Occupy Wall Street! Big Protest in New York

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Isn't it funny that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been standing p for the middle class for years. This clip is from 2007 and he lets both barrels go on Alan Greenspan, exactly addressing what these protests are all about.

[video=youtube_share;nBnKh6B2cMw]http://youtu.be/nBnKh6B2cMw[/video]
 
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He also goes after Bernanke... I love this guy.
Can you imagine what shape this country would be in if all of our elected officials fought for the people like this?

[video=youtube_share;rCWXrMCGJT4]http://youtu.be/rCWXrMCGJT4[/video]
 
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Yeh. It's shameful that the most principled of those in Washington are ridiculed & called crazy. Sanders, Kucinich, Paul.
 
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article said:
We've Seen A Lot Of Protests, But Occupy Wall Street's March On Bank Of America Was By Far The Most Hilarious

Today Occupy Wall Street did a march on major banks to deliver letters they had received for bankers from the 99%. They split into groups and went to Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley.


The campaign is called Occupy The Board Room, and the protesters had 600 letters in hand that they planned to read, or fold into paper airplanes, and throw at the top floor offices. They also said that they would perform singing telegrams.

The banks were ready, they've been preparing security for this for days. (See: Morgan Stanley)

We, here at Business Insider, went to Bank of America with the protesters, and were not ready. At least, not for the sheer hilarity of this protest. There were protesters dressed as pirates riding in car-sized ships, Robin Hood and Little John made an appearance, and the protesters unveiled a humongous letter from the 99% written in old script.
Think about it: This is a war of public opinion. If Occupy Wall Street had gone to the banks aggressively (as the banks were clearly prepared for them to do), they would lose the support from the American people that they have been trying so hard to gain.
This protest was a win, it showed the protesters could be civil, and even funny, when going into enemy territory.
In the words of one of the speakers: "We do not intend to get arrested or do nasty things. We just want to tell our stories."
On the other side, Goldman Sachs taking $5,000 away from a local credit union for supporting Occupy Wall Street — that's an example of a loss.
Maybe it's time for Lloyd Blankfein to go to work in a tutu.
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The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality. But go down to the movement’s headquarters, as I did this past weekend, and you see something far different.

It’s not just that knowledge of their “oppressors” -- the evil bankers -- is pretty thin, or that many of them are clearly college kids with nothing better to do than embrace the radical chic of “a cause.” I found a unifying and increasingly coherent ideology emerging among the protesters, which at its core has less to do with the evils of the banking business and more about the evils of capitalism -- and the need for a socialist revolution.



It’s not an overstatement to describe Zuccotti Park as New York’s Marxist epicenter. Flags with the iconic face of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara are everywhere; the only American flag I saw was hanging upside down. The “occupiers” openly refer to each other as “comrade,” and just about every piece of literature on offer (free or for sale) advocated socialism in the Marxist tradition as a cure-all for the inequalities of the American economic system.
Don’t try to explain to any of these protesters how those who sought to create a Marxist utopian dream of revolution also gave us the Stalinist purges, Mao’s bloody Cultural Revolution and many other efforts to collectivize thought in the name of economic “justice.”
One woman was holding a “Nationalize the Federal Reserve” sign; I tried to explain that the Fed is already nationalized, because it’s part of government, and she told me to “go check my f--king facts -- it’s privately owned.”
That’s when I was handed a piece paper offering the following wisdom: “The Game of Capitalism Breeds Dishonest Men.” The author of such deep thinking was a dude named De La Vega, an artist convicted a few years back for painting graffiti on a warehouse in The Bronx.
That was pretty mild compared to the sentiments offered in the official “Statement of the League for the Revolutionary Party” on the protests. These guys view as the enemy not just Wall Street tycoons, but also liberal labor leaders like Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO.
The problem with Trumka, according to the Revolutionary Party and its Zuccotti Park contingent: He wants to work with wishy-washy Democratic Party politicians, where the true revolutionaries want to “defend and develop Marxist theory as a guide to action,” which is the protests’ real purpose.
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For those who do not believe what is going on is not all as it seems can I get you to admit Adbusters is the one that started this movement.

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html

If we can agree on that then do you know who is in charge of Adbusters??

It is Kalle Lasn

In his first book Culture Jam, Lasn argues that consumerism is the fundamental evil of the modern era. He calls the "meme war": a battle of ideas to shift Western society away from consumer capitalism towards eco-communalism.
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Looks like there tactic has some anarchy in it also.

