Wall Street Protests

[classicman]

Timing is an issue with teachers also. They really need to be hired for/at the beginning of the school year, no?

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by classicman

Timing is an issue with teachers also. They really need to be hired for/at the beginning of the school year, no?

Yes. But that's not a factor in the current glut.

[classicman]

My daughter is entering the field and we know more than a few here. They are telling us otherwise - at least for this area.
Aside from that, there have been a lot more people getting degrees in EDU than there have been positions available.
The districts have also been placing lower paid aides in classrooms into positions that were once held by teachers...
something about cost cutting.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Re: #787

So, we need nurses, engineers and teachers.
We don't need so many psychologists.

Yeah, really?

Those psychology grads must be among the idiots who are protesting saying we should pay for their educations because they can't find a job.

[TheMercenary]

Well it took them long enough to find the right mark.

Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...80G1ML20120117

[Lamplighter]

But, but, but... we don't own the shares, we just manage the funds.

The Oregonian
Anne Saker
1/24/12

In downtown Portland, protesters laugh at rain to chant at Wells Fargo

In Tuesday's steady rain, about 40 people held the sidewalk in front of
the Standard Insurance Center to protest Wells Fargo's investment in private companies
that build prisons and the institution's lending and foreclosure practices.<snip>



Jamie Patridge (left) and Sean Staub are dressed for their street theater performance
during a protest Tuesday against Wells Fargo in downtown Portland.
About 40 people gathered at the Standard Insurance Center to demand
that Wells Fargo divest of stock in companies that build private prisons
and rewrite its lending and foreclosure practices.<snip>

Tom Unger, a spokesman for Wells Fargo, stood inside the lobby
of the Standard Insurance Center to watch the protest.
He said later that protesters misunderstand Wells Fargo's
involvement with the private-prison builders .

"It's based upon a false premise.
We don't own shared of the comapnies they're upset about.
We have some mutual funds that we manage and
they currently hold a small position in one of the companies.
The owners of the mutual funds own the shared.
We manage the funds."

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[ZenGum]

Brothel?! Honestly, Officer, I just play the piano in the front bar. I had no idea ...

[Lamplighter]

[TheMercenary]

Well done protesters!!!! You really made a statement on this one!

OAKLAND -- Occupy Oakland protesters broke into City Hall, stole an American flag from the City Council chamber and set it on fire Saturday night, punctuating a wild day in which police deployed tear gas, arrested more than 200 marchers and dodged hurling objects.
Demonstrators spent the day trying to break into a convention center and temporarily occupying City Hall and a YMCA, all the while snaking around lines of riot-clad police periodically shooting bean bag projectiles, among other uses of nonlethal force.
Saturday marked the first major clashes between protesters and police since November and left three officers with minor injuries, as protesters threw bottles, metal pipes, rocks, spray cans and "improvised explosive devices," police said.
Late Saturday, paramedics wheeled a pregnant protester away from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza after witnesses said she was hit in the kidney by a police baton. She yelled: "Police did this to me!"
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke moments after the City Hall invasion, saying the city would ask for "stay away" orders against many of the protesters who have repeatedly been arrested in Oakland.
"This particular faction of Occupy ... they're very violent and I'm going to be asking for a lot more mutual aid," Quan said, adding that the weekly marches prevent the city's police force from patrolling other parts of Oakland. "They are hurting the neighborhoods by continuing to do this on Saturday nights."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_19843263

[sexobon]

Just a training exercise in preparation for the 38th G8 summit in Chicago this May.

[TheMercenary]

Chicago will be interesting. I wonder if the protesters plan on upping the violence level there as well. And further it will be interesting how Rham "It through" will respond.

[Griff]

It will make great television!

[TheMercenary]

Oh hell. I haven't thought about that show in years. Thanks for the memory.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Chicago will be interesting. I wonder if the protesters plan on upping the violence level there as well. And further it will be interesting how Rham "It through" will respond.

I'm guessing there will be a sect of OWS that will be very violent and attempt to start riots, but I doubt OWS as a whole will endorse it since it is a very heterogeneous group. It will be the same what you posted about Oakland, a bunch of idiots who want to start trouble and using the Occupy Movement as a cover.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

a bunch of idiots....

the Occupy Movement...

I am pretty sure that pretty much sums it up for most of the Nation.