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I keep hearing snips here and there about how many of those connected via Wall Street agree with this movement (other than Warren buffet). This is based upon the disparity of wages and the "rich gets richer, the poor, poorer" adage. There are a multitude of jobs throughout the Wall Street "insitution"- a lot of the "secretaries" Buffet spoke of as well as mid-management folks that don't make mega millions. But reports do point to the folks that are doing quite well financially too.
What I am wondering about is why the hell these people are not speaking up more? Hummmm........ (yes, a kind of sarcastic Hummmm...). |
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Occupy SF has been in the streets today.....closed down a BofA and are sitting in the bank and being arrested.
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Yes, it is. Thank you for posting. You might want to cross post this in the petition thread and the Internet and privacy thread.
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'Patriotic Millionaires' Beg Supercommittee for Higher Taxes
By SUSANNA KIM | ABC News – 11 hrs ago Two dozen wealthy members of the group Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength are targeting members of the deficit "supercommittee" to increase their taxes. Entrepreneur and producer Charlie Fink, said he and other Patriotic Millionaires testified in a congressional hearing and visited the offices of 13 members of Congress on Wednesday, seven of whom are members of the supercommittee, to express their concern for the country's fiscal health. Fink, who lives in Washington, D.C., said if the Bush tax cuts do not expire, the country "is digging itself a big hole by foregoing revenue." "Without revenue, we will never solve the problem by giving tax cuts to the wealthy while supporting two foreign wars," Fink, a former AOL executive, said. The group visited the offices of legislators in both parties, including Senators John Kyl, R-AZ, and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Reps. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., minority leader, Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., assistant democratic leader. "It was a very refreshing conversation that restored my faith that there are people who, in spite of their financial successes, have not lost their compassion and sense of fair play," Rep. Clyburn told ABC News after meeting the group. The supercommittee has stalled on how to trim over $1 trillion from the budget. Democratic members of the group met on Wednesday for more than two hours. Patriotic Millionaire Robert Johnson, former chief economist of the U.S Senate banking committee, said that the current economic system is not broken, but it is "working on behalf of those who designed it in their favor." "America is no longer based on markets and capitalism, instead our economy is designed as 'socialism for the rich' – it is designed to ensure that the wealthiest people take all of the gains, while regular Americans cover any losses," he said at a press conference this afternoon in Washington, D.C. "It's a Las Vegas economy where regular Americans put their money on the table and the richest 1 percent own the house," he said. "And if the 1 percent happen to lose money, the 99 percent bails them out – covers their losses and then stands by watching while the house does it all over again." Last November, the Patriotic Millionaires launched with 45 signatories who sent a letter to President Obama asking him to allow the Bush-era tax cuts to expire at the end of last year. The petition was signed by the Grammy Award-nominated DJ, MOBY, as well as Jerry Cohen of Ben-and-Jerry's-Ice-Cream fame. The Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength wrote a 155-word letter saying they hope their taxes will increase. Its text is posted at FiscalStrength.com. The message of the group has remained the same. "For the fiscal health of our nation and the well-being of our fellow citizens, we ask that you allow tax cuts on incomes over $1,000,000 to expire at the end of this year as scheduled," the group's website states. "We make this request as loyal citizens who now or in the past earned an income of $1,000,000 per year or more." Other Patriotic Millionaires who participated on Wednesday were Lawrence Benenson, executive vice president of Benenson Capital Co., David desJardins, former Google software engineer, Guy Saperstein, civil rights attorney, and Eric Schoenberg, former managing director of Broadview International. |
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Excellent piece for this and so many other passages -
"From these, our freedoms and our way of life follow, as does the role of government: to protect and empower everyone equally. Protection includes safety, health, the environment, pensions. Empowerment starts with education and infrastructure. No one can be free without these, and without a commitment to care and act on that care by one's fellow citizens. The conservative worldview rejects all of that." Quote:
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Is This 84-year-old Woman the New Poster Child of the Occupy Movement?
![]() 84-year-old Dorli Rainey being helped by fellow activists after Seattle police blasted a crowd of Occupy protesters with pepper spray “Freedom of speech is a concept. It is not always practiced in this country,” says Rainey, whose blog, Old Lady in Combat Boots, talks about her civic activism. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/16-6
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The OWS People's Library was confiscated during the Tuesday night raid, angering the public who rightly were horrified by images of books--particularly a lovingly-curated collection of donated and crowdsourced books--being destroyed.
Douglas Rushkoff urges those disheartened by this to regroup and restart and take the library for a metaphor: A book can have more influence for being destroyed than having existed in the first place. This week isn't the first time my books have been destroyed, but it's probably the most significant....Remember, though, the People's Library is less about the books sitting in the reference section at Zuccotti Park than the extended network of books being shared and read by real people in the real world...Likewise, while the Occupation of Zuccotti and other places may serve as "reference" points, the real occupation is embodied by those of us in the real world who change our behaviors to reflect our values, and who stand up for what we believe in the conversations occurring all around us. The library was immediately restarted with a half a dozen paperbacks. Within two hours the collection was up to over 100 volumes and the library was fully functioning—cataloging, lending, and providing reference services. “The library is still open” was repeated like a mantra...During the reoccupation on the evening of November 15, it started to rain so library staff put a clear plastic trash bag over the collection. Within minutes a detail of about 10 police descended and demanded that the covering be removed because they deemed the garbage bag to be a tarp. There were a few tense minutes as staff tried to convince them otherwise, but ultimately it was removed—leaving the collection open to the elements. As the police withdrew, scores of people chanted “BOOKS …BOOKS … BOOKS … BOOKS.” ... Library staff quickly set up umbrellas over the bulk of the books and began sending librarians home with bags of books to keep the collection safe in remote locations. complete article here:http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...ks/#paragraph6
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Following #N17 is riveting.
This is the first time I've used twitter like this.
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It's fun to watch it too, but definitely not as riveting. http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution Maybe a tad more riveting.
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Oh yeah. A couple of us here were watching the 2 a.m. Ziccoti Park raid live on Livestream the other night and comment in the thread. I'm grateful to have had Ebon, Corkey, Persiphone and AtomicZombie here to talk with while I watched that.
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Supposedly the cops have people trapped in zuccotti park and they won't let people out. Word is people are being beaten. The police have everything barricaded and are there will be a mass arrest in an effort to stop the demonstration scheduled for 5.
Apparently they have let people out of the park now. Not sure what was going on.
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Woohoo the first aid tent is back up at Zuccotti!!
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Video of OWS today via remote control helicopter. You can see the cops using flash grenades and tear gas on the crowds.
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