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This is Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Keeps Growing
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Accountable
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Thanks.
Welcome!!
Minor Axis
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Maz, welcome back!
I agree with you. There is failure in the economic system in the U.S. It has been building for the last 30 years and is now reaching chronic proportions. Honestly I've surprised it has not started before now.
JuggsBunny
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This thread has entered the world of whackadoos. Wowzers!!
Johnfromokc
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Maybe, but at least Minor tried to put it back to rights.
I just read Minor's message and am sincerely delighted and grateful to him for his most kind and friendly gesture of goodwill. this is what i expect of gentlemen (and respected ladies) on this forum
Thank you too for your co-operation.
Maz, welcome back!
Bravo friend for the warm welcome! I am delighted as well as grateful for your kindness.
Yup, it's very sad to learn about the unrest in the U.S , i wish all gets settled down soon and the Americans become real Americans they are/were when I had the honor to meet them in their country during my past visits and do lotsa business with them.
Johnfromokc
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“The Degree To Which You Resist Is
The Degree To Which You Are Free”
''The signs and chants of “we are the 99%” have broken the spell, liberating the public imagination to unearth the true narrative of what has happened in this country and across the world during the past three decades.
Pay no heed to what the self-serving mainstream pundits of the 1 percent say about the Occupy movement. The reality is this: Occupy has already succeeded. It has succeeded in shaking us as a society out of our hypnosis. Occupy has already succeeded in its role as a social movement in challenging the old, faulty dominant story spread by the 1 percent and replacing it with another one that resonates with what most Americans know to be true.''
http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/how-occupy-is-transforming-our-national-conversation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yes%2Fmost-recent-articles+%28Most+Recent+Articles+and+Blogs+-+YES!+magazine%29
The Degree To Which You Are Free”
''The signs and chants of “we are the 99%” have broken the spell, liberating the public imagination to unearth the true narrative of what has happened in this country and across the world during the past three decades.
Pay no heed to what the self-serving mainstream pundits of the 1 percent say about the Occupy movement. The reality is this: Occupy has already succeeded. It has succeeded in shaking us as a society out of our hypnosis. Occupy has already succeeded in its role as a social movement in challenging the old, faulty dominant story spread by the 1 percent and replacing it with another one that resonates with what most Americans know to be true.''
http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/john-cavanagh-and-robin-broad/how-occupy-is-transforming-our-national-conversation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+yes%2Fmost-recent-articles+%28Most+Recent+Articles+and+Blogs+-+YES!+magazine%29
Accountable
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“The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're
born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
which you resist is the degree to which you are free...”
― Utah Phillips
I figured the line was too good to be original so I googled it & found out about Utah Phillips. I never heard of the man until just now, so I figure others haven't either. Agree or disagree with the man's politics, he's really entertaining.
[video=youtube;5wsFmcFMeME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsFmcFMeME&feature=related[/video]
born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
which you resist is the degree to which you are free...”
― Utah Phillips
I figured the line was too good to be original so I googled it & found out about Utah Phillips. I never heard of the man until just now, so I figure others haven't either. Agree or disagree with the man's politics, he's really entertaining.
[video=youtube;5wsFmcFMeME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsFmcFMeME&feature=related[/video]
Thanks, Citygirl and Accountant, you are welcome.
Here is more on the OWS dilemma....
Resistance Up Against Nationwide Attacks
By Andy Zee
24 November, 2011
Two days before the two-month anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street, in the dead of night, Mayor Bloomberg cleared OWS from Zuccotti Park, in what mainstream media called a military operation with secret training and massive force. Encampments in Oakland, California; Portland, Oregon; University of California Berkeley; University of California Davis; Columbia, South Carolina; San Diego, California; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Albany, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah; St. Louis, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado were assaulted and demolished in what has become increasingly clear were coordinated raids and an emerging ruling class consensus to stop the movement by shutting down its very essence—occupying public space in the face of the symbols of government, finance, and authority, spaces where people have left their “normal lives” behind and are putting their lives on the line every day to oppose and expose the brutal inequities of 21st century USA and in so doing enabling people to imagine, to think, and dream of new possibility.
On the November 17th two month anniversary, tens of thousands protested in cities around the country and the world. They were inspired by the defiant stand of the Occupy movement against the deep suffering the economic crisis has wrought, the enormous inequalities in the U.S., and a broad feeling that the political system works against the people's interest. They were propelled as well by outrage at the massive police attacks that evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park as well as several other occupations nationally. The day ended in New York City with many thousands jubilantly marching over the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://www.countercurrents.org/print.html
Here is more on the OWS dilemma....
Resistance Up Against Nationwide Attacks
By Andy Zee
24 November, 2011
Two days before the two-month anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street, in the dead of night, Mayor Bloomberg cleared OWS from Zuccotti Park, in what mainstream media called a military operation with secret training and massive force. Encampments in Oakland, California; Portland, Oregon; University of California Berkeley; University of California Davis; Columbia, South Carolina; San Diego, California; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Albany, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah; St. Louis, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado were assaulted and demolished in what has become increasingly clear were coordinated raids and an emerging ruling class consensus to stop the movement by shutting down its very essence—occupying public space in the face of the symbols of government, finance, and authority, spaces where people have left their “normal lives” behind and are putting their lives on the line every day to oppose and expose the brutal inequities of 21st century USA and in so doing enabling people to imagine, to think, and dream of new possibility.
