Protesters gather in New York's financial hub for demonstration against what organisers call corporate dominance.

Building on the momentum of the Arab Spring movements, protesters in the US are gathering in New York City's financial district in a bid to show mass resistance against the dominance of the country's financial system.

What started as an online campaign has translated into action on the ground, with protest organisers calling for thousands of people to "occupy Wall Street" on Saturday.

"On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months," organisers wrote on the www.occupywallst.org website.

"Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants."

The leaderless movement includes hacktivist group Anonymous among the protesters. The group released a video online calling on people to take to the streets on September 17.

Similar to the structure of the hacktivist group itself there is no defined central authority, but Twitter accounts like @AnonOps are hubs of information for those attending the protests in person and virtually.

The Stream is following events in New York City and around the globe via social media and will update the elements below as the story progresses.

more... http://stream.aljazeera.com/

This is more than likely an NWO led operation.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=334433#ixzz1XkU3YdBP

The American Revolution Begins Sept 17th(official site)

A Modest Call to Action on this September 17th

Published 2011-09-18 01:46:38 UTC by agnosticnixie

This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution.

We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.

Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.

We agree that we need to see election reform. However, the election reform proposed ignores the causes which allowed such a system to happen. Some will readily blame the federal reserve, but the political system has been beholden to political machinations of the wealthy well before its founding.

We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites.

We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.

If you agree that freedom is the right to communicate, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the impositions of others, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us.

If you agree that state and corporation are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure, if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it, how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us.

And so we call on people to act

We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.

We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize them democratically. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together.

We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.

We call for the organization of people's assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.

We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculators, for the people, for every group that will organize them.

We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic.

more... https://occupywallst.org/

like others have observed, wall street is open monday-friday, so by all means 'occupy' on saturday...
how sanitary...

The occupation is meant to be an ongoing thing, we will see how things evolve, in any case the demonstrations and occupations against the financial institutions is international in scope and hopefully it will make a difference, it all depends how far people want to push this thing, since this movement has no real leaders...

September 17th EVERYWHERE!
global actions against banks and banksters

#OCCUPYWALLSTREET in New York, USA – Read the plan of action.
#TOMALABOLSA in Madrid, Spain – Read the plan of action. Fb event.
#TOMALABOLSA in Barcelona, Spain – Read the plan of action. Fb event.
#TOMALABOLSA in Valencia, Spain – Fb event
#TOMALABOLSA in Bilbao, Spain – Fb event
#TOMALABOLSA in Santander, in Spain – Camping 2 days in front of Bank Santander. Read the plan of action.
#TOMALABOLSA in Las Palmas, in Spain – Read the plan of action.
#OCCUPAZIONEPIAZZAAFFARI in Milan, Italy – Fb event.
#OCCUPYBANKOFENGLAND, #UKUncut in London, England – Fb event. other fb event.
#USDORSF San Francisco, USA – Read the plan of action.
#USDORLosA Los Angeles, USA – Read the plan of action.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET in Austin, USA – Read the plan of action.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET in Seattle, USA – Read the plan of action.
#TAKETHESQUARE return to the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin – USA Webpage
in Portland, USA – Read the plan of action. Fb event.
#OCCUPYBAYSTREET in Toronto, Canada – Fb event.
in Athens, Grece – Hellenic Stock Exchange Fb event. Also gathering in Syntagma square at 12:00 and then march to the Bank of Greece on Panepistimioy Avenue. Fb event. Web flyer here.
in Berlin, Germany – Occupy Börse Berlin Fb Event.
in Frankfurt, Germany – Occupy Frankfurter Börse Fb Event.
in Stuttgart, Germany – Occupy börsenstrasse Fb event.
in Lisboa, Portugal – Demonstration in front of Stock-Market headquarters. Fb event.
in Porto, Portugal – Demonstration in front of Stock-Market headquarters. Portugal – Fb event.
in Viena, Austria – Read the plan of action.
#BEURSPLEINBEZETTING in Amsterdam, Netherlands – Camping in the Exchange Market Square. Fb event. Preparation meeting (13.09.2011) link. Follow @YesWeCampNL
in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Demonstration in front of Stock Exchange Headquarters. FB event.
in Paris, Place de la Bourse, France. Fb event.
in Dublin, Ireland. Fb event.

