Occupy Wall Street Movement Spreads Across the World!

Atlanta has been occupied for 2 hours and they are rocking it on their live stream!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupyatlanta

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s"]Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land - YouTube

 

Orison, did you see the guy playing that on banjo at the Atlanta Occupation?

 

If you can't visit a protest you can still send the message.

Vote with your dollars. Take a moment to consider where you spend your hard earned money and vote with it. It's one of the loudest voices you have.

Close your account with abusive greedy banks and get with a credit union. Find co-operative financial institutions and member owned organizations that serve their members.

 

People should keep in mind that spreading bullshit, is not the way to gain support for these movements.

You may have noticed my sig changed again and no longer lists the Occupy Toronto's facebook page.

The admin of the page has posted dozens and dozens of posts in the last day about how facebook is censoring his posts. Every post that he claims has been censored, is there, he is just too stupid to click recent posts to find them.

I finally had to unlike the page to stop my wall from being spammed every 5 minutes with his idiocy.

I left this message on the wall for him;

 

Haha. Yeah, he's such a n00b. I sort of found his freak out a little funny.
He's not spamming anymore. Lesson learned. The page is safe to like again.

Are you coming down, Tom?
I'll be in Toronto this week for the Canadian Spoken Word Festival and plan to stick around for the Occupy. On the Sat there is usually 'Guerrilla Poetry' where poets take to the streets. I'm hoping they end up at Occupy, too.

 

Me, in a crowd of people? I thought we wanted this thing to be peaceful? lol

As for the safe to like again... no, he is still bitching about it... I'll just keep using the occupytogether site instead to send people to.

 

Haha! Fair enough!

 

Unfortunately too many people who agree with the protesters in principle don't see any point in protesting. They feel corporations don't care about the will of the people and never will. People feel powerless to change things.

Corporations make their own laws. You want to pass new regulations against them? They eat regulations for lunch. You want to raise their taxes? No problem, they'll just relocate to some third world country where the people don't give a shit if the American middle class is being erased; they're happy to work for wages which barely put food in their mouths and keep their tin shacks heated.

I've always believed in peaceful dissent, but in this case can it really make a change? I fear that the only way to get them to tow the line is acts of violence against corporate bigwigs, make them fear for their safety. I hope they wake up and clean up their acts before it comes to that.

 

Agreed, but the art of loving peace. Are you critical for Eric Fromm Laura Schlesinger instead of Adler, Schlesinger, or Dr. Ruth?

 

Almost every major city in Massachusetts is participating in this.

I know a local city to me just started a "branch" of the movement and is planning an assembly tomorrow afternoon.

The latest city update I saw was 998 cities protesting.

 

It is definitely getting media attention In the capital of Sacramento, it just started here on Thursday and immediately got on the local news. The radio has also been reporting on this a lot more the the main stream media as well. It is most definitely growing and not slowing down but the fact that they don't have a clear message yet is making it hard for the media to report what they want. I think if they made it clearer what they are against and what they are for it would help the cause a lot.

 

LOL, Tom, you have a way with words.

I totally relate to what your saying. I do feel powerless over corporations. I think thats the problem. We, the consumer have no protections. We have to demand more consumer protections. Your right, the corps and big banks have made laws, thru buying off politicians, so that they are never in the wrong and cant be sued or regulated. Thats got to change.

 

Roland Martin from CNN;

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/08/opinion/martin-occupy-wall-street/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

On the lighter side of it all...

seen on Livestream Chat

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/08/politics/dc-protest-museum/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

Portland's occupation is rowdy!

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/08/f-vp-bambury-wall-street.html

 

Do most of these protestors know exactly who they're protesting against?



Some interesting observations:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJtWzuowSIk"]Do Wall Street Protestors Know What They're Protesting? - YouTube