On the November 17th two month anniversary, tens of thousands protested in cities around the country and the world. They were inspired by the defiant stand of the Occupy movement against the deep suffering the economic crisis has wrought, the enormous inequalities in the U.S., and a broad feeling that the political system works against the people's interest. They were propelled as well by outrage at the massive police attacks that evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park as well as several other occupations nationally. The day ended in New York City with many thousands jubilantly marching over the Brooklyn Bridge.
http://www.countercurrents.org/print.html
Johnfromokc
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We the people are tiring of the right wing political asshats that punish the working class while allowing the Wall Street Robber Barons to go free to screw us. Thousands of New Jersey Police and firefighters protest Governor Chrisities attempts to screw them out of their pay and benefits:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/thousands_of_nj_police_officer.html
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/thousands_of_nj_police_officer.html
interesting article...
http://The Archdruid Report
''An effective response to this predicament, as I’ve proposed here, involves several unfamiliar steps. The first of them is to get out from under the collective thinking of our society and the manufactured popular pseudoculture that holds that collective thinking pinned firmly in place in the minds of most people, so you can make your own decisions about what goes into your mind, instead of letting huge corporations ante up millions of dollars to choose for you. (It still amazes me how many people never wonder why what appears on TV is called "programming.")''
http://www.countercurrents.org/print.html
http://The Archdruid Report
''An effective response to this predicament, as I’ve proposed here, involves several unfamiliar steps. The first of them is to get out from under the collective thinking of our society and the manufactured popular pseudoculture that holds that collective thinking pinned firmly in place in the minds of most people, so you can make your own decisions about what goes into your mind, instead of letting huge corporations ante up millions of dollars to choose for you. (It still amazes me how many people never wonder why what appears on TV is called "programming.")''
http://www.countercurrents.org/print.html
Johnfromokc
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Pepper spray cop is financially bankrupt - before this current act of stupidity. Looks like he has a history of making poor decisions. He's completely screwed now.
http://exposingthetruth.info/pepper-spray-cops-money-troubles-he-is-also-the-99/
http://exposingthetruth.info/pepper-spray-cops-money-troubles-he-is-also-the-99/
ohn A. Pike III, identified as the police officer who pepper-sprayed a line of sitting Occupy movement protesters Friday on the University of California, Davis campus may have more in common with the discontented 99 percent than previously suspected.Pike, who was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into the Nov. 18 incident, last year emerged from a bankruptcy where creditors took possession of his pickup truck, his wedding ring, his barbecue grill, several handguns, and even $265 worth of clothing.
Pike earns more than $110,000 a year as a UC Davis police lieutenant. But federal court records and county mortgage records reveal that Pike and his wife, Erica, borrowed heavily before the 2008 financial crisis, and were left insolvent when the value of their Roseville home declined.
Attempts to reach Pike and his attorney for comment were unsuccessful.
Over the weekend, Pike went from being a down-on-his-luck university police officer to becoming a global rallying symbol for Occupy movement protesters. Videos of Pike methodically directing streams of orange-tinted pepper spray into the faces of student protesters as they sat passively with their arms linked began circulating online Friday night. By the weekend, the videos were being broadcast on televisions and computer screens worldwide. By Monday, hundreds of websites had published Pike’s home address and police cell phone number.
UC officials said Pike and other officers were responding to a tense situation in which they were surrounded by students.
Protesters countered that photographs and videos depicted a relatively calm situation in which Mr. Pike, appearing nonchalant, begins dousing the seated protesters. Eleven demonstrators were treated for spray-related injuries, and two were taken to a hospital.
Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehisaid she had instructed police to avoid violence. As calls for her resignation increased this week, Katehi asked the Yolo County district attorney to investigate the incident. On Tuesday the University of California president, Mark G. Yudof, appointed William J. Bratton, a former Los Angeles police chief, to review the incident. A UC Davis spokesman said Wednesday that the officers would remain on leave pending the conclusion of the investigations.
Federal bankruptcy records and Placer County mortgage records show that Pike and his wife took out a second mortgage on their Roseville house in 2006. At the time of their Dec. 28, 2009, bankruptcy filing, Pike owed $450,000 on the property. This week the house was being offered in a short sale for $274,000, said Darren Brewer, an agent with Security Pacific Real Estate.
According to bankruptcy records, Pike has lost more than his home, despite income he described in bankruptcy filings as $127,000 per year.
Creditors took his furniture, his wine refrigerator, his camping equipment, his $3,000 wedding ring, and three handguns valued at $490, bankruptcy records show.
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Pity they didnt confiscate his orange tinted pepper spray ....and his matching moostash
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