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Posted on 10/03/2011 11:03:32 AM PDT by Beckett08
Protesters fed up with Wall Street's practices and influence woke up Monday to their third morning of camping outside Los Angeles City Hall.
Some of the approximately 100 activists planned to head across the street to join the throng outside the courthouse where Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is on trial.
Members of Occupy Los Angeles, as their group is called, said they hoped to attract more media attention to their cause, which draws its inspiration from the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
NY Police Suppress Mass March of Thousands from Wall Street to Brooklyn
After a week of violent police assaults on demonstrators, NY Police mass arrest more than 700 peaceful protesters in lower Manhattan
In a premeditated plan to suppress a peaceful protest of more than 5,000 people, the New York City Police trapped and arrested more than 700 people yesterday in lower Manhattan as they marched from the Occupy Wall Street encampment to Brooklyn.
New York City police during the past 10 days have been beating peaceful demonstrators, running them over with police motorcycles and engaging in unprovoked pepper spray assaults in a frantic effort to drive demonstrators from lower Manhattan.
At least 15 young organizers of the ANSWER Coalition were among the more than 700 people who were illegally arrested in this premeditated police operation on the Brooklyn Bridge. This is an effort to intimidate and repress the growing Occupy Wall Street movement.
They want to smash this protest movement but they will not succeed. In fact, police repression will galvanize even larger protests.
A new global mass protest movement has gripped the Middle East and Europe, and is taking shape now in the United States. Wherever the people are rising up against unemployment and austerity, government repression and corporate domination, they have been met with police repression. But these movements will not be stopped.
The assault on peaceful demonstrators yesterday in lower Manhattan is part of desperate police operation designed to stop and shut down the Occupy Wall Street movement which has gained new support in recent days from a growing number of labor unions whose members are facing mass layoffs, wage and benefit cutbacks and union busting efforts by the government.
http://www.answercoalition.org/national/index.html
Don’t anybody shoot me, but these “anti-wall street” protests are something that both sides can get behind, philosophically, anyway. The “too big to fail” issue, the Mortgages at discount sale, but not for you and me (a thread right here on FR) and other actions being taken do appear to be there to bail out some very prosperous individuals on the backs of the taxpayers. And Wall Street is a huge recipient, hence the disconnect between wall street prosperity and main street prosperity.
My question is...why aren’t they protesting DC?
What these folks are missing is that it’s not just corporate influence on gov’t. It’s gov’t abuse of its power. The corruption goes both ways.
It’s not just corrupt business folks trying to get gov’t to give them a bigger market share, it’s corrupt gov’t folks giving businesses a hard time if they don’t ante up into the game.
Politicians love to be able to grant favors to friends and ignore, if not outright harm, enemies. If gov’t didn’t do that, there wouldn’t be as much of a need for lobbyists.
The two of you have not been on FR long enough,
The Tea Party was started by some very honestly upset citizens, and quickly taken over in large part by very specialized special interest groups.
The OccupyWallstreet group was started by not very honest special interest groups using Black Flag operations, and has now been overtaken by very specialized radicals bankrolled by billionaires.
We are watching the modern equivalent of the late rent-a-mob rioters in the late Roman Empire, paid by competing factions of elitist looters to pressure the other elitists into capitulating control of various scarce resources.
I have been on Free Republic for years - this is posted as news not as an endorsement.
Is there an Occupy Hollyweird??
Occupy Warren Buffett, George Soros, Peter Lewis, GM, GE??
Actually, I’ve been here quite a while. I also understand what you are saying in your post but it is not really getting at what I meant.
I’m just trying to say that both the right and left really do have an issue they can get behind here. It is not a “hate the rich” thing for those of us on the right. Rather, it is letting bankers not only get away with things that would land you or me in jail for a very long time, but even giving them money and power - and special deals that make Hillary’s cattle futures thing look like chump change.
And it feels a bit like we are being divided and conquered.
And it feels a bit like we are being divided and conquered.
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jay Gould
US financier & railroad businessman (1836 - 1892)
I went over to the Occupy Wall Street facebook page and posted. "I never heard of a corporation taking money from anyone under the threat of seizing their assets or throwing them in jail. Government, on the other hand, does that all the time."
I got some pretty angry responses, but I couldn't care less about what these loons have to say.
The majority of the protests should be there, AFAIC.
We need our own “PROTEST”. I have no idea if this is true but it sounds like a damn good idea!
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So next Saturday at 1 P.M. Eastern Time, all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists.
Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort.
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Since Islam also does not approve of alcohol, a cold 6-pack at your side is further proof of your patriotism.
God Bless America!!
P.S. If you don’t show up with at least 1 additional person, you’re a terrorist-sympathizing, lily-livered coward and are possibly aiding and abetting terrorists.
Actually shutting down LA City Hall doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
We’re all nearly on the same page,
it’s just hard too see how the folks down on Wall Street demanding a totalitarian corporatist state not controlled by bankers and controlled by unelected government bureaucrats is really going to find common cause with most people in this country.
Some of the live streaming interviews I’ve seen from WallSt are the US equivalent of the Chavistas protests during the months after the failed coup detat attempt against Chavez. Truly ugly vile stuff.
We are witnessing the decoupling of the myth of the American Dream from the reality of an American populace brainwashed and lethargic under decades of falsehoods.
IMHO this is just the leading edge of the chaos, realistically we’re talking from 2017 to 2025 for employment to reach the peaks of 2006/2007. We’re talking about 20 to 35 million households underwater on mortgages for the next decade, We’re talking two generations of lost souls, and all of the ugly dynamics that have been conversational staples of FR for a decade.
The (professional) organizers running around in the background down on WallStreet are hardcore Communists/Socialists, NY State Communist Party, Working Families Party, some old school militant Puerto Rican activists/community organizers from the Bronx and Spanish Harlem, Free Palestine, Nuclear Free Future, NYCLU, 9/11 Truthers, Gay Lesbian Trans Equality Activists, etc. The regular rainbow of NYC protest movements.
There are several hundred thousand unemployed or underemployed Public Relations/graphic design/communications etc professionals and aspiring pros within an hour of Wall Street, the ability for this group to project their message beyond the size of their actual numbers is not to be underestimated.
Total freaking circus and I don’t see Mayor Bloomberg taking a ‘softly, softly’ approach if this extends to Devil’s Night. Oct 30th is going to be complete chaos if this has staying power.
—The (professional) organizers running around in the background down on WallStreet are hardcore Communists/Socialists, NY State Communist Party, Working Families Party...—
You forgot the Lyndon Larouche kids. NO matter what year it is, the guys at the booth are college freshmen. :-D
Just found out a specific person running some of this... Jed Brandt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emANByDOh0
These protests could turn into a intra-party fight to take over the Democrat Party in NY State, with the probable winners being the truly radical activists.
Will be interesting to watch Schumer, Gov Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and the NYCity Council respond to this in the coming weeks.
The people who directed the Wall street protest at the Brooklyn bridge,got on top of the walkway and basically yelled for a while and they were in no real danger of being imprisoned while 700 of their followers stayed on the bridge and got arrested.
All in all I think anyone with any kind of subjective skills would do well to stay away from such people.
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