They cut the print short.
"Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide" by Chris Hawley Associated Press / October 3, 2011
NEW YORK—Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.
You are doing it, Americans!!!
And you can see what point of view the reporter and American press sees things, no? The implication above is the appalling avarice and greed is all a perception of the protesters, not a reality. Then it should fit perfectly in the daily fantasies my morning paper puts forth.
In Manhattan, hundreds of protesters dressed as corporate zombies in white face paint lurched past the New York Stock Exchange clutching fistfuls of fake money. In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city's financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars in Boston, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.
The arrests of 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend galvanized a slice of discontented America, from college students worried about their job prospects to middle-age workers who have been recently laid off.
Meaning IT IS EVERYONE, America.
Even the BIG UNIONS are getting INVOLVED!
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: A Bridge Too Far
Globe couldn't cross it, I guess.
Some protesters likened themselves to the tea party movement -- but with a liberal bent -- or to the Arab Spring demonstrators who brought down their rulers in the Middle East.
"I've felt this way for a long time. I've really just kind of been waiting for a movement to come along that I thought would last and have some resonation within the community," said Steven Harris, a laid-off truck driver in Kansas City.
Harris and about 20 other people were camped out in a park across the street from the Kansas City Federal Reserve building, their site strewn with sleeping bags, clothes and handmade signs. Some passing drivers honked in support.
The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp in a park nearby and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal.
About 100 demonstrators were arrested on Sept. 24 and some were pepper-sprayed. On Saturday police arrested 700 on charges of disorderly conduct and blocking a public street as they tried to march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Police said they took five more protesters into custody on Monday, though it was unclear whether they had been charged with any crime.
Wiljago Cook, of Oakland, Calif., who joined the New York protest on the first day, said she was shocked by the arrests.
"Exposing police brutality wasn't even really on my agenda, but my eyes have been opened," she said. She vowed to stay in New York "as long as it seems useful."
On Monday, the zombies stayed on the sidewalks as they wound through Manhattan's financial district chanting, "How to fix the deficit: End the war, tax the rich!" They lurched along with their arms in front of them. Some yelled, "I smell money!"
That is where the printed paper ended it.
City bus drivers sued the New York Police Department on Monday for commandeering their buses and making them drive to the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday to pick up detained protesters.
Yes, America, you are NOW AmeriKa!!!
"We're down with these protesters. We support the notion that rich folk are not paying their fair share," said Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen. "Our bus operators are not going to be pressed into service to arrest protesters anywhere."
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Reaction was mixed from passers-by.
Roland Klingman, who works in the financial industry and was wearing a suit as he walked through a raucous crowd of protesters, said he could sympathize with the anti-Wall Street message....
Another man in a suit yelled at the protesters, "Go back to work!" He declined to be interviewed.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who made his fortune as a corporate executive, has said the demonstrators are making a mistake by targeting Wall Street.
"The protesters are protesting against people who make $40- or $50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet. That's the bottom line. Those are the people who work on Wall Street or in the finance sector," Bloomberg said in a radio interview Friday.
That's bullshit, Mike!
Some protesters planned to travel to other cities to organize similar events.
John Hildebrand, a protester in New York from Norman, Okla., hoped to mount a protest there after returning home Tuesday. Julie Levine, a protester in Los Angeles, planned to go to Washington on Thursday.
Websites and Facebook pages with names like Occupy Boston and Occupy Philadelphia have also sprung up to plan the demonstrations.
Hundreds of demonstrators marched from a tent city on a grassy plot in downtown Boston to the Statehouse to call for an end of corporate influence of government.
"Our beautiful system of American checks and balances has been thoroughly trashed by the influence of banks and big finance that have made it impossible for the people to speak," said protester Marisa Engerstrom, of Somerville, Mass., a Harvard doctoral student.
The Boston demonstrators decorated their tents with hand-written signs reading, "Fight the rich, not their wars" and "Human need, not corporate greed."
