Newspaper Guild Endorses Occupy Movement's Thursday 'Day of Mass Action' at Its Home Page
Five weeks ago, Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center's Culture & Media Institute thoroughly documented (at NewsBusters; at MRC) how "two separate news unions, including the newspaper guild, the recognized union for many print and online journalists, and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) are fully behind the radical message of Occupy Wall Street."
Now that the Occupy encampments are largely being put out of their disease-infested, crime-plagued misery by big-city mayors finally recovering a tiny bit of their sanity, a visit to the home page of The Newspaper Guild, which, as Dan noted, is part of the CWA (Communications Workers of America) and represents workers at the Associated Press and many individual publications, indicates that they are fully behind what the Occupiers hope is the next stage of their disorderly incoherence. The graphic currently at the top of the guild's home page, which is the same as the one currently found in an entry at OWS's main site, follows the jump:
Immediately below the graphic is a link to an item by Isaiah J. Poole at OurFuture.org, the web site of Campaign for America's Future, which describes itself as "the strategy center for the progressive movement."
Poole supports the Occupy movement's goal to "Make Nov. 17 A Day Of National Occupation" (internal links are in original):
"You can't evict an idea whose time has come." That was the message posted on OccupyWallSt.org as early this morning, police began to storm the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.
To prove it, supporters of the Occupy movement have vowed to pull out all the stops to make November 17 a day of national occupation. That day is the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests that sparked a national and international movement. There were already 303 "We Are the 99%" protests scheduled for that day around the country, organized with the help of MoveOn.org. Now those gatherings have added urgency as a rebuke to the efforts to squelch the occupations and silence their voices. As the OccupyWallSt.org statement says, "This burgeoning movement is more than a protest, more than an occupation, and more than any tactic...This moment is nothing short of America rediscovering the strength we hold when we come together as citizens to take action to address crises that impact us all. Such a movement cannot be evicted."
The link to the "303 protests" now indicates that there are 444 gatherings planned. A perusal of some of the events involved near yours truly's bunker indicates that they are largely pleas for the spending of even more federal money that we don't have which remarkably resemble congressional Democrats' wishes for more "infrastructure" spending. Readers can go to the link and type in their own zip code to find events near them.
It's more than a little interesting that MoveOn.org has organized the events directory. Early during the Occupy movement, its participants feared that MoveOn would co-opt the entire enterprise. That mission would appear to be accomplished (or that it was fully expected all along by those running/funding the show).
Getting back to the News Guild: As Gainor stated in October, Americans have every right to expect journalists, who are supposedly guided by related ethical constraints, "to cover these protests like they are unsympathetic, not involved. Their own unions prove that to be a lie."
The union's open advocacy problem is escalating in tandem with the desperate fringe's outrageous tactics.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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I wonder if they're endorsing
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:29pm.
I wonder if they're endorsing the throwing of Molotov cocktails at Macy's.
And I read something yesterday about them putting nails into boards and making other crude weapons....
Who needs eviction? Just a good bleach hosedown will do.
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:35pm.
Some of the pathogens isolated at these Obamavilles include tuberculosis, lice/crabs/scabies, multiply resistant forms of other pathogenic bacteria and viruses. At the very minimum, the public health hazard has reached the point where continued allowance of this filth is untenable. Alone, the fact that TB was isolated is enough for public health departments to go to court to force the cities to act. On the health concerns alone, these filthy encampments need to be vacated (forcibly if necessary) and whatever disinfectant treatments necessary applied.
Occupy
Submitted by NewLife56 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:45pm.
Now just remember now, Obama, and Pelosi said they are with these guys, so when they burn New York, Stop traffic on Bridges and do damage we can get those two to pay for damages, right?
Looks Like Team Leftie ...
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:50pm.
... has decided now is a good time to reinforce the hippies and malingerers with union thugs on the street. Oh joy.
d(^_^)b
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"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
SHOCKING!
Submitted by Clevenative on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:28pm.
And who did you expect to have the courage to support the protestors? Bankers and Wall Street executives? Corporations? CEOs? The Republicorp Ministry of Propaganda at Fox News?