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/robinhood.html



Our problems with banks did not result from consumerism or capitalism. The banks under a capitalistic system would have failed. We have basically morphed into an Oligarchy. And they choose to bail out the banks and not let them fail. As long as the govt bails out business it no longer is capitalism.

I was against the bank bailout but not the auto bailout. The auto bailout I considered more of a loan. One could argue both were too big to let fail though.

Such is what a mess our leaders have let this country morph into.
 
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Alien Allen said:
As long as the govt bails out business it no longer is capitalism.
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Yup, and as long as the gov't can be depended on to absorb the risk, mega-corps will continue to take bigger and bigger chances. After all, it ain't gambling if you're playing with the house's money.
 
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Alien Allen said:
For those who do not believe what is going on is not all as it seems can I get you to admit Adbusters is the one that started this movement.

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html

If we can agree on that then do you know who is in charge of Adbusters??

It is Kalle Lasn



Looks like there tactic has some anarchy in it also.

http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/robinhood.html



Our problems with banks did not result from consumerism or capitalism. The banks under a capitalistic system would have failed. We have basically morphed into an Oligarchy. And they choose to bail out the banks and not let them fail. As long as the govt bails out business it no longer is capitalism.

I was against the bank bailout but not the auto bailout. The auto bailout I considered more of a loan. One could argue both were too big to let fail though.

Such is what a mess our leaders have let this country morph into.
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There is no doubt about it that the group that publishes the magazine Adbusters has played a pivotal role in the organizing of the Occupy movement. I have referenced this link several times now http://ampedstatus.org/a-report-fro...wallstreet-and-the-origins-of-the-99-movement and it confirms Adbusters plays a role.

Here is an example of an Adbusters "anticonsumerism" ad.


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It looks to me like a call for the return of common sense. I, for one, am quite sick of holiday season after holiday season of Black Friday insanity.

[video=youtube;YOVD-m8urJU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU&feature=player_embedded[/video]

If the message Kalle Lasn is promoting is to shift attitudes away from this kind of activity, I am all for it. It is time for a paradigm shift in this country and I believe that paradigm shift is coming one way or the other and the financial fraud that has been perpetrated against the people of this nation and the world is directly responsible for ushering in this paradigm shift and it is called austerity.
 
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CityGirl said:
There is no doubt about it that the group that publishes the magazine Adbusters has played a pivotal role in the organizing of the Occupy movement. I have referenced this link several times now http://ampedstatus.org/a-report-fro...wallstreet-and-the-origins-of-the-99-movement and it confirms Adbusters plays a role.

Here is an example of an Adbusters "anticonsumerism" ad.


2055550775_e2c368f845.jpg

It looks to me like a call for the return of common sense. I, for one, am quite sick of holiday season after holiday season of Black Friday insanity.

[video=youtube;YOVD-m8urJU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVD-m8urJU&feature=player_embedded[/video]

If the message Kalle Lasn is promoting is to shift attitudes away from this kind of activity, I am all for it. It is time for a paradigm shift in this country and I believe that paradigm shift is coming one way or the other and the financial fraud that has been perpetrated against the people of this nation and the world is directly responsible for ushering in this paradigm shift and it is called austerity.
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But if I dont buy and consume crap I dont need then the entire economy will collapse. The TV told me so.:D
 
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CityGirl said:
Here is an example of an Adbusters "anticonsumerism" ad.


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It looks to me like a call for the return of common sense. I, for one, am quite sick of holiday season after holiday season of Black Friday insanity.
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:eek That is one scary freaking Santa!:eek


So, Adbusters supports the Occupy Movement. How can that be framed as something bad?
 
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That's Westboro Baptist Church level assholery. Where's a fast moving bus driven by a drunk blind guy when you need one.
 
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I love this...:24:

Straying from his normally composed and collected delivery, U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry larded a 23-minute speech to New Hampshire conservatives with facial contortions, wisecracks and words like "dude" and "awesome" on Friday.


It was just the latest in a string of goof-ups, including a campaign appearance the same day where he tried to slag the burgeoning Occupy movement by quoting a Toronto activist mentioned in a Globe and Mail story. Unbeknownst to Perry, however, the article was a satire and the activist, a fiction.


Video of both incidents has gone viral. Perry's bizarre speech has rightist American publications speculating whether the Texas governor was intoxicated, and whether the incident will derail his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination like Howard Dean's 2004 run for the Democratic nod was scuttled by his emphatic peroration at a rally in Iowa.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/01/us-perry-speech-viral.html
 
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