Posted on 05/19/2015 1:28:44 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Remember the protests (and riots) in Ferguson last summer? It looks like at least some of the protestors were told they would be paid to show up and now they're upset the checks haven't arrived yet. Weaselzippers has the full story and the screen shots showing "protestors" using the Twitter hashtag #cutthecheck in response to non-payment. Based on tweets, Organize Missouri is responsible for issuing payments.
On May 14, protesters, upset with not being paid their promised checks for protesting, protested outside MORE, Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment, an ACORN organization which had received funding through George Soros to fund the protests.
This is far from the first time protestors have been paid to show up "for the cause." In fact the woman behind similar ordeals like Occupy Wall Street, Lisa Fithian, is a professional agitator and organizer who is paid by a number of progressive organizations to stir unrest in communities all over the country.
At some point, there will be a revolt. Enough of this krap. That prison camp in northwest Alaska is getting bigger and bigger for these fascist thugs.
Maybe their Community Organizer in Chief can help them. He’s in with ACORN.
Put em together and - presto - free contraceptives for everyone; 'comprehensive' immigration reform; a federalized police force.
If only it were as easy to undo the hash the left has made of everything.
I see this starting all over in the Waco affair. Organized reactors at the ready in the media, on the ground, and with government backing in the case of the Justice Department against cops.
Commie pinko honkies wont share the wealth.
RICO!
Astroturf...
I’m not a lawyer but I would imagine that anyone injured or who lost property due to the demonstrations might consider suing for recovery of their loss and if they were paid insurance money, perhaps the insurance companies involved would be interested in recouping the money they had to pay out.
“If only it were as easy to undo the hash the left has made of everything.”
It would be easy IF we had a party representing the right. Currently it seems we are lacking in that area.
Or, for all us FReepers...
“NOW PROCEUTE!!!!!!!”
I wonder what the tally is up to for all the issues and events that should be prosecuted, but are not. I also wonder if WE are the stoopid ones for thinking any of this is going to change by continuing to put our hopes in the same people and methods. Really...., how many times are we gonna keep expecting/hoping for different results while we keep doing the same thing?
Lisa’s rather well known. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/lisa-fithian-occupy-wall-street-teaching-civil-disobedience
The people at the New York Times ares stupid enough to believe these are real protesters... OR they’re on the take like ABC News...
Jeff Ordower is a longtime labor and community organizer. Shortly after moving to New York for college in 1987, he came out of the closet and became active in his school’s LGBT student group, which engaged in a range of creative direct actions and won policy changes.
Jeff began his professional organizing career as a graduate of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute and was a union organizer for SEIU in Texas.
After a brief escape to the rainforest to learn Spanish, he began organizing for ACORN, where he was a Head Organizer in Houston, Philadelphia and Connecticut before becoming Midwest Director in 2003. Always interested in intersectional work, Ordower was one of a group of founders of the Chicago based organization Gender Just, which merged queer, class and racial justice.
When ACORN was destroyed in 2009, he stayed in his hometown of St. Louis to help found Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), which works on climate and economic justice work. Ordower has also worked nationally on anti-Wall Street fights with Occupy Homes and the Home Defenders League, and is a member of the National Collective of Rising Tide North America, which engages in non-violent direct action, targeting the root cause of climate change, especially global finance capital.
Currently, in addition to working with MORE, Ordower is welcoming co-conspirators in attempts to scale up numbers of radical organizers who can financially support themselves in the work.
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