In the 60s people also quit their jobs or went on leave to march for civil rights and end the wars in southeast china. But I guess committing one's time for an important cause is a horrible selfish thing to do in good ol san clemente, the land of richard nixon!!
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In the 60s people also quit their jobs or went on leave to march for civil rights and end the wars in southeast china. But I guess committing one's time for an important cause is a horrible selfish thing to do in good ol san clemente, the land of richard nixon!!
Our tax dollars actually train these thugs to treat our children this way: SHAME!
Video of Cop Viciously Pepper-Spraying Sitting Students Goes Viral | AlterNet
Video of Cop Viciously Pepper-Spraying Sitting Students Goes Viral | AlterNet
We are all Occupiers: by Arundhati RoyWe Are All Occupiers | Common Dreams
Babagounj
Strength through joy
[h=1]Occuppy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel[/h]
A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.
The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room.
A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.
The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room.
Yes. Yes I would.
Doesn't this simply blow a hole in the right-wing stereotype of the people who make up the OWS groups?
It really doesnt matter what these reactionaries think. They accuse the OWS protesters of everything and anything. They know their time is over. They had their 15 minutes. But this movement is not going away. It might move indoors physically but the movement itself grows daily. The cops actions have actually made more people sympathetic of the OWS. This was not about occupying a piece of ground or a park. It is occupying one's mind. Churches and union halls have opened their doors to the brave souls out there for them to shower,etc.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Oh for those halcyon days of high school. Brings back such fond memories.
Here is the "vision statement" of OWS:
We Envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.
We Envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.
wkmac
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Ron Paul to Herman Cain on the Occupy Movement
[video=youtube;Z91gTaEbnvk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z91gTaEbnvk[/video]
Progressive/left journalist Robert Scheer also points out Ron's comment to Cain.
[video=youtube;Z91gTaEbnvk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z91gTaEbnvk[/video]
Progressive/left journalist Robert Scheer also points out Ron's comment to Cain.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Lastest news from OWS-Boston;
A lawsuit has been filed between two seperate OWS-Boston groups and it's all about who "owns" all the donated money.
Who should have financial control (1) the first person to set up camp who used the donated money to buy tents and supplies for other campers or another group who claims to be money managers for the group ?
A lawsuit has been filed between two seperate OWS-Boston groups and it's all about who "owns" all the donated money.
Who should have financial control (1) the first person to set up camp who used the donated money to buy tents and supplies for other campers or another group who claims to be money managers for the group ?
A good read on police tactics and democracy. Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top
wkmac
Well-Known Member
It may be that but it also names President Obama as co-conspirator and on both points, Matt would be correct.
But then again, your post above speaks volumes but not about who you want it too!
804,
Good find on the Taibbi piece. Greenwald has been a real champion and voice against the very forces pushing the police state upon us thanks to both parties. It's this police state and it's militarization of which Ron Paul was speaking when condemning the Patriot Act and the Drug War in a most recent republican debate.
I dont agree with some of what Paul says , but how about a Nader/Paul ticket!! It is time to leave the 2 corporate owned parties and create a party for the 99%!!
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Good article. I agree in concept with everything he brought up.
The loss of individual liberty after 9-11 has always irked me as non-productive and smacking of a military state.
Another thing he brought up which I think has hurt individual liberty and corrupted the police forces is the seizure of property for the slightest pretense. I know a person whose very nice expensive car was seized after he was caught with one joint in his car. The cops cruise around in his seized car stopping people at ramps to the interstate - I think the state finally stepped in and stopped some of it.
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