Poll: Are you taking part in a Occupy (hometown) protest?
barjesus
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Just curious.
barjesus
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You finally got a job at Manhattan Credit Union? Nice!
Actually I'm just like the other 99%.
So why don't you join your people?
Those people aren't the other 99%. They are the .009% NYU and Columbia University Students and a few professional agitators.
some friends are hooking up a projector and system so we can watch the phillies game down there too.
I'd feel better about taking over the Prime Minister's front lawn, cutting off his heat, water and electricity and shipping his kids off to Guantanamo Bay.
Yes!
Here in Austin, I'm not sure why they chose to stage the protest at City Hall when there are mansions in Westlake that would be better suited.
Start at the main site, get a group of people who support your cause, and then start a satellite group at the new location.
Which one would you pick? Or would you just send a couple protestors to each house?
Are they going to make smores and tell ghost stories?
They are camping at Waterfront park. Dozens if not a hundred or more, homeless people do that every night.
They did a city hall protest.
I am with Harvey. I don't see the point. They are not protesting in the financial district, they are not occupying anything. I support a general, stop the greed, banks suck, corporations are not people, message. But it is a little too vague for me.
If they were really occupying something I still wouldn't go. That's a young persons game. Been there done that.
hopefully. if they are gonna be sitting out there for days, i hope they have a good time and dont get too self important.
I change my vote to YES.
Someone has to pay taxes.
Many of the people I met there were paying taxes.
Their tax dollars go to propping up the banks who pay people to change locks on foreclosures.
I aint occupying shit.
I am supporting.
As for criticisms of tactics, locations, et al, I urge people to find out for themselves what is going on, and to ignore what you see in the media.
This is bottom up anger, expressing itself in community building and self sufficiency and public protest.
If you want policy papers and legislative initiatives, you have to look elsewhere.
Under the silver tarp is a sukkah, which functions as an all faiths meeting place.
There is day care.
also a kitchen, communications tent (wi fi, lap tops, phones...), medic tent, wellness tent, KBOO has a studio tent so they can broadcast live, Sanitation tent (moving trash out for hundreds of people is a full time job), engineering tent, information tent, art center tent and lots more.
Veterans For Peace and homeless veterans have stacked out this area.
Occupied bathrooms are stocked, cleaned and maintained by Occupy.
Stories of unsanitary conditions are not accurate. Everyone who volunteers in the kitchen has a food handlers card and it is likely more sanitary than most of the carts around town.
FEMA concentration camp along with the Austin/Portland sign made me think of soulstrut.
The reason the photos look dark and dreary is this is Portland and it is dark and dreary at mid day.