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The 'Occupy Wall Street' protests

My name is URL

Is anyone following this story? There seems to be very little talk about it round these parts.

About 750 people have been arrested over the last fortnight and the protests are gaining momentum and starting to happen all over the US.

Some unions and politicians have got behind the protests too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr3DiqWYCI

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/occupy-wall-street/100159/

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LaFlammeRouge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSh7WUK1GDc

puke.

General General

My name is URL wrote: »

Is anyone following this story? There seems to be very little talk about it round these parts.

About 750 people have been arrested over the last fortnight and the protests are gaining momentum and starting to happen all over the US.

Some unions and politicians have got behind the protests too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr3DiqWYCI

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/occupy-wall-street/100159/

Don't worry, the US government will crush these fools... with their fully ARMED & OPERATIONAL Battle Station.

herosa

Free the workers!! Thats what we needed to be doing a year ago In Ireland but it doesnt seem to be in our make up except in the north maybe.

My name is URL

General General wrote: »

Don't worry, the US government will crush these fools... with their fully ARMED & OPERATIONAL Battle Station.

Mubarak thought he could do the same when his people started to revolt.

Khannie

Fairly shocking that pepper spray bit.

General General

My name is URL wrote: »

Mubarak thought he could do the same when his people started to revolt.

Mubarak was a minnow, & his time had come...

Here, we're talking Darth Obama & his (yet to be revealed) Master.

RATM

Disgusting behaviour by the NYPD. Police brutality on behalf of Goldman Sachs & Co.

previous user

Wheres the equivalent of Wall Street that we could all protest at in Dublin?

RoyalMarine

previous user wrote: »

Wheres the equivalent of Wall Street that we could all protest at in Dublin?

cash for gold shops

Mike 1972

My name is URL wrote: »

Is anyone following this story? There seems to be very little talk about it round these parts.

Got a bit of coverage on Press TV today.

Yup I know the channel in question is an Iranian propaganda mouthpiece but I find it best to get my propaganda from diverse sources.

Saila

I love the way the guy in the video makes it sound like he doesnt want to name the city where it happened, but the link article says the 'wall st protests' :pac:

that'll be NYC then you tit :rolleyes:

orourkeda

RATM wrote: »

Disgusting behaviour by the NYPD. Police brutality on behalf of Goldman Sachs & Co.

Speaking of which

orourkeda

previous user wrote: »

Wheres the equivalent of Wall Street that we could all protest at in Dublin?

The Royal Rumble of Ringsend

Saila

previous user wrote: »

Wheres the equivalent of Wall Street that we could all protest at in Dublin?

IFSC but that wont help you much tbh
best protest you can make is to NEVER vote Fina Fail
the current government is cleaning up the mess Fine Fail have made of the country and in doing so will be getting unpopular, I just hope for everyones sake people remember who got us into the mess and not who made the austerity measures needed to save the country from its successors ass raping

For Forks Sake

*adopts Paul McCartney voice "it's been done"*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI

My name is URL

Saila wrote: »

best protest you can make is to NEVER vote Fina Fail
[..]
I just hope for everyones sake people remember who got us into the mess

There's no denying that FF played their part, but you can't place 100% of the blame on them. They didn't cause the problem which is now affecting the global economy. The protests in the US are against, amongst other stuff; the bailing out of banks and reluctance of the government to punish those who allowed for things to get so bad, while passing the cost of it onto ordinary citizens.

biko

I've posted a couple vids about this in Internet vids thread.
Could be worth repeat here.

What happens when you challenge the money machine?
Police arrest you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M186KXT3jE

Yahoo blocks your mails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzTVKrCI6dk

Dotrel

General General wrote: »

Don't worry, the US government will crush these fools... with their fully ARMED & OPERATIONAL Battle Station.

Agreed. Wall Street is quite safe from this pitiful little band. An entire legion of the the US governments best troops awaits them.

For Forks Sake

My name is URL wrote: »

There's no denying that FF played their part, but you can't place 100% of the blame on them. They didn't cause the problem which is now affecting the global economy.

I was just waiting for a mention of Lehmans there, seing as I read the rest of that in bertie aherns voice...

AhSureTisGrand

biko wrote: »

Yahoo blocks your mails

If people used Yahoo this would be rather worrying

Lord Trollington

My name is URL wrote: »

the bailing out of banks and reluctance of the government to punish those who allowed for things to get so bad, while passing the cost of it onto ordinary citizens.

