We really need to boycott a lot of corporate products, stop buying food from major retailers and buy locally.


It is very obvious that the police depts across America are not going to let us protest in the streets, so we need to protest in other ways.



aod

 

[SpasticGramps]

Those demands are hilarious. An explicit demand for $2tril and implied demand of $xxtril for free college and universal healthcare.

Poor things are out there protesting their morally and fiscally bankrupt system asking for a bigger debt burden.

What they fail to realize is that the bill has come due for our past financial sins and because all the toxic private sector paper was moved onto government balance sheets in 2008 they/we are left holding the bag. No more free stuff anymore. That's what bankruptcy means. It's atonement time.

 

[dagnabit]

i posted that list on day three..

they are not OWS demands. it's parody.

 

[SpasticGramps]

They came from the official OWS website a while ago right?

 

[dagnabit]

yes but it was from a thread on their forums. since then the thread has been deleted and the poster has been banned.

that's the real problem with OWS no real direction.

did anyone see the daily show last night?

there were apparently 2 sides to the park. the 15% of "elites" and the 85% of "normal" protesters. fucking hilarious.

 

[In~Plain~Site]

Vast projects with half-vast ideas,poor planning,lack of commitment...take your pick as to the why the 'list' exists at all, create a vacuum and it will be filled.

Aint got time to wonder why, we're all gonna die..ye-hah!

i posted that list on day three..

they are not OWS demands. it's parody.

 

[Green lung]

Dam you guys are being bamboozled by your own propaganda lol.

http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/

Forum Post: Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement!
Posted 1 month ago on Sept. 25, 2011, 3:46 p.m. EST by anonymous
This content is user submitted and not an official statement

Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.


Props to dag or using his brain.

 

[Green lung]

Word of the day is "Clash"










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[DiscoBiscuit]

Oops, you made part of your black font white. Let's fix that so everybody know what you're trying to say.

It's a huge conspiracy that the liberal media is burying what they stand for, and are failing to communicate succinctly.

Makes perfect sense if you're a fucking wing nut to the enth

Give protesters signs of Obama with a bone in his nose, calling him a socialist, communist-fascist.

Makes perfect sense if you're a hack.

 

[dagnabit]

lmao...

the DNC cheergirl calls someone else a hack...

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

It's a huge conspiracy that the liberal media is burying what they stand for, and are failing to communicate succinctly.

Makes perfect sense if you're a fucking wing nut to the enth

lmao...

the DNC cheergirl calls someone else a hack...

Yeah, I thought "fucking wingnut to the enth" 'makes perfect sense' but it's already been used.


I guess you thought the idea of bone pics was serious.

 

[In~Plain~Site]

I left out 'by design' as a reason for the lack of a message
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[DiscoBiscuit]

you know what you whitewashed and now it's posted for clarity

 

[dagnabit]

our little swimmer in the shallow end...
aint it cute?

if you ignore the tripe IPS it might bring substance(but i don't think it's capable)

the new tack don't seem to be working either.
maybe they should try having a message?

Reuters Nov 17, 2011 – 1:03 PM ET

By Chris Francescani and Sharon Reich

NEW YORK — Hundreds of people protesting against economic inequality marched in New York’s financial district on Thursday and there were minor skirmishes with police, but authorities thwarted their bid to shut down Wall Street.

Police barricaded the narrow streets around the New York Stock Exchange and used batons to push protesters onto the sidewalk as they marched through the area during the morning rush hour to prevent financial workers getting to their desks.

Protesters banged drums and yelled “We are the 99%” — referring to their contention that the U.S. political system benefits only the richest 1%. Some chanted at police: “You’re sexy, you’re blue, now take off that riot suit.”
“I feel like this is a beautiful moment to take back our streets,” said Rachel Falcone, 27, from Brooklyn. “We need to prove we can exist anywhere. It’s gone beyond a single neighborhood, it’s really an idea.”

About 75 people were arrested, police said, but by 11 a.m. protesters had returned to nearby Zuccotti Park, which had been the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement’s camp headquarters before police evicted them from the space on Tuesday.

The New York Stock Exchange opened on time and was operating normally.

The turnout for the march on Wall Street, which kicked off a day of action in New York and elsewhere in the United States, fell short of expectations by a spokesman for the protesters and city officials for tens of thousands of people.

“We certainly want to see more people mobilize and show up,” said Occupy Wall Street spokesman Jeff Smith. “It was a fantastic turnout, we occupied corners and intersections all over downtown.”

Protesters are also planning to take their protest to 16 subway hubs later on Thursday, then return to City Hall for a rally before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge. Last month, more than 700 people were arrested during a similar march across the bridge after some protesters blocked traffic.

The support of labor unions and liberal group Moveon.org could boost numbers at the New York City Hall rally.

In Los Angeles, hundreds of protesters and union members marched through the city’s financial district chanting “Whose streets? Our streets” in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, while in Dallas more than a dozen people were arrested when police shut down their six-week-old camp near City Hall.

‘GET A JOB’

New York taxi driver Mike Tupea, a Romanian immigrant, said his car was stuck amid the protesters for 40 minutes.

“I have to make a living. I pay $100 for 12 hours for this cab. I am losing money every minute,” he said. “I have all my sympathies for this movement but let me do my living, let working people make a living.”

