Occupy Wall Street Movement Spreads Across the World!

http://thejobmouse.com/2011/10/28/we-are-wall-street-wall-street-strikes-back/

just saw this, not sure if it's been discussed i tried finding it on here but i either didn't try hard enough or am blind.

opinions?

 

I was complaining...... Idiot!

 

Actually, it was posted 4 posts above yours by midgardsun...

 

haha knew i was blind!! typical

 

Keith Olbermann put on a Guy Fawkes mask last night and goes after sleazy law firm in Buffalo on worst person in the world. The firm deals in foreclosures and used people who lost their homes as the theme for last years halloween party. Then Elliot Spitzer came on and layed down a great set of ideas as far as upcoming protest, really cool, hope he runs for office again someday.

 

Here is the clip, at 2:35 mark, that yellowcab referenced above.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HD-yN8XmRU"]10-31-11 5 (2) - Worst Persons - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - YouTube

 

Anonymous is winning the culture war?

 

Can Activism Be an Antidepressant?

Almost as soon as I entered Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. on October 6, I experienced a wave of pleasant feelings and energy. My wife, Bon, and I showed up about 10am on the first day of “October 2011” (“Occupy Freedom Plaza”) in Washington D.C. after driving there from Cincinnati. In sharp contrast to the blank and depressed faces that I had just seen on the D.C. Metro and on the D.C. streets, we were now surrounded by a thousand or so people who were smiling, laughing, engaged in political discussions, and eagerly awaiting the day’s events. I chatted with two of the organizers, David Swanson and Margaret Flowers, and found their hope and energy a supreme antidote to cynicism. The opposite of depression is vitality, and so by just stepping into Freedom Plaza, I had received a strong antidepressant.

Then came the day’s major march. Depression is much about feeling hopeless, alienated, isolated, and powerless, and this march was an antidote to all those feelings. For a couple of hours, we felt some real power. We marched on the streets— not the sidewalks—and traffic was blocked by police, who for those moments in time actually were the People’s servants. We marched past the White House and the Treasury, paused at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to “drop off some job resumes” and for some short speeches, then up and over to K Street, with many cars honking approval and some non-marchers on the sidewalks raising their fists and shouting encouragement. Then back to the Plaza, and a couple of hours later a General Assembly.

The General Assembly was attended by about 500 people who experienced, some for the first time, a non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian, respectful democracy where the issues of the day were discussed. No one was rude and all seemed jovially patient. We hadn’t planned to stay more than that day, but leaving the Plaza late that evening, we had an urge to return.

The next morning, I found my pace quicken as I headed from the Metro station back to Freedom Plaza, as I was excited to return to this piece of “federal property” that had begun to feel like a “People’s Oasis.” We had succeeded, at least for the time being, in taking back a small piece of the United States and restoring it to some kind of sanity and humanity. A section of the Plaza was filled with sleeping bags, backpacks and cardboard shelters, and our food, media, and first-aid tents still stood.

We decided to prolong our visit and stay for the afternoon march to the Martin Luther King Memorial. At this march, there were the chants that are common to all Occupy marches: “We are the 99 percent.” “The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.” “Hey, hey, ho, ho, corporate greed has got to go.” “Show me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.” On this march, we paused at the International Trade Center (in the Ronald Reagan Building), where there were about 75 demonstrators protesting the tar sands pipeline. As some of our marchers had earlier participated in their protest, the pipeline protesters returned the favor by joining our march. We shouted our appreciation and our morale kicked up another notch.

Leaving Freedom Plaza at the end of my short stint there, I thought that even a little dose of democracy, especially when it has not been experienced, is the best damn antidepressant that many people will ever experience. And even if the cynics are right and the movement dies from cold weather or gets large enough for the corporatocracy to bring out their tanks and crush it, something still will have been won. Everybody who participated will remember that their demoralization and despair was “cured,” at least for a time, not by a pill or any other consumer product but by their own political actions.

Read the whole article here..
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/15287...g_shake_us_out_of_our_depression/?page=entire
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I couldnt really find a place for this.., I just wanted to share it..

 

You picked a good spot. I enjoyed reading it.

 

Without a doubt!

 

i feel the exact same way :daisy: i don't think i have ever been happier... people engaging with each other in a respectful and learned manner for the betterment of our current untenable situation... i've made life long friends here and my terrified heart has opened to others in a way i used to dream of...

want to apologise for not posting more frequently here with updates and stuff, it's just i'm so busy... popped back home last night because my mate is on burn out and needed to crash somewhere soft... and i need a bath!...

got to go, got shit to do... literally... i'm helping sanitation... arf
don't take the piss... :biker:

 

Haven't been on HF in forever it seems.

Things are going well here in Greensboro. We broke camp for more planning and finding a better location. Haven't had any incidents except two crazies trying to splinter the group. One of them was asked to remove himself from camp for sexual harassment.

Other than that we've had several successful marches and protests. We've got three regular G.A.s per week and lots of working group meetings and teach-ins.

Love y'all!

www.occupygreensboro.org

 

i support the normal people that have enough of the 1% financial terrorism
for all families that have no clear future because of the financial greed of 1% that is blind that 99% of other people have to live and use money
to go to school, to pay rent, to pay for fuel for their car to go to work if they have work

i support with visual play knowing that using money is necesairy for all humans worldwide

it can't be that banks and multinationals play with money
without thinking of the population
without permission of the population
without democraty
if there is democraty
99% of the population will WIN and their vioce will be heard and translated to real democraty