Other actions for 17th September

in Barcelona, Spain – Forum and Barcelona Hub International Meting. International meeting of social organizers in order to set a plan for a global rally on 15th October. (15-18th September)
Paris, France - Marches from Greece, France, Spain, Italy, etc. will arrive to Paris and there will be a big demonstration there. Read more in Road to Brussels, The marches to Brussels and Paris Reelle Democratie
Italy – Marches to Rome starts. Follow it in fb.
Athens, Greece proposes to boicott the banks withdrawing money for 4 days, still not clear when do they start (decided on Syntagma assembly on September 5th)
Cambridge, UK – Workshops on the financial crisis. Flyer here.

http://antibanks.takethesquare.net/2011/08...7th-everywhere/

Good to see this. I hope it is successful.

Occupy Wall Street - Day 7 (Police Brutality)

more than 80 arrested...

http://www.flickr.com/photos

Day 8, OCCUPY WALL STREET.

Airplane pilots march on Wall Street

Hundreds of pilots from United/Continental showed up in full dress and made a show in support for their union during an ongoing labor dispute. They stood in an area on Broad Street, near Wall Street and the Stock Exchange

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/618949...in/photostream/

I've said before that the only way to change this country is to get 10 million people to protest in DC and not move until the beltway crowd gets with the program for the people.
Boots on the ground... all around.

Thanks Pilots!

So do I, amazed!

Great to hear pilots are getting into this as well, Rob. Godspeed and thanks for standing with the protestors all you pilots over in New York.

Wall Street protesters march on NY police headquarters

http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Wall Street protests spread to other cities

Protests inspired by "Occupy Wall Street" movement have emerged in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Members of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement have vowed to stay through winter in a park near New York's iconic financial district, where they are protesting issues including the 2008 bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment in the United States.

Protests inspired by New York's have emerged in other US cities in recent days, including Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

A group in Boston has taken on the tactics of New York's protesters and on Friday night set itself up in the city's Dewey Square. Activists remained camped out at what they called "the heart of the financial district" on Saturday.

"We are establishing our subsection of a national dialogue on finance reform and governance reform," Nadeem Mazen, an organiser with Occupy Boston, told Al Jazeera.

Mazen said that the Boston protest quickly drew a thousand people. "It shows that we're experienced and that we've all been independently thinking about what change we want to see. .. I think we're all very hungry for change."

The New York campaign is based in Zuccotti Park - formerly Liberty Plaza Park - just across from the World Trade Center site.

The movement has gained the support of five New York labour unions, as well as celebrities and academics such as Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, rapper Lupe Fiasco and the musical group Radiohead.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas

United Steelworkers announce support for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest

The United Steelworkers, North America’s largest industrial union, announced on Friday that it supported the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” protest that began in lower Manhattan and has slowly spread to other cities across the United States.

The protesters have pledged to occupy Wall Street until something is done about corporate greed and corporate influence on the U.S. government. They have been camped out in New York’s old Liberty Plaza since September 17.

“The United Steelworkers union stands in solidarity with and strongly supports Occupy Wall Street,” Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, said in a statement.

“The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating around-the-clock for nearly two weeks in New York City are speaking out for the many in our world. We are fed up with the corporate greed, corruption and arrogance that have inflicted pain on far too many for far too long.”

United Steelworkers has 850,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean.

The announcement comes after a number of labor unions and liberal groups said hey would throw their weight behind the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations. The United Federation of Teachers, 32BJ SEIU, 1199 SEIU, Workers United and Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 have said they will participate in the protest.

The Working Families Party, MoveOn.org, Make the Road New York, the Coalition for the Homeless, the Alliance for Quality Education, Community Voices Heard, United New York and Strong Economy For All also plan to support the demonstration.