Some stood on the sidewalk holding up signs, engaging in debate with passers-by and waving at honking cars. One man yelled "Go home!" from his truck. Another man made an obscene gesture.
"We lean left, but there have been tea party people stopping by here who have said, `Hey, we like what you're doing,'" said Jason Potteiger, a media coordinator for the Boston protesters.
In Chicago, protesters beat drums on the corner near the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In Los Angeles, demonstrators hoping to get TV coverage gathered in front of the courthouse where Michael Jackson's doctor is on trial on manslaughter charges.
Protesters in St. Louis stood on a street corner a few blocks from the shimmering Gateway Arch, carrying signs that read, "How Did The Cat Get So Fat?," "You're a Pawn in Their Game" and "We Want The Sacks Of Gold Goldman Sachs Stole From Us."
"Money talks, and it seems like money has all the power," said Apollonia Childs. "I don't want to see any homeless people on the streets, and I don't want to see a veteran or elderly people struggle. We all should have our fair share. We all vote, pay taxes. Tax the rich."
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Let's see if the Globe noticed lefties and Tea Party patriots coming together:
"On day 4, protesters still ponder options; Honing message about economic imbalance" by Todd Wallack and Brian R. Ballou Globe Staff / October 4, 2011
For the fourth straight day, economic activists yesterday occupied a small park across from South Station to protest the nation’s financial inequality and the growing power of large corporations, but they’re still not sure what should be done about it.
Yup, Globe peddling the pos lie again.
“We’re working on our message and demands,’’ said Acacia Brewer, a member of the media team for the Occupy Boston protest, which is described by participants as a “leaderless group.’’ Participants are encouraged to voice their suggestions at morning meetings, Brewer said.
Then it TRULY IS a GRASS-ROOTS and PEOPLE PROTEST!
“We have a lot of options,’’ she said. “Through the next couple days, we’ll compile a list.’’
As many as 1,000 people took part in the protest when it began Friday night. By yesterday, the group appeared to have dwindled to about 100 participants - most of them young - who have pitched tents in Dewey Square. Some say they plan to stay put indefinitely.
While their complaints about government and business vary, most of the protesters regularly repeat one talking point: They say 1 percent of the US population controls about half its wealth.
“We’re bringing our message to the 99 percent of Americans that feel that their ability to provide for themselves has been eroded and that their representation in government has been undermined,’’ said Nadeem Mazen, 28, of Cambridge, a spokesman for the group. “Of the 1 percent, a lot of them are using that wealth to subvert the democratic process.’’
Occupy Boston has not targeted specific banks or other corporations for criticism, just the general policies and practices of the federal government and private companies. It’s inspired by a larger antigreed movement in New York called Occupy Wall Street.
On Saturday, New York police made about 700 arrests, charging Occupy Wall Street participants with blocking the Brooklyn Bridge.
Similar protests about economic imbalance, corporate greed, and high unemployment have sprung up in cities across the country, including in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Michael Heaney, a University of Michigan professor who has studied the antiwar movement and other social causes, said the Wall Street protests appear to be made up of a loose network of people on the political left who care about a wide range of political issues.
Yeah, ignore the "right" that is there with them.
“The most difficult problem they face is how to get attention to these problems,’’ said Heaney, an assistant professor of organizational studies and political science in Ann Arbor. “They look for opportunities to get noticed.’’
But Heaney said he doubts the activists will try to work with political parties in the same way many Tea Party movement members have aligned themselves with conservative Republicans, because they harbor too much distrust of mainstream political institutions.
So do true Tea Party patriots, and not the co-opted Koch brothers and Karl Rove clones.
Even so, Occupy Wall Street could potentially have an impact on elections if Democratic or Republican candidates decide that many voters share the same resentment and incorporate those concerns into their own platforms, he said.
Look at them try to turn this into a political, who has the advantage thing.
Yesterday, the Boston protesters marched to Beacon Hill to deliver a symbolic letter to the State House addressed to the top 1 percent: “Get out of our government, we want our country back - the 99 percent.’’
