www.DemocracyNow.org – As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its twentieth day, New York City’s most powerful unions are set to march today from City Hall to the movement’s encampment in the Financial District. The demonstration will be bolstered by the walkout of potentially thousands of students at major public universities in New York City where tuition rates are on the rise. Meanwhile, similar “occupation” movements are springing up in cities around the country. On Tuesday, the Greater Boston Labor Council, representing 154 unions with 90000 workers, supported the Occupy Boston encampment for shining “a spotlight on the imbalance of power in our nation and the role that Wall Street has played in devastating our economy.” Democracy Now! hosts a discussion about whether the Occupy Wall Street movement is sparking a diverse, grassroots movement for economic change. Interviewed is Kai Wright, contributor to The Nation magazine and editorial director of ColorLines.com, where he wrote “Here’s to Occupying Wall Street! (If Only That Were Actually Happening).” We also speak with Arun Gupta, an editor with of The Indypendent, and of “The Occupied Wall Street Journal,” a newspaper affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, where he published an article titled, “The Revolution Begins at Home.” For the complete transcript, podcast, and for additional Democracy Now! reports about the Occupied Wall Street protests, visit www.democracynow.org FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE …
@mobilechief No I am a Vet of OEF, pretty liberal and when there is a third party I vote Socialism or Libertarians for laughs. I’m just calling a spade a spade and have enough hindsight that this protest is fluff. It seems cool but nobody has a simply way to say why are you protesting. The government bloated bureaucratic and fixed for the 1%. OWS is like protesting your local Mcdonalds for cow slaughtering.
Also remember they can not arrest you all it is impossible, trust me I was a cop. Also most cops are on your side silently.
Fox= Paul Joseph Goebbels ! Idiots boob box!
@J5MARLON So you say, its because you are most probably a snot noised shit who has never really worked , and you blindly follow your Fuhrers. Another ultra right cultist!
Nah just kids wanting to party, there is no main objective and the Democrats cant rally a high school pep rally and republicans are still occupying the tea party. This protest is lame.
@blackpelican0 now that was well said .
@capnron2008
Even if we have schools like Harvard or Stanford, European students are much more educated on average and pay a fraction of the cost because they do not run education for profit the way the United States does. These people are not against paying their fair share, they are against a system that is rigged against them to squeeze every dollar out of the middle class.
@capnron2008
Wtf?
Do you really think it costs 25,000 dollars a year per student to hire college staff and put a bunch of kids in a lecture hall to read and study? College costs something because the way university is structured is to squeeze as much money out of young people as possible while lobbying government to give kids loans to pay for their school which spent more money on marketing to get them there then it spends on their education. In other countries school is cheaper and better.
Are you people in the comments kidding? educate yourselves before you decide to have an opinion.
CAPITALISM was designed only for CORRUPT OPPORTUNISTIC MANIPULATIVE LAZY POLITICIAN. BANKERS. LAWYERS. DRUG LORDS. JUDGES. TERRORIST. ELITE CRIMINALS. DICTATORS. RULERS. KING. SULTANATE. EMPEROR etc. etc..
SAVE the ANIMALS & NATURE. HARD WORKING PEACE LOVING HAPPY HONEST SOCIETY needs SECURE FUTURE & FREEDOM..!!! END DEBT.
—- copy & paste WE ARE THE 99% —-
BURN THE BANKS. BURN DRUG LORDS ALIVE & OCCUPY THE WORLD…!!!
BURN THE BANKS. BURN DRUG LORDS ALIVE & OCCUPY THE WORLD…!!!
@MWcrazyhorse the american elite thinks there gods now … and have sent how many into battle to die ?
we dont call it sacrifice , just expendable , same way public ralations in america is really just propaganda (fact) …
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( explain the Mystery object in space they showed on the news/youtube … and how the hopi and maya knew about this all those years ago )
NO MORE WAR!
/watch?v=RxaUg2Q4tvg
/watch?v=BHrkc6EB6h0
/watch?v=W3AR0D4WVPQ
STOP THE MEDIA BLACKOUT — They WANT you confused!
/watch?v=dlmouMA5VTs
THE LIVE AND LET LIVE PRESIDENT
gay marriage, legalize pot, end the Fed — Ron Paul 2012
what was a dream in the 1960′s is becoming a reality in the 21st century, and i am just sitting here laughing at the common man XD
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed)
3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)
Thank God for the Occupy Wall Street movement. America is having the life strangled out of her by the criminal, arrogant, and greedy Wall Street crowd and the corporations. Shame on Wall Street. Shame on the corporations.
End the fed!
Shut down the Pentagon!
end federal tax system!
Bring our troops home and stop the wars!
Bankers+prison=Justice
Ann your bankers buddies funded both sides of every one of those claims!
Will the bankers fund this revolution?They will try!
Bankers want this to go violent!
I love that word progressive you have no idea what it means!
Nazi Ugenics=progressive! look up the history bro!
feeble minded bastard!
Keep killing those black babies you progressive hipster!
Bankers+prison=Justice!
Who the hell wants to hear from anyone from the White House, it should be called the Charnal House!
RICHEST PEOPLE ARE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE PRIVATE FEDERAL RESERVE OF AMERICA(27 TRILLION DOLLARS)
LARGEST PRIVATE COMPANY IN THE WORLD HAVING MADE PROFITS OF MORE THAN 27 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 98 YEARS ….
SIX SHARE HOLDERS … IT PRINTS MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR END THE PRIVATE FEDERAL RESERVE …
IT’S TIME. IN OCTOBER 15TH FROM EUROPE TO ASIA. FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AMERICA. ON OCTOBER 15TH WE THE PEOPLE WILL OCCUPY THE WORLD. ITS TIME TO TELL OUR GOVERNMENT ENOUGH. WE ARE THE 99% AND THE 1% WILL GO DOWN. DON’T FORGET OCTOBER 15TH 2011.
copy&paste (SHARE PLEASE) JOIN US NOW
We sure ARE. The days of Neo-Con/Tea Party corporate run America are comming to an end. Its time to return to the PROGRESSIVE economic policies of Reagan,Ford,and both Roosevelts. Where the rich PAY thier fair share, the FED is properly regulated and where jobs can created in America! Look out Tea Party! A new MOVEMENT is going to wipe your racist,hateful, asses out!
How does it feel knowing your tax money is killing children everyday?
@petersz98
This is incredilbly clever writing. I’m particularly happy with the word “Banksters” and “faux news”