TWU Local 100 president John Samuelson appeared on Current TV’s Countdown and explained that his union was making common cause with the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters because they are, “singing the same song and fighting the same battle that our union has fought for the last eighteen months.”

Many have criticized the movement for not having any clear purpose or goals, but Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald responded that most of those critiques were ludicrous.

“Does anyone really not know what the basic message is of this protest: that Wall Street is oozing corruption and criminality and its unrestrained political power — in the form of crony capitalism and ownership of political institutions — is destroying financial security for everyone else?” he wrote on Wednesday.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/01/unit...street-protest/

Another site for those interested is:

http://www.occupytogether.org/

thanks for the link lights!

Good to see old-fashioned street action again!

I hope the grassroots unions get their act together and stage a mass march to show support.

The ignorance of many of these "protesteors" is absolutely frightening. No surprise because it looks like, as suggested by some that this 'protest' was started as an inside job. Many of these protestors are students who want to to use government to pass off their financial obligations on to you and me.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/occupy-wall-st...n-of-obama.html

Some of these students in the below video remind me much of George Bernard Shaw and his comments in "The Soviet Story".

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVR9Nv43J4...player_embedded

President Obama and The Occupy Wall St. Protesters: Common Ground in Liberty Park?
https://occupywallst.org/forum/president-ob...st-protesters-/

The Best Among Us

Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. This is what it means to be alive. They are the best among us.

by Chrish Hedges

“There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.

To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the sidelines and say “I am innocent” is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. Ask Tim DeChristopher.

Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. They have their long phalanxes of police on motorcycles, their rows of white paddy wagons, their foot soldiers hunting for you on the streets with pepper spray and orange plastic nets. They have their metal barricades set up on every single street leading into the New York financial district, where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they stole from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in four children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat. Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged. Today they run the state and the financial markets. They disseminate the lies that pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you, how pervasive the corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is against you, how corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class and an obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in their little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out of their homes, a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million people a year go bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills and 45,000 die from lack of proper care, where real joblessness is spiraling to over 20 percent, where the citizens, including students, spend lives toiling in debt peonage, working dead-end jobs, when they have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world of masters and serfs.

So either you rise up and supplant them, either you dismantle the corporate state, for a world of sanity, a world where we no longer kneel before the absurd idea that the demands of financial markets should govern human behavior, or we are frog-marched toward self-annihilation.

Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finally faith. They sleep on concrete every night. Their clothes are soiled. They have eaten more bagels and peanut butter than they ever thought possible. They have tasted fear, been beaten, gone to jail, been blinded by pepper spray, cried, hugged each other, laughed, sung, talked too long in general assemblies, seen their chants drift upward to the office towers above them, wondered if it is worth it, if anyone cares, if they will win. But as long as they remain steadfast they point the way out of the corporate labyrinth.

This is what it means to be alive. They are the best among us.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/

The Marines are coming to #OccupyWallStreet to Protect the Protesters

Dressed in uniform 16 or more marines so far and Army troops will be headed to the Occupy Wall Street demonstration to protect the protesters against the police crackdown. “We all took an oath to uphold, protect and defend the constitution of this country. That’s what we will be doing” wrote Reddit user ‘theenemywasme’ calling all Military Veterans in the popular social site to join him.

United States Army and Marine troops are departing tonight on their way to various protest locations in support of the movement and to protect the protesters:

I’m heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform.

I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:

I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it’s Congress’ turn.

My true hope, though, is that we Veterans can act as first line of defense between the police and the protester. If they want to get to some protesters so they can mace them, they will have to get through the Fucking Marine Corps first. Let’s see a cop mace a bunch of decorated war vets.

A formation will be held tonight at 10PM. We all took an oath to uphold, protect and defend the constitution of this country.
That’s what we will be doing.

http://freakoutnation.com/

As I have been saying since day 1 and history has proven since the dawn of man, their arrogance is their weakness, peasants win revolutions.

Get ready folks... here it comes.

