Best Coverage of Occupy Wall St
By ladybugmagic
@ladybugmagic (3978)
United States
October 5, 2011 10:03pm CST
This is a current Live Updates at Huffingtonpost.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/live-updates-occupy-wall-street_n_996655.html
This is the central Occupy Wall Street site, they are livestreaming it too. It shows how you can help and send donations/food.
http://occupywallst.org/
This shows the list of their demands.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/specific-demand-and-action-list-for-washington-dc/
Here you can find your local protests. Now up to 404 cities in America.
http://www.occupytogether.org/
Occupy Canada
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyCanada
Occupy Asia
http://occupywallst.org/forum/occupy-asia-15-oct-global-solidarity/
Occupy Europe
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Europe/267662826590364?sk=wall
I will post more as I get it, and as time allows.
JOIN ONE!
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3 responses
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
6 Oct 11
Your post of their demands was a list submitted by someone to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. You forgot to list another set of demands form the same website.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
This list includes:
World wide debt forgiveness of all debt public and private.
A $20.00 minimum wage
Open Borders
High Tariff on imported goods to make them competitive with higher US wages.
One trillion dollars to rebuild infrastructure
One trillion dollars to ecological restoration including the natural flow of rivers (New Orleans would be gone)
Single payer health insurance
N o secret ballot for Union elections
Are these things that you can support?
@trruk1 (1028)
• United States
10 Oct 11
Some have pointed out similarities between these folks and the ones at Tea Party rallies. The specifics of what they are trying to accomplish are vague, and there does not seem to be much in the way of organization and structure. Those comparisons are valid, but there is one huge difference between these people and the Tea Party followers: the folks who are occupying Wall Street are mostly very smart and very well-educated. Fox News did an interview with one, a guy who looked like a truck driver. The reporter did not how to handle him, because he was smart, articulate, and clear about his vision of the way things have gone in this country. Fox decided not to air the interview (surprise! surprise! Fox News is biased! A real shocker!) and they pulled it from their website. Somebody copied it before they pulled it and it was shown--on another network.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
10 Oct 11
Clearly you haven't seen enough of these people. Much like the Tea Parties, there are some very intelligent people, and some complete morons. To me the bigger difference is that the Tea Party seemed to understand how to really affect change by going to town halls, talking about policy, and addressing genuine concerns. All I've see from these people is a bunch of whining about people on Wall Street having jobs and money when they don't. Vandalizing public and private property, while screaming at people on Wall Street won't promote their cause. If their supposed goals are real, than congress is who they should be yelling at, not private citizens on Wall Street.
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
6 Oct 11
the media is frenzied by the protesters who decided to occupy the wall street. despite of the arrests, protesters stubbornly occupied the streets around and leading to wall street to express their opposition to favored position of bankers and financial institutions over the people. they wanted to bring and put back the people at the heart of governance.
