Occupy Wall Street protest

[soul4real]

You set 'em up pal, I'll knock 'em down. Maybe you could become a National Socialist, but that went a bit wrong the last time.....

Lol ..

[jerseyboy72]

The civil service unions in New York and New Jersey own the local politicians. They refuse to agree to even minor wage and benefit concessions. They prefer layoffs within their own membership over collective sacrifice. Even as private sector workers loose health coverage and struggle to make ends meet. To see union members take part in this protest makes it a total mockery. TWU, PBA, UFT make Wall Street look like the good guys. And that's hard to do

Agreed.

[Ben]

What lead to the uprising, as it were:

[robertlouis]

If this was happening in the UK, I'd march. At long last there's an anger that's focused firmly on the real villains behind the present economic debacle, the bankers and their supporters inside and outside government, and that's why it scares them.

If you're one of the people here who've sneered at the protesters and their idealism (yes, there are of course the usual rentamob anarchists and other opportunists involved), just consider this for a moment.

Does your negativism actually put you on the side of the bankers, hoping that they will continue to ride roughshod over the lives and hopes of ordinary people? I can't believe that anyone would actually want that.

Or maybe you're just too damn lazy to get off your arse to support a cause that is actually at long last worth fighting for and prefer to sneer and snipe from the sidelines.

These protests are a fragile flower which could just as easily get blown away tomorrow. But I hope not - this is a golden moment, a chance to finally clean out the Augean stables that we've all allowed the global financial system to become. If this movement takes hold and succeeds in implementing fundamental changes to the way that the economy functions, then to quote Obama himself, "Change has finally come to America."

Good luck to you Soul4real, and all your compatriots. God speed.

[robertlouis]

The civil service unions in New York and New Jersey own the local politicians. They refuse to agree to even minor wage and benefit concessions. They prefer layoffs within their own membership over collective sacrifice. Even as private sector workers loose health coverage and struggle to make ends meet. To see union members take part in this protest makes it a total mockery. TWU, PBA, UFT make Wall Street look like the good guys. And that's hard to do

"Even as private sector workers lose health coverage" This in a country where the health lobby, their media friends and the entire force of the Republitards manage to convince a majority of the population that free or low-cost healthcare is somehow a great evil. SMFH.

Your country is just so fucked up.

[Ben]

Wealth inequality has accelerated across North America in the last 30 years.
America, which has seen a shrinking middle class. And Canada, too. And Mexico was hammered by NAFTA.
That's why corporate Democrat Slick Willy Clinton introduced Operation Gatekeeper. Which was to militarize the American-Mexican border because he knew full well that NAFTA was going to destroy the Mexican economy.

[BellaBellucci]

Wealth inequality has accelerated across North America in the last 30 years.
America, which has seen a shrinking middle class. And Canada, too. And Mexico was hammered by NAFTA.
That's why corporate Democrat Slick Willy Clinton introduced Operation Gatekeeper. Which was to militarize the American-Mexican border because he knew full well that NAFTA was going to destroy the Mexican economy.

~BB~

[robertlouis]

Wealth inequality has accelerated across North America in the last 30 years.
America, which has seen a shrinking middle class. And Canada, too. And Mexico was hammered by NAFTA.
That's why corporate Democrat Slick Willy Clinton introduced Operation Gatekeeper. Which was to militarize the American-Mexican border because he knew full well that NAFTA was going to destroy the Mexican economy.

That inequality is just as marked here in the UK, Ben, which makes us different from almost all the other major member states of the EU. And for me it's one of the greatest failings of the Blair and Brown governments that not only did they fail to arrest the trend, it actually accelerated.

[Ben]

~BB~

I do like Ron Paul.... Thanks Bella for the clip. Here's another --

[fred41]

So these police are obstructing our Constitutional right to be able to protest things we find unjust.

No they're not...you have a right to say practically anything you want (note: I said practically anything) ...you can protest things you find unjust...You also have the right to peacefully assemble, but you DO NOT have the right to assemble without disregard to local laws. Governments have the right to set restrictions.