The only way i can see this grassroots effort 'arrested' (albeit temporarily), is a patsie detonating a bomb in the middle of a large demonstration, and then blamed on the protestors without any evidence whatsoever. It will be splashed all over Mockingbird Mainstream media, and martial law (or close to it) declared. Which will only inflame the situation more. Which is why i say it will be a "temporary".

The second shot heard across the world is coming soon, I hope i am wrong.


Stock up on food, water, weapons and ammo if you havent already.

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA

THIS DOCUMENT WAS ACCEPTED BY THE NYC GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *

To the people of the world,

We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

*These grievances are not all-inclusive.

Update 10/1/11 – Minor updates to some wording in the facts.

Source: http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-...-new-york-city/

I would much rather pay for the education of a working class human being trying to better themselves and the world than the perverted life style of some rich mother fucker on Wall Street gaming our corrupt financial system or some fat-ass banking executive from the City of London manipulating the world's currencies. I'd much rather pay for your health care, especially as you age and can no longer work, than for weapons of mass destruction used by our armed forces in imperial wars of aggression for the benefit of corporate greed -- all barely hidden under the pretense of a war on terrorism. We're talking TRILLIONS of dollars in war and bailout in the last decade alone. TRILLIONS! And now these mother fuckers want to end Social Security, Medicare and make all of us into serfs.

As I've said many times in the past, I'm all for a "War on Terror"... but lets be clear who the real terrorists are. They aren't wearing turbans and living in caves. No. They wear suits and ties, are driven around in limos and live in Manhattan, Rome, London and Paris. They are a bloated, hierarchical, privileged criminal class who keep the little people at one another's throats while they get away with mass murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Literally. In the world, 2% of the population own more than half of the wealth. In the US, the top 1% controls 40% of the wealth. And this quantitative disparity has a direct affect on the QUALITY of life for everyone. At base all this isn't about MONEY, what it is about is the right of everyone to have a quality life FREE from the oppression of those whose wealth gives them the right to exploit and pollute everyone else's personal, social, psychological and natural environment.

The revolution starts now
Steve Earle

I was walkin’ down the street
In the town where I was born
I was movin’ to a beat
That I’d never felt before
So I opened up my eyes
And I took a look around
I saw it written ‘cross the sky
The revolution starts now
Yeah, the revolution starts now

The revolution starts now
When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here
Where you work and where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do and what you say
The revolution starts now
Yeah the revolution starts now

Yeah the revolution starts now
In your own backyard
In your own hometown
So what you doin’ standin’ around?
Just follow your heart
The revolution starts now

Last night I had a dream
That the world had turned around
And all our hopes had come to be
And the people gathered ‘round
They all brought what they could bring
And nobody went without
And I learned a song to sing
The revolution starts now

I take it that this started with around a half dozen people.

Last weekend around 700 got arrested: If that would have been each and every protestor involved, it would still mean a hundred-fold increase.
The simple fact that this is still possible these days gives me hope...

Let's hope it will be a thousand-fold next week-- and that it spreads across the globe by the week after that.

Obviously this has the potential to grow to include the ultimate demand: 9/11 Truth. These protesters are young and almost all Truth-savvy. Here is where you suggest/vote for demands to be included, official page:

http://coupmedia.org/occupywallstreet/occu...al-demands-2009

THEME:
Only 9/11 truth will end the 9/11 Wars. Only ending the wars can save the economy."


also facebook here

http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

this is sending a chill down my spine, this could happen.

Los Angeles anti-war march: ONLY 9/11 TRUTH CAN END THE WARS.

Actually, it was started by a slick advertising group called Adbusters.

I think that the following post is an important and insightful article by Dr. Webster G. Tarpley.
Go to................ tarpley.net and the second article listed is titled:
Emergency Program for Anti-Wall Street Protestors.
It gives a good prognosis of where this protest might be headed as it is mitigated by Obama operatives.

http://tarpley.net/2011/09/29/emergency-pr...eet-protestors/

The MSM over here is doling out the impression that this is just a bunch of poor, disgruntled students having a bit of a rant and a rave at the authorities. I don't think the average Aussie has yet picked up the vibe... it's not yet being discussed in my social/work circles yet. It would be useful to get the "Declaration for the Occupation of New York City" out into the mainstream somehow. That statement sums it up brilliantly. Hang in there.