The Occupy Wall Street movement was born on September 17, when protesters set up camp in Zuccotti Park, and sparked solidarity rallies and occupations of public spaces across the United States. It has also re-energized similar movements elsewhere in the world.

Peter Cohen, 47, an anthropologist from New York, wore a suit for the protest in a bid to improve the movement’s image.

“I have a job and [the suit] on because I’m tired of the way this movement has been characterized as a fringe movement,” said Cohen. “I’m not looking for money, I’m not looking for a job, I’m not a professional activist, just a normal citizen.”

Protesters say they are upset that billions of dollars in bailouts given to banks during the recession allowed a return to huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and a struggling economy.

They also say the richest 1% of Americans do not pay their fair share of taxes.

As he tried to get to his financial district office, Paul Layton, a trial lawyer, said he hoped “that through [the protesters] efforts they can convince government to regulate the financial industry.”

Derek Tabacco was not happy as he tried to get to the offices of his financial technology company and was carrying a sign with a message for the protesters that read “Get a job.”

The clearing of the Occupy camp in New York followed evictions in Atlanta, Portland and Salt Lake City. Unlike action in Oakland, California, where police used tear gas and stun grenades, most protesters left voluntarily.

Before dawn on Thursday, police cleared away a protest camp from a plaza at the University of California, Berkeley, where 5,000 people had gathered on Tuesday night.

Megyn Norbut, from Brooklyn, said she holds down three jobs and that she joined the protest on Thursday “because we got kicked out of Zuccotti and we need to show that this is a mental and spiritual movement, not a physical movement.”

“It’s not about the park,” said Norbut, 23.

© Thomson Reuters 2011

 

[grozzef]

half this thread is you guys posting garbage articles back and forth. i for one don't give a shit what reuters, ap or any of the other so called news agency's have to say. just post a link or your own thoughts IMFO.

 

[dagnabit]

half this thread is you guys posting garbage articles back and forth. i for one don't give a shit what reuters, ap or any of the other so called news agency's have to say. just post a link or your own thoughts IMFO.

sorry information offends you..

maybe DB's posts are more your speed?

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

the new tack don't seem to be working either.

They don't have you.

maybe they should try having a message?

Yeah, they could always hire a focus-group consultant to hone a grass roots message.

They could get backing from a powerful lobbying organization. That way they wouldn't have to sleep in the streets. They'd have air conditioned buses, lawn chairs, public address systems, porta-jons, warm food, air-conditioned buses, etc.

Rather than being covered on the web and television, they could co opt an entire cable network, dedicating hour-after-hour, day-after-day coverage of the honed message and all the scheduled events to hammer that message home. Then they could edit photos of multiple events to lend the impression that every event was blockbuster in attendance.

Maybe Glen Beck could reserve days after national tragedy anniversaries and cry for the protesters.

Forget all that. It's just too damn much work. They just need a set of Koch brothers to finance and arrange the whole thing from the top down. You know?

Frank Luntz
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Heritage Foundation
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Americans For Prosperity
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American For Tax Reform
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FOX NEWS
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Maybe they could get a half dozen perennial presidential candidates who never win the prize but just ride around in buses and accept campaign donations. One or two might not have to run at all. They could just hedge for 15 months and hold out their hand, call their excursion a family vacation.

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Hell. With all that, they could machine, polish and chrome-plate a message even the thickest skulls in the nation couldn't possibly avoid by having the message hammered into their heads 24/7.

 

[Hank Hemp]

I thought I had heared that somewhere

I thought I had heared that somewhere

Are there any left wing sugardaddies like the rightwing Koche Bros. You know provide a little money and muscle. Get the less photogenic out from in front of the cameras and away from the microphones. Nothing says credibility like a person who looks like they got attacked with a nailgun. Do like they did with the orginal teabaggers. Why wouldn't anyone in the crowd talk to a faux news reporter. Hell maybe you would come off as having some brains. Please y'll don't get me started again about the Nam protest. Gees, all the egos and bad mouthing the US that's the way to go. Turn your backs on your natural allies the Viet Nam enlisted vets. Such fools they were and many still are. Perhaps with more vets coming home to no jobs, somebody will enlist(sorry) them to the Cause. Some are already there I hear.

Few pages back like a hundred

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

If I was a billionaire, I'd recognize that one side pretty much has the top's interests at heart. Since I don't ideologically align with that party, I decide to fund alternative projects with my millions in contributions.

Then I put all that information of cash and organizing on the public record. It won't persuade my opponents I'm correct, just that I'm exercising disclosure.

So if one isn't a lefty or particularly objective in general, I wouldn't be surprised if they refused to recognize the difference in public disclosure and decades of private membership organizations that are made up of fat cats and the lawmakers they help re elect.

 

[dagnabit]

They could get backing from a powerful lobbying organization.

or several?
National Transit Union
United Steelworkers of America
Amalgamated Transit Union
United Federation of Teachers
National Nurses United
Communication Workers of America
Operational Weather Squadron
New York Transit Union
United Pilots Union
Teamsters Union
Local 802 American Federation of Musicians NYC
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
L.A. County AFL-CIO
a.c.o.r.n(now nycc)


the rest of your post is partisan nonsense and will be dismissed as such..

glen beck?