They then headed to the nearby television studios of Fox 25, where they pressed their faces and posters against a window as Doug VB Goudie went on the air inside.
In a separate Boston demonstration Friday afternoon, 24 people were arrested on trespassing charges after refusing to leave the lobby of Bank of America Corp.’s downtown offices. That protest, organized by a coalition of groups called the Right to the City Alliance, faulted Bank of America for foreclosing on homes across the country and contributing to the financial crisis.
See: Foreclosure Prevention Efforts Failed
By contrast, the Occupy Boston protest so far hasn’t sparked any arrests. Participants said they have adopted a nonconfrontational policy.
“There have been no arrests and largely no issues,’’ said Boston Police Department spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll.
Several financial organizations located near Dewey Square said the protesters haven’t interfered with their employees or operations.
They “appear to be peaceful and well behaved,’’ said Thomas Lavelle, a spokesman for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is across the street from the protest.
A bunch of lefties camping all across the country outside of Fed offices, 'eh?
The economic protests here and elsewhere come as Republicans and Democrats have been battling over whether to raise taxes on wealthier Americans to help offset the nation’s deficit.
Related: Obama's Reelection Pitch
President Obama has proposed raising taxes on people earning $1 million a year. A Gallup Poll last month found two-thirds of people favored raising income taxes on families earning at least $250,000 annually, and 70 percent supported eliminating tax deductions for corporations. But Republican leaders have argued that raising taxes now will further weaken the economy and discourage investment at a time when the US unemployment rate remains stuck at 9 percent. Some have also accused Obama of inciting “class warfare.’’
The rich have been waging it on the lower classes since, well, forever.
At Dewey Square yesterday, some passersby on their way to work paused to snap pictures. Others briefly joined the protest. One woman handed over the homemade cookies she had intended for her co-workers.
“It was a humanitarian gesture,’’ said Wendy Nicholas, regional director of a local nonprofit agency, “but then I realized, yeah, I support what these folks are campaigning for.’’
As do most Americans.
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Also see: The Boston Globe Has Finally Been Occupied
Update: Bernanke Signals Some Sympathy for Wall Street Protesters
The rulers are crapping their pants, folks.
What do you say we extend the walk, readers?
"Is Hang a Banker Day coming to a Theater near You?...
Watch it happen in front of your eyes. The Occupy Wall Street phenom is going viral, diversifying like a stock portfolio and popping up all over the US and in other countries as well. Look at the media not covering it. Look at the media giving out false information concerning the motivation, even to the extent of saying the protestors are protesting against people making 40 to 50 thousand dollars a year, as well as global warming. Understand that the media is owned and operated by the same people who operate at and influence Wall Street. Look at the important names that are appearing in the mix and the American Marines showing up on behalf of the protest as well. In its genesis and presentations, it is about as authentic and threatening to go nova as it can get. This is the real deal.
The traders and bankers are celebrating their imagined invulnerability. In the delusion of their fevered hubris, they are drinking champagne and talking about pouring it on the protestors, in emulation of the bankers and traders at The City of London, who waved banknotes out of their windows as they jeered the protestors. Does this look like they may and should have their heads chopped off and put on display? Does this give you the impression that Hang a Banker Day might be coming to a neighborhood near you soon? This is not an argument in favor or against this. This is an observation of the anger of the vast majority coming up against the defiance, indifference and ridicule of the minority of those causing the conditions for the anger in the first place.
None of those responsible for, the all too quick emergence of difficult conditions for the world at large, have been charged or brought to trial for their crimes, yet. Meanwhile, Americans and others, continue to be herded into for profit prisons, for feeding their heads, at the command of alcoholic lawmakers, who also legitimize and profit from the illegal drug industry in the first place. They are making it illegal for the people to grow their own food. They are arresting children who are selling lemonade. They are permitting sex change operations for pre-pubescent children. They are selling automatic weapons to Mexican drug lords, who are dumping heads and bodies in the public thoroughfare. They are out of their freaking minds and they are going down. Lloyd Blankfein and Steven Schwartzman are going down, sooner or later. Will the Federal Reserve, J.P. Morgan and The Rothschilds follow? We can only watch and wait and hope to see it.