Do you think they expected support from the corporate-owned and controlled “lamestream media”? If the apple cart (or for an analogy you folks might better understand… the money tables in the Temple) is to be overturned, it can ONLY come from a true grass-roots movement. (Unless of course you can create an Astroturf “grass roots” movement funded by the greediest of the greedy and promoted 24/7 by the “most watched” cable news network.)
Some things never change and history continues to repeat itself. The French Revolution, The Third Reich, The Arab Spring...
The first thing that needs to be silenced is the media, followed by the scholars and intellectuals who disseminate and protect the truth. Lawyers, teachers, journalists, scholars, and artists were ostracized and smeared with slanderous lies because of their ability to organize, strengthen, and embolden the masses.
Here's a pretty picture
Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest, Nov. 15, 2011 at Westlake Park in Seattle. (AP)
“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate,” said Dorli Rainey, the octogenarian who said she was nearly trampled after police became violent. “As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out.”
She added: “Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: ‘Screw us and we multiply.’”
Just sayin’. Be afwaid – be vewwy vewwy afwaid. This thing is barely 2 months old.
Thats funny
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:36pm.
And this aint the city!
Clevie
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:39pm.
Once again you speak and remove all doubt of your ignorance and adherence to such ignorance. Got any proof about the Tea Party and the Koch Brothers? Didn't think so. However, I can get you proof about the money coming to OWS from Soros via his organizations.
If an 84 year old lady decides to put herself in the company of agitators who are breaking laws then I have no sympathy for her. Break the law, face the consequences. I don't care who you are.
Obsession with the Koch brothers?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:43pm.
Liberals are so obsessed with the Koch brothers? Does the name George Soros mean anything to them? I guess since Soros is their sugar daddy he bought his indulgence and they are duty-bound to oblige.
drsam...maybe it's because I hang out here and/or that
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:40am.
when I was a regular viewer of O'Reilly, he seemed incapable of allowing a single week to pass without pronouncing George Soros "the most dangerous man in America". [The ACLU is the most dangerous organization according to BOR, but I digress.]
IMHO, the fixation by the right on Soros considerably exceeds the fixation of the left on the Koch brothers. For what it's worth--and I realize it is an eminently unscientific metric, there being numerous variables affecting the statistics--but a Soros google search produces nearly eight million results compared to just half that number with respect to the Koch brothers.
Jer
Jer, trying to be objective here, but....
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:55am.
...Soros was convicted in France of the equivalent offense of insider trading, so hearing that he is funding the OWS protesters through his charities provides for negative optics relative to his very obvious political leanings. While the Koch brothers do fund conservative causes, I am not aware that they ever have pursued the type of market manipulation that Soros pretends to abhor but was convicted of and having his appeal rejected (per http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/business/worldbusiness/14iht-soros.197... ).
What is irreconcilable to me, and as you aware most of the conservatives on this board, is the blatant hypocrisy of having made money on a scheme which would have had him severely punished in the US yet somehow this is simply brushed over by most of the media when they discuss the charities he openly supports and the political positions he is more than happy to advocate. The disconnection between action and motivation does not paint a flattering portrait, but instead paints him as a massive hypocrite who yells about punishing Wall Street while simultaneously exploiting the very system he rails against on a daily basis or he honestly believes most Americans to be fools. It is very difficult for him to hide behind the veneer of respectability when he openly attacks American interests or manipulates media analysis so blatantly.
I will admit that I do not keep count of the stories and language content volume that MRC does--that's their business. All I can say is that Soros either has extremely bad PR advice towards dealing with Americans (who are almost 2:1 conservative:liberal per recent polling) and capitalism (it's okay for him to manipulate but not others?!) in general.
Thus is the world of politics.
Big Secret The Koch Brothers Don't Destroy Countries
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:26am.
The Koch Brothers have built a company worth tens of billions of dollars all in the United States. While greedy union thugs may covet their payroll and their net worth nobody can complain about their means. They make good products in the United States and sell them to willing buyers.
George Soros on the other hand makes his money through currency speculations and like a sports gambler avoids chance deterring the outcome whenever possible. He rolled over Argentina a couple of decades ago and Margaret Thatcher wanted his head when he tried to bankrupt England in the International; currency trading markets. For his smaller trades there are legions of bad politicians whose careers he has advanced in fifty or sixty countries who in turn have done very stupid things. The United States and the US Dollar is probably George Soros's White Whale. The United States is the one Country that he wants to sink with him when he dies.
