Occupy Wall Street

[Whirled Peas]

Can I start this new thread to house ALL information regarding this? There is one other. Not sure if they can be combined by one of the administrators. But lets use this one for anyone interested. The movement is growing.

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IWW Endorses Occupy Wall Street
Posted Wed, 09/28/2011 - 1:28pm by IWW.org Editor
Branches: All Branches
Campaigns: General Defense Committee
Union News: News - All Departments and Unions

On behalf of our union, the General Executive Board of the Industrial Workers of the World sends our support and solidarity to the occupation of Wall Street, those determined to hold accountable our oppressors.

This occupation on Wall Street calls into question the very foundation in which the capitalist system is based, and its relentless desire to place profit over and above all else.

When 1% of the ruling class holds the wealth created by the other 99%, it is clear that the watchwords found in our union's preamble, "the working class and the employing class have nothing in common", ring true more than ever.?The IWW does not follow a business union model. We believe that the working class and the employing class have nothing in common and we don't foster illusions to the contrary.

Throughout the world, from Egypt to Greece, from China to Madison, Wisconsin, working class people are starting to rise up. The IWW welcomes this. We see the occupation of Wall Street as another step - no matter how large or small - in this process.

[Whirled Peas]

[Ry]

I think people should occupy the fed in DC as well. Lets make a date and start organizing it for those too far from New York.

[Rio]

It seems like this Occupy Wall Street is turning into kind of a joke. It appeats to have started off with the best intentions, but think it's going to be infiltrated and neutralized very quickly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/se ... lice-plaza" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

3pm: The anti-Wall Street protests are continuing in Lower Manhattan. Police have allowed the protesters to stay at their makeshift camp in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District, and the this week a stream of celebrities arrived to pay homage to the occupiers of this ramshackle collection of tents and sleeping bags.

Until now, it has been the usual suspects: the actor and activist Susan Sarandon, radical film-maker Michael Moore (twice), the Outkast rapper Big Boi, and the provocative black intellectual Cornel West.

For a time today, it looked as if the celebrity score would go to a new level, with reports that Radiohead, who are in town for a series of concerts, would play an unannounced gig at the park. Unfortunately, it was announced (by the protesters) and then denied (by the band's public relations firm).

Whether it goes ahead or not remains a moot point – and in any case the substantive story today is that the protesters are planning a march on the New York Police Department headquarters in protest at the now-notorious use of pepper spray at last Saturday's demonstration

[Whirled Peas]

It seems like this Occupy Wall Street is turning into kind of a joke.

I don't think this is true. Just because the 'stars' aren't hopping on board doesn't mean its a joke. It means they're staying away possibly because they like making their money on Wall Street. Think Bono of U2.

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... ts_article" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Americans have awakened: Hundreds of thousands join Occupy Wall Street to stop it 'drowning our children in national debt' by ending wars of aggression

[Rio]

It seems like this Occupy Wall Street is turning into kind of a joke.

I don't think this is true. Just because the 'stars' aren't hopping on board doesn't mean its a joke. It means they're staying away possibly because they like making their money on Wall Street. Think Bono of U2.

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... ts_article" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Americans have awakened: Hundreds of thousands join Occupy Wall Street to stop it 'drowning our children in national debt' by ending wars of aggression

Well actually there are stars who are hopping on board the protests. Michael More, Susan Sarandon, Russell Simmons and that's just for starters.

Perhaps I'm speaking too early on this, and I know that Rivero's got a "no divide and conquer" pic on the top of WRH, but Moveon.org shills are already snaking their way in.

It seems it has the potential to be a repeat of the highjacking of the the anti-war movement just prior to the rise of Obama in 2007.

But ok I will try not to really badmouth this thing and stay hopeful just for the sake of being hopeful.

[dicktater]

Mayor Bloomberg: “We’ll See” If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue
Harry Siegel
Oct 1, 2011
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Bloomberg Says Wall Streeters Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet


New Yorkers need “to help the banks” was Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s message to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in his weekly radio appearance on the John Gambling show.

“The protesters are protesting against people who make $40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That’s the bottom line,” Bloomberg said, presumably meaning service workers on Wall Street, adding that “we all” share blame for taking on too much risk, not just the financial industry.

“And people in this day and age need support for their employers. If the banks don’t go out and make loans we will not come out of our economic problems, we will not have jobs so anything we can do that’s responsible to help the banks do that is what we need.”

Asked if there’s an “end-game” for the protesters and if they will be allowed to stay in Zuccotti Park, which is privately owned but open to the public, Bloomberg said, “We’ll see.

“You know people have a right to protest but we also have to make sure that people who don’t want to protest can go down the streets unmolested. We have to make sure that while you can say what you want to say, people who want to say something very different have a right to say that as well. That’s what’s great about this country.”

Warning of “other societal concerns,” offering sanitation as his example without elaborating, he then skipped down memory lane and away from the question to recall protests on Wall St. during the Vietnam War. His conclusion: “when the Vietnam vets came back we didn’t treat them the way they deserve to be treated.”

[paultard]

It seems like this Occupy Wall Street is turning into kind of a joke.

I don't think this is true. Just because the 'stars' aren't hopping on board doesn't mean its a joke. It means they're staying away possibly because they like making their money on Wall Street. Think Bono of U2.

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in ... ts_article" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Americans have awakened: Hundreds of thousands join Occupy Wall Street to stop it 'drowning our children in national debt' by ending wars of aggression

Well actually there are stars who are hopping on board the protests. Michael More, Susan Sarandon, Russell Simmons and that's just for starters.

Perhaps I'm speaking too early on this, and I know that Rivero's got a "no divide and conquer" pic on the top of WRH, but Moveon.org shills are already snaking their way in.

It seems it has the potential to be a repeat of the highjacking of the the anti-war movement just prior to the rise of Obama in 2007.

But ok I will try not to really badmouth this thing and stay hopeful just for the sake of being hopeful.

I hope Michael Moore has a heart attack, the grandstanding cunt. Fuck that guy.

[bruno718]

i don't see what the message of this "movement" is anywhere, and i've never seen it articulated better than some bullshit about 1% vs. 99%. i mean what? this whole thing screams infiltration to me. this occupy x bullshit is a fucking joke. none of these idiots are anti-war or pro-civil liberties or pro-free market. these people are socialist/hippy morons.

[Whirled Peas]

I hope Michael Moore has a heart attack, the grandstanding cunt. Fuck that guy.

Why not tell us what you really think

Can I ask why you say that about him?