We are the 99 Percent

[peacepipe]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...ass?via=blog_1

Working America, the affiliate of the AFL-CIO that organizes workers from non-union workplaces, has signed up approximately 25,000 new recruits in the last week alone, thanks largely to the high visibility of the protests.
Karen Nussbaum, the executive director of Working America, tells me that this actually dwarfs their most successful recruiting during the Wisconsin protests. “In so many ways, Wisconsin was a preview of what we’re now seeing,” Nussbaum says. “We thought it was big when we got 20,000 members in a month during the Wisconsin protests. This shows how much bigger this is.” [....]

Nussbaum says that her organizers report that new recruits often mention the protests in a positive light, even though they have very little in common in cultural terms

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by peacepipe

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...ass?via=blog_1

Maybe this will be the birth of a labor party in the U.S.?

[Meck77]

So didn't the 99% already vote for change? If they didn't get the change they were promised then shouldn't they be protesting against Obama?

[chadta]

Originally Posted by Meck77

So didn't the 99% already vote for change? If they didn't get the change they were promised then shouldn't they be protesting against Obama?

arent these the same 99% that were crying a week ago when steve jobs passed away ? or is greed only a bad thing when its not made by a guy that makes a product you like ? Sure he only took a salary of a dollar, but 5.5 million shares are worth a pretty penny, and the COO made almost 60 million last year, but i guess thats ok cuz he sells iphones and not oil or gas.

[El Jué]

You guys are going to have to be the 98.999999% or something. I'm not available.

[El Jué]

Originally Posted by epicSocialism4tw

These aren't capitalists:


They're communists.

They don't know enough about communism to be communists, even though some of them think they're against capitalism.

A capitalist is a guy who opens a bike shop because he's always liked to ride and he know a lot about it and he figures he can make enough money to keep himself in rent and groceries and toys and employees. Capitalism is dandy.

Corporatists and the government they own are a huge problem.

[Spider]

Originally Posted by El Jué

They don't know enough about communism to be communists, even though some of them think they're against capitalism.

A capitalist is a guy who opens a bike shop because he's always liked to ride and he know a lot about it and he figures he can make enough money to keep himself in rent and groceries and toys and employees. Capitalism is dandy.

Corporatists and the government they own are a huge problem.

nice post

[cutthemdown]

Obama endorsing the protestors will probably lose him the independent vote in Fla, NC. I think states like New Mexico, Colo, Iowa could become really tough fights for him also.

[alkemical]

LULZ @ Obama trying to grab onto #Occupy.

They don't want you either!

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by alkemical

what would happen, if say....people started moving their assets over to credit unions?

[TonyR]

A reader writes:

...We march for three simple things: tighter regulation of the financial industry (a return to Glass-Steagall would be a big step), a demand for shared sacrifice amongst *100%* of this country, and to wake up those in Congress who have been listening only to the lobbyists and the media chattering classes, and losing sight of the fact that this country is a DEMOCRACY, of the people, by the people, and for the people.

These are not radical notions, and they're not even strictly left-wing (personal responsibility seems like a classic conservative belief to me). This is the no-longer silent majority in this country, across the spectrum, who have finally had enough.

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast....l-notions.html

[TonyR]

By confronting Wall Street, it is creating the populist energy that Obama himself has not. What we are witnessing in Zuccotti Park actually represents an improvement over the Obama campaign. That campaign was largely about faith in one man. The Occupy Wall Street movement, by contrast, represents a direct reckoning with the most powerful forces in American life, forces that are not voted in and out of office every two or four years. And it represents a belief that young Americans must force that reckoning by themselves. No politician will do it for them. Those instincts are exactly right, and we’ve never needed them more.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...=Google+Reader

[TonyR]

This old Calvin & Hobbes strip nails it!!!

[broncocalijohn]

Originally Posted by Meck77

So didn't the 99% already vote for change? If they didn't get the change they were promised then shouldn't they be protesting against Obama?

I hope these people realize that it is guys in Washington like Obama who they should be protesting against. Funny how Rangel goes down there to "lend his support" when he voted for TARP and bailouts. If most of these people had a clue, they would have strung him up or start a tar and feathering spectacular.
Protest? Sure but know who is the enemy and who is the phony baloneys.

[alkemical]

"Thank you for starting a movement. But you have a long way to go. This enemy of ours is not just..."
“Thank you for starting a movement. But you have a long way to go. This enemy of ours is not just Wall Street— it’s a whole culture. It’s a way of looking at us, and valuing ourselves and each other. And how you are going to move beyond challenging Wall Street, how you’re going to move to become part of the solution, is not gonna be easy. You’re gonna have to do a lot of thinking. You have to look at how you yourselves have become part of this culture. You’re gonna have to look at how many of you would be happy if you could become part of Wall Street, and become part of the corporations, if they would give you jobs. There’s a long road ahead, because you have the opportunity to create something new, that’s based on completely different values. But you’re gonna have to be thinking about values, and not just about abuses.”

- Grace Lee Boggs (via wecanbenew)

[alkemical]

I wonder if product placement earns donation points.

[alkemical]

[alkemical]

"So yeah, I’m looking back at my snide post where I called the vanguard of this “trustafarians,” and..."
“So yeah, I’m looking back at my snide post where I called the vanguard of this “trustafarians,” and once again, I feel like an idiot. This may still fizzle out without any real change, but right now, it seems to be building, and the reason it is is because a small group of people went out there and publicly voiced their displeasure with the **** I’ve been sitting on my fat ass writing dyspeptic posts about for the last year, but not really doing a god damned thing to enact change. Yeah, it was some jackasses with a drum circle, and no, they didn’t have a point by point plan or coherent media strategy like some anal retentive douchebags like me were demanding. But they went out there and did something, and it seems to be working. Let’s hope it keeps growing.”

- The More This Happens — John Cole admits he was wrong about #OccupyWallStreet (via underthemountainbunker)

[Spider]

[alkemical]

Several Marines to support Occupy Wall Street
Several Marines to support Occupy Wall Street:

So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform. I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it’s Congress’ turn.

My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the ****ing Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets

[broncocalijohn]

Originally Posted by alkemical

I wonder if product placement earns donation points.

That could almost be for the Solyandra "Green" loan!

[alkemical]

Liveblogged account of the Brooklyn Bridge arrests:

http://occupywallstreet.tumblr.com/post/10902752183

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by broncocalijohn

That could almost be for the Solyandra "Green" loan!

If you think that the overall idea of the movement supports such actions, you'd be incorrect.

[TonyR]

Originally Posted by broncocalijohn

...Protest? Sure but know who is the enemy and who is...

Read posts 437 and 438, among many others. This has been addressed many times.

[Spider]

Originally Posted by alkemical

Several Marines to support Occupy Wall Street
Several Marines to support Occupy Wall Street:

So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform. I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it’s Congress’ turn.

My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the ****ing Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets

dayum good message