Cointel will always try and control and steer dissenting voices.
I see it as an opportunity for a wake up call on a mass scale if the 99% of genuine protesters aren't corralled up the path the "dark side" has set up for them.

It's also an opportunity to get people off of their asses and take a stand. Even if the only result is to let people know what it's like to actually take their streets and dignity back, it will be worth it.

As for leadership and goals, there would be people there from very different backgrounds with different agendas so the main one that they should stick to is tearing the corporate empire down. At least do something to fire a warning shot across their bows. End of story.

It's the details that usually mess things up.

i have mixed feelings about tarpley. phD's are really Piled Higher and Deeper. his (almost) aspersion of dubious hollywood types implies some intimate knowledge of the motivations of others. that's what phD's are prone to. occupational hazard i suppose. if they could stay on task and not let their egos dictate the particulars we would all be better off.

the points he makes are ok; the solutions, well, worthy of discussion.

having been in marches before, i was wrong about the ny one occurring now. perhaps i was jaded or disillusioned, no matter. maybe this is the tipping point. clearly we can not go on as we have.

it will be interesting to see what happens in dc..one which, out of necessity, i will be forced to attend. sometimes, you have to do what you got to do.

I agree, I don't believe this movement should limit itself to a few specific issues, people will find their way as they go along and hijacking this thing will be hard, politicians from both parties are not welcomed and I know of at least one democratic congress critter who was booed and ridiculed by the protesters when he showed up...

This should not be about demands from the serfs to the master but more about creating a world without masters or serfs.

my 2cents.

From what I have read the DC occupation is supposed to be much better organized, should be interesting...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-0...t-protests.html

Didn't Tarpley start out with Lyndon LaRouche? And then there was the Kennebunkport bs.

i didn't know about the tarpley-larouche connection. lots of people have been in jail that didn't deserve to be and lots of people aren't in jail that deserve to be. bush, cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, feith, zelikow, perle.....

All you have to do is look at Michael Moore's "Past Performance Chart" to see where he's coming from.
Time will tell if Tarpley's analysis is accurate.
His book, "9/11 Synthetic Terror-Made in the USA" is perhaps the best book on 9/11.
Ask Rob what he thinks of Tarpley's work. He knows him personally.

Really? I'll gladly let YOU pay for their education then since they didn't pay for mine. Did you really get the sense that girl cared about truth or 911 or anything Adam Kokesh had to say? In fact, she ran likity-split when Kokesh said he was an independent journalist.

My impression was that many if not the majoity of these protestors were clueless as evidenced by Kokesh's intereviews and had a tremendous sense of entitlement. In effect they were rebels without a clue. This is not to say that I would throw out the baby with the bathwater (I like it that many Marines went to protect the protestors) but rather if you read my earlier posts it seems to back up the claim of many that the initial "protest" was in fact an inside job so that the perps could vilanize protestrors and the best way to entice many to participate then was via a CIA-organized a honeypot effort in the form of a bogus organization, "Occupy Wall Street". That being said, I would however add that I don't think the cia-oragnizers never thought that this protest would take on a life of it's own.

President Obama and The Occupy Wall St. Protesters: Common Ground in Liberty Park?
http://occupywallst.org/forum/president-ob...st-protesters-/

Just so you know Painter, I was from the "other side of the tracks", paid for my own education and can not even begin to relate the the spoiled woman and guy in the glasses in the Kokesh interviews who had no problem with war, genocide and the offloading of their financial choices\resposibilities to everyone else.

Please read posts before you get your panties in a knot.

It must get a bit boring at times standing around for hours waiting to be beaten up by cops - so I hope 9/11 truthers manage to get down there and hand out some good reading material for them to pass the time away with :-)

This is really dangerous folks..... do not buy into it.

Andre wrote: "...Many have criticized the movement for not having any clear purpose or goals..."

And, I am one of those people.

