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

[T_B_M]

When this shit started going down in Egypt, I was wondering "why can't we do something like that here?" and now we are.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution <- streaming live from the protest.

Seriously? A bunch of complainers having sit-ins is going to accomplish something? I think not. In Egypt and other places with uprisings, they use rocks, fists, guns, and whatever they can find. These assbags look like hipster douchebags who have no idea what a revolution is.

As soon as the cops bust out cuffs and pepper spray, there go the crowds. Bunch of pussies, thats what Americans have become IMO.

Don't be going after Wall Street, go after Washington.....where the real problems are. They allowed this....and will continue raping the average people for more taxes to account for their miss-management.

 

[Iron_Lion]

im not sure how seriously these people if you can call them that, are taking it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZVplOZ_e-U

sorry i would have embedded it but that option always screws up the page and sends you straight to the youtube homepage.

now that would be the que to bust out the machete's and eat the rich. Fucking swine.

 

[T_B_M]

I have been hearing about this for several weeks and I am about as cut off from liberal media as it gets but I still heard about it. Anyways just started reading into it however for the first time and I am kinda of getting pissed. Has anyone heard about the group of women pepper sprayed in the face by some police officer because he got pissed and they wouldn't stop protesting? Supposedly they were doing nothing wrong, just another case of police brutality.

"Protestors who engage in civil disobedience can expect to be arrested," Browne said. "Those who resist arrest can expect some measure of force will be used." New York City Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne

What the hell is this bullshit? So they've taken away the 4th amendment, thank you patriot act, and now there taking away the 1st as well? At first I thought it was a bunch of idiot protesters with nothing better to do, not a huge fan of Michael Moore either, but the more I have read into this the more I am seeing the legitimate point.

And the people will continue to take it in the ass until enough of us at one time get pissed enough. Won't ever happen due to the pussification of America over the last couple decades. With the two major political powers in place, we are a country divided. Noone agrees on anything and noone seems to be to blame for anything. As long as there are two sides with polar opposite agendas due to biased hatred, there will never be agreement.

 

[AOD2012]

. Won't ever happen due to the pussification of America over the last couple decades. QUOTE]

i think this bascially sums a lot of what is wrong with america. fucking pussies




aod

 

[rootfingers]

Mmmmm, fucking pussies mmmmm.

Why don't you brave men and women go down there and show them how YOU protest in the face of police brutality you fuckin pussies?



Okay, seriously though, anyone who is not on the side of these protesters regardless of political affiliation, will be on the wrong side of history. Not to bash any naysaying but now is not the time for it. Now is the time to cautiously accept the good thing these people are out in the streets fighting for and get behind them.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Seriously? A bunch of complainers having sit-ins is going to accomplish something? I think not. In Egypt and other places with uprisings, they use rocks, fists, guns, and whatever they can find. These assbags look like hipster douchebags who have no idea what a revolution is.

Lol. Might wanna stay with the news instead of the cartoon channel. The Egyptian uprising was largely peaceful. Most of the violence was perpetrated by Mubarek loyalists.

You're advocating what spirals into anarchy. You're about as likely to get what you want as you would tearing a c note into pieces and expecting it to grow back together.

As soon as the cops bust out cuffs and pepper spray, there go the crowds. Bunch of pussies, thats what Americans have become IMO.

Thank gawd the rock throwers are sitting this one out. I bet you imagine the Tea Party is grass roots.

Don't be going after Wall Street, go after Washington.....where the real problems are. They allowed this....and will continue raping the average people for more taxes to account for their miss-management.

Lay off the koolade and check out the folks who brought you pay-to-play lobbying. Then you can play politics all you want.

And the people will continue to take it in the ass until enough of us at one time get pissed enough. Won't ever happen due to the pussification of America over the last couple decades. With the two major political powers in place, we are a country divided. Noone agrees on anything and noone seems to be to blame for anything. As long as there are two sides with polar opposite agendas due to biased hatred, there will never be agreement.

What a rube. Politics wouldn't be as divided w/o shit tons of money. Oh yeah, here's the link. Realize that rich people rip you off and point the finger at your political opposition. Then they say there's no difference in party politics. Can't have it both ways, it's the oldest game in the book and you really need to figure that out already.

http://alecwatch.org/

These guys fleece you and blame it on politicians. If that doesn't make you happy, they buy politicians and fleece you some more. Stop looking at Rs and Ds and look at policy. Look at who's funding respective policy. Understand that even if your representative is against trickle-up economics, lobbyists will grab em by the nuts and threaten a challenger.