This sounds very familiar, where have I seen this before????

Saila

My name is URL wrote: »

There's no denying that FF played their part, but you can't place 100% of the blame on them. They didn't cause the problem which is now affecting the global economy. The protests in the US are against, amongst other stuff; the bailing out of banks and reluctance of the government to punish those who allowed for things to get so bad, while passing the cost of it onto ordinary citizens.

like the way FF issued a guarantee for the banks debts therefore transferring the banks private debt of 100bn+ to the taxpayer, that is a FACT the rest is arguable

My name is URL

Saila wrote: »

like the way FF issued a guarantee for the banks debts therefore transferring the banks private debt of 100bn+ to the taxpayer, that is a FACT the rest is arguable

Sure it's a fact.. and FG supported and voted in favour of the bank guarantees at the time. Do you honestly believe that things would have played out much differently had they been in power at the time? I never voted for FF in my life, but you're in denial if you think that they caused 100% of the problems we now face.

Solnskaya

Hah, anybody who doubts what's what just has to look at the money train in Ireland, nation of the cock-up. Nothing cocked-up about how the money is collected from the banks daily- six to eight armed squaddies, locked and loaded. Do not mess with the money. You are not a citizen, you are a tax-payer, and therein lies our value, or lack there-of.

Zebra3

My name is URL wrote: »

There's no denying that FF played their part, but you can't place 100% of the blame on them.

You're right.

The morons who voted for them while knowing they were corrupt to the hilt deserve a lot of the blame too.

Saila

My name is URL wrote: »

Sure it's a fact.. and FG supported and voted in favour of the bank guarantees at the time. Do you honestly believe that things would have played out much differently had they been in power at the time? I never voted for FF in my life, but you're in denial if you think that they caused 100% of the problems we now face.

em FG didnt know about the bank gurantee, Lenihan [FF] was visited by the chairmen of the Irish banks one night asked railroaded for a guarantee blank cheque, he said there you go and rest is history

there was no 'vote' about it.

Tyrant^

Live feed of the march with chat !

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

mickydoomsux

There are literally tens of people there :eek:

The police look utterly disinterested as well. Bunch of first-world spoiled brats whinging about "coporate greed" while Tweeting from their iPhones.

Amirani

mickydoomsux wrote: »

There are literally tens of people there :eek:

The police look utterly disinterested as well. Bunch of first-world spoiled brats whinging about "coporate greed" while Tweeting from their iPhones.

Seems to be more than just "tens":

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1002/breaking26.html

Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge last night after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorised march across the span.

The arrests took place when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.

"Over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets have been issued in connection with a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway, and that if they took roadway they would be arrested," a police spokesman said.

"Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were. The bridge was re-opened to traffic at 8.05pm last night.

Most of those who were arrested were taken into custody off the bridge, issued summonses and released. Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.

Some protesters tried to get away as officers started handcuffing members of the group. Dozens of protesters were seen handcuffed and sitting on the span as three buses were called in to take them away, witnesses and organisers said.

The march started about 3.30pm from the protesters' camp in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan near the former World Trade Center. Members of the group have vowed to stay at the park through the winter.

In addition to what they view as excessive force and unfair treatment of minorities, including Muslims, the movement is also protesting against home foreclosures, high unemployment and the 2008 bailouts.

Filmmaker Michael Moore and actress Susan Sarandon have stopped by the protesters' camp, which is plastered with posters with anti-Wall Street slogans and has a kitchen and library, to offer their support.

On Friday evening, more than 1,000 demonstrators, including representatives of labor organisations, held a peaceful march to police headquarters a few blocks north of City Hall to protest what they said was a heavy-handed police response the previous week. No arrests were reported.

A week ago, police arrested about 80 members of Occupy Wall Street near the Union Square shopping district as the marchers swarmed onto oncoming traffic.

A police commander doused a handful of women with pepper spray in an incident captured on video and spread via the Internet, galvanising the loosely organized protest movement.

The group has gained support among some union members. The United Federation of Teachers and the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which has 38,000 members, are among those pledging solidarity.

The unions could provide important organisational and financial support for the largely leaderless movement.

Similar protests are sprouting in other cities, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

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As I said in a previous thread, no one is going to take these protests seriously until the general public get involved. At the moment it's mainly "the usual suspects" and the police have no respect for them at all.

Thousands of middle aged shopkeepers, housewives etc protesting, then the governments will situp and take notice.

It is up to the governments to take control of the economic mess from the banksers, not the peoples.