"Occupy movement uses social media to mobilize storm aid" by Meghan Barr | Associated Press, November 11, 2012
NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street was born in late 2011 in a Lower Manhattan plaza called Zuccotti Park, with a handful of protesters pitching tents and vowing to stay put until world leaders offered a fair share to the ‘‘99 percent’’ who don’t control the globe’s wealth.
Yeah, wasn't much at all.
The world heard the cry as that camp grew and inspired other ones around the globe. Ultimately, though, the movement collapsed under its leaderless format, and Occupy became largely forgotten.
Yeah, the news media have totally forgotten them, but from what I see and hear they are still out there.
But core members, and a spirit, have persisted and found a new cause in Occupy Sandy....
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Related:
"PHOTO: Occupy Sandy Feeds FEMA Workers
by JG Vibes
November 14, 2012
The Occupy Boston Facebook page has verified a picture that has been going around on the internet, where members of Occupy Sandy can be seen feeding FEMA workers out of the back of a truck. According to reports this picture was actually taken somewhere in New York.
FEMA shut down last week “due to bad weather”, during which time Occupy Sandy and other independent voluntary organizations continued to provide aid to hurricane victims.
Although mainstream media sources have been reporting that FEMA has done a great job, people who are actually forced to interact with FEMA have an entirely different story. Some people who have no choice but to live in the “tent cities” set up by FEMA say that they are treated like criminals and actually feel like they are “in a concentration camp”....
Not only am I sickened by Occupy(?) feeding government thugs, I'm really getting tired of ordinary people having to pick up the slack while the elite still have plenty to eat and are doing well and the governments wastes all the money on wars, Wall Street, Israel, and themselves.
Student-run food banks balloon
Community food pantries run by students are on the increase at colleges across the nation, a sign of both the weak economy and a rise in student activism.
Well, I must be a negative Nader because I don't see things that way at all.
Related: Students rally against gun violence
Who is for gun violence?
Leaving that aside I just find it sad that the youth of today have been so propagandized during their inculcation and indoctrination that we call education into supporting the agenda of the masters that don't mean them well, that send them off to wars based on lies, and that rob them of their future while the kids have their heads buried in their media gizmos.
And what's this weak economy baloney when I've been told by my corporate media we have been in recovery for three years? WTF?
"STUDENTS TAKE TO LA STREET -- Students on Hollywood Boulevard protested the rising costs of student loans for higher education on Sunday in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Citing the federal government's bailout of banks, the protesters called for student debt cancellations (September 24 2012)."
You would not have seen that on the Globe's website since it was a photograph in my printed pos.
Of course, you kids are out of luck. Not only does this government work for banks, it is assisting them, so their will be no loan forgiveness for you -- even if taxpayers have to pick up the tab in another bailout to banks. How ironic, huh?
"Occupy members join police in bid to save home" Associated Press, October 09, 2012
ATLANTA — Less than a year after Occupy Atlanta members clashed with police in riot gear in a downtown park, they’re now protesting alongside officers to help a retired detective avoid losing her home to foreclosure.
Wouldn't it have been nice if the asshole authorities and the cops had done that when the kids were protesting for them?
Activists joined current and retired Atlanta police Monday for a demonstration and discussion at the home of retired Atlanta police Detective Jaqueline Barber in Fayetteville, south of the city.
‘‘The police are in the 99 percent and when it comes down to their economic struggles, we’re going to be there to shine a light on those and organize around those,’’ said Tim Franzen.
I agree. And here I am speaking up for them on collective bargaining while they are bashing us in the head, tasering us, or worse.
He and others who were involved with Occupy Atlanta are now part of a group called Occupy Our Homes ATL, focusing on the housing crisis.
Apparently there are groups like that across the country, and yet this is the only reference I have seen in my Globe in months.
Barber said she is under threat of eviction after her medical bills mounted, partly because of a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cell cancer....
Representatives of US Bank in Minneapolis, involved in the foreclosure proceedings, did not return phone calls and e-mails.
Barber said she spent part of her 20-year career kicking in doors as a member of a fugitive task force and also worked undercover in a narcotics unit. She was later assigned to Atlanta’s airport, the world’s busiest, before she was struck by a car and retired due to the injury in 2001.
She’s now raising four grandchildren who range in age from 2 to 10, she said.
If she’s evicted, she expects that she will be homeless.
A Thursday court hearing in her case is planned. ‘‘If she loses, she will be evicted,’’ Franzen predicted.
Barber is the second police officer Franzen’s group has tried to help avoid foreclosure, he said. The first was a law enforcement officer who ended up losing his Snellville home.
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Related: Boston Police accused of spying on antiwar groups
But Occupy is feeding them and saving their homes.
Also see: Globe Gets Dewey-Eyed Over Occupy Anniversary
Then why am I seeing red?