First, not to sound all negative. Thanks Andre for these great updates on obviously what is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, political activism stories of the year. Great posts!

My time is limited. But, taking a look at the main Occupy Wall Street-related sites, I found no clear mission statement or statement of purpose. Or, platform.

Nothing.

Obviously, Wall Street is corrupt. That is not in question. I guess my concern is A) who is organizing this revolution, and B) for what purpose? Worse, looking at some of the websites: is it just me, or do some of the writings seem, well, MARXIST???

Readers, I beg you to suspend your disbelief for a moment and consider this article from Veterans Today, if you will.

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SUPPRESSED HISTORY: WHEN WALL STREET TRIED TO BRING THE HOLOCAUST TO AMERICA

The Morgan Fascist Coup Plot and How FDR Defeated It

“Editor’s note: The plan was in motion, a veterans group, bankers, Nazi’s all, dictatorship, concentration camps and an end to American democracy. It almost happened in the 1930s as it could still happen in America today. This is history, the real history no American child is taught, history no university has in its library…..only the truth can keep America free.”

by L. Wolfe for The Executive Intelligence Review

Introduction

Some 12 years ago, this news service published a report on the 1930s fascist coup plot against the Franklin D. Roosevelt government, led by a Morgan-centered cabal of powerful financial interests; the coup would have replaced FDR with a puppet government whose policies would be controlled by a cabal of wealthy financial plutocrats. As the report made clear, the intention of the conspirators was to use the anarchy and chaos produced by the coup, to eliminate for all time the threat to their power represented by the U.S. Presidency and U.S. Constitution.

Read the full article at Veterans Today:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/13/su...reet-nazi-plot/

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Yes, I would prefer statements of mission and purpose. Mobbing the streets with angry people with no purpose to vent their anger looks to me like the forge of tyrannical revolution. AKA a VERY BAD IDEA!!!

Thank you!!!

Also, a quick follow up comment:

The 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations are BEING TELEVISED. (For example, I saw footage on my local "Action Packed," half-hour nightly news program last night.)

What does that suggest? I mean, c'mon. Let's not be naive. These demonstrations are being PROMOTED by the Powers That Be. People posting here know what I'm talking about. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, there could have been THOUSANDS marching in the streets. But, was THAT televised??? No, of course not. The PTB do not endorse 9/11 Truth.

Sorry I didn't have time to read all the posts in this thread. However, just the simple fact of these demo's being TELEVISED would suggest to me that some of the very same Wall Street corps alleged being protested do, in fact, SUPPORT THE DEMONSTRATIONS!!!!

See Veterans Today article, above. Thank you!!!

I think you've hit the nail on the head if it is true that it's started as a cointel op.

There's a lot of seething anger built up over at least ten years that's been bubbling under the surface.
A major release is needed. And I believe,as Rob has said, that "they" are so fucking arrogant that they may have underestimated it.

Revolt goes hand in hand with strange bedfellows. If they're at least under one banner, fighting the same enemy, the details can sort themselves out later.

Watch out for the "agents provocateurs" in the coming weeks.

So far it has been quite peaceful, on the demonstrators side at least, there is a festive quality and they are generally good humoured despite the hard condition, the purpose is to open a discussion and create a space where people can meet, organize and plan future strategy based on mutual interests, it's called democracy, it takes time and effort so we will just have to wait and see, and give them our support if we can.

This movement is too fluid to be controlled, and that is what the ruling class is worried about I imagine. I disagree, concerning the coverage this has been getting in the MSM, there has been a blackout until very recently, but it's pretty hard even for the MSM to not cover a bridge being closed down in NYC because of demonstrators and then 700 being arrested...

Screw you Quest. I have no respect for anyone using neo-fascist WND as an information resource while simultaneously accusing others of being NWO dupes.

I don't believe this is a cointel op, they are well aware of the resentment that has been building up these past years and put up all kinds of measures to confront such a situation, in fact they have tried to snuff out this revolt from the very beginning but yes I'm sure there will be agent provocateurs infiltrating the demonstrators, watch out for the black bloc anarchists with their shiny police issued boots...