Do you or Beck support OWS?

[Subversiva]

If so, did you hear about this?

'--A group called Beings Beings has raised over $1,600 to distribute 10,000 harmonicas at Zuccotti Park today. From the project's Kickstarter page: "What we're suggesting is to equip the entire movement with harmonicas. By breathing slowly through these harmonicas, the historic instrument of the underclass in America, the audible qualities of both the individual and the whole will become a call used for marches, demonstrations, and sit-ins. As thousands of people step together and breathe together, the sound that we emit will be impossible to ignore or argue, because it lacks words that can be skewed or manipulated."'

By Lauren Kelley | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at November 5, 2011, 9:45 am

 

[sandmangeck]

10,000 harmonicas for 1600? Man. That's cheap.

 

[GypsyMan]

I approve this message!

I was thinking about an open JAM session at OWS!

 

[jmjbassplayer]

THAT IS SO SO AWESOME!!

I support!

 

[jmjbassplayer]

I know: $1600 is cheap for that.

 

[JimmyM]

I support the OWS movement, too. It's way better to hang out in the park and beat drums than go out and look for a job.

 

[Sunnburn]

I support the OWS movement, too. It's way better to hang out in the park and beat drums than go out and look for a job.

+1

 

[Subversiva]

What jobs?

 

[5StringBlues]

You want fries with that?

 

[Buster Brown]

I support the OWS movement, too. It's way better to hang out in the park and beat drums than go out and look for a job.

Well....look on the bright side....at some point it HAS to descend "back" to Chicago circa 1968

 

[dsanders]

I support the OWS movement, too. It's way better to hang out in the park and beat drums than go out and look for a job.

I'm too busy working my ass off and occupying my own wallet to go stand around and be unproductive all day.

Feeding my kids is a full time gig .

 

[Dan Bozek]

Well....look on the bright side....at some point it HAS to descend "back" to Chicago circa 1968

I believe it's already gotten there in Oakland and a few other places. No blame game from me, but I definitely don't support any kind of avoidable violence.

 

[Subversiva]

@dsanders - OWS is happening because working people like yourself need more free time and money for their kids. We're all in the same boat.

As far as being unproductive... The banks are blinking. B of A backed off their $5 debit card fee.

!Viva 99%!

 

[jmjbassplayer]

Well said. I'm glad about B of A, and don't think that OWS didn't help that! That debit card fee was one of those "last gasp of a dying corporation" policies. Super batty.

 

[FaithNoMan]

@dsanders - OWS is happening because working people like yourself need more free time and money for their kids. We're all in the same boat.

As far as being unproductive... The banks are blinking. B of A backed off their $5 debit card fee.

!Viva 99%!

Yup!

 

[dsanders]

@dsanders - OWS is happening because working people like yourself need more free time and money for their kids. We're all in the same boat.

As far as being unproductive... The banks are blinking. B of A backed off their $5 debit card fee.

!Viva 99%!

Why is it that someone who needs to support a family even has time to be doing this?

As for occupy Nashville (where I live) you would be hard pressed to find anyone who can actually tell you what they believe and why they are there.

Now we are hearing reports from all sides of the media that these "protestors" are being treated for STD's because they are getting high and fooling around. Doesn't sound very diligent to me.

Go find me a concerned parent, then come back to the discussion. That same person also needs to be able to intelligently explain what they believe and what the end goal of their "movement" is.

Your comment that it's for people like me to have more time with their families doesn't make sense. I have a great career, and plenty of time for my family. If I lost my job I would go work for someone else and wouldn't have a problem finding one. Self motivated, driven, creative people who work hard and take responsibility for themselves are rare nowadays. OWS is a prime example of that. I am one o those people who take personal responsibility seriously. Employment will never be an issue for me because I work hard, with excellence. Perhaps if these protestors were the same they would be making money instead of complaining about "the banks".

The interesting part to me is that as a group they can't seem to agree on what exactly they are trying to accomplish.

 

[JimmyM]

I don't know that OWS had anything to do with that. I think it was the threat of their customers going to other banks who did it.

 

[Subversiva]

People who have been laid off and cannot find work are making time to demonstrate against the Bankers all over the world.

Where did you hear about the STD treatment? Fox News? Have a link?

'Perhaps if these protestors (sic) were the same they would be making money instead of complaining about "the banks".' Oy vey. There are no jobs mijo. Ever heard of Budget Cuts? Hard, excellent workers are being laid off left and right through no fault of their own. Need links?

Congratulations on being so employable. But for those of us who are out of work
the only companies hiring now are Walmart and McDonalds. Jobs in our Service Economy do not pay a living wage. You cannot deny that the 1% is robbing the rest of us blind. Now, instead of paying taxes, they want to cut Social Security and Medicare. This is warfare.

And JimmyM, damn straight OWS got BofA to drop the $5 fee. Those fleeing customers didn't move to other banks they moved to Credit Unions.

You want goals?

"LIST OF PROPOSED DEMANDS"
Forum Post: DETAILED LIST OF DEMANDS & OVERVIEW OF TACTICS FOR DC PROTEST (compiled from suggestions made in this forum) -- Please suggest additions or edits so I can propose this list to those keeping the official one. | OccupyWallSt.org

 

[Subversiva]

'Perhaps if these protestors were the same they would be making money instead of complaining about "the banks".'

Perhaps if we were a better informed populace we wouldn't have let these greedy bastards steal our Democracy out from under us? dsanders, do your kids and the rest of us a favor and read the attached article.

'The lesson is clear: Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls “The Patriot’s Dream.”'

from:
How Wall Street Occupied America
Bill Moyers November 2, 2011 | This article appeared in the November 21, 2011 edition of The Nation.
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And Justin, I've always wanted to know... Do you and Beck like Arlo Guthrie?

 

[homecooken]

I support the OWS movement, too. It's way better to hang out in the park and beat drums than go out and look for a job.

agree