Is The Occupy Wall Street Movement an Answer to The Tea Party Movement?

[Teatownclown]

and there's this: Something Big Is Happening: Occupy Together Wednesday 5 October 2011
by: Jim Hightower, Truthout

"This is not your grandfather's tightly organized protest. In fact, it's intentionally loose -- there is no "leader" or leadership council. Instead, group decisions are reached through a consensus-based democratic process. With no faith in traditional politics or conventional media, the mostly young protestors have taken to the streets to make their points, using their well-honed "culture of the web" to organize, strategize, harmonize and mobilize.

Their Liberty Square encampment might look chaotic at first, but look again. It includes a medical clinic, media center, cafeteria and library. Food? Their widely viewed website lets anyone in the world go online and have pizzas delivered to them from a local shop. They even produce their own newspaper, appropriately named the Occupied Wall Street Journal."



http://www.truth-out.org/something-big-happening-occupy-together/1317837367


I'm thinking the NYC cops have done them a great service entrapping, macing, and arresting peaceful demonstrators. You can't buy that type of publicity.

[Gaspar]

This party was made for you.

[Teatownclown]

This party was made for you.

Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


Here. More proof Biden needs to go: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/biden-wall-street-protesters-lot-common-tea-party-174258972.html
The "occupiers" are making the GOP/Teabaggers look like a, well, tea party.

An Open Letter to Wall Street http://www.truth-out.org/open-letter-wall-street/1317680703

"Let's face it: the mess outside your office is your doing. You and your friends bought this democracy wholesale - ah, yes, the irony of freedom is found in the way you were able to corrupt so many legislators with your money, always legally, because the legislators you bought are the ones writing the laws covering political contributions, and thus the wheel of corruption turns and turns - and now you want this democracy to do your bidding after the bill for your excess and fathomless greed has come due."

[patric]

"My little nightstick's gonna get a workout tonight"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBxPzhXFT6c[/youtube]
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/06/2011-10-06_occupy_wall_street_protesters_post_video_of_cop_bragging_my_nightsticks_gonna_ge.html?r=news

[Gaspar]

Updated Manifesto

David Harsanyi | October 5, 2011

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, women, and transgendered—and any other human who is able to elude the tyranny of work for a couple of weeks—are created equal. We gather to be free not of tyranny, but of responsibility and college tuitions. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that a government long established and a nation long prosperous be changed for light and transient causes. So let our demands* be submitted to a candid world.

First, we are imbued with as many inalienable rights as a few thousand college kids and a gaggle of borderline celebrities can concoct, among them a guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment and immediate across-the-board debt forgiveness—even if that debt was acquired taking on a mortgage with a 4.1 percent interest rate and no money down, which, we admit, is a pretty sweet deal in historical context...

...but down with the modern gilded age!

We demand that a Master of Fine Arts in musical theater writing, with a minor in German, become an immutable human right, because education is crucial and rich people can afford to fund unemployment checks until we find jobs or in perpetuity, whichever comes first.

We demand a minimum wage of $10, no ... make it $20. We earned it. And we demand the end of "profiteering," because there is no better way to end joblessness than stopping the growth of capital. We also demand a maximum wage law, because selfish American dreams need a firm ceiling.

We demand the institution of direct democracy, because if a bunch of people say it's OK, it's OK. And everyone deserves to have his or her voice heard. Except Mr. Moneybags, who we demand stop contributing his own money to candidates we disagree with, to issue groups we loathe, and to lobbyists who do not work for organizations featuring "Service," "Employees," "International" and/or "Union" in their title.

We demand the end to bailouts and corporate subsidies, unless we're talking about companies that feature sunflowers or sun rays in their logos, because that's the kind of morally gratifying institution we approve of, and thus, they should totally be fast-tracked and bailed out with your money to bring the fossil fuel economy ("the economy") to an end.

We demand the end to a corrupt Wall Street ("Apple" "your 401(k)") because banks hold too much power. We demand that government consolidate authority so that elected officials can make prudent choices for us. All that cash in banks was printed by the war god Mars and has nothing to do with the voluntary deposits by ordinary Americans, so we do not consider this theft.

We demand the end to corporate censorship, because if we can't force private news organizations to run the types of stories with which we agree, there can't be a healthy democracy. So actually, we demand the end of all corporate news organizations in the name of free speech.

We demand the end to health profiteering, because everyone knows that all the wondrous and lifesaving advances in modern medicine were invented in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos. Smart people work for the good of humanity, not because they're greedy.

We demand these rights because of the mass injustice of being able to freely protest against racism and corporatism without any real fear of imprisonment in the most diverse city on earth. And to the wiseguy who walked by the other day and claimed that I'd be writing this manifesto with a quill pen on parchment paper if it weren't for capitalism, we have two words for you: Koch brothers. Think about it.

This is the fifth communiqué from the 99.9 percent. We are occupying Wall Street, and we're not going home until it gets really cold.

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.

[guido911]

But...but...but...the Tea Party Gas? Excellent description by Harsanyi, but I agree with others that you should post links.

Exit question: There seems to be lots of white people in this group; racism?

[Conan71]

Looks like a bunch of white haters to me.  Their anger is obviously racist since they are angry at a capitalist system run by a black fellow.  That would be the construct anyhow if they were young Republicans.

[Townsend]

I agree with others that you should post links.

That was a joke like most of his posts

Exit question: There seems to be lots of white people in this group; racism?

You and I disagree on the group apparently.

[Gaspar]

Soon it won't be important. 

The AFL-CIO has issued orders for members to take over the protests.  They have or will be contacting each local group and throwing lots of organization and money behind the effort.  Poor stupid kids won't even know what hit em!

[guido911]

You and I disagree on the group apparently.

I'm shocked at that revelation.

[Townsend]

I'm shocked at that revelation.

I'll point out the crazies and you back them for office.

[Conan71]

Soon it won't be important. 

The AFL-CIO has issued orders for members to take over the protests.  They have or will be contacting each local group and throwing lots of organization and money behind the effort.  Poor stupid kids won't even know what hit em!

I see a new gig coming for the carpenter's union protestors.

[Gaspar]

The Occupy protests may be a good way for migrant workers to make money.  An organizer for the DC protest has admitted paying people to join the protest.  Apparently there was not enough diversity.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/06/organizer-admits-to-paying-occupy-dc-protesters-video/

[Townsend]

The Occupy protests may be a good way for migrant workers to make money.  An organizer for the DC protest has admitted paying people to join the protest.  Apparently there was not enough diversity.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/06/organizer-admits-to-paying-occupy-dc-protesters-video/

Gosh, a plant you think?

A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.

TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.

One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C.

Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said.

Interviewed in Spanish, the protesters told conflicting stories about how their group was organized. Some said it was organized at their church, and that they were there as volunteers. Others, however, referred to the man from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition — the only Caucasian in the group — as their “boss.”

TheDC asked that organizer whether he was paying the group to attend the protest, and he conceded that some protesters “aren’t” volunteers.

“Some of them are volunteers. Some of them aren’t,” he explained. “I can’t identify them. I’m not going to get into an identification game.”

Who starts a real story with "a liberal organizer"?

[Gaspar]

Who starts a real story with "a liberal organizer"?

You're right, it's kind of an oxymoron.