Beware of a man who funds people who claim that anyone in his business should be lynched. You kind have to think that he wants to leverage being the last one in the Market when his thugs over run Wall Street. They would hang him too if the OWS ever quit being hypocrites.
Jer, your procedure is
Submitted by Wolfrem on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:41am.
Jer, your procedure is flawed. The Koch Brothers have been in the new for how long? A year at most? Whereas George Soros has been in the news for about two decades, if not longer. Of course, your search will reveal far more hits on Soros.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." - Padme, Star Wars 3
Probably so, Wolfrem...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:10am.
which I at least implied in my post.
The Koch Brothers--each of whom is worth as much as Soros--have been active in promoting conservative and libertarian causes for many years, but they have operated with a considerably lower profile than Soros, generally shunning publicity whereas Soros, while perhaps not seeking the spotlight, hasn't run from it when pointed in his direction. And the right has been doing a lot of pointing over the past decade in particular, depicting Soros as a pervasive and sinister force, the ultimate socialist boogeyman manipulating markets as well as Democrats in furtherance of his master plan to destroy the capitalist foundations of the US economy.
It is tommyrot of course, but O'Reilly, Limbaugh Nation, the conservative blogosphere and Republican politicians get a lot of mileage out of imagining the hand of Soros in whatever is the menace de jour.
Jer
Soros is pro-capitalism
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:20am.
Quote: "The untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life, is endangering our open and democratic society."
Make no mistake that Soros is for a type of Capitalism but sees the modern day uses of capitalistic manipulation destroying the abilities of nations to hold on to democratic societies. In this I have to agree and since it has been largely Soros and people like him that are the manipulators he may being opportunistic and/or hypocritical but he is right that societies are tearing themselves apart because of the impositions being placed on markets and a hand full of people are becoming wealth because of these events.
Anyone notice who is to be the biggest beneficiary of the Obama administrations stonewalling the latest pipeline deal? Buffet. Where have we been hearing his name lately?
In the view of British Fabians, Soros is the uber capitalist
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:55am.
bent on wrecking socialist economies and associated political structures to be supplanted by a US dominated global capitalism.
From the New Statesman:
The conventional view, shared by many on the left, is that socialism collapsed in eastern Europe because of its systemic weaknesses and the political elite's failure to build popular support. That may be partly true, but Soros's role was crucial. From 1979, he distributed $3m a year to dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union. In 1984, he founded his first Open Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into opposition movements and independent media. Ostensibly aimed at building up a "civil society", these initiatives were designed to weaken the existing political structures and pave the way for eastern Europe's eventual colonisation by global capital. Soros now claims, with characteristic immodesty, that he was responsible for the "Americanisation" of eastern Europe.
Jer
"There is profit in confusion"
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:07pm.
if I may quote Tony Curtis' character in Operation Petticoat.
Soros makes money in the decline of systems and does it well. The fact that he is just as instrumental in in propping up socialism in the US as he was of undermining it in Europe would demonstrate that it is the destruction of the interior government and regulating structure that he is after and not a particular form of government. He has traded on raw materials after leveraging against the finance structures with interest in the same and he has helped create capital funds for demonstrations against the abuses of workers in the same political and economic arena. He does not play both sides against the middle and rejoice with the victor. He plays against the power structure then is conveniently absent when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan.
He will be the demon and he will be the guiding light but in the end he will be gone with someone's money.
Funny
Submitted by Clevenative on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:56am.
But I don't see the word "Koch" mentioned anywhere in my comment. I suppose this is one for Sigmund Frued.
But since you ask - Oh why bother. Do your own homework - use Google. There's been dozens of research reports and hunderds of articles written exposing the deep ties between Tea Party activities/sponsors and the Koch Bros - and funding of numerous other Republican causes (all that benefit the Koch Bros, feed their greed, lower their taxes all the more, and allow them to further rape the environment) - including the money behind the 2010 Tea Party "madate" and all the cons they pulled to get there.
Here's one for you...