Knee jerk ideology is like eating onion skin. You're supposed to throw it away. The answers are inside the onion.

 

[SpasticGramps]

Proletariat Rising. It always starts with the youth. Based on economic projections I think this will become more popular.

This video of Occupy Wall Street is pretty freaking cool.

I think I may need to take a NYC vacation soon.

The Money Changers own Wall Street and Wall Street owns Washington. Enough is enough. The guy in the video states it concisely IMO when he says "we're fucked either way, but it's worth a shot."

 

[bentom187]

yup ,among the first things the money changers did in russia is subdue the nationalists.
they murdered the zsar for supporting the north(civil war) in the battle to escape the bankers control and issue our own currencey.

if we are to do the same ,we can guarrentee that it will be a battle, and we should learn this time its against bankers not ourselves.

 

[Dislexus]

I'm way more worried about K Street than Wall Street.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

K street can't pay for itself. According to alecwatch.org, ALEC secretively clubs top income earners with lawmakers and prospective lawmakers who do their bidding. Since 1973, ALEC has charged lawmakers as little as $50 annual dues yet charges corporations as much as $25k to visit their symposiums and garner legislative favor. All that money goes into recruiting would be lawmakers, effectively rubber-stamping right-wing interests.

Charles and David Koch have personally contributed over $100 million to right wing causes since the 1970s. Their father did the same in his lifetime. ALEC et al channel even more money into campaigns. Doesn't matter if there's limits to contributions. The rest of the money is used to fund Willy Horton ads and further corrupt the process.

Democrats have a similar organization but it's not secret. The thing about money is you have to know where it's coming from in order to understand whether it's for or against your interests. You might not like Soros but he doesn't use technology to fuck up press coverage. The latest ALEC symposium used tramp noise to ruin audio recordings. Soros may effect legislation but he'll invite the press to inform the public what he advocates.

 

[StealthDragon]

you guys need to see this video... I can't believe this was on msnbc...I'm expecing a flipflop story soon enough...but at least it got out there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meT8CJgEBQw

Nice to see a reporter step up to bat, let alone hit a homerun. nice job sir.

Vive la révolution !! I wish I was closer, I'd bring smoke.

(sorry bout the link, I don't know how to do it cool like anti w/ the agree thingie. )

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

^^ stealth beat me to it^^

^^ stealth beat me to it^^

I don't recon too many here watch Lawrence O'Donnell. He's covering all the violence and gives leo hell on a regular basis. Not only did he cover the pepper spray assault, he pointed out details in the slowed down version of the chaotic video. Tough to see otherwise, the officer moves in and out of the frame too fast.

 

[StealthDragon]

I don't watch t.v. at all...I never even heard of the guy. I found the vid on another growsite ... lol I get all my news from grow sites...usually there's a thread about it before it's even on the news!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

NBC doesn't appear to mind their liberal scion, MSNBC outing systematic rouges in politics, business, and law enforcement. But if you slam the system itself (like Cenk Uygur) you get the axe. KO was arguably more belligerent behind the scenes than on camera.

Dylan Ratigan comes on at 4pm eastern. He's leading an effort to get 100,000 signatures backing a Constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United. Here' the link if you believe we shouldn't have big money in politics.

http://www.getmoneyout.com/

There's even a movement to get DR in prime time to change the media narrative. He's been banging his head against the wall ever since his CNBC days. The dude looks 50 but he's only 35, lol. Anger ages us faster than anything else.

http://steelonwheels.uservoice.com/...ion-msnbc-to-move-the-dylan-ratigan-show-into

Maybe they could can Chris Matthews, we don't need the left version of FOX boxing matches. And the fuck head never stops talking, even trips over his lips.

 

[grozzef]

These protests are just the beginning, the media is spinning real hard trying to catch up now. they just released a hilarious article in which "al-qaida" released a statement telling irans prez to stop saying 9/11 was an inside job. perhaps too many people saw his speech to the UN last week where he pretty much spelled out everything and the real criminals left the auditorium. things are a changin!!

