Posted on 10/04/2011 4:39:47 PM PDT by mdittmar
New York area union members will join an expected several thousand labor activists and supporters tomorrow in a Wall Street march and rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
The grassroots-grown protest is now in its third week, with a diverse array of people from across the country camping out in the heart of the financial district to demand Wall Street is held accountable for the schemes and reckless games that led to the nation’s economic collapse.
The mostly young Occupy Wall Street protesters are “speaking for the vast majority of Americans who are frustrated by the bankers and brokers who have profited on the backs of hard working people,” says Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) President Larry Hanley.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), says Occupy Wall Street “has brought into sharp focus a reality that cannot be denied.”
Corporate greed is responsible for harming the lives of millions of working people and unemployed people.…A small group of firms, banks, and corporations now hold trillions worth of our collective wealth and assets. That money should be invested in job creation on a massive scale and used to rebuild countless lives damaged by the recklessness that caused the recession.
Over the weekend, the 800 young activists at the AFL-CIO’s Next Up Young Workers Summit in Minneapolis threw their strong support to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Wall Street symbolizes this simple truth: a small group of people have the lives and livelihoods of working Americans in their hands…. We stand together in calling for a country that doesn’t just work for the top 1 percent. We stand together to call for a sustainable future that doesn’t begin with massive tax breaks for the wealthy and end with austerity measures and a jobs crisis.
Jim Gannon, a spokesman for the Transport Workers (TWU), told the Daily Beast:
We view the protests as young people who are articulating the same kind of things that we’ve been trying to articulate… they’ve really thrown a spotlight on issues that are bothering people, especially bothering workers like our members.
Click here for more information on the action which begins at 4:30 p.m. EDT and here for a map and directions. If you are not in New York, can also click here to join the Virtual March on Wall Street from Rebuild the Dream and MoveON. Follow the action on Twitter with the hashtag #occupyWallStreet.
The mask comes off. OWS is misdirection and propaganda in support of Obama 2012.
Wonder what old stuart will say when windows are broken out of Department Stores?
Obama IS the rich...and the powerful and it is his cronies on Wall Street that they're protesting against. It's the classic tactic of dictators - blame everyone else for what you are doing. The slaves on the plantation are fighting for the slave-master.
Proudly part of the “1%”’er!!! Besides, it’s icky if you don’t!
But I will NOT do my hair....does that count?
Will they be getting time and a half?
Trumka appears to be in charge of suiciding the union movement.
Anyone want to join and take part in the violence?
No one will want to go union after this. What a moron.
Lock 'n load.
The Left is all in on this one. They are about to find they are riding the tiger.
“Sure wish these brain dead neocommunists would show their fannies in our neck of the woods.”
All blue state so far. Scared. So not utterly stupid.
>> But I will NOT do my hair....does that count?
Yeah, it’s good for a couple of points or so.
Hardcore FR fanatics like me chose a mom that passed on male pattern baldness so we don’t have much to fuss with.
If several thousand labor activists somehow have time for something like this, you know what the "labor" is NOT about: work.
The investigations of this administration’s crimes could carry us in to the next century!
It’s beginning and it will not be pretty. You will see the grungy kids replaced with bus drivers, iron workers, carpenters, and cops and teachers and their families. The unions may be less than 20% of the labor force, but they have an organizational ability that is a force multiplier or great proportions. If they are not stupid and don’t turn to violence they have a chance to move the country in their direction, unless the Tea Party can mobilize to meet them.
Are they going to protest Obama’s Wall Street Cabinet?
I win!!
>> That also leaves me with more volumizing mouse
You sure you don’t mean volumizing *moose*?
I would suggest that this is a poor time for sluggish, thuggish agitators to gain adherents to their cause. And a piss poor patchwork crew of misfits to hook your wagon to.
This is no “grassroots-grown protest”.
This is a centrally planned program.
I live in Longview, WA, and the ILWU has been directed from outside the local region to wreck havoc at the Port of Longview.
The union here is losing popular support.
I made that same point to a Commie on Facebook. She claims that they’re all peaceful. Idiot.
Greed goes both ways. Corporations are like any abusive organization or being. They have power thru wealth. They use it to lobby government to protect their interests. They will cheat the taxpayer as long government looks the other way and corrupt gov officials. It is old as history itself. Unions began as a movement, but like all movements it becomes a business and then a racket. Both have been abusive and both have played a role in destroying common sense and trust in America. Now they want to kill each other to gain publicity. As far as I am concern, the best way to get rid of the left and greedy CEO is let come leftist fanatic shoot a banker and we arrest the leftist for murder. Now we get rid of both social pests. IMHO keep out of the fight, the leftist union and corporate bankers deserve each other. It is call God’s justice.
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