Why Is Reuters Trying to Link George Soros to Occupy Wall Street? [Updated]
Just to set you straight on whatever your puppetmasters have been feeding you with more of their "Dr. Evil" George Soros BS.
Ingrate
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 8:23am.
You may want to worry about your own puppetmasters. You know, the ones who demand nothing more than every last imaginable economic and political freedom you have in exchange for being a pampered and babied little serf.
I also note how funny it is how much you bitch and scream about evil corporations, yet you are using all sorts of things that wouldn't have been possible WITHOUT those evil corporations - like the computer you are using to access the Internet.
Besides, give me corporations any day. If I want to take out a corporation, I just need money. To rid myself of a bad government, another currency is required: blood. And lots of it.
You are nothing more than a bitchy, whiny, hate-filled ingrate, ruled by envy - which is THE worst, dumbest, and most destructive emotion known to man. And the whole time as you are all those things, you greedily suck the tits of the country and the evil capitalist system that allows you to be that way.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Sorry Ingrate
Submitted by Clevenative on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:44am.
But the very nature of the differences between conservatives and progressives makes your observations laughable at best.
Conservatives couldn’t live without direction from their puppetmasters and the institutions they embrace under the false disguise of “security” and “law and order”. Conservatives are not interested in anything but holding on the status quo and preserving their “traditions” – regardless how corrupt or immoral they have become. And they’re too afraid of “change” to do anything about it. Conservatives are FAR LESS likely to look outside their box for alternative views, opinions, and solutions.
It is what it is – and there’s no need to kid yourself or project those destructive traits on others.
It's funny how you would buy into
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:50am.
the "progressive" meme for Progressives. Name the last new idea put forth buy modern-day progressives.
that is easy bkeyser -
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:54am.
poverty for all in the name of social justice
I don't know Ag
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:55am.
I think FDR came up with that one
Not FDR
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:14pm.
FDR wrongly thought in terms of prosperity. It is a fairly recent phenomenon that the wealth cap has become so indoctrinated into the minds of the population that there is an understanding that many would rather have everyone be poor than to have inequality of outcome. This is of course based on the fact that very few of these people actually understand what it means to be truly poor.
Indeed, Cleve!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:56am.
And all of those "Progressive" policies have been doing a wonder with the economy and foreign policy for the last 3 years.
Take a bow!!
For our new Statist/Socialist
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 10:01am.
And Statists/Socialists have no puppet masters? Laughable.
If your obsessive devotion, the Koch brothers (who I have BARELY heard of), are giving me any financial backing...this is the first I heard of it. I don't think I am working for them in any capacity. And, for the record, I barely pay any attention to American media. Fox News and MSDNC have one thing in common: both suck, as all American "journalism" by and large sucks. So you may wish to use that cliche elsewhere.
Conservatives couldn’t live without direction from their puppetmasters and the institutions they embrace under the false disguise of “security” and “law and order”. Conservatives are not interested in anything but holding on the status quo and preserving their “traditions” – regardless how corrupt or immoral they have become. And they’re too afraid of “change” to do anything about it. Conservatives are FAR LESS likely to look outside their box for alternative views, opinions, and solutions. This is a neat fiction you cling to to make yourself feel better. You think every single person in this country thinks like you or must think like you; if they do not, someone else, like Fox News, the Koch brothers, or other boogiemen that you want to force to SHUT UP (because of your own deep-seated intolerance) have to be programming them to think a different way. You simply CANNOT TOLERATE the fact that people might think differently than you for a whole host of other reasons. In my case, much of the conclusions I draw come from practical life experience, nothing more, nothing less.
You whine that conservatives don't look elsewhere for alternative views, etc (or are FAR LESS likely to do so). Why, thank you for admitting you don't ever seriously look at conservatism - you have a view of them held up by cliches and you look at them through that prism. If you spent any amount of time reading NB you would realize that conservatives have - for years now - had intense disgareements over ideas and how to get from A to B. But you won't ever seriously look at or consider conservatism and the issues within conservatism or intra-Right debates. You will find that they are far more interesting than anything on the Left. On the Left, debates consists of who hates conservatives more and how much more freedom can be coughed up to the Nanny State.
