Calling all keyboard protestors, ranter and ravers

@Eso

What was the story when the Tea Party protested? I prefer the way they put it in Forbes:

Major media outlets haven’t been much interested in the phenomenon of #OccupyWallStreet.
I personally don’t think that’s because there’s some grand conspiracy to keep the protest out of the press. I think it’s because the media doesn’t get it.The protestors are angry about so many of our current economic ills and so unfocused on solutions, that they’ve just flummoxed what the GOP likes to call the lame stream media. Flummoxing is a social good – it’s disruptive innovation. It makes people scratch their heads and say huh???? and what do they want, anyway??? and they should get a job, after which they’re more likely than not to recall that’s what #OccupyWallStreet is protesting – a jobless recovery.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2011/10/01/nyc-cop-addresses-occupy-wall-street/

Duh!

For some reason the labor unions and academics who are joining the group have no problem understanding 'why they are there'. They are there in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco and its starting up in other cities as well. When someone asks 'why are they there' looking around wall st and scratching their heads it just makes me laugh. When people say they need 'direction' it tells me the person hasn't actually been down there to see what is happening. There is no leadership, just like the Wobblies had no leadership. There are no leaders and yet they manage to organize. How is that?

How do you protest a plutocracy? An oligarchic takeover of a political system? A death of democracy? How does a jobless youth protest? How can you package the scale of corruption that continues to take place in the country?

More importantly if you feel they need 'direction' then you will have to join the group because if you haven't noticed there isn't anything else happening out there. In other words never mind what they are doing, what is it that you are not doing.
 
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@Eso


Occupy Wall Street protest has finally reached San Francisco. Many people wonder if there is a revolution underway in the United States. Is there a revolution underway in the US? Though not much is coming out in the open and the media has remained largely silent about it, but the demonstrations that began with Wall Street protests are spreading to other areas.For several weeks you will find a larger than ever presence of police officials near Wall Street. The men are in uniform and plainclothes too.

These police officials have been deployed to rein in hundreds of people who are gathering there daily to protest against the bank bailouts and rescue of other big corporations while neglecting the interests of the common people who are increasingly becoming poor with dwindling incomes.These protests have been rightly named as ‘Occupy Wall Street protests’. These protesters mostly belonging to lower middle class and people with low incomes have been demanding that the preferential treatment being given to big companies should be done away with immediately and the resources are directed to common people.

The protests began in New York City’s financial district Wall Street some two weeks ago and have continued whether there was rain or anything. They have picketed outside several big corporations including Bank of America. But for the last couple of days there have been signs that the protests may spread to other parts of the US. The demands of these protesters make sense to a large part of the population who are not satisfied with current economic policies of the Federal government.

In San Francisco the protests have also begun. A protest leader while talking at the protest side near Bank of America said, “Have you ever felt like you’ve been had…That’s why this building right here is a symbol of the incredible greed and wealth that has accumulated into fewer and fewer hands….And how do they stay wealthy…They took our tax dollars. They got bailed out”.


http://nvonews.com/2011/09/30/occup...s-there-a-revolution-underway/comment-page-1/

The next time you wonder why the press isn't covering the story, meaning the main stream press then ask yourself how well do they cover poverty, the dwindling middle-class and corporate corruption. And after you have answered that for yourself ask yourself who owns the mainstream media:rolleyes:

Do you know what the unemployment is for youth in the US? 18%

Do you know what the unemployment is for youth in Egypt? 25%

Algeria? 21%

The U.S. youth unemployment rate stands at 18.4%, double the overall rate. That number for Black youth is 27%. And this is two full years after the recession officially ended. As BusinessWeek wrote several months ago,

“Although the recession ended in the summer of 2009, youth unemployment remains near its cyclical peak…What keeps the numbers from being even higher is that many teens have simply given up. Some are sitting on couches. Others are in school, which can be a dead end itself. The percentage of American 16- to 19-year-olds who are employed has fallen to below 26 percent, a record low.”
 
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John99 said:
I have a feeling the only change these protesters will make is worse so have fun.
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That's funny. They used to say that about members of the civil rights movement. Democracy is so dead in the US that they don't even recognize when its being exercised.
 
We are not discussing the civil rights movement.

Just for the record, I have never had anything to do with the corporate world, banking, bankers. I cant expect these protesters to be any different and most likely not any fairer because where is it fair\er?
 
John99 said:
We are not discussing the civil rights movement.

Just for the record, I have never had anything to do with the corporate world, banking, bankers. I cant expect these protesters to be any different and most likely not any fairer because where is it fair\er?
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You don't understand what I meant when I said that? Methinks you should high-tail it to another thread. :rolleyes:

Twit.
 
700 members of occupy wall st were arrested at the brooklyn bridge when they used the non-violent civil disobedience tactic of stopping traffic:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/10/201110122485340812.html



San Franciso's occupy movement took over a bank (god love em):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SUdPe-X7b4&feature=player_embedded#!



For anyone interested on how occupywallst. got off the ground, its genesis, finding etc: http://ampedstatus.org/a-report-fro...allstreet-and-the-origins-of-the-99-movement/
 
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overregulated,overtaxed,overlitigated.
if Government doesn't get over themselves,
this country will be over..

it is good that ppl are protesting..
america stood for something at one time..
what was that again?
 
"Begging the mafia to solve the problem of crime is a futile, ridiculous, and an embarrassing thing to do."

Everything wall street did was legal. The state made it so. Petitioning the establishment for redress I don't believe is going to be productive without studying the problem and offering viable solutions.

True News: The Wall Street Protests
 
Petitioning the establishment for redress I don't believe is going to be productive
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That part was right, yeah.
I've been signing petitions since I was old enough to vote, and I'm double that now.

What are we supposed to do to take back our democracy?
 
Keep em going Lucy you all are gaining speed . It is in the media this morning and the news is that the crowd is growing persistently and won't go away . There on the ropes , careful they don't pull the old rope-a dope on you all . I stand with this in spirit Lucy . You have my blessing . Let the Children of liberty Stand and be counted
 
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