 

[juicepuddle]

you guys need to see this video... I can't believe this was on msnbc...I'm expecing a flipflop story soon enough...but at least it got out there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meT8CJgEBQw

Nice to see a reporter step up to bat, let alone hit a homerun. nice job sir.

Vive la révolution !! I wish I was closer, I'd bring smoke.

(sorry bout the link, I don't know how to do it cool like anti w/ the agree thingie. )

I dont know about this.... it seems to me he can literally be for either side, hes either on our side trying to get the word out, or on their side and is trying to tell everyone: Hey, your gonna get arrested and beat up for nothing, and nothings gonna stop it.

Bleh

 

[In~Plain~Site]

What's all the hub-bub, bub?
I mean, what is it their attempting to accomplish?

They do look like hipsters...lol...not that it matters to me, but...

 

[Sandnut]

I love it! I wish i lived in the U.S id be there everyday!!

also big up for Immortal technique, inspiring person.

 

[AOD2012]

Yea, Technique is the man, one of the realest cats I have ever heard in my life.


aod

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

NYC Transit Union Joins Occupy Wall Street

NYC Transit Union Joins Occupy Wall Street

First Posted: 9/29/11 12:39 PM ET Updated: 9/29/11 04:56 PM ET

New York City labor unions are preparing to back the unwieldy grassroots band occupying a park in Lower Manhattan, in a move that could mark a significant shift in the tenor of the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street protests and send thousands more people into the streets.

The Transit Workers Union Local 100's executive committee, which oversees the organization of subway and bus workers, voted unanimously Wednesday night to support the protesters. The union claims 38,000 members. A union-backed organizing coalition, which orchestrated a large May 12 march on Wall Street before the protests, is planning a rally on Oct. 5 in explicit support. And SEIU 32BJ, which represents doormen, security guards and maintenance workers, is using its Oct. 12 rally to express solidarity with the Zuccotti Park protesters.

"The call went out over a month ago, before actually the occupancy of Wall Street took place," said 32BJ spokesman Kwame Patterson. Now, he added, "we're all coming under one cause, even though we have our different initiatives."

The protests found their genesis not in any of the established New York social action groups but with a call put out by a Canadian magazine. While other major unions beyond the TWU have yet to officially endorse Occupy Wall Street, more backing could come as early as this week. Both the New York Metro Area Postal Union and SEIU 1199 are considering such moves.

Jackie DiSalvo, an Occupy Wall Street organizer, says a series of public actions aimed at expressing support for labor -- from disrupting a Sotheby's auction on Sept. 22 to attending a postal workers' rally on Tuesday -- have convinced unions that the two groups' struggles are one.

"Labor is up against the wall and they're begging us to help them," said DiSalvo, a retired professor at Baruch College in her late 60s who has emerged as a driving force in the effort to link up labor and the protests. DiSalvo is herself a member of the Professional Staff Congress, which represents teachers at the City University of New York.

Recent anti-labor actions like Scott Walker's in Wisconsin "really shocked the unions and moved them into militant action," DiSalvo said, and the inflammatory video of a NYPD deputy inspector pepper-spraying several protesters on Saturday also generated union sympathy.

"There's a lot of good feeling. They've made a lot of friends," said Chuck Zlatkin of the postal union.

When a band of about 100 protesters showed up at a postal workers' rally featuring Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday, complete with purple hair and big drums, "they went a long way towards touching people and making connections," Zlatkin observed.

If unions move to support the protests in a major way, that could mean thousands more people marching in Lower Manhattan. Thus far the protesters have not managed to come near the 10,000 or so who attended the unrelated May 12 march on Wall Street. The Strong Economy for All Coalition, which receives support from the United Federation of Teachers, the Working Families Party, plus SEIU 32BJ and 1199, previously helped put together that demonstration. Now they will be rallying for the grassroots group.

"Their fight is our fight," director Michael Kink said. "They've chosen the right targets. We also want to see a society where folks other than the top 1 percent have a chance to say how things go."

Asked if the union support could dilute the message of the Occupy Wall Street protesters -- which has itself been dismissed as incoherent -- organizer DiSalvo said the rag tag group's stance would remain unchanged.

"Occupy Wall Street will not negotiate watering down its own message," she said, union support or not.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/nyc-transit-union-joins-o_n_987156.html