Ah, my friends. We are on the brink. Nothing is going the way of TPTW, even though they are engineering so much of it as it goes. There is no motivation on the part of those who created this mess, to fix it to the advantage of those, who are coming to get them. As a result, the process in progress can only get worse and as it gets worse the noose will tighten, the pitchforks will rattle and the flaming brands will light the way to the castle gates.
There can only be some immense and horrible act, on the part of TPTW, looming on the event horizon. They can try to toss some of the members of their cabal to the crowd, as a peace offering but they cannot fix the conditions that have brought them to this pass, because that is not how they operate. The dynamics of the arriving age demand a complete house cleaning and no matter where they run to hide, the conditions they have set in place exist among the residents of the locales they seek to flee to.
The ironic landing of the marines on the other side of the fence indicates an awakening in the ranks of the military, which presently exists to serve and defend their interests, which operate contrary to the interests of military personnel and their families. Their treatment of the military and their sacrifice of the military to the machinations of bankers are becoming known to the rank and file. The suicides and the atrocities, as well as the gay agenda, are killing morale all through the services. The one thing that military personnel expect is respect and acknowledgement of their efforts. The one thing they do not desire or expect is to die for the wrong reasons and to be treated like shit on their return.
How long will it be before the domestic police tire of what they are being asked to do; given their own suffering in terms of the economy in their own lives? How long can they continue to live with the bad publicity of the behavior of some of the members in their ranks?
On the natural, terrestrial level, Nature is aroused and sending strange armies of ants into the living spaces, as well as all manners of ground trembling, along with fire and rain upon the landscape.
In the governments, the lawmakers wonder, as they bend the knee to Israel at every turn. Meanwhile, the world turns its sympathy and their backs away from Israel. It is a ‘consummation devoutly to be wished’ that this accelerates and the groundswell of Israeli residents also rises up again the powers in place. The time frame shrinks incrementally between now and the last decanate of October, as it comes upon the doorstep of the winter of our extreme discontent; to paraphrase The Bard, who I just quoted already a moment before.
What a wild time is rocking the house and promising to swell its ranks by the day. How many millions in distress are about to wake up and join the party? The basic principle of The Apocalypse insists upon the awakening and the awakening is coming to each of us, in its own way, depending on what we are engaged in or suffering from. Kiss my ass and call me Cupid. Heh, heh, now that’s a strange something to say; probably should be a bumper sticker (grin). What storeroom hamper of bon mots did I get that one out of? Thank god for the internet and all those newsgathering websites that brings the information to our minds, so that we can be proactively involved in the truth of the thing in the first place.
You can get your red string Kabala wrist ornaments and Banker rope on special at Target all this week. Come on down! There’s a blue light special going on, up in the ass of this K-mart store closing culture, of the great American wet dream that’s been ridden hard and put away wet, under those paint rags in the basement. Come on down! Come on down to the burial ground of the rainmakers. Come on down to the cheap seats in the back of the theater and, keep in mind, that makes you the first people in a position to leave. Remember if you are poor and don’t have very much that you are the people least likely to be inconvenienced, given how inconvenienced you already are.
Readers have been quoting one of my favorite all time authors to me on a regular basis lately, giving me those excerpts from Gandalf and company about how no one wants to live in the times when the shadow has come into power on the land and how we have to rise to the call. I don’t consider the appearance of the tales of the Lord of the Rings to be any kind of a coincidence for the world we find ourselves having to live in. The parallels are spot on. Pull up a chair, or pick up a marching sign or standard, whatever it is you are called upon to do and let us meet at the river, once the dust has settled and gone.
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