"Progressives" like you are not interested in any solution that doesn't involve government. If you wake up and find you have a hangnail, or go to your car and find it has a flat tire - you run screaming to government. There is simply nothing in life to "progressives" that can't or shouldn't be solved by government. "Progressives" like you are very closed off in this way - no matter how corrupt the government is, your intense love and worship of government remains. It probably increases, in fact. If the government took away all of your economic and political freedoms, and taxed you at 100% in exchange for being endlessly babied, you would sign up immiediately, and you are pissed that not everyone feels the same way.
Conservatives look at government that governs as less intrusively as possible (not to be confused, as so may Statists/Socialists do, with "No government".) Conservatives would also rather be governed. "Progressives" will never be satisfied with the size of government, and they desperately want to be ruled.
To a conservative, government exists to protect private property and liberties - and are of the mind that government must be FORCED to do that. "Progressives" think government's sole reason for existence is to baby people. No matter that babying government has put the Europeans in a world of hurt (Syntagma Square, anyone?), government's sole reason to exist is to be populated by an elite that pampers and babies the masses, to a "progressive". And they cannot be shaken from their boundless faith in government.
You whine about projecting at the end. Be advised that in the five years I have been on NB that the fastest way I can find people who project is simply to locate those lofting the accusation. You project a lot of stupid cliches onto people, constantly. It's easier than you taking the time to think critically, I suppose.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Wow
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 10:09am.
That deserves a "SHACK!"
Well done.
Visiting Charleston inspired you? ;-)
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Funny how the left always claims conservatives have no new ideas
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 10:24am.
While they cling bitterly to the failed policies of the past.
Well done Unsane
Right...this 84
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:55pm.
Right...this 84 -year-old-woman decides to "I'd better check it out?" Any 84-year-old that didn't have grapes for brains would have thought "I'd better stay away."
By her own admission, she went because she thought there would be trouble.
If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen.
It's getting harder and
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:03am.
It's getting harder and harder to move around the website lately, because Clevie-Poo keeps leaving big piles of Kenyan Kow Krap everywhere he shows up...........
'You folks'............'you people'...............'wingnuts'............teabaggers'..............'idiots'............'circle jerks'......................all this coming from a guy who looks up to 'lawyers, teachers, journalists, 'scholars' (hey meat, what the hell is a 'scholar', anyway??), and artists'.................hell, no wonder the guy is dazed and confused - he's buying into the whole scam - lock, stock, and barrel.
It's late over there, meat............don't you have to be at your union job tomorrow??? Or maybe you'll be making molotov cocktails???
Yep............I'm afwaid............weally afwaid. If 'anarchy' means 'survival of the fittest'...........then I'm in pretty good shape, but it appears that YOUR backers are throwing in the towel on your bowel movement, because it's making your Boy Barry and the rest of the big-government commies look bad.
Another Socialist thief darkens NB
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 8:16am.
Just another Socialist thief who is too chicken to do the stealing himself, so he needs the government to steal FOR him.
Not to mention you are extremely angry that there is such a thing as a profit motive; that government isn't pampering and babying everyone, and that Fox News isn't being forced to SHUT UP for even daring to admit that there MIGHT be another point of view.
You are so intellectually bankrupt you cannot tolerate any other point of view other than your Socialist one. All others, in your view, must be forced into absolute silence.
Maybe you should pack and move to Greece. They need your tax money...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
You actually think this drip
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 8:20am.
You actually think this drip PAYS taxes??? Oh............he says he's a proud union member, so maybe he does. But if he's in a public sector union, then basicaly WE'RE paying his salary AND his taxes, so he's burning us coming AND going!!!
Straight from the DU.
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:23am.
A true "grass-roots" movement like Moveon.org perhaps. I'm sure Mr. Soros is involved at least indirectly.
How 'bout the spew we're getting from Pravda-NBC, Cleve. You know, that classy organization that features Special Ed Sgt. Shultz, Tingles Matthews, Rachel Madcow, and up until recently, rabbied-infested Olberdouchebag, and now Sharpton's wit (we really aren't expected to take what he says seriously now, are we?)
