wall street protests...is this the start of the revolution?

[Berlin]

The American people do not have a violent revolutionary composition, and havent for years.

Your television programs and easy access to credit cards make it virtually impossible that a critical mass of people will choose to risk everything in their very comfortable, overweight lives. they'll just complain about it for a ferw hours, then THEY'LL GO BACK TO WORK, just as the elites want them to.

Point taken. George Carlin had always said that ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPEJNGAlqw&feature=fvwrel


... or even some protesters:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/03/article-2044267-0E31C15500000578-926_470x423.jpg

from UK Daily Mail's article:
The occupation spreads across the country
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-protests-Demonstrations-spread-country.html

 

[papasmerf]

I posted this earlier but it must have been deleted by the powers that be


This demonstration of smoke and mirrors, reminds me of Cindy Sheen's paid political protests.contributor to a


As expected she is now a contributor to a paid political rag

 

[groggy]

It looks like smoke and mirrors if you read the american mainstream press.
If you look elsewhere, you see a movement.
For instance, Al Jazeera is covering the protests much better then any american source.
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/us-anti-corporate-movement-expands

Similarly, boingboing.net has been posting videos and media interpretation fairly regularly.
You just won't find much about it on the cover of the NY times.

There will be a Canadian protest on Oct 15.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/activists-throughout-canada-set-to-show-solidarity-with-wall-street-protesters/article2188341/

 

[Cobster]

Point taken. George Carlin had always said that ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPEJNGAlqw&feature=fvwrel


... or even some protesters:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/03/article-2044267-0E31C15500000578-926_470x423.jpg

from UK Daily Mail's article:
The occupation spreads across the country
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-protests-Demonstrations-spread-country.html

Great links, love the DailyMail one especially.

Like the girl holding the sign in your second link "Everything's fine, keep shopping"...she could also add, keep being distracted by professional sports.

 

[red]

IMHO wealth disparity has reached an unsustainable level in the US. We really closer to violent protest then meets the eye IMHO. Are the Wall Street protests the start?

this is the begiining of the end. sell your stocks (to me) and buy bottled water and spam.

 

[Hangman]

LOL

You don't understand American's any better than nottyboi

OTB

I hope I am wrong, but that's how I see it. A small percentage will always seek social justice and change, but the overwhelming majority will fight it, much like an immune system.

I certainly do not see the kind of widespread violent protest or governmental overthrow that nottyboi seems to believe is imminent. It's like people jumping up and down on a iceberg. They may break a piece off the top, but the overall effect will be minimal, and likely barely noticed.

So this too, shall pass, and nothing will improve. Sucks to be in their shoes...

 

[kratz]

There is a massive problem worldwide with unemployment for the less than 30 year olds... i've seen it in so many places. But who is going to hire these idiots? They have the absolute worst attitude. Entitled. Where's my cheese? BS. We are in for serious problems if these losers don't figure out what to do FOR THEMSELVES. Can they?? im not hopeful they have been too coddled and dont have a clue what it takes to build something. Criticize? Destroy? Whine? Blame others?

 

[WoodPeckr]

We are seeing the beginning of the middle class staging a real revolt! Not a phony teabagger dog & pony show created by the GOP! The peasants are pissed and beginning to show it. It is spreading amongst real Americans!
These are not the corporate stooges that populate the phony teabagger bowel movement!....:eyebrows:

 

[nottyboi]

this is the begiining of the end. sell your stocks (to me) and buy bottled water and spam.

You don't have to buy my stocks.. my only current holdings are Ford (held for a long time, tiny position) UUP and HXD. I'm keeping those for now.

 

[Rockslinger]

There will be a Canadian protest on Oct 15.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...y-with-wall-street-protesters/article2188341/

What happened to the thread on the Canadian protest? It sort of just disappeared.

 

[WoodPeckr]

What happened to the thread on the Canadian protest? It sort of just disappeared.

Is Harpo going rogue???....:Eek:

 

[red]

I posted this earlier but it must have been deleted by the powers that be


This demonstration of smoke and mirrors, reminds me of Cindy Sheen's paid political protests.contributor to a


As expected she is now a contributor to a paid political rag

you mean post 23 in this thread:

basically what you have here is hundreds of Cindy Sheen's who will go away if Obama wins the election.

Listen to the messages they have and decide if you disagree.

deleted eh?

 

[wigglee]

I don't know if this movement has a name yet, but I suggest....are you ready for it? .... The We Party! Rhymes with tea, so mocks them, but actually is short for "We the people"..........Not sure exactly what we stand for ( kinda sounds like the hippy movement so far, and we know how that got messed up)...but if the masses stand together against the few elites who have been shafting them, I say GO FOR IT!

 

[onthebottom]

I don't know if this movement has a name yet, but I suggest....are you ready for it? .... The We Party! Rhymes with tea, so mocks them, but actually is short for "We the people"..........Not sure exactly what we stand for ( kinda sounds like the hippy movement so far, and we know how that got messed up)...but if the masses stand together against the few elites who have been shafting them, I say GO FOR IT!

LOL

Perhaps a mascot: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9Ybp5kbcQRSQ_9GBlDo2Walqcza8ClgPPILJ3M0uLR0z6ihH6Bg

 

[groggy]

Check out the map of American protests.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-map#map

Its getting big.

 

[Brill]

Excellent column, saying the protest is not a repudiation of capitalism but they want the system to work for everyone.
Not just the elite 1%.

And who are the 1 per cent?

They are the top 1 per cent of Americans who have 40 per cent of the nation’s wealth and pocket 24 per cent of its income.

They include the incompetents who brought us Enron, Nortel, the BP oil spill that fouled the U.S. Gulf states coast, and the Wall Street meltdown that triggered the Great Recession.

They include Jon Stewart’s boss at Viacom Inc., Philippe Dauman, America’s highest-paid CEO. Barely a year on the job, Dauman was paid $84.5 million in 2010.

They are the captains of industry who promised us “pay for performance” to justify a new era of staggering payouts from stock options – “a reward for breathing,” as Warren Buffett complains.

But instead, they gave us “pay for failure.” The fired CEOs of Home Depot Inc., Pfizer Inc., Merrill Lynch Inc. and Citigroup Inc. each walked away with severance of $40 million to $200 million.

http://www.thestar.com/business/art...ers-are-literally-sick-of-being-left-out?bn=1

 

[Rockslinger]

Excellent column, saying the protest is not a repudiation of capitalism but they want the system to work for everyone.
Not just the elite 1%.

I don't blame the members of the 1% who founded and built their own company. Microsoft, Warren Buffet, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.

When a major magazine went to interview one of the Google guys two years after the IPO they found him still living in his one bedroom apartment.

 

[Aardvark154]

Excellent column, saying the protest is not a repudiation of capitalism but they want the system to work for everyone.

But when they are passing out such things as 1917: The Journal of the International Bolshevik Tendency. I find it hard not to see it as a repudiation of Capitalism.

 

[Brill]

Many people here seem to believe it's good that the gap between the wealthy and poor has increased. They also feel people that earn billions without creating anything deserve their rewards.

Oh well.

 

[Aardvark154]

Many people here seem to believe it's good that the gap between the wealthy and poor has increased.

No I do not see it as good.

However, I do see it as part of the market economy - can Company "A" get as good a pool of candidates for CEO if we only offer half the package as company "B" in the same industry and the same size.