Wall Street Protests
 

Well, many protests start small and grow, and it takes the media a while to catch on, but this is now the most under-reported story of the year.

Here's the A(ussie)BC http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-0...?section=world

Three weeks of continuous "occupation", 700 arrests, hardly any mention.

This is floating around on FB, I cannot verify it. Anyone?

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Another person posted this:

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If only the cellar had a New York stringer. Who wasn't completely nuts.

Oh and another friend posted this link: which seems to be genuine.

http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corpora...=580&width=850

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the Huffington Post is reporting on it.

I expect a drum circle to break out any minute now.

The image is fake. It's not even taken in the right place.

I wish the Occupy Wall Street message was more clear. I really want them to accomplish something good.

Off topic, but pissing me off (tangentially related because they are making fun of the Occupy Wall Street folks): I'm watching CNN for the first time in a couple years. Apparently you can't say "Nigger" (in reference to Rick Perry's "Niggerhead") when reporting the damn news. These folks are all such children they act sheepish even calling it the "N word."

Now they've got a former astronaut "launching" kids into space to get kids excited about math and science. I bet those kids are thinking "this old dude is so lame, but at least we're on TV. Are we famous yet? When do we get to meet Lady Gaga?"

The Washington Post has no trouble printing the word, but on NPR they were calling it "the N-word."

Edit: And it got me wondering, when I read somewhere that it was a commonplace name back in the day. There's a cliff on Monhegan Island called Black Head. (Also one called White Head.) I wonder if it used to be called Nigger Head and was sanitized.

Why are they children? I think they are showing consideration, you offay mother fucking cracker. Go back to Europe, where you came from. ;)

I've seen and read plenty on it. Apparently there really isn't that much going on. The ones who keep claiming that it isn't being reported are the protesters.


I was reading about a week ago and trying to find out how many were there. After going thru many articles to find that info, it was reported that there were about 200 total. That number has grown quite a bit and there are things happening in other cities as well. The 700 arrests include people simply being ticketed for minor infractions. meh. The problem seems to be that they are not well organized, nor unified in what they want. There are people claiming all sorts of things from Bush/Cheney prosecutions to 4 day work weeks.

It's an infant grassroots "thing", so it isn't actually solidified with goals yet. I've been following the twitter hashtag #occupywallstreet and TheNation's blog by Greg Mitchell on it. There are a few very informative articles on it's origins and what it isn't. Here's one.

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Here's another:

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One thing about the protests and having a PR firm working for them pro-bono, is that hopefully, the average citizen will start asking questions and go inform themselves. Information and knowledge are power and way too many people just blindly buy the rhetoric they are fed by the media and those in power.

Its moved outside of New York.

I have the choice of going to several in Indiana. Lafayette and Indy are closer. I'm gonna call my nephew at Purdue and ask him what he knows about it.

It is strange that there is very little media coverage (well, really not that strange), but this guy is trying to do something about it...

Hot Damn - This guy nailed it. Im sure Fox doesn't air this one...:D

Thanks, I was doubtful. Could be anywhere, or anywhen, or just shopped, for all I know.


Hey, you think maybe the Arab spring is going to spread to the USA? You guys might have your very own democraccy movement, and take back your government from the corrupt, self-serving plutocratic theocrats that have siezed control of your country. Wouldn't than be nice? :)

Protesters were warned of pending arrest...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...tyy8nOgYSN4fJJ

That is debatable. Conflicting stories AND videos of the incident.

I've been around cops doing crowd control before. One thing I can tell you is that they don't communicate consistently with the crowd. You very well could have had some cops saying that the protestors could go on the bridge, and other cops saying they couldn't and that they would be arrested if they didn't leave. A bullhorn is very loud when you are standing right next to it, but if you are 100 feet away and surrounded by a chanting crowd, that same bullhorn will be completely unintelligible.