Lawyers: democrats. Teachers: democrats. Journalists: democrats. Scholars (from universities, I would assume): democrats. Artists: BIG 'D' Democrats..... I sense a common thread here.
What about middle-American 9-to-5 joe-the-plumber types who put in a hard day's work to support their families? Ooops... I just described the tea partiers, and we all know that they're not really grass-roots, right?
How much violence did we get from Tea Pary protests? How much were we supposed to expect according to the established media? How much violence did we actually get from OWS? How much were we told by the established media to expect, and how much of that was whitwashed by the same media outlets as "fringe"? Remind me again, Cleve, who the real propagandists are?
And your pretty picture links to the DU. You haven't been visiting this site often, now, have you, Cleve, ol' buddy? If you did, you'd know how much respect we have for the DU, and how much we would take anything they say at face value.
"...After the POLICE became violent?" Oh, that's something we can all believe to be true, especailly considering the source.
Be afwaid? Be afwaid of what exactly. EXACTLY WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING HERE, Cleve, ol' pal?
Don't be shy... say it! Prove to all of us that we're right about you, and your silly little movement. Go ahead... DO IT, ol' buddy!
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
I'm not your 'ol buddy
Submitted by Clevenative on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:09pm.
My tongue-in-cheek closing remark was only meant to make you think before dismissing the "power of the people".
The unprovoked violence by police is well-documented (Never covered by the "lamestream media" of course - but thanks to modern technology something that cannot be denied.)
Explain to me why Bloomberg raided the OWS camp under the darkness of night and with an ordered "media blackout"? And what was the point of confiscating 50,000 books and reading material? Fascists!
That a public park, specifically designed and legislated to house the homeless, would have a contingent of druggies, wayward youth, public nudity, mentally challenged, etc should be of no shock to anyone. Those things went on in that park, mostly ignored by the media, long before OWS decided to occupy it. But of course the fascist right-wing media is playing Ministry of Propaganda to paint those few as the "image" of the movement.
Call it "silly" or "my" movement - We'll see how "silly" it is a year from now.
Here's a "Special Comment" from the guy you people love to hate almost as much as President Obama. And there's a reason he's no longer part of that "lamestream media" - he's always spoke truth to power...
Keith Olbermann Condemns Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street Raid (VIDEO)
I know it's a bit longer than the 30 second out-of-context soundbites usually used here - and way longer than the normal focus and concentration limits of most conservatives, but well worth the listen.
'Truth to power'??? Definitly
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:31pm.
'Truth to power'??? Definitly one of the stupidest phrases ever spewed in the ANALS of history by libs...............and you're using Keef as an example??? Jeez, meat...............you're getting lamer by the day.
That's all I can write.......my focus and concentration are fading away too fast!!!
Hey Dummy:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:01am.
"I thought I better check it out.” Yeah, smart idea, Granny.
Would you advise your 84 yr old grandma to go rabble-rousing with the mob? It's just as idiotic as your female moonbats who bring their babies and small toddlers to these things.
The mob wanted a reaction and they got it, LOL.
They are really sticking it to the 1% today
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:34am.
Blocking middle class workers from getting to their jobs, shutting down small businesses and don't forget they are really making life a living hell for all those 1%ers that ride the subway. Anarchists, American hating union thugs, Marxists, who all want a free ride.
Their current list of demands:
Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.
Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.
Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.
Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.
Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.
Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.
Create a single-payer, universal health care system.
Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.
Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.
Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.
Allow workers to elect their supervisors.
Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.
Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.
Ban the private ownership of land.
Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.
Reduce the age of majority to 16.
Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.
Release all political prisoners immediately.
Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Abolish the debt limit.
Ban private gun ownership.
Strengthen the separation of church and state.
Immediate debt forgiveness for all.
End the 'War on Drugs'.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
That's a pretty good list
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:25pm.
Even if you don't have a link for it or made it up, that just about covers it -- except for the "surrender your sovereignty to the UN in the name of repairing all the (non-existent) damages from global warming."
The "guild" can endorce them
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:31pm.
The "guild" can endorce them all they want, It's the American Citizens endorcement that matters and I don't think they have it.
Unions come out of the Marxist closet
Submitted by CT on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 6:12pm.
Just one more union announcing there eminent demise on the scrap heap of failed Marxist ideology.